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Old 04-09-2012, 03:47 PM   #28 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by bennelson View Post
What really caught my eye was that it had a "Fuel Economy" package for it, that had at it's heart an engine start-stop feature. It was only available on the automatic. (That's because the computer can't predict what a driver is going to do with the clutch...)
That reason - unpredictability - is utter cattle manure.

On manuals, engine restart happens when you start to push in the clutch.
By the time you foot is all the way down, the engine is running again, and you shift into gear.
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