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.
Fast and Furious Ripsaw Tears Through All Expectations and Snatches $242K at Auction
25 May 2023, 16:20 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / With the tenth movie in the Fast and Furious series getting millions of dollars each day in cinemas across the world, there never was a better time to be the owner of something, anything, related to this fictional universe. Just ask the guy who jus...
Gray Eagle Drone Flown With New All-Weather Target Tracking Hardware for the U.S. Army
25 May 2023, 15:27 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The military drone we now know as the Gray Eagle came to be all the way back in 2009, out of the hands of defense contractor General Atomics. Playing in the active military operations field, meaning it's weaponized and ready to hunt down targe...
Harley-Davidson Bad Boy Is Darkness Incarnate, A Cheap Way to an Effective Custom Softail
25 May 2023, 14:43 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The Fat Boy is one of the most popular Harley-Davidson models ever made, not only for customers going for the stock versions, but also for custom garages that are all over it with a frenzy worthy of a better cause. Born in the 1990s, the Fat Boy...
Squishy Tensegrity Robots Were Meant for Mars and Other Alien Worlds, Now They Serve Us
25 May 2023, 13:54 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Whenever the term "robot” pops up in a discussion, we tend to imagine either some sort of humanoid machine, or an industrial tool meant for the assembly lines. Occasionally, we might even think about Boston Dynamics' Spot. But one a...
2024 KTM EXC Models Are Here to Rock the Enduro World With Tons of Novelties
25 May 2023, 13:01 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's hard to find a name as important in the enduro world as that of KTM. The Austrians have entered this universe three decades ago, during which time they won 126 world titles in various competitions. And that number is likely to grow even h...
12 People Will Spend Two Months in Spinning Beds to Reveal the Effects of Cycling in Space
24 May 2023, 15:06 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / We all know space exploration is not easy, and that long-time exposure to zero gravity may have unexpected results on the human body. But whereas for most of us this knowledge is more of an educated guess, for space agencies the effects of living i...
Harley-Davidson Creator Doesn't Really Look Like $58,000, Yet Here It Is
24 May 2023, 13:42 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As diverse as it is, the custom motorcycle industry is also a very secretive one. There are countless shops in this business out there, and many of them don't have the smallest intention of sharing things like all the changes they've made...
2024 Ducati Monster Now Comes in Iceberg White With Beautiful Red Touches
24 May 2023, 11:53 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It was back in 1993 when the world of naked motorcycles got a whole lot richer, with Italian bike maker Ducati releasing into the world something called Monster. An aggressive choice of name for a bike that would grow to redefine the segment, becom...
NASA's HyTEC Jet Engine Core Tech on Track to Fly on Real Airplanes in the 2030s
24 May 2023, 11:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The race to find better, more fuel-efficient ways of moving about the planet is most visible in the automotive industry, but other sectors of transportation are rapidly catching up. Especially the aviation industry, where everyone seems to be runni...
Rolls-Royce's Hugely Powerful Pearl 10X Engine to Fly for the First Time Later This Year
24 May 2023, 09:17 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As you're reading this, Geneva, Switzerland is the place where all the greats of the aviation industry have gathered for the European Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (EBACE). Among them is engine behemoth Rolls-Royce, which took ...
1972 De Tomaso Pantera Stolen by Dom Toretto and Brian O'Conner in Fast Five Up for Grabs
24 May 2023, 08:10 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It’s been almost a week since the tenth installment of the Fast and Furious movie series hit cinema screens across the world, and the money is flowing like crazy. In the first weekend of screening alone, Fast X managed to snatch $319 million ...
100th Cessna Citation Longitude Ready for Duty Just as the Ascend Is Showing in Geneva
23 May 2023, 14:15 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / On Monday, May 22, American airplane manufacturer Textron pulled the wraps off the new, upcoming member of the Cessna Citation family, the Ascend. Shown as a mock-up in Geneva, Switzerland, during the European Business Aviation Convention and Exhib...
Six Wheels and a Hellcat Engine Were Not Enough for the Jeep Wrangler Inferno to Sell
23 May 2023, 13:11 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It's been a busy week for American car lovers, who had to survive an onslaught of incredible cars and motorcycles being sold by auction house Mecum over in Indianapolis. But whereas many of these incredible pieces of engineering managed to fin...
Surface Avatar Is an Experiment as Exciting as It Sounds, Controlling Robots From Space
23 May 2023, 12:14 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / It is in the nature of space exploration for human operators to take control and manage robotic pieces of hardware located many many miles away. It's a way of doing things that opened up neighboring planet Mars to a rather large number of rove...
Harley-Davidson Dragon Hide Is Almost as Impressive as the Mythical Beast
23 May 2023, 11:18 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / If this world really had dragons, we, as the dominant species, would probably use their component parts for whatever needs we had. Just think about it: even in the Harry Potter universe, despite dragons being incredibly difficult to kill, their ski...
The LEGO NASA Perseverance Rover Is How They Turn Kids Into Space Engineers
23 May 2023, 09:55 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Okay, so we have this brilliant generation of space engineers. They are currently in the process of giving us the tools to colonize the Moon and reach as far out as Mars. But who’s gonna replace them when the actual Moon colonization and trip...
The Mercedes-AMG Electric Scooter Is How You Emasculate Alpha Males
23 May 2023, 09:05 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / Mercedes-AMG. The simple mention of this term is enough to have people, car fans of less so, trembling with excitement. After all, it's a name that's become synonymous not only with borderline luxury cars, but with borderline luxury perfo...
Here's What to Expect From Blue Origin's Human-Rated Moon Lander
22 May 2023, 13:46 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / As promised, on Friday, May 19, NASA came out with the name of the company making the lander for the crewed Artemis V mission to the Moon. Like many were expecting, the name of the winner is Blue Origin. Most of you remember how we got here. A c...
Cessna Citation Ascend to Use a New Kind of Pratt & Whitney Engine
22 May 2023, 12:57 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / There are a number of popular names in the aviation industry, but for flights of a more business-like nature, few of those names are as appreciated as Cessna. Established in 1927 and presently owned by Textron, the company is the go-to supplier of ...
Ultra-Rare 2011 Chip Foose Hemisfear Lands Almost on Target, Snatches $313K an Auction
22 May 2023, 12:08 UTC · By: Daniel Patrascu / The past few weeks were times of great turmoil for car enthusiasts, collectors, and fans. That's because auction house Mecum was about to hold its annual (and huge) Indianapolis event, the place to be for rich folk in the market for a new, whe...