Those cars that turn off stupid questions. Just curious

In reply to alfadriver :

I really appreciate your posts on these subjects.  Very informative. Thank you.

In reply to Ian F (Forum Supporter) :

You are very welcome.

In reply to aircooled :

Yup.  See my post from earlier.  My Focus RS is manual (all of the MK3 Focus RS are manual).

Stefan (Forum Supporter) said:

In reply to aircooled :

Yup.  See my post from earlier.  My Focus RS is manual (all of the MK3 Focus RS are manual).

I co-drove my friend's at an autocross and after I finished a run and pulled back into grid, I had a panic moment when it shut off, because I thought I had broke it. I had never come across a manual transmission car with auto stop-start before.

NickD said:

Stefan (Forum Supporter) said:

In reply to aircooled :

Yup.  See my post from earlier.  My Focus RS is manual (all of the MK3 Focus RS are manual).

I co-drove my friend's at an autocross and after I finished a run and pulled back into grid, I had a panic moment when it shut off, because I thought I had broke it. I had never come across a manual transmission car with auto stop-start before.

Your friend set you up on that.  He should have turned it off for you or told you about it.  I know I would and I'd make sure it was in Race mode (if it wasn't already).

In reply to Stefan (Forum Supporter) :

As a troll move, I found it to be hilarious.

alfadriver said:

 

We've done a lot of looks at other cars, and I'm really not aware of anyone who has pulled that off.  It's more likely that the really subtle systems are starter-alternators- which make a whole lot less noise.

The really hard part about doing it really reliably and repeatedly is that you can't really tell if the engine spins backwards at all during the shut down.  And since that happens pretty often, well...

Ah, OK. Mazda had put out some press releases about trying this out that implied they were a bit further along at making this to production than they really were.