{"id":507,"date":"2008-12-15T16:20:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-15T16:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=507"},"modified":"2008-12-18T10:33:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T10:33:48","slug":"stop-start-vehicle-review-land-rover-freelander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/507","title":{"rendered":"Stop Start Vehicle Review &#8211; Land Rover Freelander"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/243\" target=\"_self\">written<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/195\" target=\"_self\">several times<\/a> before about the new Mercedes Eco-Start system &#8211; formerly known as Stop Start.<\/p>\n<p>This shuts down the vehicle&#8217;s engine after it has idled for a certain period and restarts it automatically (and near instantly) when the clutch is depressed. Similar systems are starting to appear on a variety of vehicles, including the latest Land Rover Freelander.<\/p>\n<p>The Telegraph has now published a review of this vehicle with a detailed discussion of its Stop\/Start system that I thought might be of interest to you &#8211; if so, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/motoring\/carreviews\/3709476\/Land-Rover-Freelander-TD4e-StopStart-review.html\" target=\"_blank\">click here for the full review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The short version is that the system seems to work pretty well, although boy racers wanting to <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">make fools of themselves<\/span> tear away from traffic lights might be a little frustrated as they are forced to wait for a heartbeat while the engine fires up again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscar.co.uk\/story.asp?sectioncode=2&amp;storycode=3895&amp;c=1\" target=\"_blank\">Here is a (very short) road test review of the Mercedes Sprinter ECO Start<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A link to a good review of the latest Land Rover Freelander with Stop\/Start option.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37],"tags":[161,543,545,156,162,544],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}