These flexfuel vehicles should be able to run on e100 (100% alcohol). As far as I can understand they can't yet. I don't have a link, but I think that if these engines are high compression, then the higher octane in alcohol fuels can be taken advantage of providing equal mpg and more power. Maybe, someday this will happen.

But, what will my wife complain about now?

Frog Design did a modular concept for apple way back too.

The Apple adds just emphasized how common it is for Windows PCs to have exploitable security issues, but Apple made no claim to its own abilities in that area. Most of the security issues faced on the Mac have been vulnerabilities, not exploits. Big difference in definitions here. Actual versus potential would be a better comparison.
Don't get your panties all tied up into knots about that topic, it is really boring anyways.
Someday, all OSs will be nearly the same, and most people won't give a rats ass, like most people already don't care much about computers today.

I find it disturbing that China will be building even more of america's products, however that is the cost of our current and short sited international free trade situation. We might see a balancing some day, where it costs nearly the same to design and build overseas as it does domestically.
Also, Michigan is not a good example of typical road conditions across America, and its needs are significantly different from most of the world outside of Michigan. I am concerned that automobile execs are stuck in a little make-believe coccoon, and as a consequence the US automobile industry is paying a big price for this state of affairs. Cars need to be designed and manufactured much faster and bigger risks need to be taken. I know that the issue is very complex, with unions, safety testing, and so forth, but I see them reinventing the wheel, a wheel that is undesireable compared to other offereings in the market. Wish us luck.