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How much does the sound of your car's engine matter? Now with Poll

Lady Elanore
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Does the sound matter 40 members have voted

  1. 1. So if yes which bits?

    • I think the sound of the engine is important
      43%
      28
    • I think the sound of the exhaust is important
      32%
      21
    • I don't care what my engine sounds like as long as it works
      10%
      7
    • I don't care what my exhaust sounds like as long as it's quiet
      9%
      6
    • I have an electric car and want an option to tick
      1%
      1
    • I like the idea of additional engine noises being pumped artificially into the cabinm
      3%
      2

  2. 2. If the engine sound IS important, how do you like it

    • I like multicylinder complex sounds
      27%
      19
    • I like simple 4 cylinder engines that can scream
      15%
      11
    • I like big muscle car sounds (V8-V12)
      35%
      25
    • I like naturally aspirated engines best
      15%
      11
    • I like a distant whizzing sound (Electric stylee)....weeeeeeeeeeee
      5%
      4
    • I like the farty noise like a Corsa with a wheelie bin exhaust
      0%
      0

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One of my Drive Life NZ colleagues has this this week. 6.4 litre hemi V8.

 

Sounds epic.

 

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  • skinnyman
    skinnyman

    To answer the original question, yes it does matter to me.  There are two elements that come into play that can affect the experience for me - engine noise and exhaust note.  There are quite a lot of

  • Lady Elanore
    Lady Elanore

    Or go and buy a Clio with a 3.0 V6 and listen to the sound of hedgerows smashing through the rear hatch of the car

  • Chris GB
    Chris GB

    For me, it's horses for courses. A big woofly V8 in a classic American car sounds right, the V8 in the last spec M3 sounds right, the V8 in some Maserati cars seems to marry both properties into one g

For me, a high revving V10 beats everything. No voting option, though!  :dull:

 

I can't bring myself to vote for "mulicylinder complex sounds" as you put it, as I don't like V6's.

 

Second choice would have gone to V8s, but you've included V12's, which to me hold no appeal...

 

Also, i hate the din of Ferrari-esque flatplane V8's.

 

It's crossplane muscle-car V8's for me, only.   ;)

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I reckon there are 2 answers at least? If I added every configuration of engine there wouldn't be room for a thread

 

I'd hoped that it was obvious that V8-V12 was a generalisation and not anything more. Sill there you go :(

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    I used to care about the noise my car made, but honestly after having my recent car for a bit, I like the 'stealth' mode it has, it means I can sneak up on unsuspecting ditherers, whilst still being aware of oncoming power........

    You asked a question, you got an answer. That's all there is to it.

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    You asked a question, you got an answer. That's all there is to it.

     

     

    Well if I was to be pedantic, I did ask how much the sound of your car mattered. :p

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    I'm in the US just now with work. Some of big cars /SUVs / pick-ups sound immense

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    A lot hence I am considering going from the 7R to a TTRS

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    I reckon there are 2 answers at least? If I added every configuration of engine there wouldn't be room for a thread

    I'd hoped that it was obvious that V8-V12 was a generalisation and not anything more. Sill there you go :(

    Not to mention crossplane etc etc.

    Come on, youre slacking here ;)

    :D

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    When I first entered broadcasting, we were shown around a giant marine diesel used for powering the standby generator at Droitwich (apparently it wasn't so big by ship standards though). Anyhoo the man showing us around said that you could de-couple one of the pistons to work on the cylinder (they were big!) and still run the engine on the other 7 (?) cylinders.

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    I'm in the US just now with work. Some of big cars /SUVs / pick-ups sound immense

    Oh yes. This week my company had pre booked me a "2/4 door compact" (how dull) so I was expecting a Kia or some such.

    AVIS supplied me instead a blood red 2016 Mustang GT Premium 5.0 V8 - it sounds wild - especially in "Race" mode away from every traffic light :)

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    Did I mention the ECU does a tasty blip of throttle on auto downshifts in sport or race modes... :P

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