Add to the already comely exterior styling a brilliant Ibis white paint job, a carbon - laced and diamond - stitched red leather interior, and the carbon exterior appearance package, and it's a head - turner before you ever
hear the engine note.
Not exact matches
Note: If you can
hear the
engine knocking or pinging then at the next fill put a higher octane into it.
Imagine an unsilenced Harley Davidson (come to think of it, I'm not sure I've ever
heard a silenced one...) then add a touch more flatulence, a bit of idling Merlin
engine and a whole lot more decibels and you have the AeroMax's barely legal exhaust
note.
Surprisingly, we liked the convertible better, even though it's limited to 155 mph, because with the top down you can clearly
hear the supercharger screaming, and the brutal exhaust
note combines with the rushing wind to mute all of the
engine's harshness.
If I have one complaint it's the lack of a more emotional
engine note, but having
heard the bat - out - of - hell roar of the 4.4 - liter twin - turbo V - 8 in the G30 M550i, it's probably better that the straight - six leave the power ballads to the professionals.
Above the musical soundtrack, we can
hear the low - pitched exhaust
note emanating from the
engine of the M5.
There's also some of the
engine note in there, which is good to
hear, because that
engine is a twin - turbo 5.0 - liter V - 8 making 1030 horsepower and 811 lb - ft of torque.
Do this and you'll
hear a fairly gruff
engine note; acoustic engineering makes the GTD's sound about as appealing as a four - cylinder diesel can — but it's never going to sound as pleasant as a turbocharged petrol motor.
Yet the cabin remained quiet at expressway speeds; without the faked
engine note, you probably wouldn't
hear anything beyond a smidge of wind noise above and beyond the speed limit.
As expected, turn - in is much, much improved over lesser Mercedes products, and as Roger
notes, the suspension tuning and ultra-low profile tires provide so much cornering grip that the only way you are likely to ever
hear much tire shrieking is by way of power oversteer or burnouts... in which case, really, you're just going to
hear engine noise.
Styled very rugged and the
engine note complimented with a unique sound only
heard in Subaru cars.
We noticed while driving this car that, under acceleration we could
hear the really fine
engine note, but while cruising on the freeway sound was deadened, letting us listen to the excellent stereo system without interruption.
It starts off with an exhaust
note like nothing I've ever
heard before — to borrow a perfect description from Audi's Mark Dahnke «it's out of this world sounding» — and which I can confidently say is one of the best
engine soundtracks your ears could hope for.
Though, with that
engine note, we can't promise he won't
hear you.
That's nearly twice the horsepower from the same
engine displacement, and we can't wait to
hear how the
engine note sounds.
Strudwicke reckons the SQ5's exhaust acoustic could even help sell a few cars, and we're loathe to disagree: «It also has a great
engine note, and we think that will sell a number of cars when customers
hear it».
Possessing one of the wildest
engine notes we've ever
heard from a Mercedes - Benz model, the SL65 AMG sounds like the result of crossing a NASCAR V - 8 with a Formula 1 V - 10.
The
engine note is pleasantly mechanical, and it's just loud enough to
hear in the otherwise quiet cabin.
The 350Z's
engine isn't particularly exotic, but it has plenty of punch and an exhaust
note that's about as invigorating as any you'll
hear with a V - 6.
I found myself driving for a while in third gear, just to
hear the great
engine note blast out of the quad exhausts.