Gabriel Brindusescu
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Personal motto:
Horsepower is how fast you hit the wall, torque is how far you take the wall with you.
Later, his dad taught him how to drive on a field and from that point he started driving everything that had 4 wheels and an engine, including a van, a truck and a tractor. He usually annoys his friends by taking the keys and driving their cars when they have to go somewhere.
When it comes to car preferences, he will tell you that classic cars are the best, especially old American muscle. There are few modern day cars that get him really excited, and don’t ever dare to ask him about hybrids or EVs if you don’t want to see him
Uber App Found to Collect User Data Without Permission
27 Nov 2014, 15:06 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Uber managed to create quite some stir in many countries, infuriating taxi drivers with some of their cheaper car sharing alternatives coming from unlicensed drivers and all that. It seems there’s more to this story as someone found the app i...
Gymkhana Parody No.2 is Out: Ken Box’ Crazy Cart is Back
27 Nov 2014, 13:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Ken Block recently pulled some awesome maneuvers in his newest Gymkhana 7 on the streets of Los Angeles. If that blew you off your seat, check out what Ken Box can do with his motorized... box. Ali Kermani is the impersonator of Ken Block in his...
Eco-Motive Patents Twin Vertical Bank Hybrid Engine; Complicate Much?
27 Nov 2014, 11:47 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / A hybrid vehicle denotes a car capable to alternatively run on at least two fuel types. The most common hybrid powertrain today is gasoline-electric but before that we had (and still have in some places) cars running on gasoline and CNG (Compressed...
Scientists Made Rocket Fuel Out of Human Waste
27 Nov 2014, 11:36 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Antoine Lavoisier said once “In nature nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything changes” and here’s the perfect example to demonstrate that. Scientists managed to turn human waste (yes, poop included) into rocket fuel. H...
Toyota Vehicle-Infrastructure System Available in 2015
27 Nov 2014, 10:10 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Driving a car appears to be a very complicated thing these days with so much traffic and pedestrians roaming around. Reason why cars are getting more complex and will handle more of the driver’s tasks to maintain a high level of safety. Such ...
Two Mystery Lexus Models Might Debut at 2015 Detroit Auto Show
26 Nov 2014, 13:13 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Lexus is catching up in this fill-the-niche game every other respectable automaker is playing now. The luxury car maker won’t go bellow the CT hatch model, but it already came up with the new RC coupe, its F performance version as well as the...
Lexus Safety System Gets Upgraded for 2015
26 Nov 2014, 12:17 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / As Toyota is rolling in some new technology next year, most of it will also reach its Lexus luxury division. There’s no word of the new LED Array AHS going for the big L (although we’re pretty sure it will be adopted sooner or later) bu...
Toyota Introducing Next-Generation LED Array Headlights in 2015
26 Nov 2014, 10:48 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Nearly 70 percent of accidents involving pedestrians happen at night, in poor visibility, when drivers fail to notice people near the road or even on the road. Many automakers have started to come up with advanced headlights that try to illuminate ...
The Chinese Tesla Looks Quite Impressive, Here’s the Denza Promo Clip
25 Nov 2014, 16:53 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / After its debut as a concept car in 2012 at the Auto China Show in Beijing, the Denza project is finally rolling into dealerships as the country’s first luxury electric passenger car. Sort of like their own Tesla Model S... Still, the car...
This RC Claas Challenger Tractor Should Be on Santa’s List
25 Nov 2014, 16:12 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / What’s the best part of farming? For us gearheads is when you get to drive all those heavy farming machines, of course. There should be “farm days” open for passionates, just like track days for race guys if you ask us. Can&rsq...
Good Guy Russian Driver Blocks Street for Pedestrian to Cross
25 Nov 2014, 15:22 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / With all these crashes, fights and other road rage incidents caught on the Russian dashcams, you’d say it’s a jungle out there, with every road participant acting for himself and not caring one millisecond for somebody else. Well, there...
Citroen C1 Urban Ride Soon On Sale, Production Models Spotted on a Trailer
25 Nov 2014, 14:57 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The Opel Adam Rocks looks like it will have at least one stylish competitor, as a batch of Citroen C1 Urban Ride models have been spotted being hauled on a trailer recently. Realizing the A-segment runabout’s profit margins are tight and ...
MOPAR Rolls Out Holiday Gifts and Decorations
25 Nov 2014, 14:09 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Thanks to the screwed up auto industry these days, “MOPAR or no car” could mean you won’t drive anything else but a slightly tricked out Fiat 500. Thanks a lot FCA for mixing musclecar icons with Multijet pasta! However, you can g...
Shipworms To Reveal Secrets of Making Biofuel
25 Nov 2014, 13:42 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Shipworms are quite odd sea living creatures to start with. First of all, they’re not actually worms, but mollusks and they feed on wood, hence their name coming from eating their way through the wind-powered ships of the past. But it is this...
SoundRacer VX Kickstarter Project Puts Racing Sounds in Your Car
25 Nov 2014, 11:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Some of the new sporty cars you can get now already come with fake engine noise blasting through the stereo to make you think what a beast of a car you bought. Some will simply enhance the car’s own engine noise while other systems will total...
Scion FR-S Convertible and Turbocharged Plans Dead for Good
25 Nov 2014, 10:13 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Toyota gave up long time ago on the convertible GT 86, a bittersweet dream that started along with the FT 86 Open concept. The car was simply not engineered to be as enjoyable in a drop-top form and plans went to the bin after Subaru said its facto...
Nissan Offering Free Leaf Quick Charging in Atlanta
25 Nov 2014, 09:34 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Black Friday deals can’t get better than this for Leaf buyers in Atlanta, as Nissan is rolling in its own holiday special deal - free public charging for two years. The “No Charge to Charge” for Atlanta program offers no-cost ...
UK-spec Lexus RC F Comes In Two Flavors, Starts at £59,995
24 Nov 2014, 14:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / They say the Lexus RC F has been made for drivers of all skill, from racers to those simply enjoying driving on an open road. However, such performance and looks come at a price and that’s just bellow £60,000 in the United Kingdom. T...
Rolls-Royce Pickup Truck is the Classiest Way to Haul a Haystack
24 Nov 2014, 10:58 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / There’s a real craze with Photoshopping high-end cars into pickup trucks going over the Internet these days. Heck, even we did a couple. But this is not thing happening only in the virtual world necessary. You can buy a Rolls-Royce pickup tru...
Cummins Diesel Rat Rod Is a Killer Ride
24 Nov 2014, 10:14 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Don’t really know what you guys consider a rat rod, but the amount of work and details put into this truck here definitely moves it to the upper hot rod class for us. Yeah, it has a rusty shell, but everything else looks like it’s out o...