Daniel Patrascu
18,861 ARTICLES
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.
Ducati Streetfighter V4 Supreme Goes for New York Underground Styling
30 May 2024, 07:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's not uncommon for some bike makers to release special editions of their motorcycles, but it kind of is uncommon for them to pair these special bikes with matching apparel and lifestyle items. But that's exactly what the Italians from ...
SpaceX Falcon XX Is the Unborn Sibling of a Rocket That Sent a Car in Space
29 May 2024, 11:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In February 2018, Elon Musk's still young private space company SpaceX launched its first-ever reusable super-heavy launch vehicle, the Falcon Heavy. To make sure the moment goes down in the history books, Musk had his own Tesla Roadster sent ...
Buell Motorcycle Wants to Take Over the World, First Foreign Target Is Canada
29 May 2024, 10:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / I'm not sure how many of you remember this, but there was a time when Buell motorcycles were sold in places outside the U.S. as well. Riders up north, over in Canada, but also quite a lot of them in several European markets have had direct acc...
Bell Is Making a VTOL That Can Fold Its Rotor Blades and Turn Into a Jet
29 May 2024, 09:26 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There will come a time in the near future when aircraft will seem like nothing we presently have at our disposal. From stranger and stranger shapes to increasingly insane capabilities, aircraft of the future are set to change aviation forever. And ...
Flying Wildcat Is Meant to Take Off From Navy Ships and Track Down Enemy Targets
29 May 2024, 06:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The American Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is presently engaged in a large number of projects meant to bring to light drone designs with new capabilities. The talk of the moment, however, is something called ANCILLARY. ANCILL...
Badass Yarns and High-Tech Glue Keep America's Moon Spacecraft From Burning on Re-Entry
28 May 2024, 11:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / You all know what a heat shield is: a key component on a spacecraft, meant to protect it from the extreme temperatures of atmospheric re-entry. But did you know that NASA has invented a new type of heat shield material that's supposed to revol...
Airbus Researching New Hydrogen Aircraft Tech, Project Name Sounds Like Some Pop-Punk Band
28 May 2024, 10:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Looking at how things are now in the automotive industry, one can't feel like someone, somewhere, took a wrong turn. Sure, cars are becoming increasingly electrified, and that's a good thing, but the tech they rely on for that is batterie...
Spacecraft With Brilliant Blue Glow Trail Passes Mars, Moves Further Into Space
28 May 2024, 08:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The thing with long-duration space missions is that just when you're about to forget all about them, some crucial update reaches your eyes and ears, bringing said mission back into the spotlight. Just like it happened last week with something ...
DARPA Backs This Insect-Like Military Drone, Could Fly in 2026
28 May 2024, 06:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Over the course of last week the world got wind of not one, but two autonomous vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) concept designs various contractors are developing for a program run by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). And ju...
Extreme Ducati Scrambler Bike Concepts Blend Café Racer Styling with Mad Max Vibes
27 May 2024, 13:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's been a relatively important weekend for the auto-moto industry, with two major events taking place on opposite ends of the European continent. In Italy, on the shores of Lake Como, the Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este was held. ...
Honda Turns CRF Dirt Bikes Into Slightly New Monsters for the 2025 Model Year
27 May 2024, 11:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / We're almost halfway through 2025 and that means most of the bike makers of the world are done with presenting us the upgrades to their model range for the 2025 model year. Yet there are a few strays left, and the novelties they have prepared ...
Hotter-Than-Pink BMW R20 Concept Motorcycle Rocks Biggest Big Boxer Engine Yet
27 May 2024, 07:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In a certain respect, motorcycle lovers are somewhat at a disadvantage compared to people who dig more four-wheeled vehicles: whereas future cars are often previewed by concepts, bikes don't come along very often into the spotlight in some sor...
Harley-Davidson Breakout Goes Into Custom Shop for Minor Tweaks, Ends Up Looking Like This
25 May 2024, 22:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Over on the American market, Harley-Davidson is presently offering a total of eight cruiser motorcycles. Any one of them would make it on any list of best such bikes, no matter who puts it together and why. But for the purpose of this here story, w...
Harley-Davidson Street Runner Looks Like It Doesn't Care About Traffic Lights
24 May 2024, 22:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Cruiser bikes presently enjoy what may very well be considered their golden years. With plenty of makes and models to choose from, countless engines at their disposal, and more colors than in all of the universe's rainbows, people all over the...
1932 Ford Li’l Foose Coupe Was Once Gone in 60 Seconds, Now Won't Budge for Under $100K
24 May 2024, 10:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are probably millions of movies in existence today, the result of more than a century of filmmaking. Yet just a tiny fraction of them, by comparison, are truly worth remembering, and fewer still are worth remembering by car enthusiasts. Th...
A Flying Wing With Rotors Is What Sikorsky Is Working on Now
24 May 2024, 09:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / About a year ago the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) introduced to the world the companies that were tasked with working on something called the AdvaNced airCraft Infrastructure-Less Launch And RecoverY (ANCILLARY) program. Nothin...
Space Weather Satellite to Stare at the Sun 24/7, Give Us Advance Warning of Solar Storms
24 May 2024, 07:33 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Can you imagine how our life would be with no working satellites in space and electronics here on Earth? It would probably be something akin to hell, and if such a reality lasts long enough, it may as well push us back into the stone age. And like ...
Airbus Autonomous "Flying Truck" Is Teaching Commercial Aircraft How to Taxi on Their Own
23 May 2024, 13:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As humanity's need to travel to faraway places increases, so does the number of flights required to fulfill these needs. As per aviation industry forecasts, the current fleet of jet aircraft (estimates put the number of such airplanes currentl...
U.S. Army's Assault Helicopter With Atreides Ornithopter Vibes Inches Closer to Production
23 May 2024, 12:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's been a while since we last heard anything of interest about the Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) program run by the U.S. Army. So much time, in fact, we kind of forgot there's a Black Hawk helicopter replacement being cooke...
Brand New American Spaceplane Enters Final Stretch to Launch
23 May 2024, 11:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's been an exciting few years for space exploration, as the means we use to search for what's out there, and consequently the goals we've set for ourselves, have expanded greatly. But what happened until now is only the beginning, ...