They look ahead, and so aren't constantly accelerating. (Pedants: acceleration is a vector.)

I don't understand why it's there in the first place. Or the manufacturer's name written out, either. Logo on the front is just about acceptable, but a bit brash.

Is the new Fusion different to the one for sale on Ford.com? The dimensions listed for that are similar to the new Mondeo, but different enough that I thought they must be different cars underneath.

Oh, I was talking about the sedan-challenging hatchback. It's roughly the same size as a US Fusion, no? A top spec Fusion is apparently $31k list, a top spec Taurus SHO is $40k. $40k is close enough to £25k as makes no difference, which'll get you a decent mid-range Mondeo hatch. Add another £1k or so for an estate.

Not sure - how affordable would the Mondeo look if it was in the $35-50k region? Ford UK's list prices are notoriously negotiable, but at current exchange rates that's the kind of bracket US prices would have to be in to make it worth selling them in the US.

A lot of these cars which only do 100-200k miles/km in Europe before they die will quite happily do more than that in the States - for the same reason that a car with 100k motorway miles is a better bet than one with 50k town miles.

Oh, I thought you meant we could send them French cars as a form of revenge :)

My mother-in-law insists on doing it. I argued with her for about five minutes about whether it was dangerous, before realising, sod-it, it's my mother-in-law, who cares.

Use of 'farther' is a solecism. The author of that blog is wrong. It's on the same level as the greengrocers apostrophe's.

Eh? 'Farther'? That's not a word at all. Did you mean 'father'? I can't see how that's relevant. So 'further' it is, then.

No. But you - or rather academic linguists (and so-on) - should do. They're the ones with actual practical experience. Have you ever read the crud people like Chomsky have churned out in an effort to make some sense of their nonsensical concepts of language? An excellent example of reductio ad absurdum if only they…

Scholars and linguists? Tush and piffle, man. Do you think we're French, or some other sort of spineless sheep?

You're right, but this is why I keep thinking electric turbo-charging is ideal to go with KERS.

So basically this idea is a gas station (which doesn't actually sell gas) with solar panels on the roof - and it has charging spots. What's the relationship between the two? Since it's grid connected, you could generate the electricity at an optimal place, instead of next to a dusty, dirty highway - that's the whole…

Good point. I've switched to PMS jokes now, because they're fresh and original, right?

PMS, perhaps?

Or a woman.

Peasants.

Doh. I should read to the end of the article before posting.

"What started as a routine traffic stop on I-70 just west of Denver turned into a 25-mile chase reaching speeds of up to 100 mph."