Gabriel Nica
7,693 ARTICLES
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.
MINI Announces Performance Driving Program for Teens
20 Mar 2013, 14:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Last year MINI, introduced a teen driving program aimed at helping young drivers improve their driving skills for less teen-provoked car accidents. This year, the program will be focused on performance enhancing for drivers aged over 18. This ne...
Future BMW i3 Will Have Kymco Engine
20 Mar 2013, 13:08 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The all-new BMW electric city car called i3 will definitely be something different for the whole automotive scene. However, most people wonder and, at the same time, worry about the small car's autonomy. For those people, BMW introduced the ra...
Classic Rolls-Royce Cars Showcased in BMW's Museum
20 Mar 2013, 11:25 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Since 1998, when BMW bought the Rolls-Royce brand, the British company's fortune came around. In 2012 Rolls-Royce vehicles recorded the best sales volume in it's history with a record of 3,575 units sold. BMW decided to celebrate the rece...
Cyclist Niki Terpstra's BMW E92 M3 Stolen in Amsterdam
20 Mar 2013, 10:58 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Unlike a few lying cyclists out there (yeah, we're talking about you, Armstrong) some actually work hard for their money, without using enhancing drugs. It's the case of Dutch cyclist Niki Terpstra who, in 2012, pedaled hard and earned en...
BMW E39 M5 Sounds Amazing on the Nurburgring
20 Mar 2013, 10:56 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Back in 1998, when the E39 M5 was released, the world stopped for a moment. It was the first time when an M5 was fitted with a V8 engine and everyone wanted to see how good it was. Even to this day, the V8 S62 engine doesn't disappoint and cre...
BMW Heir Is Forbes' Richest Person in the Auto Industry
20 Mar 2013, 10:01 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Contrary to what you might expect, the richest person in the Auto Industry is not a man. Susanne Klatten, the daughter of Herbert and Johanna Quandt is the world's 58th richest person, placing her at the top of the auto industry. Valued by ...
The Best Aftermarket Kit for the M3: Vorsteiner GTRS5
20 Mar 2013, 09:58 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The day when we'll be saying goodbye to the current, historic M3, is drawing closer by the minute. That's why Vorsteiner decided to create one last unique body kit for the Bimmer, the GTRS5. The stock E92 M3 already comes with a n...
BMW X4 Aims at a New Segment, Sales Chief Says
20 Mar 2013, 09:54 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The BMW annual earnings press conference that was held in Munich on Tuesday brought some other interesting news, besides the record sales registered by the German brand in 2012. According to Automotive News Europe, BMW CEO Norbert Reithofer conf...
BMW E30 M3 Ends Up in a Pole
19 Mar 2013, 17:04 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / BMWs are great drift cars. Everyone knows it, everyone wants one, especially if it's an E34 M5 or and E30 M3, like the one in the video we're about to show you. The problem with getting a powerful E30 M3 sideways is that this may bring...
Complete Body Kit for BMW F10 M5 from Vorsteiner
19 Mar 2013, 17:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / American tuner Vorsteiner has enough experience to know that along with great power comes great responsibility. That's why they didn't release a complete performance kit for the new, powerful M5 until they knew exactly what they were deal...
BMW M1's Predecessor: BMW Braque Turbo
19 Mar 2013, 16:44 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / In the early 1970s BMW's chief designer was a frenchman. His name was Paul Braque and he created a series of innovative cars including the one that provided the basis for BMW's M1, the only supercar in its history. Named Braque Turbo. ...
BMW 4 Series Convertible Testing with the Top Down
19 Mar 2013, 16:05 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Waiting for BMW's new 4 Series models is definitely torturing us and the whole BMW community. Ever since the first rumor about replacing the Coupe and Convertible 3er with a completely new Series hit the web, everyone started looking for hints...
BMW Voted Most Admired Car Manufacturer by Fortune Magazine
19 Mar 2013, 15:45 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / BMW's recent record sales and its impressive history payed off this year. Fortune Magazine just published its yearly top of the most admired companies and the Bavarian manufacturer claimed the No. One spot in the automotive industry. BMW is...
BMW E71 X6 M Takes On Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT-8
19 Mar 2013, 14:31 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Ever since its official release, back in 2009, the "Master SAC" X6 M from BMW made us imagine all kinds of things, from riding on top of misty mountains to defeating Porsches and SRT-powered cars in drag races, like the ones in the video ...
Mint Green BMW E92 M3 Spotted in China
19 Mar 2013, 13:31 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / China is overflowing with BMWs these days. A lot of BMW's cars are sent over to the Asian country, even though the price tags might say otherwise. The one we're looking at today was found somewhere in an extremely far east suburb of Beiji...
Two BMW E89 Z4 GT3 Go Round Monza
19 Mar 2013, 13:27 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The BMW Z4 GT3 is not what you might expect at first. If you're thinking this is just a modified Z4 you're definitely wrong. The GT3 is not even road legal and you'll only be able to use it on a race track, like the ones in the video...
Akrapovic Exhaust for Jet Black E92 M3 by EAS
19 Mar 2013, 12:31 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / European Auto Source (boy, is that a long name for a tuning company) or EAS for short, created a while back an exquisite E92 M3 dressed in Jet Black. Today, we get an update on how that project's been developing and what's new in the E...
BMW M6 vs MTM Audi RS6 Drag Race
19 Mar 2013, 12:27 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The new BMW F12 M6 just doesn't cease to amaze us. After seeing it win against supercars like the Ferrari 458 Italia and the "supercar killer" Nissan GT-R, the Bimmer made another victim. It was about time we saw the new M6 go aga...
Classic MINI Proposed for "Great British Innovation" Title
19 Mar 2013, 12:25 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The British seem to enjoy making all kinds of rankings and statistics. The British Science Association just proposed a new poll in order to let the public decide which invention brought the most important innovations in the last century in the fiel...
BMW Introduces New Sound Logo
19 Mar 2013, 12:23 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / For the past 14 years, the BMW sound logo was a "double gong" you could hear at the end of every commercial and official video created by the Bavarian company. According to BMW's Brand Identity Management, it's time for a change...