Elena Gorgan
8,136 ARTICLES
Personal motto:
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” - Henry Ford
She has covered automotive and mobility topics like cars and bicycles, ranging from the regular and all the way to celebrity culture, film, and music.
More than anything, Elena loves to tell stories about unusual or very special projects, but you can also count on her if you’re looking for the perfect e-bike.
Her work has been published on Softpedia News, InOut Star and, since 2018, autoevolution.
This Is Flexman: The Masked Vigilante Taking Down Speed Cameras With an Angle Grinder
26 Jan 2024, 12:31 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The modern understanding of what a "hero" is varies depending on who you're talking to. Should you hop on social media, X (former Twitter) specifically, you might be surprised to find that a "hero" is what most other people...
Meet Trucker Barbie: This Female Truck Driver Drives a Hot Pink Volvo Dripped in Cute
26 Jan 2024, 10:36 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Barbie, the billion-dollar movie inspired by the gazillion-dollar Mattel doll, got snubbed at the 2024 Oscars, particularly in the Best Actress and Best Director categories. Not all Barbie news is bad news, though. This real-life Barbie, for exa...
Domino Superyacht Is 262 Feet of Elegance and Utmost Luxury at Sea
26 Jan 2024, 08:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / When it comes to luxury assets, bigger is always better, just like custom is always the only way to go. With the Simply Custom Collection, world-renowned luxury shipyard Oceanco is aiming to show that there's a middle-way approach to this. ...
The Sportcaravan Cube 1 Is a Little Transformer, Takes Microcaravaning to the Max
26 Jan 2024, 06:19 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / George Orwell created the concept of DoubleThink as a tool to force the inhabitants of his fictional dystopian universe to accept opposing and, as such, mutually exclusive ideas or beliefs as the truth, even when used simultaneously. This is a rare...
Xzibit and Pimp My Ride Make a Spectacular Comeback With the Trash Wagon
25 Jan 2024, 10:46 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Back in the early days of reality programming, viewers at home still lived under the impression that reality TV wasn't scripted at all but was actually real life that happened to be captured by TV cameras. The MTV cult classic Pimp My Ride is ...
The $2 Billion Migaloo M5 Is World's First Luxury Super Submarine, Loaded With Amenities
25 Jan 2024, 08:44 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / We live in uncertain, unsettling times, but that only applies to us, the normies. Billionaires live in a parallel reality where no storm, whether figurative or literal, can put a damper on their enjoyment of a luxurious life. For them, there's...
Steve Jobs' Mysterious Superyacht 'Venus' Makes a Rare Appearance in Australia
24 Jan 2024, 09:08 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Given the increased attention on Russian oligarchs' megayachts, their enormous size and equally high price tags, it does feel like there's no way for other custom leisure crafts to stand out. If that's the case, the 2012 Feadship bui...
The 1910 Brooke Swan Car: Perhaps the World's Oldest (and Most Shocking) Custom Car
24 Jan 2024, 07:12 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Some of the world's greatest inventions were fueled by an altruistic, idealist desire to improve everyday reality or by the less-than-altruistic wish to better one's circumstances. And then there's stuff like the Swan Car – cre...
BMW's Luxury Flying Yacht Is a Vision of an All-Electric Future, Looks Amazing in Motion
23 Jan 2024, 08:28 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Pictures are worth a thousand words, but they might still fail to capture the beauty or the unique character of whatever object they're of. This seems to be the case with The Icon, dubbed the flying luxury yacht carmaker BMW unveiled at last y...
Hear Me Roar: Ultra-Rare Jaguar C-X75 Built for James Bond Is Being Made Road Legal
22 Jan 2024, 11:57 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / If you have millions to spare but can't be bothered to splurge on movie memorabilia you can't use in real life, we have good news and bad news for you. An ultra-rare Jaguar C-X75 is being rendered road legal as we speak, ahead of a planne...
Kanye West Bought and Customized a Super-Rare Toyota Mega Cruiser for Wife Bianca
22 Jan 2024, 10:44 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / If love is quantifiable by the number or the price tag of automotive gifts you shower your significant other with, then it's everlasting love between Kanye West and his wife, Bianca Censori. Say what you will about Kanye West's latest ...
Overade LIFE Is Perfect for Any City Rider Because Life's Too Short for Boring Helmets
22 Jan 2024, 07:13 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The need to wear a helmet when riding a bike is a disputed issue, and differences in regional regulations underline that. But we can all agree that life's too short to be wearing boring helmets: if you're going to be wearing one when ridi...
Remembering The Pool Bus: How One 'Hacker' Turned a Tadao Bus Into a Public Pool
21 Jan 2024, 09:11 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Everyday reality puts very strict limits on the functionality of everyday objects, but art hardly ever knows of such limitations. The Pool Bus, perhaps one of the most obviously-named objet d'art out there, is a brilliant example in this sense...
Meet Uhtred, a Gorgeous and Sophisticated RV That Fits the Entire Family
21 Jan 2024, 01:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / If Shakespeare was right in saying "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet" (and he was!), who are we to find fault with a builder choosing to name their tiny houses glamorous RVs? Not us, not when said RVs are as beautiful and sop...
'Life at Sea' Cruise Passengers Ask for Criminal Probe for Fraud, Unpaid Refunds
20 Jan 2024, 09:04 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Sometimes, in life, things don't work out. And sometimes, they don't work out because someone wanted them not to. The disappointed, now-homeless passengers of the canceled Life at Sea cruise believe the latter applies to their case. Th...
Palladio Is a Hybrid, All-Carbon, High-Tech Yacht That Aims to Upgrade Sea Transportation
20 Jan 2024, 01:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Few other designers are as prolific in the design of dreams as Italian-born Pierpaolo Lazzarini of the Lazzarini Design studio. Though he probably didn't specifically set out to do so, Lazzarini has long carved for himself a reputation of bein...
Iconic, Sanctioned $400M Megayacht Is Back on the Charter Market but There's a Catch
19 Jan 2024, 09:59 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Few other superyachts are as famous, iconic, and controversial as The Flying Fox. Technically a megayacht due to its size, this 2019 build by luxury shipyard Lurssen is officially back on the charter market, even though it's also – quite...
Arnold Schwarzenegger's Customs Arrest Drives Up the Price of His Ultra-Rare Luxury Watch
19 Jan 2024, 08:39 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Most people would dread the prospect of having their run-in with the law go viral within minutes of it happening, but most people are not Arnold Schwarzenegger. For the Terminator actor, it's just material for a couple of off-color jokes and a...
Donald Trump's Princess II: The World's Biggest, Most Beautiful Superyacht That Never Was
19 Jan 2024, 07:11 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Like many other things in life, luxury living can catch like a bug. It's not the worst thing to have happen to you, of course – or at least, not if you can afford the premium lifestyle. Even a man as adverse to sailing or the idea of ...
Arnold Schwarzenegger Detained in Customs for 3 Hours Over Audemars Piguet Watch
18 Jan 2024, 11:56 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / There's very little a celebrity can't get away with, if we're to believe urban legends or even sightings of famous women laughing their way out of tickets and fines. That wasn't the case with Arnold Schwarzenegger as he landed i...