Elena Gorgan
8,139 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.
Dude Steals Pepsi Truck to Look For His Girlfriend After Fight
21 Feb 2019, 12:05 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / As one recent Pepsi slogan put it so eloquently, “Live for now.” That’s exactly what one Tulsa man did after a fight with his girlfriend, when he decided he must do whatever he could to find her, even if that meant stealing a trac...
Man Runs Over Family of 8 After Being Asked Not to Smoke Around The Kids
21 Feb 2019, 10:14 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / What should have been a common sense thing (i.e. not smoking around children) turned into a nasty argument and into a tragedy, when the smoker that had been admonished rammed his car into a family of 8. It happened in the parking lot of a 7-Ele...
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio Had Cops Pull Over Woman For Texting And Driving
20 Feb 2019, 14:40 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / As a concerned parent and an equally concerned politician, Bill de Blasio, the current mayor of New York City, isn’t about to cut drivers guilty of texting and driving any kind of slack. Speaking at a recent press conference on his plans ...
Pensioner Gets New Bike From Cops After His Old One Was Stolen
20 Feb 2019, 13:27 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / An 80-year-old man from Florida had only his bike to get around so when thieves stole it, he was left stranded. It wasn’t for long, though, as the officers investigating the theft decided to help him out. They got him a brand new bike, as...
Burglar Crashes Car Into Adult Novelty Shop, Steals Lingerie And Toys
20 Feb 2019, 12:09 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One guy from Tulsa, Oklahoma must have thought he was planning the heist of the century, judging by the lengths he went to to make sure he got inside a store. And all for $400 in adult lingerie and toys. Police are looking for a man who crashed...
Police Impound Tractor Used For Drag Racing Motorbikes
19 Feb 2019, 14:13 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / File this under “boys will do whatever to have their fun” and cross-reference it with “stupid stuff that will get you in trouble.” Police in Wiltshire, UK, have seized a farm tractor that was being used in drag races against...
Convicted Car Thief Uses His Skills to Rescue Baby Locked in Chevy Tahoe
19 Feb 2019, 12:36 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / This is probably the only circumstance in which a convicted car thief is asked to break into a car: several inmates and police officers worked together to rescue a toddler locked inside an SUV in New Port Richey, Florida. Shadow Lantry and her ...
Musician’s Car Stolen With Him Sleeping in The Back Seat
19 Feb 2019, 12:20 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One musician from Newark, Delaware thought catching some shut eye in the back of his personal car was no big deal – until a couple of car thieves tried to drive off with the vehicle and later crashed it when they noticed the man sleeping insi...
British Tourist Charged $930 For 5-Minute Taxi Ride in New Zealand
29 Jan 2019, 15:45 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Most taxi drivers in New Zealand are independent, which makes complaints about overcharging all the more difficult to solve. According to the Taxi Federation, this one Brit’s case was a very lucky one. John Barrett was in New Zealand earl...
Minor Fender Bender Turns Violent When One Driver Takes Out Baseball Bat
29 Jan 2019, 15:17 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Police in Philadelphia say they receive at least one report of a road rage altercation a week. The latest occurred at the busy intersection of Levick Street and Roosevelt Boulevard, and saw one driver smash another man’s work van. As is u...
World’s Most Comfortable Scooter is Funny, But Definitely Not a Good Idea
29 Jan 2019, 14:43 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Experimenting with the stuff you have is always good, as long as you make sure your actions don’t have the potential to cause harm to others – or yourself. This dude from Dunedin, New Zealand, doesn’t care about all that. His ...
Deer And Cyclist Collide in Arizona, No One Wins
29 Jan 2019, 14:20 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Why did the deer cross the road? We don’t know, but it could have picked a better time: one deer collided with a cyclist going down Mount Lemmon in Tucson, Arizona, but luckily, no one was severely injured. Well, that doesn’t includ...
Woman on United Airlines Flight Refuses to Sit Between 2 Fat People: I Eat Salad
29 Jan 2019, 13:34 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Not all airline companies enforce the policy of having oversize passengers purchase two tickets, but in the eyes of one flier at least, they should. She threw one heck of a tantrum on a recent United Airlines flight when she was sat between two &ld...
Truck Driver Who Won $298.3 Million Powerball Jackpot Plans to Buy a Red Porsche
29 Jan 2019, 13:08 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / If winning the second-largest Powerball jackpot in New York Lottery history is not a good enough excuse to succumb to the middle-age crisis cliché by getting yourself a flashy sports car, we don’t know what is. A 56-year-old truck ...
Woman Writes $40,000 Check For Honda Pilot, With Just $10 in The Bank
29 Jan 2019, 12:24 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A 40-year-old woman from Mukilteo, Washington, thought she could outsmart everyone and get her dream car, even though she had only $10 in the bank. She is now on trial for felony theft charges, HeraldNet reports. In May last year, the woman wal...
Basketball Fan Gets Brand New BMW X3 After Making Half-Court Shot
29 Jan 2019, 12:10 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / How’s this for beginner’s luck? One man attended his first University of Louisville basketball game and got to leave with a brand new BMW X3, even though he wasn’t able to compete the challenge in due time. Wayne Hanlin is the...
The Duchess of Sussex is Barred From Closing Her Own Car Doors
29 Jan 2019, 11:02 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / So much for making a feminist stand from within the British Royal Family. What was once seen as a gesture of independence and as a feminist stand will become history: the Duchess of Sussex, former actress Meghan Markle, is no longer allowed to clos...
Drunk Man Terrorizes EasyJet Staff, Rips iPhone in Half, Threatens Passengers
29 Jan 2019, 10:26 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A seemingly drunk passenger on an EasyJet flight from Manchester to Iceland turned the experience into a nightmare for everyone on board, from the pilots to the cabin crew and the other passengers, whom he “terrorized.” The man was ...
Woman Leads Police on Chase, Exits Car at Gunpoint Chugging Beer
28 Jan 2019, 14:14 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Julia Myers from Maryville, Tennessee is keeping it classy. She started last Monday by drinking hard liquor at 9.45 in the morning, switched to beer and concluded the day by leading police on a high-speed chase in her 2002 Kia Rio. When she was...
Prince Philip Apologizes For Crash, Insists He’s a Competent Driver at 97
28 Jan 2019, 13:58 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Prince Philip may be responsible for the crash from earlier this month, but that doesn’t make him any less competent as a driver, he says in a letter of apology he sent to one of the victims. The Mirror obtained the letter from the female...