Elena Gorgan
8,136 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.
Woman Crashes BMW X1 Into Dealership While Trying to Park
20 Aug 2018, 12:39 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / This incident plays out like the punchline of a misogynist joke: one woman from China mistook the acceleration pedal for the brake and crashed the car she was driving into a dealership. As it so happens, the car was a BMW X1, which sells for pr...
Tesla Shares Drop After “Emotional” Elon Musk Interview
20 Aug 2018, 11:44 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Elon Musk is at the end of his tether – that’s the impression one gets when reading his “emotional” interview with the New York Times, which sees him alternating between tears and laughter. The interview follows a whirlw...
Beer Truck Delivery Guys Save Suicidal Man by Offering Him a Cold One
20 Aug 2018, 11:14 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Beer brings men together, but it can also save a life. It happened in Minnesota a few days ago, when two beer truck delivery guys saved a suicidal man by offering him a cold beer – and a friendly shoulder. Jason Gabel and Kwame Anderson ...
Aston Martin Announces 28 Brand New Goldfinger DB5, Movie Gadgets Included
20 Aug 2018, 09:47 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Great news for (filthy rich) James Bond enthusiasts. Carmaker Aston Martin is working on 28 brand new replicas of the famous DB5 driven by Sir Sean Connery in the 1964 installment of the 007 franchise, Goldfinger. This will not be just any Aston...
Thieves Run Woman Over to Make Her Let Go of Purse With $75K
20 Aug 2018, 09:20 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One woman and her husband put on an incredible, brave fight when a couple of thieves attacked them outside their business in Texas. The woman had just returned from the bank, where she’d made a $75,000 withdrawal, Harris County Constable ...
London Cabbie Caught Trimming Leg Hair While Parked at the Cab Rank
20 Aug 2018, 08:40 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Being stuck in traffic can be a drag, but we assume having to wait for hours on end, at times, for a client to jump into your cab can be just as exhausting and frustrating. Trust this London cabbie to have found the perfect way to fill up his s...
Driver Stops Moped Thieves by Ramming His Ford Fiesta Into Their Bike
17 Aug 2018, 07:06 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Most people tend to turn away whenever they see something illegal and potentially dangerous taking place, lest they are directly involved. This was clearly not the case with this man, who’s now being hailed a hero on social media. A bit o...
Loose Sheep Leads Cumbria Police on Hilarious Chase
16 Aug 2018, 11:16 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Sometimes, it’s the criminals who give police officers a hard time, fleeing justice and leading them on high-speed, dangerous chases. Other times, it’s a sheep that does it. It happened a few days in Carlisle, Cumbria, the UK, and i...
Woman Steals Ambulance, Leads Police on High-Speed Chase For no Apparent Reason
16 Aug 2018, 09:28 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Of all the cars one could (but shouldn’t) steal, an ambulance should never be at the top of the list. One California woman did it, and what’s more perplexing is that she didn’t have an immediate, obvious reason for it. The wom...
Drunk Driver Crashes 5-Seat Citroen With 10 People in It
16 Aug 2018, 08:59 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / It’s stupid and very dangerous to drink and drive, and it’s many times more so when you drink, drive and pack your car with minors who don’t really have a say in it. It happened in Birmingham a few days ago, close to midnight,...
Daredevil Biker Does The Superman on Busy Texas Highway
16 Aug 2018, 07:34 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / “Ride hard, die fast.” Here’s a saying this biker must take to heart, judging by his reckless and very dangerous driving on a busy Texas highway. It happened in San Antonio over the weekend, but the video of the stunt is just ...
Half of Drivers Don’t Know How to Use In-Car Tech, Would Buy it Either Way
15 Aug 2018, 06:08 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Ideally speaking, you buy a new car with lots of features, gadgets and options to make driving easier and safer. Realistically speaking, over 50 of British drivers don’t know how to use in-car tech and admit it’s wasted on them. A n...
President Trump Meets With Bikers for Trump New Jersey Group
14 Aug 2018, 14:49 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / That Donald Trump, the former reality star / real estate magnate turned President of the United States, more or less directly supports Nazi / white power groups is no secret. But it doesn’t mean that this doesn’t cause controversy whene...
Airplane Enthusiast Buys '60s Jet Off eBay, Refurbishes it in His Spare Time
14 Aug 2018, 14:14 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One pub owner from New Yorkshire, who also happens to be an airplane enthusiast, has the most awesome beer garden ever. And it’s all thanks to a bet he made with his kids back in 2005. As Paul Greig tells the Daily Mail (video at the bott...
Unlicensed Driver Steals VW Polo, Tries to Ram it Into Incoming Cars
14 Aug 2018, 13:46 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / If these were teenagers, we could chalk up this incident to their age and raging hormones, or maybe some stupid dare they took with their mates. However, 3 grown-up men, 2 men and 1 woman, were arrested in Australia in Oakey, after a stunt that cou...
Drivers Regularly Scream at Their Sat-Navs, Still Prefer a Road Map
14 Aug 2018, 13:19 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Getting lost in a strange city or country can be reason enough for an argument between spouses, or at least that’s what we’ve been shown should happen by Hollywood flicks. In reality, many drivers admit they would be lost without th...
New Mexico Cops Smash Driver’s Window, Forcefully Pull Him Out of the Car
14 Aug 2018, 12:29 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A video posted on Facebook at the beginning of the month has gone viral. It shows New Mexico State Police officers breaking the window of a car and forcefully drag the driver out, during what was supposed to be a non-violent traffic stop for a mino...
Furious Brits Take it Out on Peugeot 107 Parked Illegally Near Bristol Airport
14 Aug 2018, 11:55 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / If you’re going to abandon / illegally park your car anywhere near Bristol Airport, but especially in Lulsgate, be prepared for a healthy dose of passive-aggressiveness. Sick and tired of people leaving their cars on the roads near the ai...
Baggage Handler Who Stole Seattle Plane May Have Learned How to Fly in Simulator
14 Aug 2018, 11:14 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A tragedy was avoided at the weekend, after a baggage handler who had worked for Horizon Air for the past 4 years on the Seattle-Tacoma Airport stole one of the jets and took it for a joyride. The one-hour-long ride ended on a nearby island, wh...
Aussie Cyclist Killed by Drunk Garbage Truck Driver in NYC
14 Aug 2018, 09:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A 23-year-old woman on what her parents describe as “the trip of a lifetime” was killed by a garbage truck, after she swerved her bicycle and got into its lane, to avoid a collision with another car in the bike lane. The incident hap...