I don’t know that it’s evil. Of course if it handles like a Chrysler Pacifica, it’s an abomination. But if it’s a CUV that handles well (for a CUV) and is fun to drive, that’s bringing a part of the Alfa legacy to a new market.

I think this is just what cars look like now. And this is what people actually buy, instead…

One such debated topic is cloud reflectivity vs cloud IR absorption. Which has profound affects on long term prognostication.

Yeah, I have to agree. Something like Miami becoming uninhabitable. Or some city just disappearing off the map and cause an economic meltdown.

Here’s the thing. The timeline for that puts it mid 2030s to 2040s. By then, most cars on the market if not all will be electric. Most power will be either clean or use natural…

Also fair point. Although it’ll sell well enough in Texas cities for a niche car, and that’ll be good enough. When I was in Dallas two years ago, I saw a fair number of Cayennes.

I don’t think they’re going to price this for high volume. It certainly won’t unseat Subaru in the pacific northwest either.

Yes, but in 75 years, Florida will be an archipeligo and Key West will be underwater.

The amount of money banks and investors will lose in Miami alone, will be enough to trigger a seriously deep recession if not a full on depression.

I think we’re in violent agreement in principle. Modding/hot-rodding is going to be done with a tablet, motors that suck up more electricity, wires that can transfer power more efficiently, motor cooling systems, cable cooling systems, battery/supercapacitor cooling systems, and replacing stock batteries with higher…

2nd Gear...Fuel cells were always a stopgap technology until battery power and charging speeds got close to gasoline. It would still require a whole new infrastructure. The idea was largely promoted by the fossil fuel industry which disposes of excess hydrogen in the refining process, while hippies promoted getting…

1st Gear...At least the Focus ST and Focus RS are NOT available in automatic at all. I can’t remember if that’s still true for the Subie WRX and STi as well.

Thumbs up, Ford.

Florida has been under water before too. And the grandchildren of people living there today, who inherit family property, may experience one of those submergings in their lifetime.

Jeez, the future is here. You don’t even have to go to your tuner to upgrade your torque and horsepower, or increase traction more precisely. Now it’s done automatically, through the waves of the air.

They may never cross a stream. But in Texas and the South, there’s a real good chance you have to cross a flooded road.

Well, only if all of the other brands aren’t doing exactly the same thing.

For it to be that common, there must be a required course in Star Fleet on the proper use of “...some kind of...”.

And if emissions were just a contributing factor, look at it like the Electoral College. Just like only a small number of votes in the right state can make all the difference, just a small amount of CO2 added in an already naturally heating system can make all the difference in the world.

One party’s politicians are…

Not necessarily true. If the correction is an ice age, that happens from one year, to the next, to the next. In 10 years you have practically no summer at northern latitudes and constant snow and ice that doesn’t melt. It all depends on whether the warming of the planet interferes with the Thermohaline Circulation.

Als…

Scientists don’t say the rate is unprecedented in global history.

But at least news articles reporting on it say, “Not in 1000 years,” “Not in 11,000 years” (the most plausible since temperatures had to rise a lot to melt the glaciers) and in one I saw, “Not since the age of the dinosaurs.”

Generally, the fast global…

Why even stay human? They could probably even make those things so they can reproduce like humans at the technology level of this Westworld. Or maybe the next big upgrade.

I mean, you never get sick. You don’t age. You go to a repair shop instead of a hospital. You recharge on the same charger as your car. Or they work…

It’s really interesting to me that people have a hard time with car salesmen when they’re just looking.

If you’re looking for a car in the near future, sure an auto show is like going to every dealer in town. And if the promoters of these shows are happy with just the “going to buy in the next year” crowd, they won’t…

Here’s an article written in 2008 which addressed the same doubts about labor statistics. I don’t know if Obama changed the way the statistics were done from Bush, but apparently politicians have been noodling with it since Kennedy. So are you looking at labor statistics using the Bush, Clinton or Reagan models?

I’m hoping they’ll come out with an economy model for the rest of us, myself.