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.
Olympic Cyclist Kristina Vogel Will Never Walk Again After 40mph Crash
14 Sep 2018, 13:55 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Kristina Vogel has always been about speed. As a 2-time Olympic gold medalist and 3-time European gold medalist, she knew that the harder she trained, the harder she pushed herself, the better her speed and her performance. At the end of last J...
Pro Boxer Adrien Broner Gets Uber Lifetime Ban For Being a Jerk
14 Sep 2018, 13:22 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Pro boxer Adrien Broner didn’t travel with Uber that much, but when he did, he made sure the drivers he came across were left with a lasting impression. And it wasn’t of the positive kind, as you may have guessed. Broner’s lat...
Usain Bolt is the Fastest Man on Earth – And in Zero Gravity
14 Sep 2018, 12:09 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Usain Bolt is also known as the fastest man on earth, but did you ever wonder if he could live up to his reputation in space? As it turns out, he could. And he did. The Olympic legend took place in a special event put together by G.H. Mumm cham...
Drunk Pro Boxer Who Killed Pregnant Mom in Crash Livestreamed the Aftermath
14 Sep 2018, 11:05 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Professional boxer Marcos Forestal, the World Boxing Federation International Super Bantamweight champion, has been arrested after a crash over the weekend in California, which he caused by drunk-driving. The 28-year-old athlete crashed his BMW...
Journalist Hits Cyclist in McLaren She Was Test Driving, is Charged
14 Sep 2018, 10:05 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / In May this year, journalists from several automotive and luxury publications were invited to a press event that also included test driving several McLaren Sports Series cars, including the 540C, 570S and 570GT. The joyrides took place at the K...
Police Officer Chases Swan During Rush Hour in Sweden
13 Sep 2018, 14:04 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / As policing goes, it can be much harder and many times more dangerous, as we all know. Still, one cop from Sweden had his hands full when a swan started zigzagging between lanes during rush hour. Video of the incident was posted online, where &...
Goalkeeper Hugo Lloris Fined For DUI Arrest in His Vomit-Stained Porsche
13 Sep 2018, 13:33 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Goalkeeper Hugo Lloris of the Tottenham Hotspur was in court yesterday, to hear a judge’s ruling on his August 24 drunk-driving arrest. He didn’t get off easily, the Daily Mail reports. On the evening of August 24, Lloris and pals ha...
Once Driverless Cars Become Norm, There Will be a Massive Organ Shortage
13 Sep 2018, 13:23 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / As the world is heading towards a driverless future, analysts have already started crunching numbers and making studies to estimate the impact a driverless fleet of cars will have. Many of the effects will be positive: there will be a decrease i...
75-Year-Old Man Spends 14 Hours Trapped Inside His 2006 Cadillac XLR
13 Sep 2018, 12:58 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A 75-year-old man from Cleveland, Ohio, went through a genuine ordeal when he became trapped in his beloved 2006 Cadillac XLR roadster at the end of August, and spent 14 hours inside thinking he was about to die from exhaustion. Peter Pyros wen...
The Senturion S177 is The Most Expensive Luxury Car Key You Can Wear
13 Sep 2018, 12:12 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Senturion, based in London, is the first and only maker of luxury car keys that you can wear on your wrist. Its bracelets are already a hit with big-name celebrities, and the latest collection, S177, takes things up a notch. Where craftmanship ...
Man Steals Tesla Model 3 From Mall of America With Smartphone App
13 Sep 2018, 11:33 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A man managed to walk inside a Testal rental company in a Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota, and drive away with a Model 3 he had not paid for. All it took was a smartphone app and some technical skills. The man was actually a regular a...
Man Rams Car Into Crowd in Chinese Square, Kills 9
13 Sep 2018, 09:40 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Another violent attack has taken place in China, in a busy square in the city of Hengdong in central Hunan province, when a driver rammed his car into the crowd. According to reports from the local media cited by AsiaOne, authorities have confi...
Young Lion Finds Car Quite Tasty, Can’t Stop Pawing it on Safari
12 Sep 2018, 14:39 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The Kruger National Park in South Africa is famous for the way lions “interact” with cars, but one man had never been able to confirm this from experience – until last month, when it finally happened. Hannetjie and his family w...
Truck Driver is Crushed by His Own Unsecured Cargo
12 Sep 2018, 14:19 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One truck driver passing through Bolton, Greater Manchester, UK, found out the hard way why it’s never a good idea not to properly secure the cargo you’re carrying. Video of the incident is available at the bottom of the page. It wa...
Carey Hart is Mad at United Airlines, Too Poor to Fly Private
12 Sep 2018, 14:08 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Not all celebrities fly private and not all celebrities get special treatment when they mingle with common folk. As it turns out, some celebrities even get the same lousy treatment we get from airport and airline staff. Enter Carey Hart, the pro...
Disabled Uber Driver Does Headstand While Driving
12 Sep 2018, 13:42 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Many of us can’t do a proper headstand on a good day, let alone when we’re driving. Not that we should try it, since it’s very dangerous and most likely illegal. However, for one Uber driver from Oxford, Mississippi, it’...
Teens Rob Gas Station as Clerk Lay Dying of Heart Attack
12 Sep 2018, 13:18 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / They don’t say there’s no honor among thieves for nothing: 3 male suspects have been identified with help from the public, after they robbed a Shell gas station in Auburn, Washington, while the clerk lay dying from a heart attack. Vi...
Couple’s Furious Fuchsia Dodge Challenger Stolen From Their Driveway, Recovered
12 Sep 2018, 12:31 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Here’s one car thief with an eye for bright colors and beautiful muscle cars. A couple’s 2010 Furious Fuchsia Dodge Challenger R/T, 1 of the 1,000 items ever made, went missing over the weekend after it was stolen right from their drive...
Community Buys, Donates 1973 Pontiac Parisienne to Raise Money for Orphaned Kids
12 Sep 2018, 12:00 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / In May this year, a young couple from Red Deer, Canada, was killed in a motorcycle crash. Their 2 children are now being raised by the paternal grandparents – and they just got a massive show of support from the community. A GoFundMe camp...
2 Men at BMW Toronto Dealership Arrested For Trying to Poison Colleague
12 Sep 2018, 10:48 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A small BMW dealership in downtown Toronto is the scene where 2 employees came up with and carried out a poisoning plot, with the goal of murdering another employee. No word yet on what prompted such a move on their part, but Global News says t...