200 mph???? Are those "Imperial" miles?

The rule of thumb on contingency fees is that they're typically capped at 33-1/3%. And even if that is the rate that the attorney and client contracted for, it can be reduced by the court if it would result in an unearned windfall to the attorney. Hypothetical: say Attorney drafts a complaint and files suit against…

The best part of this story is not that it will be worth $50K when he is done restoring it (the $350 he paid for the car is irrelevant—the "thousands" of hours he plans to spend restoring it, plus parts, means that this is not a moneymaker by any stretch of the imagination).

I'm glad you acknowledge that. Too many people see conservative justices (and politicians, for that matter) as standing for the rights of the individual. The truth is, they're not—they just favor a different flavor of government intrusiveness. Kind of like the difference between a police state and a nanny state.

@dontloseyourdinosaur: Time to grab my musket and bell, hop on my horse and take to the streets, ringing my bell and firing warning shots to warn everyone that the dingbats are coming. This, of course, is intended to warn, uh, the dingbats that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms uh by ringing those bells…

@jodark: Actually, it was Rehnquist who wrote the majority opinion affirming the constitutionality of DUI checkpoints, and while acknowledging that such checkpoints amounted to seizures without probable cause, basically said it was okay because it served an important governmental interest (protecting the general…

There is no constitutional issue here—the government is not prohibiting the app, nor any speech associated with the app. Certainly, political pressure was brought to bear on Apple and Apple acted in response to that pressure. But in the end, Apple (a private actor) made the choice to ban the app.

Yeah, there definitely would have been a different outcome. But while some teams confronted with the same situation would have panicked and pitted their driver on the penultimate lap for fear that harsher penalties (like a DSQ) might be imposed for ignoring the penalty, cooler heads prevailed at Ferrari that day and…

There's a very small chance that I'm giving Schumacher too much credit for taking the penalty when he did, but I doubt it. Dumb luck never played much of a role in his career.

Oh, I'm guessing with the torque characteristics of an electric motor, the S10 EV could probably pull more weight than a gas S10. It just wouldn't be able to tow it very far...

I've got to disagree about #3. While certain actions may have resulted in a general stupidity surrounding this last lap, Schumacher was not the dummy here—if anything, it is this kind of clever, spur-of-the-moment decisionmaking that made Schumacher so dominant (before his ill-advised comeback anyway). I am no fan…

Nice collage there—it seems like just as politicians all make the same hand gestures while speaking, they've also agreed to use the same "face of contrition."

Jeez, you're right—and I should have known that, since I was working in a hobby shop during Tamiya's boom years in the mid '80s. I must've blocked it from my mind because it was such a poor choice for a "rally" chassis, what with the ultra-high center of gravity and really basic (read: low-performance) suspension…

You may also have noticed that the 037 kit pictured is not the original Subaru Brat/Frog-based chassis, but rather the current version based on the TA03RS 4WD chassis. As you've correctly noted, the original kit (with the Brat-based chassis) referenced in the caption was RWD. Externally visible differences include a…

Banner pic: Mr. Rogers meets the Angel of Death.

The first half of this video is a glorious reminder of how clean Giugiaro's original design was, before it was tarted up with spoilers and rocker extensions and all the sharp edges were rounded off.

When I've looked at some of the truly uninspired automotive designs of the '70s, I've often thought, "How could anyone ever have thought that thing looked good?" I'm betting that my kids will think the same thing about this 1-series.

On the one hand, the arrival of the F1 media circus in Bahrain come October could, in theory, give the protesters unprecedented access to air their grievances to a worldwide audience. But I fear that the Bahraini government will take drastic measures to ensure that doesn't happen.

Grasshopper was a good name for these things—with the stock "friction" dampers (a misnomer, since there was not really enough friction to do any dampening), they hopped all over the place! Tough as nails, though, and not half-bad as a beginner's car once the stock 380 motor is ditched.

I had one of these as a kid, and boy do I regret selling it.