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.
Summer Is About to End So Yamaha Is Refreshing the WaveRunner Jetski Family
17 Aug 2023, 09:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you ever doubted global warming is a real thing maybe the knowledge that this July was the warmest month in the history of mankind (or, at least, since we've been measuring such stuff) will put some of those doubts to rest. Averaging 1.8...
New Breed of Custom Broncos and Electric Chevy Pickups to Start Rolling Out of Cali
17 Aug 2023, 09:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Dynamic as it is the automotive industry always has room for newcomers. That's why we see a flood of startups entering this business and trying to make a name for themselves. Some are more successful at it than others. Exactly a year ago th...
CGI Shows How China's Space Station Looks Like in Orbit
16 Aug 2023, 14:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For a very long time, despite the many nations running their own space exploration programs, humanity had only one crewed habitat in orbit around Earth: the International Space Station (ISS). And then the Chinese came along with their Sky Palace&he...
DARPA Teaching AI How to Decide Victim Priority in Mass Casualty Triage
16 Aug 2023, 13:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Slowly but surely we are getting used to having AIs in our lives. From the simple ones that govern the capabilities of our smartphone cameras to the incredibly complex pieces of software that will pilot military aircraft, computer minds are here to...
Contradictory 1941 Willys Americar Hides Unexplained Detailing in the Purple of Its Doors
16 Aug 2023, 12:31 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / I don't ask this often of you, but when you click on the photo gallery of this piece make sure you enlarge a side photo of the car shown there. Focus on the lower, purple part of the door. Enlarge again. Seem them yet? You all know the Will...
Ancient Glacier Leaves Its Mark on Mars' Surface, This Is How Ice Once Flowed There
16 Aug 2023, 11:32 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It may go a bit against common sense, but the large ice formations on the surface of a planet, the things we usually call glaciers, are not exactly stationary. They flow, if you can believe that, at agonizingly slow speeds, prompting some in the sc...
2021 Harley-Davidson Pan America Goes Extreme on French Mods
16 Aug 2023, 10:41 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you think about it, the Harley-Davidson Pan America is not that old, despite so many examples of it being already spread all over the world. Having entered production in 2020 as Harley's push into the adventure segment, the bike was so well...
LS-Powered 1964 Lincoln Continental Is a Ride for the Classy Bad Boy Everybody Likes
14 Aug 2023, 11:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you really stretch things you could easily say the Lincoln Continental is one of the oldest car nameplates on the planet. It was born back in the 1930s as a personal request from Edsel Ford and it crawled on, with interruptions, ever since. The ...
Harley-Davidson Om Tibetan Is a Kind of Softail Deluxe You've Never Seen Before
14 Aug 2023, 10:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / We humans like to use symbols in our endeavors, for a variety of purposes, from mundane tasks to worshiping whatever deity we believe in. For most of us symbols are just written signs meant to represent something, with no actual power on our lives ...
5 Custom Harley-Davidson Bikes to Remember This Week: Breakouts, Fat Boys, and a Sportster
14 Aug 2023, 09:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For several years now we've been running almost daily coverage of custom Harley-Davidson motorcycles made in shops spread all across this planet. All of them are exciting in some respects, of course, but we feel something is missing from the p...
5 Photos Showing What a Blast Working for the USAF Must Be
14 Aug 2023, 08:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Thanks to the U.S. Air Force's (USAF) habit of constantly releasing images of its hardware and personnel in action, we often get glimpses of how cool it must be to be employed by what is probably the world's premiere fighting aerial force...
1936 Atlantis Is a Modern Era Super Concept, Art Deco Lovers Must Approve
12 Aug 2023, 23:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Over the years humans have demonstrated great abilities in coming up with different design styles for anything from clothes to buildings and vehicles. Few of these styles are however as famous as art deco. The term is used to designate a style t...
Fourgiven V-4 Softail Is Everything You Dreamed About in a Bike, Has Just One Major Flaw
12 Aug 2023, 22:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / On Saturday we brought before you something incredible we discovered on the lot of an upcoming auction: a 350-hp twin-turbo custom motorcycle the likes of which we'll probably never get to experience ourselves. And now here's another one,...
The 15 Best Cruiser Bikes to Try Out in 2023
12 Aug 2023, 11:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Historically speaking the motorcycle was invented exactly 138 years ago, if you consider Gottlieb Daimler's and Wilhelm Maybach's Reitwagen the first of the breed. Yet it wasn't until a few decades later that the two-wheeled machines...
1937 Mercedes-Benz 540K Special Roadster Is a Car for Heavy Hitters, Price Says It All
11 Aug 2023, 23:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Americans are very fond of car auctions, and as a result a huge number of such high-profile events take place multiple times a year across the nation. If you've been following what's going on in this world like we do here at autoevolution...
America's Most Beautiful Motorcycle Is a Twin Turbo Monster Pushing 350 HP to a Huge Wheel
11 Aug 2023, 22:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Custom motorcycle builds based on existing platforms are of course exciting, but they don't even come close to what full customs have to offer. And if you have any doubt about that, the 2008 Brouhard Design V-4 Softail is here to put those dou...
1978 Porsche 924 SCCA Race Car Ages Like Wine, Now Worth $200,000
11 Aug 2023, 12:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the world of car collectors, one of the main criteria used to assess the value of a vehicle is its rarity. The rarer the product, the higher the price and the chances of it returning a profit in the future. Naturally the rarest vehicles out t...
Harley-Davidson Saalbach Is the Wild Yellow Sportster You Secretly Want to Race
11 Aug 2023, 11:51 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Harley-Davidson motorcycles may be for many the pinnacle of two-wheeled engineering, but everybody has to admit that, at least in the more recent years, the American brand has been almost absent from the world of racing (with the notable exception,...
Fisker Ronin Super GT Has Such a High Price It'll Make You Dizzy
11 Aug 2023, 11:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At the beginning of August one of the automotive world's most underrated electric start-ups, Fisker Inc, announced the birth of something impressively called the Ronin Super GT. That would be a "classic grand touring car, updated for the ...
Webb Telescope Unravels More Mysteries of the Most Distant Star Ever Discovered
11 Aug 2023, 10:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / No matter if you're into fantasy movies and books or not, there's a good chance the name Earendel rings a bell or two. That's because it's hard to contain the reach and fame of the Lord of the Rings universe, of which Earendel (...