Daniel Patrascu
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Personal motto:
"I truly believe men and fish can coexist peacefully" – George W. Bush
Following several years off the grid, Daniel is back at autoevolution, and seeing how the great crisis of the past decade made the auto industry boring, he grew bored with it too, so he slowly shifted his focus to custom cars, custom motorcycles, and other weird stuff. He also loves ranting about space exploration and robots, because in his view the only way forward for humanity is away from this planet, in metal bodies.
During his time at autoevolution, Daniel put his name on more news articles, coverstories, auto guides, reviews, and editorials than we care count. To slow him down a bit, he was given more responsibilities not long ago, so he is now also in charge with coordinating the editorial team on autoevolution.com.
Long time ago, Daniel also translated Arthur C. Clarke’s novel “The Fountains of Paradise” to Romanian for Paladin Publishing.
Husqvarna Norden 901 Gets Rich Refresh Just Two Years After Launch
18 Oct 2023, 09:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Norden 901 made in the shops of Husqvarna is one of the most recent motorcycles on the market. It first appeared at the 2019 EICMA event in concept form, and just two years later, in 2021, it was launched as a production model. It only took the...
What If This Is the Future of Toyota Pickup Trucks?
18 Oct 2023, 09:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The U.S. is probably the world's largest market for pickup trucks. Last year alone (and for many years before that) over ten million such vehicles of all makes and sizes were purchased by Americans. Naturally, the biggest players in this se...
Yamaha Tenere 700 Extreme Is So Hardcore It Comes With a Fine Print
18 Oct 2023, 08:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in 2019 Japanese bike maker Yamaha took the adventure world by storm with the introduction of something called the Tenere 700. It was quite a bet for a company best known for its sport bikes, but one that worked wonders: the model is now one o...
Triumph to Pull the Plug on the Thruxton in 2024, Final Edition Is Here to Bid Farewell
18 Oct 2023, 07:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / This past weekend autoevolution ran a short story on the 15 best production café racers you can get your hands on today. It was a trip through a fascinating world of stock motorcycles made to resemble a custom style that was born decades ago...
Cessna Citation CJ3 Gen2 Breaks Cover With a Feature Pilots Will Simply Love
17 Oct 2023, 12:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / You don't have to be a frequent flier of business jets and not even an aviation buff to know the name Cessna Citation and what it means. After all, this plane family had no less than half a century to cement itself into our individual brains a...
Toyota Shows the World an Electric Concept Inspired by... Shipping Containers
17 Oct 2023, 11:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / We live in a time when many of our peers sleep, work, and live in carefully crafted shipping containers. It's a cheap way to a dream house, a method to reuse objects that would have otherwise been discarded, and a reason to celebrate human ing...
Going Number 2 at the Edge of Space Gets Classy in Daring High-Altitude Balloon
17 Oct 2023, 09:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Toilets have never been pretty things, and space toilets even less so. But as we move into an era when civilians will take to orbit or very close to it in large numbers, something's gotta change. Taking a poop up in space has never been eas...
HondaJet Echelon Revealed as the World's Only Transcontinental Single-Pilot Light Jet
17 Oct 2023, 07:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Unlike the auto and at times moto industries, the aviation world is not that active when it comes to releasing new aircraft models into the wild. That makes any new apparition in the segment something worth looking at. Even more so when we're ...
Jeff Bezos Has an Idea About a Space Truck, Calls It Blue Ring
17 Oct 2023, 06:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It was two years ago when Blue Origin held the headlines. Back in 2021, the business spawned from Jeff Bezos' mind was conducting its first-ever crewed flights to the edge of space. The company's spaceships took up there Bezos himself,...
Harley-Davidson Street Bob Is All Sorts of Custom, That Floating Seat Is Out of This World
16 Oct 2023, 12:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ever since the mid-2000s, a certain Harley-Davidson model called Street Bob has been making the rounds in the bike maker's cruiser offering as one of the most affordable and reliable bikes of its kind. Dubbed the "gritty, stripped-down bo...
Most Powerful BMW R 1300 GS Ever Made Can Now Go Long Distance With Purpose-Built Bags
16 Oct 2023, 10:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's been just a couple of weeks since BMW pulled the wraps off the new variant of the R 1300 GS adventure/touring/enduro bike, and we're already seeing the first dedicated and original products being let loose into the wild. Today's...
This 1962 Chevrolet Bel Air Is the Perfect Vice to Blow Your Porsche 718 Money On
16 Oct 2023, 08:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you are into classic American cars, then most likely the Bel Air occupies one of the highest places on your list of favorite cars. After all, everything about it, from design to mechanics, was close to perfection, and that's made more than ...
1994 Porsche 911 Turbo S Is a $2 Million Flat Nose Special With a Very Rare Touch
16 Oct 2023, 07:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For many of us, buying a car is more a necessity than anything else. And that means it's very hard to comprehend how someone can buy a car like this 1994 Porsche 911 Turbo S Flat Nose and keep it hidden away from sight, unused for the purposes...
Star Wars X-Wing Prop Sells for the Price of Ten Homes in the Mighty State of Texas
16 Oct 2023, 06:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As per the numbers provided by real estate specialist Redfin, the average price for a home in Texas sat in August 2023 at around $351,500. Multiply that ten times, and you more or less get the price someone paid for something that is essentially a ...
BSA Gold Star Now Spreading Café Racer Vibes in Fresh New Lands, Europe Comes First
16 Oct 2023, 06:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For a while now there seems to be a trend in the automotive industry to bring back nameplates (read both cars and motorcycles) from our species' glorious past. We're not yet at a point where we're witnessing the revival of nameplates...
1999 Ford F-450 Lariat Is a Most Ridiculous Limo-Style Bus Truck
14 Oct 2023, 23:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ever since the age of horse-drawn carriages, rich people have liked to travel in style. That means they always liked to stand out through the means of transportation they used, be they coaches or limousines. But rich folk, like all other people on ...
Harley-Davidson Musashi Transformer Morphs From V-Rod Into Cool-Rod
14 Oct 2023, 22:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in 2015, when the bike sitting before us was originally made, Harley-Davidson was just a couple of years away from deciding on the discontinuation of its line of muscle motorcycles. Known the world over as the VRSC, or V-Rod, these machine...
15 Best Production Cafe Racer Bikes You Can Get in 2023
14 Oct 2023, 10:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A couple of weeks ago we started taking a closer look at a motorcycle breed the world has got to know over the years as café racers. In that story we focused on the initial bikes, the ones that started the movement. Now it's time to tak...
$700K 1946 Chevrolet COE Was Once Two Dump Trucks, Now Ready to Haul Harleys
13 Oct 2023, 23:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are people in this world who just like to ride their Harley-Davidson bikes, and then there are the ones who like to move them on another platform, without their wheels spinning. The first group, the largest, is the one of the average riders. ...
Harley-Davidson Advance Is How a Modern-Day V-Rod Should Look Like
13 Oct 2023, 22:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in 2009, when the standard V-Rod this bike used to be was born, Harley-Davidson's line of muscle bikes was still young and powerful. Among other things, the people of the age liked their V-Rods just fine in stock form as well, and needed ...