It's possible to drive without fuel under certain conditions:
Autoclutch off, first (or higher) gear, hold ignition key.
I tried on XR GT Turbo, but I assume it works on all cars and tracks.
Its not some fast driving, but still it looks funny..
Sometimes it can come in handy (very long races when you forget to go to pits to refuel :shy
Doesn't have anything to do with patch Q, it worked earlier too...

Just like a real car oddly. Put it in gear and turn the key....

Wow. It's been like this since, erm, the very first S2 demo...

Most real cars have some kind of safety switch where you have to have the clutch pushed in to start. But a lot of 4x4's (at least every Toyota 4x4 I've ever had) have a "clutch start cancel" button that overrides this safety feature incase you stall say on a 60 degree incline with one tire stuck up in the air and big rocks all around (you get the picture) and you can start it in gear instead of trying to feather the clutch to get moving in this situation. And, I've only found out about this in LFS the last month or so, cool detail!

Yes most street cars have a clutch interlock.

Race cars, not so much. I've seen in real life more than one car make it back to the pits with the starter.

I drive an old car. a '75 Toyota Celica GT to be precise. If need be, I could drive on the ignition.. =). Also, my old Honda Prelude (1988) didn't have a clutch safety either. To be honest, the only cars I've driven with clutch safeties have been 92+ Toyotas and a couple newer Hondas and Nissans.

This could help with mecanik

*edit* OH NOE?!?! This is my 666 post?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!!!

Quote from Secondaries :

I drive an old car. a '75 Toyota Celica GT to be precise. If need be, I could drive on the ignition.. =). Also, my old Honda Prelude (1988) didn't have a clutch safety either. To be honest, the only cars I've driven with clutch safeties have been 92+ Toyotas and a couple newer Hondas and Nissans.

1988 Honda without clutch interlock=not how it came from the factory.

Its somewhere in the FMVSS, and its been there for a long time.

Nearly all cars in UK don't need clutch in to start

in my theory book they say you need to do this to get off traintracks when you stall

Quote from guybrush :

in my theory book they say you need to do this to get off traintracks when you stall

And herein you highlight the difference between product liability attidudes in the US and Europe.

A few stupid people leaving their kids in the car with the keys (or whatever) ruins it for the rest of us.

Got me home when the clutch broke and wouldn't disengage in my 83 Celica. Started it in gear then syncro shifted all the way home.

Quote from mrodgers :

Most real cars have some kind of safety switch where you have to have the clutch pushed in to start. But a lot of 4x4's (at least every Toyota 4x4 I've ever had) have a "clutch start cancel" button that overrides this safety feature incase you stall say on a 60 degree incline with one tire stuck up in the air and big rocks all around (you get the picture) and you can start it in gear instead of trying to feather the clutch to get moving in this situation. And, I've only found out about this in LFS the last month or so, cool detail!

Well I haven't never ever seen a car or other road vehicle that has somekind of safety switch for clutch to start (well except tractors LOL)

Quote from pekkaw :

Well I haven't never ever seen a car or other road vehicle that has somekind of safety switch for clutch to start (well except tractors LOL)

Neither have I. Maybe it's an automatic gearbox feature?

There goes my theory

Clutch start interlocks=required by FMVSS in the United States since before I was born or so.

OEMs do sometimes have cancel buttons for this "feature" on 4x4 type vehicles.

It'd be interesting to know when this feature became required.

Quote from skiingman :

Clutch start interlocks=required by FMVSS in the United States since before I was born or so.

OEMs do sometimes have cancel buttons for this "feature" on 4x4 type vehicles.

It'd be interesting to know when this feature became required.

My 85 Ford Escort had it. I drove something around a 82 something or other that did start in gear without the clutch depressed. So, I'd venture a guess at around or a year or two before 1985.