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.
Thieves Steal Car, Credit Card, Go Shopping For Booze And Baked Goods
29 Nov 2018, 16:12 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Having your car stolen sucks bad enough, but having it stolen with your purse and credits cards inside, and then hearing that the thieves went shopping on your dime is like adding insult to injury. It happened just recently to one woman in Colo...
Woman Pleads For The Return of Her Dead Mother’s Stolen Honda CR-V
29 Nov 2018, 15:40 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One woman from Lexington, Kentucky, is pleading for the return of her late mother’s car, which she was driving and was filled with priceless memories. She’s going public with her story in the hope that the 4 thieves who took it will...
Giant Inflatable Santa Breaks Free, Blocks Traffic For 3 Hours
29 Nov 2018, 15:31 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / If Santa has trouble getting your presents under the tree this year, worry not. He’s probably late because he’s in custody after his latest stint, which involved floating into traffic and blocking it for more than 3 hours. It happe...
First Person to Be Killed by Electric Scooter is 90YO Spanish Woman
29 Nov 2018, 15:08 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The first person to be killed by an electric scooter is a 90-year-old woman from Barcelona, Spain. She was hit by one this August, but details of the incident have just now emerged in the media. El Pais reports that the woman was in very good h...
Amazon Delivery Driver Caught Looking Through Garbage Bins, Stealing Packages
29 Nov 2018, 14:50 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One Amazon delivery driver tried to make a few extra quid by looting from one client he had also delivered a package to. Sadly (for the dude), the client had CCTV cameras covering all angles. Chris Clark from Kilsyth, Scotland, was expecting a ...
Driverless Cement Truck Plows Through 5 Garden Walls, 2 Cars, 1 Lamp Post
29 Nov 2018, 14:42 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Sometimes, even experienced drivers make mistakes but they’re not always as expensive as this one was: the driver of a cement truck probably forgot about the hand brake and had to watch it go down a steep incline, plowing through people&rsquo...
London’s Met Police Use Cars to Knock Moped Thieves Off Their Bikes, at Last
29 Nov 2018, 14:27 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Faced with the harsh reality of not being able to stop moped crime from spreading, officers from London’s Metropolitan Police are finally free to use their cars as weapons and ram them into moped thieves, knocking them off their bikes and eff...
Uber Driver Who Rammed Into Pedestrians in London Had no License, Insurance
29 Nov 2018, 13:08 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A 48-year-old Uber driver was found guilty of dangerous driving and sentenced to 15 months in jail after driving his car into a crowd in London in October 2017. The trial has also uncovered a series of illegalities Juma Omar had committed to be...
Man Pretends to be a Cop to Sleep With Women, Rent Expensive Cars, Extort Money
29 Nov 2018, 12:09 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Some of us have to work harder to get the things we want but can’t afford yet, but one young man from Indonesia found another way to make that happen – by cutting corners and breaking the law. Ari Septian Pratama, a 21-year-old fro...
Drunk Driver Crashes, Rips Car in 2, is Ejected – Then Runs Away
28 Nov 2018, 17:00 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One driver crashed his car in Aurora, Colorado in the early hours of Monday, and the impact was so bad it virtually ripped the car in 2. The driver still tried to escape on foot, though. Most drivers would think being involved in such a serious...
Pilot Saves Tourist’s Life as Paraglider Snaps in Mid-Air
28 Nov 2018, 16:42 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A first-time adventure turned into a nightmare for a tourist in India, when the paraglider he had rented out for a ride snapped in mid-air. Luckily, the pilot saved his life. Sadly for the pilot, identified by Metro as 22-year-old Purushottam T...
Georgia Homeowner Shoots Man Trying to Break Into His Car
28 Nov 2018, 16:03 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One man from Mableton, Georgia, woke up to an alarm on his smartphone informing him outside surveillance cameras had picked up movement in the driveway. It turned out to be a robber breaking into the man’s car. The homeowner got out and e...
New Vauxhall Corsa Ad: a Model, a Surfer, a Curvy Girl And a Bearded Lady
28 Nov 2018, 15:29 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The new ad for Vauxhall Corsa GSi is out and it’s already ruffling plenty of feathers. It’s not because it pays tribute to an iconic ad that came out in 1993 and which introduced Corsa to the public, but because it features women not ma...
Kanye West Rents Boeing 747 For Himself And a Handful of People, No Big Deal
28 Nov 2018, 14:33 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / There’s an old internet joke that goes something along the lines of, “Kanye West’s ego is so huge he needs to travel by 2 private jets: one for himself and one for the ego.” Turns out, a private Boeing 747 would do just fine...
70YO Florida Driver Uses Bond Plate-Cloaking Device to Defraud Toll System
28 Nov 2018, 13:20 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Sometimes, movies are inspired by real life and sometimes, they inspire it. One Florida driver looked to the classic James Bond movies when he came up with the plan to defraud the toll system. Robert Craig Davis, 70, was arrested the other day ...
Thug Uses Zombie Knife to Attack VW Driver, Walks Free
28 Nov 2018, 12:28 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / An 18-year-old thug from London has walked free after a judge ruled he had been too traumatized after he’d been kidnapped. This, despite the fact that he used a zombie knife to smash the window of a VW that had nearly hit him, in an attempt t...
Dutch Boatmaker Johan Huibers Plans to Sail His Giant Noah’s Ark to Israel
28 Nov 2018, 12:17 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Travel to Krimpen aan de Ijssel in the Netherlands and you might be able to set foot on a life-size version of Noah’s Ark, built by Johan Huibers following the description in the Book of Genesis. Huibers actually finished his Ark in 2012 ...
Will Smith Kidnapped Lewis Hamilton With Help From Michael Bay
27 Nov 2018, 16:01 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Now that he’s bungee-jumped out of a helicopter over the Grand Canyon to mark his 50th birthday, Will Smith thinks he can do whatever he sets his mind to. Even when that means taking Lewis Hamilton’s spot in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. ...
Gone in 60 Seconds: Thieves Take Family’s 2 New Mercedes SUVs From Their Home
27 Nov 2018, 15:41 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Security experts and even automakers are warning owners of keyless cars to keep the fobs inside Faraday pouches when at home. Cheaper variants are just as efficient, as long as they completely block off the signal from the fob. A family in Wemb...
Steph Curry’s Porsche Panamera Wrecked in Multi-Vehicle Crash in Oakland
27 Nov 2018, 15:02 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / NBA’s Stephen Curry probably spent Boxing Day giving new thanks and browsing for a new car, because his Porsche got wrecked on a highway in Oakland, California, after it was involved in a multi-vehicle crash. ABC News reports that Curry&r...