Elena Gorgan
8,143 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.
The Aladeen Edition MMXXII Is How You Turn a Movie Tie-In Into World’s Most Outrageous Car
4 Oct 2022, 08:56 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Anyone can buy luxury at the supermarket, so this isn’t a luxury product. Instead, the Dartz Prombron The Dictator Aladeen Edition MMXXII is the epitome of opulence – as well as a good example of how a movie partnership became a success...
The 1934 McQuay Norris Streamliner Is a Piece of Automotive Art, Awesome Marketing
4 Oct 2022, 05:48 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Marketing in general, and commercials in particular, play a vital part in shaping public perception of a new product. These days, marketing fabricates new needs that are satisfied by that same product, but back in pre-war times, it was the means to...
Brandalism’s Guerrilla Action Uses Ads to Go After Airliners With Huge Carbon Footprints
3 Oct 2022, 11:03 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The aviation industry is one of the largest contributors to climate change, due to the huge carbon footprint of each flight, and the high volume of commercial and private flights. While efforts are underway to take the entire industry into a greene...
America’s Largest Family Home, Versailles, Has 35-Car Garage and Gold Moldings
3 Oct 2022, 09:40 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Depending on who you ask, the “dream” home can be anything, from a first, bug-infested, small rental apartment to a tiny home with serious eco-credentials, or a palatial mansion. If you have over $500 million in the bank, like the Siege...
Classic ‘89 370LE Airstream Motorhome Is Now a Rolling Private Cinema That Sleeps 7
3 Oct 2022, 05:38 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / No one said a tiny home has to feel like a downgrade, even though it’s widely assumed to be the rule. Loretta is here (and has been for the last four years, traveling across the U.S. on family vacations) to prove assumptions wrong. Loretta...
Senior Apple Exec Fired After Bragging About Mercedes SLR McLaren, Making Crude Joke
2 Oct 2022, 04:59 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Sometimes, it’s best to stay humble, if only for appearances’ sake. It also pays to keep certain jokes for your close circle of friends, as senior Apple executive Tony Blevins, the self-titled “Blevinator,” got to find out t...
Big Daf Is a Retired Army Truck Upcycled Into a Cozy Glamping Unit
2 Oct 2022, 04:19 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One man’s trash is another man’s beautiful army truck conversion slash glamping unit. Upcycling is that type of recycling that sees what we commonly refer to as “trash” repurposed and converted into pieces of similar, if not...
$100 Million Forge Superyacht Explorer Proposes Striking Silhouette, Unparalleled Luxury
2 Oct 2022, 02:58 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The billionaire of tomorrow will (hopefully) think twice before finalizing the deal on a new toy, and opt for a more environmentally-friendly toy. But no one expects the billionaire of tomorrow to compromise on comfort and luxury. Anthony Glass...
The Hyper Sting Commercial Hyperplane Dreams of a Convenient and Eco-Friendly Future
1 Oct 2022, 00:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The famous Franco-British supersonic airliner Concorde marked an important milestone in aviation and was at the same time a symbol of speed (duh) and luxury. The Concorde was also a failure, due to a variety of factors, including very high cos...
Bruce Willis Is the First Big Star to Sell His Likeness to Deepfake Company
30 Sep 2022, 12:20 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The future is digital and, for Bruce Willis fans, perhaps a tad rosier than what it was a few months ago, when the actor announced his retirement from the industry after being diagnosed with brain disorder aphasia. There is a new Bruce Willis on...
The Roetz Life Is a Circular, High-Tech e-Bike That Will Last a Lifetime
30 Sep 2022, 06:19 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Riding a bicycle is many times better for the environment than driving a car, but it’s far from the green means of transport it’s often presented as. That’s mostly because of the recent high volume of production, which translates ...
The New Fiido X Folding e-Bike Marks the Spot Where Style and Performance Meet
29 Sep 2022, 09:54 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The daily commute doesn’t have to cause even more stress and frustration or be a financial burden by adding to the monthly expenses. For those city-dwellers looking for an alternative to the daily driver or public transport, Fiido has a new a...
Seized $600 Million Megayacht Dilbar Raided While Sitting in Floating Dock
29 Sep 2022, 09:29 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / In what has become a modern-day version of a “Rise and fall of...”-kind of story, the Dilbar saga continues. The latest chapter involves a raid by German police and marines, to retrieve incriminating documents and data from the once-glo...
First Look at X2 Concept by Pininfarina x De Simoni Shows Breathtaking Floating Oasis
29 Sep 2022, 07:52 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / In late 2021, two very big names in the yachting industry announced a new partnership that would, they said, “establish new standards for the yachting industry.” Save the date, because the X2 superyacht concept aims to do just that, wit...
Millionaire Burns $10 Million Frida Kahlo Artwork to Launch NFTs
28 Sep 2022, 09:59 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The future is all digital, but will this immersion in the Metaverse mean having to ditch physical assets for good? One Miami-based entrepreneur believes it does, but it’s ok to disagree. This is perhaps one of the most ridiculous NFT-relat...
Bipedal Robot Cassie Is an Official Guinness Record Holder in Sprinting
28 Sep 2022, 05:24 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Where some of us have non-age-related trouble getting out of bed without bones cracking and painful stretches, Cassie is racking up accomplishments. The latest is an official Guinness Book of World Records achievement for the fastest 100-meter spri...
Billionaire’s Seized $75 Million Superyacht Sells at Auction at Half Its Value
28 Sep 2022, 03:36 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Another chapter in the longstanding drama of superyacht Axioma has closed, officially making it the first seized vessel to sell at auction without the owner’s say-so. The auction has finalized, the Office of the Admiralty Marshal, a branch of...
Megayacht Opera Is a $450 Million Well-Kept Secret, Absolutely Stunning
27 Sep 2022, 10:04 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / There is no rule saying that the bigger the secret, the harder it is to keep, and the latest launch from prestigious shipyard Lurssen proves it. Opera, the biggest launch from Lurssen this year and the 10th largest vessel in the world, is a $450 mi...
Remembering the Ice G-Wagon, the Coolest G-Class Tribute That Ever Was
27 Sep 2022, 06:23 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The phrase “automotive art” is used sparsely and with great care and consideration, but it wouldn’t be amiss in this case. Meet the coolest G-Wagon tribute that ever was, the Ice G-Wagon. The name pretty much says it all: this...
The Strange Case of the Move of World’s Largest Megayacht, the $600 Million Dilbar
27 Sep 2022, 04:03 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The Russian-Ukranian war is still raging on, but it does feel like international sanctions against Russian oligarchs, which have been the main response of third-party countries to the conflict, have stalled. After an initial wave of enthusiastic se...