Push button car starter

aniramca · 2005-12-05T04:29:52+00:00

In the past few years, push button car starter appear to arrive in somecar models. The Lexus GS 430, and the new IS350 has one of those.Mercedes Benz shows their new cars using a key fob. So does the newInfiniti M series. Are both technologies the same?Who (which car company) started the push button car starter, and whendid it start? Is push button starter something new in the commercialcar industry? Had some of the old cars in the 1960s those push buttonstarter too? I knew that some old american car has push buttonautomatic transmission, I cannot remember the brand. Thanks for info.

Dec 05, 2005 21 Replies

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Don. 20 years ago

You sure that wasn't the emergency brake? ;-)

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Roger Blake 20 years ago

That started in 1972, which was after the "Rambler" name had been dropped. (Last Rambler model was 1969.) AMC used the GM Dual-Range Hydramatic until about 1958, when the Borg-Warner automatic (dubbed "Flash-O-Matic") was adopted. I'm pretty sure the push-button models were all Borg-Warner equipped.

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