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Sunday, September 14, 2008

Nissan, Toyota Latest to Add Push-Button Starters

James Bond has been given a lot of the cultural lexicon, but our most favorite Bond gadgets were always related to the car. The pen that shoots a laser is OK, we guess, but the Porsche Cayenne Turbo with the current flame-powered turbo-boosters? It is basically to cool.

As the cars go high-tech, car owners will feel more than a super spies. One immediate improvement: the push-button starters with keycard activation. The turnkey starters are fine, but the feeling is that the hearing will be the car rev up the push of a button is something turnkeys just can not be copied.

Now, Nissan and Toyota are putting in push-button starters most of their mass-market vehicles, it seems it is only a matter of time before these high-end starters become the standard for almost every vehicle in the market. Even the more the risk of faulty electronics-related trips to the dealer, that sounds good to us.


Push button to start changing the internal landscape? (Autoblog)

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