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.
This Is How 52-Inch Tires Make a Beat-Down 1955 Dodge Tow Truck Look Great
12 Jun 2023, 09:35 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are people in this world who like their vehicles to look anything but shiny and new. They are into rat rods, visible rust, and decrepit states, not because there's something wrong with them, but because, let's face it, there's ...
Who Knew You Could Use GPS Satellites to Spot Tsunamis While Ignoring the Ocean Itself?
10 Jun 2023, 23:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / I will always remember December 26, 2004. Not because it was the second day of Christmas, but because it was then when one of the biggest earthquakes in modern history took place off the west coast of Indonesia. History would go on to record the ev...
Harley-Davidson Black Mass Is a Bad Boy Night Train on 330 Rear Wheel
10 Jun 2023, 22:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's not clear who thought of fitting a wide rear tire on a motorcycle first, but custom bike lovers should thank them for that. After all, without such insane ideas, builds like the one called Black Mass would have been far less impressive. ...
Argo Sasquatch Is a Little Fun Box Riding on Very Big Wheels, Yet So Much More
9 Jun 2023, 23:16 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / What makes an off-road vehicle great at its job? Is it the capability to go over a kind of terrain that's impossible to navigate by other means? Or is it the ability to extract itself from a dangerous situation when one arises? Is an off-road ...
Harley-Davidson Hardcore Is a Milwaukee Bike Unlike Anything You've Seen Before
9 Jun 2023, 22:02 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / No matter how creative a custom shop is, the designs they make will eventually end up looking anything but unique, simple reinterpretations of what other crews out there are doing. That's because, most of the time, the same base bike is used t...
Harley-Davidson Homecoming Festival Details Released, Summer Motorcycle Fun Is Pricey
9 Jun 2023, 12:12 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Exactly 120 years ago, two Americans named William Harley and Arthur Davidson finished work on a 7ci power cycle. It was a two-wheeled contraption that wasn't even capable of climbing the hills around Milwaukee. Yet it gave birth to the most c...
Harley-Davidson Daredevil Wears the Colors of a Record-Setting Jumper
9 Jun 2023, 11:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / About a week ago our journey through the world of customized Harley-Davidson motorcycles brought us face-to-face with something called the Evel Knievel. As the nickname implies, we were talking about a motorcycle built as a tribute to the king of i...
Headless Robot Dog 'Spot' Learns New Tricks, Can Now Open Doors on Its Own
9 Jun 2023, 09:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / People fearing a robot apocalypse, look away! This one is about a headless robot-like dog that just got an upgrade to make it more efficient at its work, but also more autonomous. For a number of years now Boston Dynamics' Spot robot has be...
Incoming Aerospike Rocket Engine Will Power a New Breed of Spaceplanes
9 Jun 2023, 08:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If you take a really close look at the present-day aerospace industry, you'd be amazed to learn how many companies, old and new, are working on incredible projects that may forever change our world. Some of them are just getting started, while...
KR 300 Custom Motorcycle Has a 300 HP Turbocharged Milwaukee-Eight for a Heart
8 Jun 2023, 14:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / No matter where you travel in this world, the custom motorcycle scene is dominated by stock motorcycles modified to look and very rarely perform completely different than they did when they rolled off factory lines. Most of these builds are incredi...
Skyline OS Is All About a Huge Touchscreen No Harley-Davidson Has Ever Seen Before
8 Jun 2023, 12:39 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As it unveiled the two new stars of the CVO lineup for the 2023 model year, bike maker Harley-Davidson also let loose a wealth of info on how technologically advanced the Street and Road Glides in this configuration will be. And I'm not talkin...
Here Are All the Juicy Bits of Harley-Davidson's Intoxicating Milwaukee-Eight VVT 121
8 Jun 2023, 09:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / About two months after it said it would release new CVO versions for the Street Glide and Road Glide motorcycles, Harley-Davidson did just that. The wealth of details about what's new on the two rides is overwhelming, so you'll forgive us...
2023 Harley-Davidson CVO Bikes Shown with New 117 Engine and Lots of Extras to Drool Over
8 Jun 2023, 08:34 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / At the end of April 2023, American bike maker Harley-Davidson previewed two new Custom Vehicle Operations models. What that meant was that the mighty CVO would return for the year of the company's centenary with new interpretations of the Stre...
America's Next-Gen Aerial Tanker Will Be Powered by General Electric Engines
7 Jun 2023, 15:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As it seeks to completely modernize its military, the U.S. is also looking at the pieces of hardware that keep its main weapons platforms up and running. And that includes aerial tankers, the flying gas stations that have had a major role in establ...
U.S. Navy Gets First Block II Nuclear C&C Aircraft, Speeds Up Upgrades for the Rest
7 Jun 2023, 14:25 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / We're possibly living the most dangerous days for global peace, with nations all over the planet barking at each other for reasons that at times seem trivial. And given how some of the nations now displaying an aggressive stance are equipped w...
Panigale V2 Black on Black Makes Ducati Red Look So Yesterday
7 Jun 2023, 12:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / For a number of years now Italian bike maker Ducati has gotten us used to seeing its new motorcycles break cover at the end of each year. In the span of a single month, Ducati pulls the wraps off everything it plans to release in the future. But th...
Harley-Davidson Goldy Is a Classy Motorized Horse for the Modern Knight
7 Jun 2023, 11:36 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Back in the day when knights were a thing, one of their most important assets was the horse. Be it they rode it into battle, or for some parade to keep the common folk enchanted, knights took good care of their horses, and didn't shy away from...
Kawasaki Reveals What Outfit the Ninja 650 Wears for the 2024 Model Year
7 Jun 2023, 09:38 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are a lot of motorcycle families Japanese bike maker Kawasaki can be proud of, but it's probably the Ninja that gives it the most reasons for that. Dating back to the 1980s, the family is also highly appreciated by riders. But the compan...
M 1000 XR Is BMW M's Third Motorcycle, Early Details Reveal It's Also a Monster of a Bike
7 Jun 2023, 08:09 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Over the years, several of the world's most prominent carmakers have set up performance divisions. That would be people tasked with taking production cars to new levels of speed, handling, and comfort, through various factory-backed and exclus...
This Helicopter Drone Looks Like Something Robots Would Use to Take Over the World
6 Jun 2023, 14:58 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It didn't take us civilians long to get used to drones, both military and civilian. In fact, they've been with us for so long that we can barely conceive drones looking anything other than scaled-down aircraft, with fixed wings, or copter...