Push-button start has moved quickly from luxury extra to everyday standard, yet many drivers still treat it as a simple ...

Engine start-stop buttons used to be a novelty, but now they’re found in most vehicles on the market. While most car ignitions are pretty standard and mundane, some automakers go out of their way to ...

Recently we covered how keyless ignition systems could be a secret killer. After this story was posted, I was contacted by a Porsche owner whose family was only saved from a similar fate by the carbon ...

The first time I rented a car with a press-button start, it felt fancy. Just a couple of decades later, it’s hard to find a ...

The problem: In vehicles with a gate-type shifter, pressing the Start/Stop button may not turn off the ignition. Even if the shift lever is in Park and the engine shuts off, the ignition may stay on.

Push-button start may be common today, but it wasn't always the dominant way to crank an engine. Push-button start systems and ignition key systems activate the same process in different ways. Do you ...

DRIVERS are only just realising the hidden meaning behind a feature in a major car firm’s sporty motor. The start/stop button in a modern Jaguar XE car pulses red ...

The Dearborn-based automaker is known to have a couple of reliability issues with some of its vehicles. This was especially true last year when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ...