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.
USAF's First Archer Midnight eVTOL Flight Coming Soon, Military Ops Will Never Be the Same
11 Aug 2023, 09:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The American military if presently racing on multiple fronts to modernize its arsenal and hardware inventory, chasing after anything from hypersonic vehicles to uncrewed surface vessels. And it's also betting heavily on electric vertical takeo...
Toyota Tundra Issue Sounds Like a Scene From Final Destination, Recall Incoming
11 Aug 2023, 08:59 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Recalls are an ordinary state of affairs in the automotive business, and even if most of the time they come as a hassle for owners, each of them is ultimately getting safer when a carmaker discovers a fault and is willing to fix it, free of charge....
1956 Porsche 356A Speedster Has the Knock-Off Wheels to Make It Worth at Least $300K
10 Aug 2023, 12:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you happen to be in the market for a true classic car and have the means to make your dream come true, you can never go wrong choosing a Porsche from the carmaker's early years. Back in the mid and late 1950s the German brand was just es...
Harley-Davidson Fat Boy Screams "The Street Belongs to Me," Everyone Gets Out of the Way
10 Aug 2023, 11:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the Softail family of motorcycles Harley-Davidson currently sells the Fat Boy model occupies a very special place. The original fat custom icon, as its maker calls it, is highly appreciated by customers, and a favorite base for custom projects a...
USAF Beams Mission Data Directly Into a Flying B-2 Spirit Using New Tech
10 Aug 2023, 10:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Believe it or not, despite being the most capable military on the planet the U.S. does not have all that many dedicated bomber aircraft. In fact, there are just three families of them, and they are so cherished by the nation that as a trio they are...
New Kratos Zeus Rocket Engine to Power Hypersonic Demonstrator
10 Aug 2023, 10:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in June the world learned of a new solid rocket engine slowly making its way into the spotlight. It's called Zeus and it was specifically designed to power a new breed of hypersonic vehicles. The engine is being developed by American d...
Tesla Model S-Powered 1992 Porsche 911 Blackbird Is Twice as Powerful as Before
10 Aug 2023, 09:29 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The rise of the electric drivetrain has given new life to the many shops in the business of restoring old cars. Many of them have found that it is a lot easier to swap a vehicle's existing internal combustion engine with batteries and electric...
Here's the Clearest Look Yet at the 730-HP Maserati MCXtrema Hypercar
10 Aug 2023, 08:54 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The start of the Monterey Car Week 2023 is quickly approaching (the festivities officially kick off on August 11), so the carmakers with the most at stake for this year's edition of the event can't seem to hold their composure as they tre...
1967 Ferrari 275 GTB/4 Is So Rarely Black It Is Worth Millions
9 Aug 2023, 12:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are many things that make a car unique and valuable in the eyes of collectors. It can be any of those things, or a combination of them, that make a vehicle a hit at some auction event somewhere. And you'll have a very hard time deciding ...
Harley-Davidson Green Booster Has a Subtle Mercedes-AMG Connection
9 Aug 2023, 11:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Despite the worlds of cars and motorcycles being somewhat related and similar in many respects, it doesn't happen all that often for a carmaker to get involved with two-wheeler-making companies, and vice versa. Yet from time to time we do get ...
Firefly Elytra Is the Space SUV You Never Knew We Needed
9 Aug 2023, 10:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Humanity has long passed a very important line when it comes to space exploration and space services: it no longer plans to launch only satellites dedicated to this or that task, but it now develops platforms meant to help with the logistics of spa...
Mysterious New Aston Martin Car to Be Shown for the First Time in America
9 Aug 2023, 10:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Aston Martin is a carmaker with a global presence, but it very rarely happens for it to reveal a brand-new model in locations outside its home country. Yet next week the Brits will pull the wraps off a new model one ocean and a continent away durin...
Audi R8 to Bid Farewell to America With Emotional Final Laps at Laguna Seca
9 Aug 2023, 09:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / We're very close to the moment when the Monterey Car Week kicks off in California, and as usual we're not only getting ready for exciting new cars to be unveiled, but we are also preparing for some very emotional encounters with cars from...
Final Specs Reveal the Lucid Air Sapphire Delivers 1,234 HP of Pure EV Thrills for $249K
9 Aug 2023, 08:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / After years of struggling to position itself in such a way as to allow it to become a pillar of the electric car market, American company Lucid seems to have finally reached that point. And now that it is almost always in the news, it pushes the ac...
Matching-Numbers 1963 Mercedes-Benz 300SL Is Worth $2.5 Million and the Envy of the World
8 Aug 2023, 12:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Many cars out there are extremely valuable, but no matter how much they sell for during an auction somewhere, not many of them are as impressive as to make millions of us gasp. I'm pretty certain though this 1963 Mercedes-Benz 300SL roadster h...
Harley-Davidson Full Block Is a Very Expensive Aluminum-Draped Breakout
8 Aug 2023, 11:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It often happens for custom Harley-Davidson motorcycles to get an extra dose of spice thanks to complicated paint jobs and detailing. After all, given how there are only so many things one can do to a motorcycle to make it special, the colors chose...
Martian Days Are Getting Shorter as the Planet Speeds Up
8 Aug 2023, 10:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in 2018 the American space agency sent over to Mars a piece of technology it calls Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport. InSight for short, the lander had only one major task: look at the neighboring p...
Space Agency Is Taking Autonomous Driving to Places It Has Never Been
8 Aug 2023, 09:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Now that the electric powertrains for cars are firmly embedded into our world, the automotive industry is rapidly pursuing its next evolutionary goal: automated driving. But while most companies are aiming to give cars advanced self-driving capabil...
2024 Mazda CX-90 Plays Reverse Gear Warning Sound in Any Gear, Large Recall Incoming
8 Aug 2023, 08:56 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the world of cars and SUVs the Mazda CX-90 is the newest and hottest kid on the block. Launched at the beginning of this year, the model plays in the large SUV segment, where the competition is at its highest, so everything about it has to be pe...
Special Kind of BMW 5 Series Is Meant for Only One Market of the World
8 Aug 2023, 08:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Ever since the 1970s German carmaker BMW has been at the front of the pack in the executive car market with the 5 Series – some 10 million of them have been produced since introduction. It's a family of cars that have been specifically t...