Ford to Offer Engine Stop/Start on Nonhybrids Beginning in 2012

Technology that shuts down a vehicle’s engine at stoplights is nothing new to anyone that’s driven or ridden in a hybrid. If you’ve missed that particular slice of automotive pie, the effect is the same as when your weird, 60-year-old hippie uncle insists on shutting off his car’s engine at every opportunity to save gas. In conventional cars, automatic stop/start tech has heretofore been limited in the U.S. to high-end stuff like the Porsche Panamera, but Ford will begin

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