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 F06 M6 Gran Coupe Present at Geneva 2013
6 Mar 2013, 12:07 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The new, 4-door BMW M6 made its official European Debut at Geneva this week. Painted in Individual Frozen Silver the M6 Gran Coupe made a dashing appearance at BMW's stand in Geneva, next to its smaller brother, the F13 M6 Convertible, painted...
MINI Brings Out the Big Guns at Geneva 2013
6 Mar 2013, 10:21 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The MINI stand in Geneva has a decent number of cars on display. The most interesting fact about these cars is that most of them are JCW editions, a true display of power coming from the British company. Among the cars MINI put up for display th...
MINI Brings Forth a Brand New Feature in the Automotive Industry
6 Mar 2013, 09:24 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The Driving Excitement Analyser from MINI Connected will blow your mind. It is obvious to the world, MINI drivers want to have fun, enjoy driving and are natural born party people. That's why, MINI launched a new feature that is just amazin...
Herbert Diess and Norbert Reithofer Usher In New BMW Models at Geneva 2013
6 Mar 2013, 09:23 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Yesterday, at the BMW stand in Geneva, Dr. Norbert Reithofer, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG and Dr. Herbert Diess, Member of the Board of Management and Development gave thorough presentations of the new BMW i3 and the BMW 3 Series ...
BMW Active Tourer Concept Present at Geneva 2013
5 Mar 2013, 17:40 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Unveiled at the 2012 Paris Motor Show, the BMW Active Tourer Concept took the BMW world by surprise. This concept is supposed to be the basis of the new 1 Series GT, a car that will be released sometime around the end of this year. The 1 Series ...
BMW F10 M5 on Car and Driver's Lightning Lap
5 Mar 2013, 17:37 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Car and Driver Magazine has a special section called Lightning Lap where they test cars based on their price tags. They have 5 classes with price tags ranging from below $29,999 to over $240,000. Today they published a video with the BMW F10 M5,...
Striped BMW F10 535i M Sport Shows Up in Geneva
5 Mar 2013, 17:32 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Fans all over the world expected BMW to show up at Geneva with a lot of interesting new concepts and even production cars. Few of us expected to see the Bavarian company bring out a BMW F10 535i with an M Performance package. However, BMW surpri...
BMW F34 3 Series GT at the Geneva Motor Show
5 Mar 2013, 15:42 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Walking into the Geneva Motor Show in Switzerland, you get to see the 3 Series GT live for the very first time. That might not seem like much, but looking at the car without using an LCD screen might change the way you feel about it. The first t...
The AC Schnitzer Hosts The World Premiere of the ACS3 Touring and the ACS 6 Gran Coupe
5 Mar 2013, 15:04 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / As reported earlier, the Geneva Motor Show is the event AC Schnitzer picked to unveil its newest creations: the ACS3 Touring and the ACS6 Gran Coupe. The ACS3 Touring is based on the F31 BMW 3 Series Touring to which some interesting features ha...
MINI Cooper Countryman One Year Test by KBB
5 Mar 2013, 15:00 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The guys over at Kelley Blue Book had the privilege to test a MINI Cooper Countryman for a full year. Today they finally revealed their final thoughts on the car. The Countryman is a fun car. That is the bottom line. It feels, as they said, like...
Hamann Releases Upset Version of the BMW F10 M5
5 Mar 2013, 14:58 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / If you went by Hamann's stand in Geneva today you might've been startled for a second. That's because the German tuner decided to unveil its own view on the M5 at the International Motor Show that is currently taking place in Switzer...
Alpina Reveals Full Info on B3 Biturbo
5 Mar 2013, 13:17 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / A while back, we told you that Alpina will be unveiling at Geneva the new B3 Biturbo model, their version of the F30 BMW 3 Series. This time, along with the usual 3 Series model, Alpina released a conversion kit for the Touring version too. The ...
Alpina Releases XD3 Bi-Turbo at Geneva
5 Mar 2013, 13:16 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The German BMW tuner Alpina released their own, official F25 X3 interpretation today. It is called the XD3 Biturbo and has some impressing figures. The XD3 is based on the xDrive35d version of the X3 and is above it in every way. The 3-liter 6-c...
BMWs That Will Be Missed: BMW New Class 1500
5 Mar 2013, 13:11 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The BMW New Class was produced by the Munich based car manufacturer between 1962 and 1977 in various models. The name referred to the 1.5-2-liter class of automobiles that BMW stopped producing since the second World War. This line of compact se...
BMW E34 525i Spotted in China
5 Mar 2013, 13:07 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The BMW E34 5 Series was never officially exported to China. The car was produced between 1988 and 1996 and that means it started production whilst the Communist countries were still functioning, before the Autumn of Nations. That means that BMW...
DIY: How to Change Your Brilliance H530 into a BMW in China
5 Mar 2013, 10:50 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / If there is one thing the Chinese are good at, it's creating cheap replicas of anything. And when we say anything, we mean it. A while back the X5 rip-off, the Shuanghuan CEO made some waves on the internet when BMW decided to file for a lawsu...
New Details About the BMW i3 Released
5 Mar 2013, 10:34 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / BMW's new all-electric car, the i3 Concept Coupe will be unveiled at Geneva this week. Along with the new i8 Concept the two new cars from BMW will usher in a new era for BMW cars. It is a new era because the research done while creating th...
Hamann's Take on the BMW F12 M6: The Mirr6r
5 Mar 2013, 09:52 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The Geneva Motor Show is taking place at the moment and everyone in the automotive industry is keeping an eye on what is happening in the Swiss town. One of the best BMW tuners in the world, Hamann, unveiled its own take on the new M6 today. Tha...
McKinsey Report Says BMW Sales in China Will Be Better than the US
5 Mar 2013, 09:24 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / According to Bloomberg, which has been covering the luxury segment of car sales for quite a while now, the Chinese will end up buying more luxury cars than Americans by 2016. A McKinsey study shows that “China premium car sales will probab...
BMW F10 5 Series Rides with Jesus in China
4 Mar 2013, 18:32 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / The recent changes that took China by surprise brought more than just money to the people of the communist country. Religion, an aspect that was put aside by the totalitarian regime in China between the 50's and the 90's, is now making a ...