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.
NASA Clears 4th Private Mission to the International Space Station for 2024
7 Aug 2023, 11:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / We live in a day and age when private citizens (and by that I mean people who haven't gone through traditional astronaut training) are regularly heading out into space. They mostly do that thanks to the private space companies that are active ...
Custom Harley-Davidson Breakout Is Worth More Than the Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack
7 Aug 2023, 11:13 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There is not doubt the Harley-Davidson Breakout family is back in the news, including in the U.S., thanks to the introduction at the beginning of the year of the new model of the breed. The highlight of the bike is of course the new engine it hides...
Dark-as-Night 1966 Lincoln Continental Is Why Old Luxury Cars Will Never Go Extinct
7 Aug 2023, 10:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are many cars of the old days that get another shot at stardom during our time, and they each appeal to collectors with tastes as different as the cars themselves. But no matter what each of these guys' favorite car is, we're pretty...
NASA's Commander Moonikin Campos Now Has to Survive 19 G Acceleration Tests
7 Aug 2023, 09:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / They officially call it Commander Moonikin Campos, and to date it is the only humanoid-shaped thingy to have traveled to the Moon on board an Artemis mission. It did so because the commander is nothing more than a test dummy meant to validate gear ...
5 Photos Showing Why the U.S. Air Force Is the Most Badass in the World
7 Aug 2023, 09:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The American military officially has six branches, after the creation of the Space Force not long ago. Of them all though the U.S. Air Force (USAF) is the most active, not only when it comes to military operations, but also as far as its efforts of...
The 10 Best Dual Sport Bikes As of 2023
5 Aug 2023, 12:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Dual sport motorcycles are considered these days a sort of niche offering for niche buyers. That's not to say there aren't plenty of them to choose from, and at the same time a state of affair that's a bit strange, given how more tha...
This 1966 Chevrolet Corvette Race Car Is So Unique It Has No Problem Gunning for $800,000
3 Aug 2023, 10:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Say what you want about the Chevrolet Corvettes of the early generations, but they are almost always the highlights of auction and other sales events taking place all over America around the clock. But even among their own ranks some examples are s...
Harley-Davidson 260 BG Is How Le Mans Champs Like Their Custom Rides
3 Aug 2023, 10:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Generally speaking, drivers past and present tend to stick to their first love when it comes to vehicles, meaning they tend to mostly use four-wheeled machines for their daily routines. There are exceptions, of course, and some of them are real suc...
Airbus to Help Build the Successor of the ISS, Starlab Space Station
3 Aug 2023, 09:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The near future will bring with it increased human activity in the space around our planet. And by that I don't mean only an increase in the number of satellites we're sending up there (although that will happen too), but a huge leap in t...
Gulfstream G550 Now Has One Million Landings to Its Name
3 Aug 2023, 08:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Exactly twenty years ago airplane company Gulfstream introduced the G550 jet. Spawned from the Gulfstream V, it was originally meant to serve the needs of the business jet segment, but it was quickly adopted and adapted for other uses as well, incl...
This Is the Subaru WRX Travis Pastrana Will Race in 2024
3 Aug 2023, 07:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At the end of this month, the American Rally Association (ARA) Championship takes to Minnesota, for a leg of the competition called the Ojibwe Forests Rally. It is there where Japanese carmaker Subaru will field for the first time a new iteration o...
You Can Now Make Any Jeep Wrangler and Gladiator Look Like the 1993 Jurassic Park Sahara
3 Aug 2023, 06:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Steven Spielberg's original Jurassic Park movie became one of the world's largest franchises ever made. The movies alone (six of them at the time of writing, three in the original series and another three in the World one) brought in over...
Harley-Davidson Golden State Is the First Thing Some Germans Did When They Landed in Cali
2 Aug 2023, 11:24 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For custom motorcycle lovers the name Fred Kodlin needs little introduction. The German-born builder has so many exciting creations to his name, put together ever since the 1980s, that the International Master Bike Builders Association (IMBBA) had ...
Pininfarina PURA Vision Concept Is Here to Birth a New Type of Vehicle: the e-LUV
2 Aug 2023, 10:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Although at first glance it seems organized, the automotive industry is quite messy when it comes to classifying the different types of vehicles made around the globe. Sure, simplistically put, we've got passenger cars, SUVs, and pickup trucks...
730-HP Maserati Racing Car Drops Project24 Name, To Be Called MCXtrema
2 Aug 2023, 09:23 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / A couple of weeks ago, as the world was struggling with intense heat waves, Italian carmaker Maserati raised the temperature even higher by previewing a monster of a race car that was at the time expected to deliver 740 horsepower. An update on ...
Here's Everything New on the American-Spec 2024 Toyota Land Cruiser
2 Aug 2023, 08:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The last month of summer kicked off with a bang as Japanese carmaker Toyota pulled the wraps off what is promising to be a very impressive interpretation of its longest-running nameplate, the Land Cruiser. And with the unveiling came a wealth of de...
Tiny Rotary Engine Is Going Into Warfare to Become Part of New U.S. Army Generators
1 Aug 2023, 11:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / One American general said back in the 1980s that, when it comes to warfare, "amateurs talk about tactics, but professionals study logistics." It's a phrase that more or less captures the essence of all wars that ever were, and all wa...
1969 Foose Camaro Is Gunning for $130K Under the Hot Cali Sun, Here's What It's Got
1 Aug 2023, 10:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Although still active on the custom car scene, Chip Foose seems to presently be less visible than he was a couple of decades ago, despite the still recent success of the Overhaulin' show. Even so, every time a car connected to the man pops up ...
Harley-Davidson Breakout GTO Is How a Raked Out Cruiser Looks Like After Losing Its Chrome
1 Aug 2023, 09:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At the beginning of this year American bike maker Harley-Davidson brought back the Breakout nameplate to the U.S. market, and gave it a refresh elsewhere. Unlike what came before it in this family, it now packs a Milwaukee-Eight 117 in its frame. J...
Blue Origin's Idea of Turning Moondust Into Solar Cells Gets $35 Million NASA Funding
1 Aug 2023, 09:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With the eyes of humanity set on the Moon as the first alien body that should be colonized by our species in the not-so-distant future, companies and agencies all over the world are presently racing to develop the many supporting technologies that ...