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.
Fully-Loaded Harley-Davidson Pan America Is a $33,000 French Croissant on Wheels
12 Jul 2023, 09:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Since its introduction about three years ago, the Pan America has quickly grown from being the most unlikely Harley-Davidson in the current lineup to being a favorite choice for people looking for an adventure bike. Because of its nature, the Pa...
Yamaha MT-10 SP Comes Together from 1,478 LEGO Pieces, Just as Naked as the Real Deal
12 Jul 2023, 09:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the very generous range of Yamaha motorcycles, the MT family occupies a very special place, and that's obvious from the name, as MT stands for nothing other than Master of Torque. Introduced in 2005 as an offering in the standard and naked ...
Moon Astronauts Will Ride These Electric Canoos Before Boarding Space Rockets
12 Jul 2023, 08:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's been more than one year since NASA announced who will be supplying the vehicles meant to transport the Artemis astronauts to the launch pad. That's a very long time, and we have to admit, caught up with all the other things happening...
MV Agusta Dragster RR SCS America Is a Fresh Italian Treat Meant Exclusively for NA
12 Jul 2023, 07:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / In the world of motorcycle makers, the name MV Agusta is perhaps not as visible as others. That's owed in part to the fact the Italian company is not one to release new models or updates for the existing ones as often as its competitors. Yet w...
NASA Takes a Journey Billions of Years Into the Past and Across 5,000 Galaxies
11 Jul 2023, 12:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Earlier this week we got news from NASA that the James Webb Space Telescope discovered what will be for a while the oldest and most distant active black hole known to man. The discovery was not made possible by the telescope alone, but also thanks ...
New AMRAAM Missile Test Fired From F-16 for the Last Time, U.S. to Make a Lot of Them
11 Jul 2023, 11:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / AMRAAM stands for Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile and it's a term that ever since 1991 has described one of the most potent airborne weapons in the arsenal of Western military airplanes. And it's a type of weapon that's gett...
Harley-Davidson Draker With 240 Rear Wheel Is the Most Brutal New Sportster Yet
11 Jul 2023, 10:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in 2021 Harley-Davidson brought back the Sportster nameplate in the form of what is likely the most aggressive-looking bike in the current portfolio. Officially selling as the Sportster S, the sport motorcycle should have given all sorts of cr...
NASA Flips Spacesuit Designs for Use Both in Space and on the Moon
11 Jul 2023, 08:21 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As it is looking to modernize current operations but also expand its reach to include the Moon, the American space agency is pressing the accelerator pedal hard when it comes to one of the most important pieces of equipment for an astronaut: the sp...
Rivian Needs to Make 13,500 Electric Vans per Year to Meet Amazon 2030 Target
11 Jul 2023, 07:47 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in the fall of 2019 online giant Amazon rocked the electric vehicle world by announcing it is planning to purchase no less than 100,000 electric delivery vans from Rivian. It said it would do so as it was looking to become net-zero in terms of...
Harley-Davidson Owners Need Just Five Days to Get Their Bikes In for Repairs
11 Jul 2023, 06:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Pretty much all of us enjoy the vehicles we own, no matter how many wheels they roll on. Yet we all live with that innate fear that something will go wrong and we will need to schedule a service appointment. And we all know how that goes: you need ...
Webb Pinpoints Oldest Active Black Hole, Won't Hold the Record for Long
10 Jul 2023, 13:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It was clear from the get-go that the $10 billion James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) would go down in history as the most capable tool of its kind humanity has birthed to date. But ever since it actually got to space to spy on the Universe, it even ...
You Can Test the BMW CE 02 eParkourer in the Metaverse Way Before Actual Launch
10 Jul 2023, 11:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As part of its centenary celebrations, German bike maker BMW Motorrad released into the wild a second model in its range of electric scooters. Following in the footsteps of the CE 04, the CE 02 comes not as an e-motorcycle, not an e-scooter, but an...
Harley-Davidson V-Rod Modified in Russia Shows Beautiful Orange Accents
10 Jul 2023, 10:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Despite being for decades engaged in a head-to-head race for technological supremacy with the U.S., Russia has never been a nation known for making globally-recognized vehicles, be them cars or motorcycles. Yet the nation does have enough engineeri...
King of Cool Racing Team NFTs Celebrate Steve McQueen and His Motorcycle-Painted Portrait
10 Jul 2023, 09:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Artists are a special breed of people, and we're used to having them turn to all sorts of ideas, processes, and behavior to have their work known. Some, like Banksy, like to bathe in anonymity, while others, like Michael Kalish, enjoy using un...
Life-Size Tamiya Wild One R/C Car Ready to Go on Public Roads, Pricing Starts at $45,000
10 Jul 2023, 09:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you were a child with an interest in radio-controlled cars back in the 1980s, then the name Tamiya Wild One probably rings some bells, as it was one of the many off-road-capable R/C toy kit cars people loved back then. The kids of the 1980s a...
BMW R 18 The Crown Is Industrial-Style Custom, Fork and Body Replaced by Something Radical
10 Jul 2023, 07:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / When BMW Motorrad introduced the R 18 cruiser three years ago, it made no secret it was going after Harley-Davidson and its dominance in the cruiser segment. The German machine was to chase the American ones not only when it comes to factory motorc...
Heat Shield or Bust: What's Protecting the Orion Spaceship From the Heat of Re-Entry
8 Jul 2023, 23:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At the end of June we got word of the Orion spaceship meant for the crewed Artemis II mission having its heat shield installed. It's a piece of news that brings the reality of human flight to the Moon and back a step closer, but also opens up ...
Harley-Davidson Hand on the Torch Is a Jazz-Rap Album Cover on Wheels
8 Jul 2023, 22:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's no secret for anyone interested in custom motorcycles that inspiration for projects can come from the unlikeliest of places. But after years of seeing modified Harleys, I can safely say no bike I've ever seen was inspired by the.. co...
The Best Trike Motorcycles of 2023
8 Jul 2023, 08:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's impossible to know for sure, but scientists speculate the wheel dates all the way back to the 4th millennium before Christ. That's roughly 6,000 years from the moment in time we're at now. More than enough time, on any scale, fo...
4 Engineering Ideas for Getting Much-Needed Power to the Moon
7 Jul 2023, 23:50 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It seems like forever since humanity has begun looking at the Moon with desire in its eyes. Desire to make the place its own, the home away from home, and a staging post for our expansion in the solar system. We're now closer than we've e...