Owners of everything from compact crossovers to luxury sedans complained about the shudder when the engine cut out, the lag ...
For more than a decade, automatic engine start/stop systems were sold as painless climate tech, a clever way to trim fuel use ...
It seems like there’s not much else in this world that unites people in 2025 like the shared disdain that car drivers the world over have for the auto start-stop function that’s a default setting on ...
Auto start-stop is a popular feature on many modern vehicles. As the name implies, this is a system that automatically turns off and restarts a vehicle’s engine to help lower fuel consumption and ...
DEAR CAR TALK: I have a 2023 Land Rover Discovery. Like most new cars with internal combustion engines, it has an AutoStart feature that turns the engine off when stopped at lights and turns it back ...
A decade ago, a car getting an automatic start/stop system was news, but these days, they've been almost entirely forgotten outside of a small group of weirdos who can't let it go. Unfortunately for ...
These days, many new cars come with some variant of an “auto-stop” feature. This shuts down the car’s engine at stop lights and in other similar situations in order to save fuel and reduce emissions.