Automakers produce vehicles with standard driver-assistance and safety features that can sometimes feel unnecessary. The auto start-stop feature does benefit a specific type of driver in certain ...

Drivers are only just realising a button on a dashboard instantly slashes costs. Swansway Motor Group has asked: "Ever noticed a small button on your dashboard with a circular arrow or “A” symbol?

It is a common fuel-saving feature in a number of new cars, but is this technology shortening your vehicle's life? THE introduction of stop-start technology in recent years has been relatively ...

Stop start systems have been fitted to vehicles for years - in fact the first version to reach production appeared in the Volkswagen Golf Ecomatic in 1994 - and the technology itself has been refined ...

Billions of gallons of fuel are wasted each year by idling engines. Be it in traffic, at junctions, on or peoples' driveways, these engines that aren't otherwise doing anything useful continue to ...

Volvo's engine stop-start technology is now available on all automatic versions of the 2.0-litre diesel engine in its large car line-up. All D3 autos in the S60, V60, V70 and S80 ranges will now ...