Actually in Turkey, you don't really tip unless you (1) go to a place with higher quality service, (2) can actually afford it, or (3) unexpectedly receive higher quality service. Basically if you go to an expensive place, you can afford to tip so you do. If you go to a cheap place and the service is good, you tip if…

I love it when people take pleasure in their drives. Drop on by to Jalopnik some time and we'll share some road tunes...

Thanks for getting back to me even after the session was over!

All valid answers, though I'm more of a nachos man (I like dipping things to eat). Would you say from a practical standpoint Urban Jungle during the week and weekend getaways are more appropriate or would you really commit to a long commute each day to come home to the late afternoon in suburbia just to wrap things up?

In one sentence or less for each:

Now that I've done what you said, I concur.

This one.

A better way to put it is:

Britain, not Europe. They make fun of le French and zi Germans at every opportunity as well.

Get em started while they're young. Your kid could turn out to be the next Jackie Stewart with the right opportunities. Also, imagine all the fun YOU can have since the kids are off your hands...

I think if you are going to build it in Dubai, you should also consider adding a 'Ring replica, with concentric and increasingly smaller scale tracks going into the infield. You have the big boys racing on the 1:1 replica track while you get all the way down to shifter karts on the smallest version. 'Bring your own…

I quite like the AWD OPC, and you're right, America is the right market for it.

#COTD Theme Park edition

There's always room for negotiation, even when you find the best possible price. You may not actually get a lower price but you can cut a deal for service/parts/labor or add value to the purchase through dealer-installed options. Those usually are actually quite the opposite of 'value', but as a negotiating point they…

Just so you know, the Duster is actually quite large. A slashed and sliced Duster body on a Pikes Peak vehicle might look like a Duster and might be considered tiny, but the regular Duster most definitely isn't.

The general project was an unmanned research craft which had to fly in a wide range of conditions (hence the SMA). The pylons were for sensors and other instrumentation, but at one point variable intake cowl turbofan pods were also suggested (for practical and economic reasons). The project was scrapped eventually so…

Yes, they are, and they're usually smaller (i.e. 320GB). On a dual platter setup that's 160GB per platter giving it a very low areal density. That means that at the same speed (5400rpm) the read/write heads traverse over less magnetic data in an inch of distance (as the platter spins). With higher density platters…

I don't work there anymore, I teach film and photography at a college now. Undergrad was aerospace engineering at Syracuse, but I decided engineering was not my passion. That decision came while I was at LM, as despite the greatness of the concept, the practical truth is you sit in front of a computer and do integrals…

I was working on something similar to this when at Lockheed Martin (variable wing profiles). The pseudoelasticity of these alloys worked as both an advantage and a disadvantage. We had to use structural composites to prevent ''snapback'', and the incorporation of pylons in the design meant certain limitations to the…

The platter density will make up for some of the outright speed deficit, assuming that the hardware and firmware is also up to it...