Elena Gorgan
8,143 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.
Jaden Smith Brings Flying Tesla Model X to Coachella 2019
15 Apr 2019, 12:33 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Jaden Smith, the actor-turned-rapper son of Will Smith, is continuing his (probably more or less one-sided) bromance with Elon Musk, by bringing a flying Tesla to Coachella 2019. Well, to be fair, it wasn’t a flying Tesla in the strictest...
3 Naked Florida Women Lead Police on Insane High-Speed Chase
15 Apr 2019, 12:06 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Three Florida women got into a world of trouble after trying to elude police responding to a call of indecent exposure. The women were “air drying” after taking a shower at a rest stop, but they sped off before the responding officer wa...
Florida Man Admits to Speeding: “This Car is a Ferrari And it Goes Fast”
15 Apr 2019, 11:57 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / What’s the point of owning a fast car if you don’t let it do what it was build to do? That seems to have been the argument of a Florida man who was caught speeding over the weekend. It happened in Miami, late at night. Gabriel Molin...
Benedict Cumberbatch Hits Cyclist With His Lamborghini Urus, Gets Duly Slapped
15 Apr 2019, 11:01 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / When he’s not saving cyclists from moped thieves, Benedict Cumberbatch occasionally hits them on narrow country roads with his green Lamborghini Urus. Or at least, that’s the story coming from British tabloids. Back in September las...
Bear Completely Trashes Subaru Forester Looking For Gummy Bears
15 Apr 2019, 09:57 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One Colorado woman has learned her lesson: never let your guard down and assume that your car is safe if it’s inside the garage. Bears, it turns out, will do anything to get their paws on something to eat. Even if that something is gummy ...
Elderly Driver Tries to Back Out of His Driveway, Ends up in Neighbor’s Home
15 Apr 2019, 09:29 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / An elderly driver from Middleton, U.K., has had the scare of a lifetime and will have to save up to cover damages, after he crashed his car into his neighbor’s house, completely ruining the front of the building. The man, said to be in hi...
Jealous Teen Crashes Into Elderly Couple’s Home After Car Chase
15 Apr 2019, 09:17 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A brief but high speed car chase in Eastpointe, Michigan, ended with the pursuing vehicle wedged in the exterior wall of the house belonging to an elderly couple. Talk about a rude awakening for the poor folks. Police tell ClickOnDetroit that th...
Toddler Falls 6 Stories, Lands on Car, Survives
15 Apr 2019, 08:55 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A 20-month-old boy is in critical but stable condition, and is expected to make a full recovery after falling 6 stories out the window of his home. The roof of a car parked right under the window broke his fall. Car owner Ed Lu works at Microso...
Man Breaks Into Car And Falls Asleep Until Cops Come
12 Apr 2019, 15:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A man from Houston, Texas, woke up to an unpleasant surprise: a call from his neighbor, telling him that someone had broken into one of his cars, parked out in the driveway. The good news is that nothing was stolen and / or damaged, ABC News re...
World’s Worst 3-Point Turn, The “1,600-Point Turn”
12 Apr 2019, 14:56 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Many British roads are too narrow for U-turns, so drivers have to adapt fast to master the (slightly more complicated) 3-point turn. And, while the latter takes practice to make perfect, there’s at least one driver who’s not making any ...
Man Takes Mustang For Brake Inspection, Catches Mechanic Doing Donuts in It
12 Apr 2019, 14:10 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A California man spent $200 on a camera that he mounted on the rear-view mirror of his red Mustang, and he’s now saying it’s the best use he could have put to that money. Michael Burke from Elk Grove, California, says his Mustang is ...
Fearless Deer Knocks Biker Off His Motorcycle, Merrily Prances Away
12 Apr 2019, 13:23 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Talk about a hit-and-run you don’t get to see every day. A deer not only came out of the forest to cross a highly circulated highway but actually did so at full speed – and knocked down a biker in the process. The incident happened ...
Man Sues The DMV Over “Come on You Whites” Vanity Plate
12 Apr 2019, 12:09 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Jonathan Kotler is a huge soccer fan. He is such a fan that he’s traveled numerous times from Los Angeles to London, just to support his team, Fulham F.C., in person. He also wanted to have a vanity license plate in their honor. His reque...
Woman Crashes, Totals Car After Seeing a Spider
11 Apr 2019, 13:50 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Here’s an instance of distracted driving you don’t see that often and, while it might seem funny at first, it can have fatal consequences as well. This wasn’t the case here, because the woman driving the car escaped with just ...
Norwegian Cruise Line Announces Ban of Towel Animals, World Mourns
11 Apr 2019, 13:11 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Towel animals, a staple of any respectable cruise ship, will no longer be a daily occurrence for customers of Norwegian Cruise Line, as part of a new trial to protect the world’s resources. That feeling when you return to your room at the...
Uber Driver Drops Couple Off at Airport, Returns to Burglarize Their Home
11 Apr 2019, 12:55 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Just because the driver taking you to the airport is driving for a ridesharing company doesn’t mean you have to throw all caution out the window and blindly trust him. Be mindful of how much information you give out, or you could become a vic...
Flight Attendant Recreates Britney Spears’ Toxic Video During Atlanta Layover
11 Apr 2019, 12:04 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / When you love your job and are having fun with it, it shows. Sometimes, you might even be so lucky as to become a viral star – like it recently happened to one flight attendant working with Endeavor Air. At the end of last month, 28-year-...
20-Year-Old Raising 5 Younger Siblings Alone Gets Nissan Versa For Free
11 Apr 2019, 11:16 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The act of kindness of a Florida community comes to reestablish faith in humanity, if only temporarily. After losing both parents to cancer, a 20-year-old girl has been taking care of her 5 younger siblings on her own. Now, she has a new car to mak...
North Carolina Cop Bought, Planted Drugs in Car of Ex-Girlfriend’s Boyfriend
10 Apr 2019, 16:43 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A now-former police officer has had a very short but newsworthy criminal career, after he bought and planted drugs in the car of the man his ex-girlfriend was dating. Talk about not being able to move on with your love life. Former Deputy David ...
Pink Flamingo Elegantly Trolls Pilots, Staff at Palma Airport in Mallorca, Spain
10 Apr 2019, 15:52 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / If you’re going to troll pilots and airport staff, you might as well do it in the most elegant manner possible. Cue to this beautiful pink flamingo, which caused minor chaos at an airport in Spain at the weekend. On Sunday, the pilot of a...