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.
Blast From the Past: The 1933 Ford Kamp Kar Was One of the First V8-Powered RVs
19 Sep 2022, 10:42 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / When Ford introduced the Flathead V8 for the 1932 model year, it ushered in a new era of affordable motoring – one that we’re celebrating throughout the month of September as the V8 swansong. This Ford-based RV known as the Kamp Kar des...
No Major Engine Maker Wants to Work With Boom Supersonic for the Overture Powerplant
19 Sep 2022, 06:40 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Boom Supersonic, the company that aimed to make the supersonic civilian flight a reality once more through the airliner Overture, has hit a snag. Days after Rolls-Royce announced it was terminating the contract with Boom, several other engine manuf...
Rusty 2001 Mercedes Vario Is Now Traveling the World as Custard the DIY Bus Home
19 Sep 2022, 03:45 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The Internet is filled with seemingly-successful, motivational stories of regular people with zero experience of life on the road who suddenly throw “normal” life away and dive deep into #vanlife. This is one of those stories, but with ...
Elon Musk Talks to Jay Leno About His Plans to Colonize Mars, Shows Him the Rockets
18 Sep 2022, 09:17 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / For all the chitter-chatter Elon Musk likes to engage in on social media, he is a true “get” when it comes to a conventional interview, either for television or the written press. Put it differently, Elon Musk rarely gives interview, so...
Shelter by Cinch Aims to Reinvent the Basic Tent as the Indispensable Outdoor Accessory
18 Sep 2022, 08:14 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / There’s a good reason why no one has (yet) been able to reinvent the wheel, despite countless attempts: some things are just perfect the way they are, simple and efficient. The camping tarp is one of those things, but it’s still getting...
Adorable and Very Tiny Tiny House Hides Full Music Studio, Comes With a Balcony Too
18 Sep 2022, 03:14 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Living in a tiny house on a permanent basis means downsizing in all aspects, having to choose and re-prioritize, and adapting to a more scaled-down lifestyle. But some things you simply can’t do without. For musician Guillaume Tristant, th...
Elegant Two-Story Auto Gallery Is a “Library” of Automotive Treasures, the Dream Man Cave
18 Sep 2022, 00:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The phrase “dream-anything,” whether it’s the dream car, the dream job, the dream vacation, the dream-whatever, is overused these days and, because of it, has lost some of its poignancy. But this is definitely, and without exagger...
The World’s Largest Dinky Toys Collection Is About to Sell at Auction for Huge Bucks
17 Sep 2022, 07:11 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / There’s model-car collecting, and then there’s people like Ron van der Hoort. Over the span of 35 years, give or take a few months, he put together what is believed to be one of the largest Dinky Toys collections in the world – an...
The Azure 3D-Printed Tiny Homes Are Made With Recycled Plastic, and They’re the Cutest
17 Sep 2022, 06:05 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Tiny homes and prefabricated units may have started as some sort of hippie, cutesy trend, but add an ongoing health crisis and the dire housing situation to the mix, and you have the recipe for a convenient option for alternative living. Azure Prin...
And So It Begins: Billionaire Sues Government for the Right to Use His Frozen Yachts
17 Sep 2022, 04:13 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / At the end of February 2022, Russian troops rolled into Ukraine, triggering one of the longest and most violent (and still ongoing) armed conflicts in Europe in recent years. The responses of other countries included sanctions against Russian oliga...
Oppidum L’Heritage Is a Bunker Unlike Any Other, With a Massive Car Garage and Pool
17 Sep 2022, 00:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Just because it’s the end of the world doesn’t mean you have to give up the life of luxury you’ve grown accustomed to. For the world’s one-percenters, Oppidum has a new type of luxury bunker that is actually an underground m...
Duck That Jeep, Or How World’s Largest Rubber Duck Came to Represent Jeep at NAIAS 2022
16 Sep 2022, 11:34 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The Jeep is a lot of things – a trusty offroader, a sturdy, tough and all-capable car, an automotive icon – but a cutie or a softie is not on that list. Yet this is precisely the association Chrysler is trying to invoke, bringing the wo...
Flying Bike XTurismo Makes Spectacular Debut as “Land Speeder for the Dark Side”
16 Sep 2022, 03:54 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The future of urban mobility will have to take into account the most pressing problems of today. As such, the future of urban mobility will be electric, airborne, more efficient, and eventually affordable. Visitors at the 2022 edition of the De...
$1 Million Permanent Sea Residence on the MV Narrative Is “Affordable,” Also Sold Out
15 Sep 2022, 06:40 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / In 2016, two Australians with a background in real estate launched Storylines, a new maritime company situated at the unexpected crossroads between luxury real estate and extended cruise experiences. MV Narrative, the company’s first ship, is...
President Zelensky Involved in Car Crash, Walks Away With No Serious Injuries
15 Sep 2022, 05:23 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Volodymyr Zelensky, the current President of besieged Ukraine and a recent international and unwilling hero, has been involved in a car accident in the country’s capital. The incident is under investigation. Zelensky and his convoy were re...
The 1931 Tennessee Traveler Ford Housecar Is Peak Vintage, Luxurious RV-ing
15 Sep 2022, 03:49 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Like most new arrivals on any market, in the early days of RV-ing, mobile tiny homes were neither affordable nor too many in number. The homemade 1931 Tennessee Traveler is a good example in this sense. Today, after more than two years of inter...
Millionaire’s Street-Parked Car Collection Is in the Crossfire in “Best Man Cave” Dispute
14 Sep 2022, 06:29 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / When your name’s Wildin, you’d best live up to it. One millionaire from the UK who once took credit for building the country’s “best man cave” is out of prison and back to trolling his neighbors and defying local autho...
World’s First Hydrogen-Electric Flying Boat SeaBubble Makes Its Debut in Cannes
14 Sep 2022, 05:11 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Not that comparisons between apples and oranges are very illustrative, but the maritime industry is moving slower in adopting alternative fuels and electric propulsion than its automotive counterpart. SeaBubbles is at the forefront of the switch an...
World’s Oldest Known Motorhome, a 1914 Ford Model T Conversion, Is a Steal at $75,000
13 Sep 2022, 07:46 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / They say you can’t put a price on the most valuable things in life, but this clearly doesn’t apply to collectibles. More so if we’re talking about a 1914 Ford Model T conversion believed to be the world’s oldest known motorh...
Cyclist’s 780-Mile Ride for a Croissant Is Both Epic and Slightly Anticlimactic
13 Sep 2022, 06:19 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The heart wants what it wants – and in this cyclist’s case, it wanted the world’s most famous lavender croissant. Luckily, this cyclist wasn’t afraid of a good ol’-fashioned physical challenge, just so he could have a ...