The comments on the Jalopnik article are completely full of these:

• We need to shower this guy in praise.
• It's a pretty clean build, that's for sure.
• I wonder if he drained his bank account on it.
• It was probably a wash.
• I soap-pose anything’s possible.
• etc.

This is pretty cool, kind of the opposite of the usual meaning of the term a spanner in the works

http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/wrenches-also-useful-as-suspension-parts-1721540680

The same Jalopnik article also pointed out that he's been in the news more recently for another reason, at the Rally Finland test this year he managed to destroy the car:

The inch came from the yt description... strangely the millimetre came from Jalopnik, their writers do seem quite civilised.

I've tried to explain to my children that an inch is 25.4mm, and made exactly 25.4mm around the 2nd world war, but they don't understand why anyone would want to use such a strange and odd measure.

I didn't even try to explain the barleycorns.

Oh yeah, and I liked the vid too.

I just came across a really cool SR-71 story - http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-sr-71-blackbirds-most-spectacular-flyover-was-also-1719654907

More info about both crossings over at Jalopnik, who also have this vid on the crossing from Airbus:

R.I.P Marcio Piancastelli, designer of the VW Brasilia and the SP-2.

http://jalopnik.com/the-designer-of-one-of-the-best-looking-vws-ever-just-d-1712541497

Jalopnik claimed http://hooniverse.com/2015/06/15/monday-video-kawasaki-catches-fire-at-247-mph/ as the original source, and it was their claim of 247mph... maybe it was really 247kph? They didn't post sources, and it didn't come from the original yt vid. Jimbo's big bag'o'trivia claims the bike has an electronically restricted top speed of 299km/h.

Jalopnik report that all three cars failed to meet the 110% qualifying time and got a penalty, they therefore start at the back of the grid:

http://blackflag.jalopnik.com/all-three-nissan-lmp1s-get-grid-penalties-at-le-mans-fo-1711067361

At least for an endurance race it's not such a big deal starting last. 24 hours is a long time to make it up, although it is hard to make up time if you're the slowest car out there.

I dunno, I'm still not convinced. We aren't seeing what happened before though, and I'm assuming the inside car is the one doing the passing, which may not be the case. If you're passing someone on the inside and you're two wide in a corner, it certainly is your responsibility to leave room for the car you are passing. Though you could be right, it doesn't look to me as though the outside car turned into the inside car, and the driver certainly never would have done that intentionally because that would inevitably end in them both crashing (assuming this isn't a Prost/Senna sort of thing). Since they're both sweeping towards the outside, the way I see it, the inside car is the one that hit the car on the outside.

Granted, even in this scenario, the driver on the outside could and should have conceded the corner, but he isn't obliged to do so, and I certainly wouldn't have expected it on the final corner of the final lap of the race.

It will be interesting to see what the stewards say. Or said, I suppose they probably already said whatever and I can just google it.

edit: The Jalopnik link text seems to agree with my assessment, that it was the inside driver's fault if anybody is to be at fault.

http://flightclub.jalopnik.com/are-you-crazy-enough-to-fly-to-burning-man-1709341056

Ah ha... a detail that autobild didn't mention... the tank incident involved a student driver: http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/tank-teaches-student-driver-in-yaris-a-valuable-driving-1708396324

Jalopnik and reddit have speculated, and both point to xkcd 413 as a possible inspiration.

http://jalopnik.com/the-new-star-wars-droid-is-not-cgi-so-how-does-it-wor-1698461524

The Jalopnik comments support @oohlalasassoon's suggestion: $2,000 for a car, or perhaps $600 for just a roof (which you might want to do to protect it from salt water from kayaks for instance).

This quote is from the Daily News article:

"The commissioner said police had been monitoring the ride — loosely organized by a group that calls itself Hollywood Stuntz. He said about 1,000 riders caused chaos in Times Square last year when they showed up out of nowhere and disrupted traffic."

And a little Googling produced this video:

http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/did-hollywood-stuntz-attack-this-prius-driver-in-2011-1430929682

Apparently they do this sort of thing a lot...and the fact that the guy with the helmet cam was right there recording it makes me consider that they find it entertaining,and planned for something to happen. The group was heading through the Lincoln tunnel around 10:30 AM when I was taking a bus into NYC,and there were a LOT of them. I wondered why they were out en masse,but it was a nice day for a ride...I'm just glad my family took mass transit into NY that day.