Originally Posted by James Sonne
I was more refering to air conditioning the inside. I don't believe in idling cars for very long either, but remote starts are very convenient. I plan on installing one on my Acura this summer. I've got to install it myself, though, because it's technically illegal on a manual transmission car. I'm going to fool proof it, though, so that the wire is only closed when the shifter is in neutral and the parking break is on.
You would have to do that anyway. On today's cars you have to depress the clutch in manuals even when you start in nuetral....