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Accelerating in a Tesla is wholly underwhelming
- Thread starter Zen
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Soon complaining about this very thing will be one of the factor that distinguish old people from young ones.
I for one welcome silent vehicles.
What about cars with a resonator that pipes the exhaust note into the cabin?
Main reason I don't is that sometimes blind folks have to cross the street
Slightly less dumb, but I'll still look at you like an alien.
Yeah, electric cars don't have the fun factor. The future will probably be in hybrid sports cars tbh.
I'll trade you my manual 2003 Mustang GT with aftermarket exhaust for the Tesla. You get all the vroom sound you want while going as fast as a 2008 Nissan Maxima.
Sounds good to me. I'm in the minority though. Never been that into cars and don't like the loud engine noise. I'll take the silent assassin approach anytime.
Then you should have bought any other sports car for a lot less money? But then you wouldn't get the near instantaneous torque of the electric engine?
Most EVs emit a sound at low speeds to warn people.
Why people need a loud engine sound and black exhaust smoke to prove their manhood is beyond me.
I mean I kind of get it. When I used to floor it in the FR-S it felt like a rocket. You could ride it all the way to redline, bounce it off the limiter if you screw up, shift up, then begin again chasing that sweet sweet redline. When I plant it in the Stinger it's (much) faster but it's so effortless. I'm just, ok, I got to 60 in under 5 seconds. So what?
One of the first cars I ever tested was a PT Cruiser with an engine that screamed when I was doing 35 mph in a residential area.
From that point onward I associated loud engines with inefficiency. If it makes as much sound as an goddamn airplane, I better be lifting off the ground.
From that point onward I associated loud engines with inefficiency. If it makes as much sound as an goddamn airplane, I better be lifting off the ground.
It's a bit surreal after so many years of sitting in and driving cars with internal combustion engines, but I'm okay with the silence over a fake noise, I guess.
But there will always be a soft spot in my heart for the roars and growls and squeals and rumbles of various types and sizes of engines. Gas vehicles will end up being a recreational sort of thing sort of in the way horses are now.
And my views on engines will probably seem as foreign to younguns as people who like riding horses because of the crunch of hooves on the ground and the tightening and flexing of equine muscles against their taint do to me. And that's okay.
But there will always be a soft spot in my heart for the roars and growls and squeals and rumbles of various types and sizes of engines. Gas vehicles will end up being a recreational sort of thing sort of in the way horses are now.
And my views on engines will probably seem as foreign to younguns as people who like riding horses because of the crunch of hooves on the ground and the tightening and flexing of equine muscles against their taint do to me. And that's okay.
There was a study that showed people having less stress on their commutes because the car was quieter. Personally, I don't need all that noise in my life.
When you rev match down to second from 50mph and the engine goes
WARGLE
BORGLE
MORGLE
FORGLE
Motherfuckin
POP
WARGLE
BORGLE
MORGLE
FORGLE
Motherfuckin
POP
Most high-end cars are piping in artificial noise through the speakers now. I will never buy a car that doesn't allow it to be disabled.
Fascinating. Glad my truck doesn't have this (at least I assume it doesn't). lol
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Fixed.
People are pathetic.
Let's go, electric. Get bigger, faster, please.
And how about those radiators? Sure, my home is warm in the winter now, but where's the smoke? The ash?
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This was actually what I was doing by the end of my test drive to the bewilderment of the salesman
Engine sound fetishes are so, so stupid. I was stuck in front of one of those super expensive, super low to the ground sports cars the other day and it made so much noise every time it moved it made me feel like I was in an F1 race or something. We were doing like 20kmh in stop and go traffic!