Just when you thought you'd heard it all . . .

[Greg Myers]

http://autos.yahoo.com/news/the-rise-of-the-fake-engine-roar.html

[Harry P.]

Give the people what they want???

[Dr. Cranky]

Doesn't surprise me, modern cars are all about the gadgets, and some of those are fun.

[Casey]

"VW is not alone. The new BMW M5, which ditched the sonorous V-10 for a twin-turbo V-8, plays an engine soundtrack through the car's audio system"

<--- Truly deserving of this. That's really bad, and the VW speaker is equally bad.

[rmvw guy]

I always liked to listen to a song called "Stick Shift" by the Duals when pulling out on the By-Pass in my GEO Metro. Hey that was a freebie!!!!! Got to love those engine sounds if you're a car guy no matter what you are driving!

[Longbox55]

For those who have never heard it.

http://youtu.be/9CNcehcJayc

[Chuck Most]

I want one that sounds like a Hyundai with a fart cannon muffler- so I can blot out my Fury's frightening rumble. How much you want to bet I'll be able to get one from Pep Boys within the next five years or so?

[PatRedmond]

Zoom Zoom.

[mikemodeler]

Zoom Zoom.

Not sure Bob Downie appreciates that Pat!

[Jantrix]

I want one that makes the fart sound from the spaceships in the old Flash Gordon serial.

[Ben]

Just put cards in the spokes!

[Draggon]

And to think, I thought the turbo whistler was goofy! http://www.turbowhistler.net/

[Joe Handley]

Wonder how long before somebody finds a hack hat makes that emit farting and/or belching sounds in tune to the engine's rpm's

.?

[Rob Hall]

I wonder if they will start adding these to hybrid and electric cars...they are very quiet. A Prius or Leaf with a rorty exhaust and loping idle soundtrack would be interesting..

Edited August 7, 2012 by Rob Hall

[Greg Myers]

I'll see your "Stick Shift"

[Longbox55]

I have heard that the DOT was considering having something like that on hybrid/electric cars. Seems that there have been some accidents involving vision impared pedestrians stepping out in front of them becasue they couldn't hear them.

[Longbox55]

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I see see that, and raise you some Jack Nitzshe

[moparmagiclives]

I have heard that the DOT was considering having something like that on hybrid/electric cars. Seems that there have been some accidents involving vision impared pedestrians stepping out in front of them becasue they couldn't hear them.

Didnt dominoes do that for the electric pizza cars they have?

[Danno]

Gives Fahrvergnügen a whole new sound ... I mean, meaning!

[southpier]

too bad they don't put in a horn somebody can hear from more than three feet away

[2002p51]

Got to love those engine sounds if you're a car guy no matter what you are driving!

A real car guy wouldn't be driving a car that needed artificial sound.

[Crazy Ed]

My first year in High School one of the Guys'd get the Family Rambler Wagon with it's (Fancy at the time) 45 Record Player and we'd head to Van Nuys Blvd. If at a Traffic Light we needed Engine Sounds in went 409 by the Beach Boys and we'd crank it up to it's full 4 watt with 60% distortion output - RUMMMMMB RUMMMMB :D Boy after 50 years you'd have thought the Factorys could have come up with an original idea!

[rmvw guy]

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A real car guy wouldn't be driving a car that needed artificial sound.

Are you saying I'm not a real car guy? I will have you know I currently have 5 cars in my barn. ( And the muffler did fall off the GEO Metro once. ) Besides, why would I build 100+ model cars if I wasn't a car guy. I also count going to several car shows a year qualifying and watching many car related shows on TV and racing events making me qualified to call myself a car guy. I was a car guy before I could walk!!!

[Fat Brian]

I'll see your stick shifts and raise you some safety belts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3i7EFYk-_c

[Joe Handley]

I have heard that the DOT was considering having something like that on hybrid/electric cars. Seems that there have been some accidents involving vision impared pedestrians stepping out in front of them becasue they couldn't hear them.

Problem is though, there are fully functioning idiots out there that can miss a brightly painted locomotive with rumbling diesels, flashing lights, lowered crossing gates, and people yelling for them to STOP!!!!, I'd hope those noisemakers would work. I have heard a Tahoe hybrid running on electricity, sounded like a vacume cleaner, Volts are quieter, but you still get some mechanical noises from it.

Didnt dominoes do that for the electric pizza cars they have?

They did for the scooters they use in one of the Scandanavian countries, it could be a crash hazard though.............hard to pay attention to your surroundings while laughing that hard