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
Money Can Buy You CORD Automobile Trademarks, They're for Sale
23 Sep 2014, 15:01 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / If a whole island isn’t enough to make you feel rich, you can now buy and revive a legendary automotive brand, as the CORD Automobile trademarks are currently put up for sale. A bit of history CORD Automobile was an American car designer ...
Here Are the Fastest Electric Cars of Today
23 Sep 2014, 12:58 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Did you know the first electric car was made in 1884? That’s two years before Karl Benz patented his internal combustion automobile. These silent machines were pretty popular in the late 19th century and early 20th century because of their si...
Ride In the Craziest Taxi Ever, Drugs Not Included Though
23 Sep 2014, 11:23 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Riding a cab can sometimes get really boring, especially at rush hour, but you’ll probably beg for a traffic jam while taking a trip in this crazy taxi that will make your senses go crazy. It’s called the Ultimate Taxi, it’s th...
Volvo Fully Reveals 7900 Plug-In Hybrid Bus
23 Sep 2014, 09:22 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / If you ask us, public transportation should be the first one to get fully electrified to which you can add taxis too. However, using all-electric buses and cars to haul people around town might be difficult because of their limited range. That&rsqu...
Toyota Previews New 3D Head-Up Display
23 Sep 2014, 08:48 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / In one of its latest reports, Toyota said it won’t spend resources to create autonomous vehicles in the near future. Its target is to let drivers do their job but provide them a good amount of extra assistance to be safe, translated through d...
EV Parade Sets New Guinness Record During National Drive Electric Week
22 Sep 2014, 11:28 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Electric powered cars are starting to make their presence felt more and more in the daily news, showing that people are starting to adopt them quickly for the petrol independence race. Speaking of which, last week, the biggest EV parade achieved a ...
Leaked Toyota C-HR Concept Looks Like a Juke Made by Renault
22 Sep 2014, 09:41 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Last week, Toyota teased us with a new model’s shadow, with only the head and taillights being clearly visible. We thought it was the Auris Cross, but now the automaker flicked the lights on and revealed the concept car before its debut at th...
The Sad Story of the Dying Pony Cars
19 Sep 2014, 19:01 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Boys and girls aspiring to get a driver’s license and enter the automotive world, gather around this old-on-the-inside fool to hear a story about the golden age of motoring and what it has created... Once upon a time, the United States wer...
FIXD Lets You Diagnose a Car for Yourself - Check Engine Light Meanings
19 Sep 2014, 15:58 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Along with emissions standards and the OBD port came the much feared “Check Engine” dashboard light. Most people panic when it lights up because they don’t know what’s wrong with their car and how much it will cost to repair...
World’s First Convertible Motorhome Is a Mercedes-Benz Atego: Skydancer 7.5
19 Sep 2014, 14:41 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / You’ve been in an open top double-decker tour bus before, right? Sun, wind in your hair, great visibility, monuments and nice buildings to see; too bad there are 50 more people with you and the bus can’t leave the city. If your wish is ...
Japanese Mustang for Sale - V8 Toyota Celica GT Restomod
19 Sep 2014, 13:10 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The Ford Mustang came with a sweet deal back in the day - great looks, straightforward mechanics, affordability and a coupe body. This translates into the pony car class which soon started to grow on both local market and around the world. Toyot...
The TWIKE Is the Only Hybrid Velomobile You Need, But Comes at a Price
19 Sep 2014, 11:36 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / We recently took a glance at the Virtue Cycle Solutions Pedalist velomobile, which is basically a three-wheeled bicycle with a tall plastic shell on top to keep rain and wind away from the cyclist. Interesting enough, but it seems a bit uncomfortab...
Toyota FT-1 Vision Gran Turismo Available in Game - Looks Even More Menacing
19 Sep 2014, 09:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / OK, so we had the chance to virtually drive the Toyota FT-1 concept car in the Gran Turismo simulator for a few months now. Yeah, it costs a fortune to unlock but “sitting” in that slingshot-design cockpit feels great even if it’s...
This Four-Seater Solar-Powered EV Could Enter Production Soon
18 Sep 2014, 12:43 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / You’ve seen these solar-panel-plated lightweight vehicles competing in green races, but all of them came with limitations regarding passenger comfort and number of seats. However, Stella here wants to solve the problem soon. The road so fa...
Every Sci-Fi Spaceship in One Image: Amazing Comparison Chart
18 Sep 2014, 10:48 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Although many of us find it insulting to go watch a movie or play a game that inaccurately depicts tiny plane-like spacecraft with artificial gravity or giant vessels passing by with a huge noise in the vacuum of the space, truth is we all like sci...
World’s First 3D Printed Car Is Alive and Kicking, Sort of
17 Sep 2014, 09:34 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Local Motors, the same company that brought us the craziest off-roader, the Rally Fighter, just wrote an important entry in the automotive history log by creating the first functional 3D-printed car, which surprisingly works with the least amount o...
The Retrofuture Is Back - Betavoltaic Nuclear Battery Could Be Used in EVs
17 Sep 2014, 09:02 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Remember the post-war culture of the 1950s America which was strongly believing in nuclear energy that will be used in the future to power everything? They were kinda right; our toasters and washing machines don’t come yet with a nano nuclear...
Toyota Aygo Peeing Like a Dog in New Commercial
15 Sep 2014, 08:43 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Here at autoevolution we love mean, big gas guzzlers. The bigger the cylinders, the bigger the fun and the crazier the sound exiting the pipes (big chromed ones hopefully). Unfortunately, such kind of cars are starting to make almost no sense in to...
Toyota Teasing New Crossover Concept for Paris Motor Show
15 Sep 2014, 08:13 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Remember the high-riding Auris in the last spyshots? Seems Toyota is preparing something a bit more than a slightly off-road-looking Auris, maybe a new model if you take a look at this concept car teased here. Toyota was recently testing a sligh...
Here’s How Big Tesla’s Gigafactory Will Be
12 Sep 2014, 16:32 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / We recently reported the American electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla Motors will open a gigafactory in Nevada, where it will also receive the help of the local officials... $1.2 billion that is. It sounds huge on paper, but it looks even bigger in...