If you have a loud car and drive in a city: why? (RX7, idle)

[GVLNATIVE]

I dislike traffic noise, but particularly noise from loud cars. Loud engines, to me, are very unpleasant sounds.

If you have a loud car and drive it in a city: why? Are the people who have to listen to your loud car a concern of yours?

Thanks.

[gtt99]

Originally Posted by GVLNATIVE

I dislike traffic noise, but particularly noise from loud cars. Loud engines, to me, are very unpleasant sounds.

If you have a loud car and drive it in a city: why? Are the people who have to listen to your loud car a concern of yours?

Thanks.

Not at all. Drive a straight-piped HEMI.

[LKJ1988]

I have no cats and have NPP in a box in my 2016 C6 Vette. I can push a button for mild or wild. I like loud as it gets all the rice cars driver and thugs with Honda's and stangs a blood rush to race me. And it really gets the red neck pickup drivers in a twit to do their best to get next to me and i leave em in the dust.

[BostonMike7]

I take both paths.

My daily commuter, I wand dead silent. No exhaust noise, no motor noise, no road noise. When I commute to work, all I want to hear is my radio and phone calls on the Bluetooth.

My weekend car is a Mustang with a loud exhaust. Not obnoxiously loud, but you can hear me coming from down the street. Am I concerned for my neighbors? Of course. I idle out of the neighborhood and try not to drive the car too early or late in the evening. But when i'm away from people, The sound of a V8 engine is stress relieve for me and I like to hear it.

[gt87]

Originally Posted by LKJ1988

I have no cats and have NPP in a box in my 2016 C6 Vette. I can push a button for mild or wild. I like loud as it gets all the rice cars driver and thugs with Honda's and stangs a blood rush to race me. And it really gets the red neck pickup drivers in a twit to do their best to get next to me and i leave em in the dust.

Stereotype much?

[turf3]

If you feel powerless in the ways that matter, at least you can make a lot of noise and annoy people.

[wamer27]

Originally Posted by LKJ1988

I have no cats and have NPP in a box in my 2016 C6 Vette. I can push a button for mild or wild. I like loud as it gets all the rice cars driver and thugs with Honda's and stangs a blood rush to race me. And it really gets the red neck pickup drivers in a twit to do their best to get next to me and i leave em in the dust.

Do you have the muffler bypass system? If so, which one do you have? Is it Bluetooth?

[wamer27]

Originally Posted by GVLNATIVE

I dislike traffic noise, but particularly noise from loud cars. Loud engines, to me, are very unpleasant sounds.

If you have a loud car and drive it in a city: why? Are the people who have to listen to your loud car a concern of yours?

Thanks.

Shouldn’t you be living out in the sticks if you want silence? Cities are the loudest places you could ever live...

[Sunbiz1]

Originally Posted by GVLNATIVE

I dislike traffic noise, but particularly noise from loud cars. Loud engines, to me, are very unpleasant sounds.

If you have a loud car and drive it in a city: why? Are the people who have to listen to your loud car a concern of yours?

Thanks.

In my town it's generally double digit IQ's young males, who haven't bred yet; and want attention.
Mine as well toss a pack of firecrackers on my lawn every time they drive by.
Every municipality has an ordinance against this juvenile and inconsiderate behavior, but it's never enforced.

So I return the favor during warmer months, in the form of a water hose.

[cvetters63]

Originally Posted by GVLNATIVE

I dislike traffic noise, but particularly noise from loud cars. Loud engines, to me, are very unpleasant sounds.

If you have a loud car and drive it in a city: why? Are the people who have to listen to your loud car a concern of yours?

Thanks.

For some of us, the sounds of a powerful engine make us happy, and the sound in a tunnel or echoing off the buildings is enjoyable. That's really it.


I'm with BostonMike. My commuter is electric and dead silent. But my fun cars have generally been much louder, modified cars with powerful engines that made glorious sounds. From the modified air cooled Porsche 911s to modified V8 cars like Mustangs and BMWs, the sounds they made/make were intoxicating and fun. I used to like going to the racetracks when I was a kid and listening to all the different sounds of road race cars, from the ripping silk shriek of V12 Ferraris to the rumble and growl of V8 Camaros and Corvettes to the wail of 6 cyl Porsches to the scream of high rm 4 cyl BMWs and Alfas.



So when I drive my fun cars I like the smiles it generates on the faces of little kids and even adults. I was in downtown Seattle one weekend with my modified Ford V8 powered Mazda RX7 when I was sitting at a light. A police officer came over and asked me what I had done to the car and I told him. He asked me to rev it once and the sound was brilliant, echoing off the buildings. He just stood back, closed his eyes, and smiled. Told me to have a nice day and walked off. That's the kind of response a properly tuned engine can have on people.