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.
Football Icon Pele Will Be Buried at Record-Breaking Cemetery With Its Own Car Museum
31 Dec 2022, 13:13 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The year 2022 ends on a very low note, with football icon Pele losing the battle with cancer on December 29. But if there’s a heaven, Pele is smiling down on us from there, because his final resting place will be worth of his reputation as th...
World’s Most Expensive Bicycle: The Aurumania Gold Bike Crystal Edition
31 Dec 2022, 09:12 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Where do you draw the line between an oversize piece of jewelry, a piece of art, and a functional object that has to take a beating on the daily, like a bicycle? Perhaps a more important question is, should there be any line separating these three?...
Topaz Megayacht Is a $650 Million Celebrity Magnet and the Industry’s Most Secretive Build
31 Dec 2022, 07:17 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / When you say “luxury transportation,” the mind almost immediately goes to stuff like limited-edition supercars, custom superyachts and private jets. But there’s a very small segment of luxury transportation that’s not access...
World’s Only Road-Legal 1989 Batmobile Is Awesome, Has a Story to Match
30 Dec 2022, 12:10 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The appeal of Batman has not faded with time. If anything, it grows stronger, as does Batman’s popularity, despite the character’s occasional dark side, seeming anger management issues, or his tendency to not enunciate properly. Batm...
Secret: A $98 Million Superyacht Designed in Eye-Popping Colors for a Walmart Heiress
29 Dec 2022, 07:04 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Why blend in when you can afford to stand out? Despite its name, Secret is a very famous superyacht, but what makes it so noteworthy is the fact that it’s a fully-custom vessel designed for an owner with very peculiar tastes. Few superyach...
Traveler’s Paradise Is a Gooseneck Tiny Home for Those Looking to Downsize in Luxury
29 Dec 2022, 04:42 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Downsizing and luxury are not opposing notions that automatically rule each other out. Like with everything in life, as long as you can afford it, you can have a premium version of a product designed to be affordable. Tiny houses and alterna...
The Dobbertin HydroCar: A $1 Million 762 HP Sportscar That’s Also a Boat
28 Dec 2022, 14:48 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / You can’t have your cake and eat it too, but Rick Dobbertin surely tried. The famous car designer, fabricator, hot rodder, record breaker, and overall mad scientist is also the man behind one of the most impressive failed experiments in the r...
The Phoenix Gooseneck Tiny Home Is Custom Downsizing at Its Best (and Most Luxurious)
28 Dec 2022, 07:10 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Tiny home living is all about cutting down expenses, reducing clutter, and living a more intentional and highly mobile life. Unless in those cases when it’s not, and The Phoenix is one such case. Downsizing still has benefits, even at tho...
747 Wing House Is How a Boeing 747 Became a Family Home and an International Star
27 Dec 2022, 14:52 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Sometimes, the only way in which you can stand out is to flat-out ignore the nay-sayers and just carve your own path. As long as you can afford it, that is. The 747 Wing House is one woman and one architect’s way of carving their own path...
Panam, the Superfast Superyacht Disguised as a Battleship
27 Dec 2022, 11:38 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Never judge a book by its cover might be an overused phrase, but overuse doesn’t make it any less true. Panam, which Italian shipyard Baglietto delivered in the summer of 2021, is here to prove that. Announced as a concept by CCN (Cerri Ca...
Remembering Concept 1865, a Beautiful Penny-Farthing Updated for Modern Times
26 Dec 2022, 03:00 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / No one likes a bragger and, truth be told, there are only so many people you can convince by tooting your own horn. What works better, though, is proving your strong suits for the world to see, and that’s exactly what BASF did with the Concep...
Earth T250LX Teardrop Trailer Is the World’s Lightest, Can Accommodate an Entire Family
26 Dec 2022, 03:00 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Necessity is the mother of invention, and the Earth T250LX trailer is a very good example in this sense. Born out of a desire for a lightweight towable that could be pulled behind the family car, no matter how small, it is also dubbed the lightest ...
The Float Is a Sustainable Floating Home That Proves Simplicity Is Best
26 Dec 2022, 01:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Man, in general, tends to over-complicate and overthink things. When we talk about sustainability, we often forget that simplicity can be the best approach and that it doesn’t have to mean a compromise in terms of esthetics. The Float is a...
STAN the Airbag Backpack Might Look Ridiculous, But It Will Save Your Life in an Accident
25 Dec 2022, 02:50 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Feeling cute today, might save a life later. If STAN the airbag backpack could talk, this is probably something it’d say – but you’d have to replace “cute” with “silly” or even downright “ridiculous.&...
City of Meriens: The Floating International Oceanographic University That Never Was
25 Dec 2022, 02:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / It would be unfair to rate dreams, especially those that never came to be, but if such a rank existed, it would have the City of Meriens among the top entries. So here’s how one architect and oceanographer imagined the future. The City of ...
The Patek Philippe Henry Graves Supercomplication: The Most Expensive Watch in the World
25 Dec 2022, 01:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Even in the world of luxury goods, there are a handful of examples that stand out, be it for their beautiful and unique design, their craftsmanship, their price, and for daring to break all the rules. In horology, one such example is the Patek Phil...
Remembering the Boeing 727 Home on a Pole, World’s Fastest House That Rotated in the Wind
24 Dec 2022, 08:24 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Living in peak consumerism, we’ve become accustomed to just throw stuff away instead of reusing or repurposing it. But when said “stuff” is a giant Boeing 727 aircraft that is still in excellent condition, maybe repurposing isn&rs...
The Car Bar, a Portable Bar for Your Car, Was Here, but You Weren’t Paying Attention
23 Dec 2022, 11:43 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / We can all agree that drinking and driving should never mix. Drinking and driving is dangerous and reckless, and, if we’re not mincing words, downright stupid. But that’s not to say that your passengers can’t have a good, alcohol-...
World’s First Winery Airline, Invivo Air, Is Ready for Takeoff
23 Dec 2022, 09:26 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Everything is better with a glass of wine, so even by this very low standard, news of the launch of the world’s first winery airline should be good news. But Invivo Air is an entirely different kind of flying experience – and it’s...
MM01 Is a Container Home-Inspired Cabin That Oozes Elegance
23 Dec 2022, 07:17 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Depending on who you ask, downsizing means a lot of different things to different people. Reduced costs of living, a more intentional and uncluttered life, a reconnection to the natural environment, and more freedom to move around are all good reas...