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All good points, it does save fuel, modern starters can take it, it's annoying, it can't be great for the engine..
There's also different tech. My wife (bless her heart) loves land rover products (generally viewed as the most unreliable cars ever made this side of Maserati). Her latest Discovery is a mild hybrid (48V) which means absolutely nothing for anything except the starter, I quote "48-volt belt-integrated starter generator (BISG) to manage engine stop-start, harvesting energy during deceleration to store in an under-floor battery". That is smooth as hell and as much as I hate start stop, it's shake free and quick enough I do not mind (as much)...
On my 718 (just got that, 10y old, chuffed to bits) it's horrible and shakes the car at startup, gives me that "oh crap it died" feeling when shutting off. Especially on a manual.... I am actively looking for someone with a device that can code that out to "last state" (my Icarsoft can't code that).
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