General Motors and its rivals are willing to push the button to slow down production for slow-selling models, instead of simply upping incentives to make inventories of unsold cars disappear. That ...

Toyota has modified the start-stop buttons in most of its models so that they shut the engine off after three quick pushes, or after being continuously pushed for two seconds.

According to just-auto.com, citing US media reports, Toyota intends to add a function to the 'stop start' button in the Lexus vehicles which would allow the driver to shut down the engine by ...