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    adding the stop & go feature?

    So if the U.S. cars won't come with this feature, how hard and expensive do you think it would be to add?



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    That's a really good question.

    It would be worth doing some investigation: Talldino's car has it, and it would be interesting to know whether his car has the same starter as the non-stop'n'go cars.

    Aside from that, plus perhaps a beefier battery and some switches to detect shifter position, it's just programming.

    I personally wouldn't spend any money to add it to my own car. It's already equipped with "manual stop & go" (the ignition switch)!

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    I hear you about the ign, but I find with my seating position I have to do a crunch in order to reach it. And I want to cruise not workout when I drive Seriously I wonder what componets a non equipped car is lacking? time will tell I suppose

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    The battery in my non AS&G Mirage is HUGE! Perhaps both the starter and the battery is the same across all models.

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    On a similar topic, the European cars also have alternator-based regenerative braking and 'smart' alternator programming. Potentially another retrofit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MetroMPG View Post
    On a similar topic, the European cars also have alternator-based regenerative braking and 'smart' alternator programming. Potentially another retrofit.
    How does that work ?

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    How can I know if mine has the: high-efficiency alternator with regenerative braking?

    I didn't have see remarks about this feature on the Israel
    Specs.

    Can someone picture his/her alternator?

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    I think the 2 cars from the Netherlands may be the only ones for sure with this feature. Might want to send a message to talldino.

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    I happened to be driving a rental car last week, it was a Golf 1.4 tsi with bluetech". I don't know much about it, but discovered when I pushed in the clutch it made a bit of a vibration. I then realized that it was turning off when stopped, and the vibration was the re-starting. Very smooth, as it took me 30 min of driving to realize this was happening!

    I would like this feature on a Mirage. Although, I would like to be able to disable it at will, as I can imagine certain conditions (winter driving in remote places, mechanical difficulties) where I wouldn't want to risk shutting down the engine once it was running. Can anyone comment on whether this feature can be disabled if needed?

    *edited to add - By the way, that Golf was super-fun to drive, and also very efficient. It took "regular" gas, which where I was was called "natural 95", which I believe is 95 octane. So many interesting small cars in Europe.

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    I imagine it would be fairly easy to over-ride.

    You could do it just by adjusting your driver behaviour: eg. some cars will only auto-stop when below a certain speed, in neutral and the clutch is released. So, leave it in gear with your foot on the clutch when stopped, and it'll keep running.

    In that set-up, you could get around needing to keep your foot pressed down by adding a switch inline with the clutch switch. Flip the switch, and the car still thinks the clutch is depressed when it's actually not.


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