Elena Gorgan
8,138 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.
Hundreds of Maseratis Destroyed in Italian Port Fire After Flood
1 Nov 2018, 15:27 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / For the second time this week, the port of Savona, Liguria, south of Milan, Italy, has been engulfed by flames. This time, the damage was considerably higher, but at least no one was injured or killed. Silver linings. Hundreds of luxury Maserat...
Watch a Giant Pumpkin Being Dropped on a Geo Metro, Destroy It
1 Nov 2018, 14:10 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Though there are far better things you can do with a run-down Geo Metro and a giant pumpkin, not a single one of them is as fun as dropping the latter on the former. It happened the other day during the annual Halloween harvest celebration Utah ...
Couple’s Car Gets Broken Into, Neighbor Scolds Them in Passive-Aggressive Note
1 Nov 2018, 13:16 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / This brings new meaning to the saying “add insult to injury:” a couple’s Ford Fiesta was broken into right in their driveway, and the next day, they woke to a passive-aggressive note from a neighbor stuck in the windshield, too. ...
Oregon Police Catch Teens Smashing Stolen Pumpkins Through Car Windows
1 Nov 2018, 12:09 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Oregon police have finally put an end to a pumpkin-smashing spree that lasted two weeks and resulted in considerable damage to the cars of the good people of Grants Pass. Two teens, Jacob Stephen Solomon and Adrian Andres Ochoa, both aged 19, u...
Google Street View Car Drives Into Flooded Texas Road, Becomes Submerged
31 Oct 2018, 15:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Google Street View cars are supposed to map everything for the rest of us mortals, but every once in a while, they could use some directions, too. Take, for example, this Google-owned vehicle equipped with a mapping system that became stranded ...
Tesla Model S on Autopilot Crashes Into Parked Car, Driver Sues Tesla
31 Oct 2018, 15:00 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Another driver is taking Tesla to court over its Autopilot mode and what the company says – or doesn’t say – about what it can do. Shawn Hudson crashed his 2017 Tesla Model S into a parked car earlier this month, with Autopilot on...
Driver Leads Police on Wild Chase Because He Was Out Egging
31 Oct 2018, 14:17 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / In what can only be dubbed a very bad case of bad luck, one man from Yeadon, Pennsylvania is now facing serious charges after fleeing the cops and leading them on a high-speed chase because he assumed they wanted to arrest him for egging. ABC6 r...
Biker Films Moment He’s Shot During Road Rage Incident in Brazil
31 Oct 2018, 13:22 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A few words thrown around in the heat of the moment can have near-fatal consequences, and this seems to happen quite a lot on the road, in altercations generally referred to as road rage incidents. Earlier this month, a biker was shot in the ba...
Baby-Faced Car Thief, 18, With 77 Crimes And 47 Convictions, Finally Gets Jail
31 Oct 2018, 12:46 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / You wouldn’t be able to tell just by looking at him that Kash Parkinson, from Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, UK, is a career criminal: he’s just turned 18 and he’s small in stature and baby-faced. But he’s been steal...
Cyclist Run Off The Road by Nissan Patrol 4WD in Australian Road Rage Incident
31 Oct 2018, 12:04 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Road rage doesn’t know any geographical boundaries, so yes, Australians tend to get into this type of altercations on the road as well. The latest involves a cyclist and the driver of a Nissan Patrol 4WD. Though video of the incident emerg...
Arizona Woman Leaves 3 Children In Running Car to Go Shopping at Nordstrom
30 Oct 2018, 15:18 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One woman from Arizona, 23-year-old Artisha Dates, has been charged with 3 counts of child neglect after she left her 3 children inside a car with the engine running, so she could do a spot of shopping at Nordstrom. Priorities, right? Court docu...
Drunk Driver Smashes Into Police Cruiser, Apologizes: I Have to Go to Work
30 Oct 2018, 15:05 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One drunk driver who smashed his car into a police cruiser in Easthampton, Massachusetts, made sure he offered the officers inside not one, but two widely different explanations and apologies. As MassLive reports, neither helped him out of trou...
3-Year-Old Freddie Mercury Fan is The Ideal Passenger For Long Road Trips
30 Oct 2018, 14:54 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / If there’s going to be singing in the car on a long road trip, it’d better come from someone as cute and talented as Holly Lee, a 3-year-old girl from Scotland who’s just become a viral star. She may be young, but Holly Lee is...
Crane Falls Over Down The Hillside, Driver Makes Last-Minute Escape
30 Oct 2018, 14:15 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / How’s your day at work going? Because one crane operator had the worst day possible when, out of his own fault, he managed to get the vehicle to topple over down the hillside. The incident was captured on camera. The New York Post says it ...
1964 Dodge “Golden Eagle” Killed at Least 14 People, Puts Christine to Shame
30 Oct 2018, 13:57 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Because nothing beats a good spooky story on the eve of Halloween, here’s one that’s been around for decades and that still continues to shock and fascinate in equal measure: The Golden Eagle, aka the most evil car in America, which is ...
Arizona Couple And Dog Struck by Lightning, Car Saves Their Lives
30 Oct 2018, 12:59 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One couple from Tucson, Arizona, had a close brush with death last week, during a thunderstorm, when a lightning bolt hit their car stuck in traffic. Strangely, they managed to capture the whole thing on camera. Samantha and Darrell were out ru...
FedEx Driver Finds Toddler Under His Truck as He Delivers Packages
30 Oct 2018, 12:09 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One FedEx driver got the scare of a lifetime when, on his route to deliver packages, he stumbled – almost literally so – across a toddler. The unattended child had crawled under his truck just as he was about to leave and it was pure ch...
The Most Australian Road Rage Incident Isn’t What You Expect It to Be
30 Oct 2018, 10:57 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / It’s long been established that all kinds of wildlife forms in Australia, be they insect, bird or animal, are out to kill you. Yes, even the cute ones. That includes the frilled-neck lizard, which might be the cutest thing you’ve see...
Lion Air Flight Crash Could Have Been Caused by Bomb, Says Aviation Expert
30 Oct 2018, 10:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A nearly-brand new Boeing 737 Max crashed into the sea off Indonesia, 13 minutes after takeoff from the Jakarta airport. Passengers and crew are all presumed dead, but only a few bodies have been recovered as of now. While authorities are inves...
Manure Truck Backs Into McDonald's Drive-Tru, Driver Gets a Coke
30 Oct 2018, 09:47 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / If you drive a manure truck all day, you might as well have some fun with it when all the work is done. That must have been on the mind of a couple of teens from York, UK, who drove a JCB into a McDonald's Drive-Thru to order a Coke. We&rs...