Gabriel Nica
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Personal motto:
"You finally save up enough for your dream car and you get fired"
Fast forwarding to the 21st century, his passion became his life when he was adopted by the autoevolution team. Now he finally got to do what he liked, and bring joy to others as well while writing about the passion that's been radioactively infused into his DNA.
BMW-Brilliance X1 First Rendering
5 Jun 2013, 08:16 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The big news this week was definitely the spotting of a somewhat new BMW model. Their joint-venture with Chinese company Brilliance was bound to bring a first car to light, under the Zinoro name. Well, this week we saw it not only in China but i...
MINI Advertises Road Safety in an Unusual Way
5 Jun 2013, 07:40 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / We've seen them everywhere: at stop lights, in parking lots and sometimes on the road, behind the wheel. Women are apply lipstick and mascara everywhere they can. Unfortunately for us, even while driving sometimes. MINI Mexico had an intere...
BMW’s Driving Experience Program Witnessed First Hand
4 Jun 2013, 20:51 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / BMW takes care of its customers and this means that providing them with the necessary firepower is not enough. The company also offers the BMW Driving Experience program, where the skills come to accompany the horsepower. We were recently invi...
BMW E92 M3 Coupe Frozen Blue Limited Edition Launched in China
4 Jun 2013, 16:18 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The Chinese market saw a couple of limited edition BMWs before, like the Carbon Edition, Matte Edition or even Tiger Edition M3s. This week we saw yet another launch for the Communist country. The latest model on this short list is the BMW E92 M...
Take a Tour of the Circuit of the Americas with BMW's M6 Gran Coupe
4 Jun 2013, 15:49 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Opened in 2012, the Circuit of the Americas, often abbreviated as COTA, is the first purpose-built circuit for Formula One in the US. It measures 3.427 miles (5.515 km) in length and is located near Austin, Texas. Ever since it was opened for th...
Active Autowerke Squeezes 465WHP out of a BMW E46 M3
4 Jun 2013, 15:06 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The E46 BMW M3 was and will still be one of the best models ever to come out of the Munich headquarters of the propeller badged company. Even though its production ended in 2006, a lot of the BMW community is still sobbing. Most of us would be p...
iND Presents: BMW F10 M5 with Eisenmann Exhaust
4 Jun 2013, 14:22 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Eisenmann exhaust systems have been around for quite a while now. However, not many BMWs used to be fitted with such systems because they already sounded incredible. The most recent M5, the F10, has been quite different though. Other than being ...
G-Power Upgrades Sporty Drive Kit for BMW's M3 GTS
4 Jun 2013, 13:53 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Back in 2011, the guys from G-Power launched the so-called G-Power GTS SKII "Sporty Drive" system for BMW's GTS M3. It was comprised of a set of upgrades, out of which the most important was the supercharger system. A G-Power GTS ...
BMW F17 X7 In the Works?
4 Jun 2013, 13:11 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The recent launch of the new BMW F15 X5 made us wonder about a couple of things. Most of us expected the new SAV to be bigger than its predecessor, to make the difference between itself and the X3 more noticeable. A closer look at the specs will...
Scientists Claim that BMW MPG Numbers Are off 30 Percent. We Think Otherwise.
4 Jun 2013, 12:34 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Last week, a study done by the International Council of Clean Transportation (ICCT), a group we've never heard of before this article was published, claimed that most manufacturers have considerable differences between the claimed fuel consump...
BMW E92 3 Series Coupe Is Chrome Blue in China
4 Jun 2013, 12:26 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The E92 BMW 3 Series Coupe is a beautiful car, no doubt about it. You can even make it better with the incredible range of options BMW is offering at the moment, through its various customization programs like BMW Individual. Some people g...
Another Crazy Mashup: BMW X1 and Supercharged Range Rover
4 Jun 2013, 11:34 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The guys from The Fast Lane Car really have outdone themselves this time. Pitting a 3-liter turbocharged BMW X1 against a supercharged Range Rover is too much, even for a Bimmer. They had an old dispute to settle and Roman was supposed to bring ...
Car and Driver Showcases BMW E92 M3 Lime Rock Park Edition
4 Jun 2013, 11:12 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Out of the bunch of special edition models to be launched on the last naturally aspirated M3, the Lime Rock Park Edition seems to resonate best with the American public. Why? Because it was specially designed and sold in the US and only 200 of t...
Could the Gran Lusso Coupe Hint at a BMW 8 Series Revival?
4 Jun 2013, 09:47 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / BMW and Pininfarina collaborated this year to bring a new model to the world, at the 2013 Concorso d'Eleganza Villa d'Este. After they unveiled the one-off car, car enthusiasts all over the world started giving it all kinds of subtle mean...
Spyshots: Zinoro X1 Electric Vehicle
4 Jun 2013, 09:22 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / It's more than official: the BMW-Brilliance joint-venture already has an offspring. We already told you about it, the first time it was caught on public roads in China but this time, it was spotted in Germany. That's big news. It means...
BMW GT300 by Leib Engineering Is an Angry 325i
4 Jun 2013, 09:01 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Back in March, the guys from Leib Engineering made a name for themselves, releasing a good-looking 470 HP variation of the BMW E92 M3, called GT500. 3 months later, we're looking at a new project from the same company, called GT300. This ti...
BMW M3 with Supersprint Exhaust Battles Meisterschaft GT-R at Gumball
4 Jun 2013, 08:24 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Don't worry, this isn't an usual drag race video like the ones we've been seeing lately. This was taken somewhere along the 2013 Gumball circuit, in Europe, and it's a battle of exhaust systems. The combatants are a Nissan R3...
BMW Rapp Anniversary Concept Rendered by Dejan Hristov
4 Jun 2013, 07:47 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Since BMW is turning 100 in 2016, everyone expects a big project from the Bavarian manufacturer to celebrate its centenary. Up until now we've already seen a couple of interesting designs but Dejan Hristov's is the most powerful one yet. ...
BMW US Sales Up 13.8 Percent
4 Jun 2013, 07:25 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / We just entered June, so the May numbers were bound to show up sooner or later. Fortunately for us, they are still on the rise, paving the way for a record breaking year in the history of BMW. Overall, BMW sales in the US grew by 13.8 percent, r...
MotoGP Gets New Motorhome from BMW M
3 Jun 2013, 15:59 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Celebrating 15 years of cooperation between MotoGP organizer Dorna Motorsports and BMW as "Official Car of MotoGP", 2013 is definitely a special season for both the manufacturer and the motorsport championship. Furthermore, to reassure...