It was a good race and I was really happy to be able to watch it on TV without a time delay (and at a reasonable time). CotA looks like a fantastic track and it seems like the developers did a great job - I think we can all look forward to many more US F1 GP's in Austin in the future. Great performance by Lewis…

Threadjacking: successful.

Could someone more familiar with the Audi brand tell me if they are as plagued by reliability issues as BMW?

With a special coat of paint and the top up, this new Aventador has approximately the radar cross-section of a gnat.

Angel eyes were OEM on post-facelift (2001-2003) E39 cars in the US market. I am not sure if they were standard on all '01-'03 E39 trim levels, but I haven't seen an E39 of those years without angel eyes. The E39 in the post does not have stock angel eye lamps; my guess is they were replaced with LED lamps (an easy…

Clear skies, calm and about 70F in Santa Barbara.

A heartfelt +1.

Well he's never going to be able to start it if he's sitting on the wrong side of the car...

Parking like an asshat is rude, but doesn't generally cause physical damage. I'm fine with leaving notes on the windshield, but keying someone's car is seriously fucked up. Someone took up two parking spaces so you feel justified in causing potentially thousands of dollars in damage to their car? How about you stop…

So, Santa Barbara Jalopnik meetup anybody?

I take our cars to the Storke car wash next to Zizzo's coffee. I use the soap brush there, but the bristles are pretty soft and I always spray it with the high-pressure wand before using it to clean off as many abrasive particles as possible. I've found that Educated Car Wash misses spots sometimes, so you have a…

In other words, marketers are exerting more influence over the *names* of German cars. So? BMW could call it the 3.14159-series and if it drives well people won't care.

We do have the ability to extract CO2 from the atmosphere. The problem is that the concentration of CO2 is so low (call it 400ppm - or parts per million - or 0.04% of all gas molecules in the atmosphere are CO2) that it is prohibitively expensive to extract it. You're fighting an uphill battle against thermodynamics…

Think about what happens when you take the gas, that they produced by extracting CO2 from the atmosphere, and burn it in your car.

I call shenanigans. I'm not arguing with the logic of harvesting building materials from the local environment, wherever it may be (Moon, Mars, etc.) - that makes good sense. But feeding bacteria human urine so it can create ammonia which makes the environment more alkaline which allows calcium carbonate to form? …

Pretty sure this is not new technology.

How about #0: a Jalopnik bumper sticker?

The definition of temperature is actually the average kinetic energy of particles, not their speed, but at everyday temperatures kinetic energy is 1/2 * mass * velocity^2 so you could approximate temperature as the square root of the average particle velocity. As particles move faster and faster and approach…

Get yourself back to high-school physics.

You mean these careless, sloppy, forgetful people who broke their new iPhone 5 after just a week.