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.
New ZF EVSys800 E-Drive Gives This Porsche Taycan 5,200 Nm of Torque
29 Jun 2023, 11:30 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There is already a great deal of electric vehicles on the market, enough of them for almost everyone to have favorites. For me, at the top of the list is not some Tesla, but the German-made Porsche Taycan. On the market since 2019, the model is ...
Harley-Davidson Chrome Cherry Is the Most Cheerful V-Rod You've Ever Seen
29 Jun 2023, 09:49 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Important as it is for the motorcycle industry, to me Harley-Davidson is not a very playful company. The bikes it makes always seem to be dead serious in appearance and scope, and aside from the actual thrills of riding them, they don't offer ...
Yamaha Stops Making Snowmobiles After 55 Years in the Business
29 Jun 2023, 09:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There's nothing more reassuring to individuals than knowing the things they grew up with will be around forever. The other side of the coin is that when such pillars of our existence crumble, one can't help from feeling lost. If you ar...
Buell Freedom Edition Hammerhead 1190 Is How the American Flag Shines on Wheels
29 Jun 2023, 08:44 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in 1983, somewhere in Grand Rapids, Michigan, a new motorcycle company was born. Spawned from the mind of former Harley-Davidson engineer Erik Buell, the company adopted the man's name, and went on to live a pretty complicated existence t...
USAF Flies the T-7A Red Hawk for the First Time, Glimpse of Test Shows Impressive Aircraft
29 Jun 2023, 08:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As aerospace giant Boeing is moving closer and closer to the completion of the T-7A Red Hawk airplane, the pace at which we learn more and more things about it is accelerating. It was only last week when Boeing let us know the airplane completed...
Michigan Braces for MightyFly Cento Autonomous Cargo Delivery Flights
28 Jun 2023, 13:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The name MightyFly might sound a bit like some sort of nasty insect, but it actually hides a company that may forever change the way in which cargo delivery is performed in the state of Michigan, and later on elsewhere as well. MightyFly is a co...
Harley-Davidson Softail Slim Morphs Into a Dream Custom With “Real Work of Art” Exhaust
28 Jun 2023, 11:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At the beginning of June 2023 our very long journey through the world of Harley-Davidsons customized over in Switzerland got us face-to-face with something called A Piece of Art. I know, Switzerland is not exactly the go-to country when it comes to...
Fernando Alonso Is a Lot Richer Now, Sells His 2002 Ferrari Enzo for Almost $6 Million
28 Jun 2023, 10:40 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At the end of May, news of no less than 40 Ferraris going under the hammer during the same auction broke. The list included anything from a Ferrari "Beach Car" to a raced 250 GT Boano, but the highlight of the lot had to be something know...
Bristell B23 Energic Electric Aircraft Will Cost Just $7 to Charge for One Hour of Flight
28 Jun 2023, 09:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Given how the rise of electric powertrains has given a lot of people ideas, we're constantly seeing new company names popping up in all segments of the transportation industry. One of them is called BRM Aero, and today they caught our attentio...
2024 Triumph Speed 400 and Scrambler 400 X Break Cover Way Before Actual Market Launch
28 Jun 2023, 07:52 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / British bike maker Triumph is one of the quiet ones, a company that doesn't come out with new models as often as some of its competitors do. That's why when Triumph does bring to the market new models, they are bound to make a fuss. Th...
U.S. Army Spends $1.6 Billion on M2 Bradley Replacement, the XM30 Infantry Combat Vehicle
27 Jun 2023, 10:45 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For the American soldiers, and some of their allies, the M2 Bradley has been a constant and reliable partner ever since the early 1980s. Produced by BAE Systems, the infantry fighting vehicle saw action in most of the wars and conflicts of our era,...
Harley-Davidson Morphine With Huge Fairing Is an Awful Breakout But an Amazing Custom
27 Jun 2023, 10:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / This year American bike maker Harley-Davidson brought back the Breakout model for the local market with a 117ci engine in its frame. That's something the model never had before. In stock form, and unlike the modified version we have here, the ...
Red Planet Turns Purple, Green and Blue, And It Looks Even More Alien
27 Jun 2023, 09:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Humans have a tendency to slap more or less appropriate nicknames on everything around them, and planets are no exception. Mars, for instance, the focus of so many dreamers, is also called the Red Planet, despite it being actually butterscotch, whi...
Space Agency Settles on Spacesuit Design, Won’t Actually Fly Them to Space
27 Jun 2023, 08:22 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As things stand today, the European Space Agency, for all its merits, does not have a spacesuit of its own design. And that’s a shame, because for one you can’t do space exploration without a suit, and secondly, you can’t be a spa...
Disneyland Attraction TWA Moonliner Takes Flight in Stunningly Nostalgic Make-Believe Clip
27 Jun 2023, 07:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There have been two periods in humankind's history when our race has turned to the heavens with hope in its eyes: the 1950s/1960s, a time when we managed for the first time to develop rockets capable of taking us beyond the borders of our own ...
Virgin Galactic's First Commercial Spaceflight Will Have Air Force Pros On Board
26 Jun 2023, 11:37 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At the end of this week, we will once again be on the verge of having commercial flights to space become an every-month occurrence. Sure, we believed that was about to happen a couple of years ago as well, but this time one of the companies involve...
2024 KTM 300 EXC Hardenduro Is Now the King of Two-Wheelers Going Over Impossible Terrain
26 Jun 2023, 11:00 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The enduro motorcycle scene is a very competitive one, and that makes having a single company name dominate the segment even more extraordinary. And that company name is, how else, KTM, a moniker which has been at the top of enduro competitions for...
NASA Drops Electric Aircraft Project, Test Flight No Longer Planned
26 Jun 2023, 10:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It was back in late 2019 when we learned the first in-depth details for an experimental electric aircraft that was to bring about a new era of air mobility. The project had all the components to succeed, including the involvement of NASA, and every...
Harley-Davidson "Cadillac” Has Nothing to Do With Luxury, It's a Bad Boy From the East
26 Jun 2023, 09:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Given how we've been covering the custom motorcycle scene for years now, it doesn't happen very often these days for us to stumble upon garages we knew nothing about before. From time to time though we hit the jackpot, and whenever that h...
Maker of Small Supercharged Rotary Engine Tapped by USAF for Future Powerplants
26 Jun 2023, 09:04 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At the moment, the name LiquidPiston may not mean all that much in this world, but chances are that will change very soon. That's because the Connecticut-based company has set out to effectively reinvent the rotary engine. The last we heard...