Best sounding engine / car - your thoughts please

homer90

After having a few scoobies back in the day, still love the sound of the EJ20 / EJ25, especially on full whack....:D

Another favourite is the BMW e39 530d idling (Wierd:o )..

So whats yours ?? .. Throw up a link so we can appreciate

Owen

Anything V8 with a good throaty grumble, and my Cooper S Works - the supercharger's whine is really addictive. No links I'm afraid!

smash

Diablo 6.0
Murcielago
Gallardo with a tubi exhaust
Carrera GT
Enzo
Ford GT
And I'll throw my V6 Alfa in there too

randomer

I saw, and heard, a TVR Tuscan the other day. It was awesome. It made my car sound like a pussy cat. I would be really tempted to get one.

KTRIC

My personal favourite at the moment is the Audi R8, they're a common sight around here and every time one passes it gives me the horn

Stufinnegan

For me it has to be the RX8 in the 6-9K rev range.

Biro

The NSX is by far the best 6 cylinder sound I've ever heard. V8 Ferrari's sound good too. Audi Quattro is a sound I love! That off-beat 5 cylinder 80's sound! A V10 Gallardo sounded fantastic when I heard one taking off at full whack from the Lambo factory in Italy. V10 F1 cars sounded awesome, the V8's sound polite and high-pitched in comparison, don't like them.

Blue850

C_Breeze

Stufinnegan wrote: »

For me it has to be the RX8 in the 6-9K rev range.

You should hear mine with the de-cat and S/S sports exhaust system


I do like V6 and I6 engines for sound too though

RobAMerc

I have to say a big thing for me is the sound of an engine, being brought up in a car mad family where we used to compete to guess the make and model of a car just by hearing it pass by our house !
But having stood by as a line of cars ranging from a F430 to a Buggatti Veyron in Monaco screamed by earlier this year I would have to say the Murciélago sounds totally amazing.

As it comes down the road it sounds like something truly evil is about to happen - you can feel it in your chest cavity as much as hear it.

Btw - Its when my then girlfriend told me she preferred the sound of my brothers Alfa Duetto to my Mazda MX5 that I decided she was the woman I would eventually marry !

She had a point too

Bendihorse

Plus one to Ned78 on the S Works. I love the note of the supercharger whining in response to enthuiastic revving, then comes the best bit, the gurguling and popping from the exhaust as the revvs are returning to idle...

SEPT 23 1989

///M5 all the way

Climate Expert

Can't beat the turbo hiss off my old TDI 130PD with the window down.

agent_smith

Ducati 1098.... gives me wood when one drives past. I know its a bike and not a car... but with a set of termignoni cans on it... oh my god ... incredible.

Ferris

SL55AMG

V8 with Supercharger. Makes you come over a bit funny when you hear it.

unkel

ned78 wrote: »

Anything V8 with a good throaty grumble

Gets my vote too!

beerbaron

Gotta be the 993 Air Cooled Flat 6 :eek:

cashmni1

Top Fuel Drag Race cars at idle.

F1 cars under full load.

Most V8's.

All V10's

BoardsRanger

Has to be my Passat TDI!! Closely followed by...

Zonda F -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiroepFi1fw

and F40 -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAkspWdG2AE

barryfitz

How bout the isf?

smash

RobAMerc wrote: »

But having stood by as a line of cars ranging from a F430 to a Buggatti Veyron in Monaco screamed by earlier this year I would have to say the Murciélago sounds totally amazing.

As it comes down the road it sounds like something truly evil is about to happen - you can feel it in your chest cavity as much as hear it.

Yea it does sound amazing - I think the Veyron doesn't sound good at all, THE most underwhelming car ever. Performance is great but there's just no event to it... with a lambo, it's always an event!

S.I.R

erm... my mates 85 vw jetta rally car sounds great imo but tbh



the e30 m3 Evo II is the best inside...


but outside it has to be the hamman tuned carrea 4 or a honda civic shuttle with its 8.75" custom back box.

green-blood

nice selection of girls engines

now

BRM V16

jimbling

Surely it has to be the e46 M3 :rolleyes:
oh, and my v-rod with powershot 2 exhaust system sounds friggin awesome too

I own some beautiful sounding machines :pac: :pac:

R.O.R

This http://www.carzone.ie/search/AC/Cobra/Recreati/200842190514478/advert

when it rumbled through our industrial estate last week.

Or an ex-collegue's, fathers E30 M3 with a straight through stainless steel pipe. You could sit in the office and pinpoint exactly where he was anywhere within the Sandyford Industrial Estate.

galwaytt

Blue 850 got my first suggestion. Green-blood my second (recognise the soundtrack, btw )

So, before I get beaten to it again:

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=hEK7POxpVeE


Hey, I've just noticed one thing those 3 have in common: No airbags Ha ! - (ref recent other airbag post on here lately LOL ! )

gofaster_s13

Any of the US muscle cars:cool::cool:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hSH8mRLO1s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1p40_UZlr2A&feature=related

Martron

i drove a clapped out old f150 pick up in the states. sounded great though. especially beauce the exaust came out half way along the exaust pipe and not at the end

Owen

Bendihorse wrote: »

Plus one to Ned78 on the S Works. I love the note of the supercharger whining in response to enthuiastic revving, then comes the best bit, the gurguling and popping from the exhaust as the revvs are returning to idle...

Ooer. Cheers! It does fart and pop. Then fart and pop some more. Then a bit more in case you didn't hear it the first two times. Must be the reason it does about 20mpg, all that unburnt fuel in the exhaust

ronnie3585

For me it has to be the Porsche aircooled flat six (or any aircooled engine really!), specifically the 993 Turbo S. I heard on of these at a track day in the US a few years ago, it sounds just amazing. I've also heard a 993C2S with straight pipes too, deafeningly beautiful! The 930 sounds pretty sexy too.

Graham_B18C

Drove a lambo Gallardo on a track in the UK in may, the sound was utterly terrifying inside the car but absolutly amazing at the same time, on the same day i drove a V8 Vantage and the sound to that was the best i'd ever heard, and a Ferrari 355, pure and raw, absolutely brill sounding machines but the Aston took it that day for noise.

But back in more normal car land, the RX8 is a fantastic sounding machine, also love the noise of a V-Tec.

GERMAN ROCKS

a 1.6 hdi does it for me. you know the one you get in peugeots and fords

qz

F430 :pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYZNfyNnGWw

2x F430's :pac::pac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvXj3WZTtmc

AMV8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmJJ7vM5eG8

CGT Gemballa Mirage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP14BHOf6CI

M5 w/ Meisterschaft exhaust

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRYYe0kLCto

Hotwheels

Eugene Donnelly in the Corolla...these are MP3 files I recorded...turn up the volume

EugeneA

EugeneB

zero19

My top three are!

1- R32 GTR Skyline
2- Honda NSX-R
3- Metro 6R4

Plug

BMW straight 6 from the E46 M3 and the mclaren SLR. Supercharger sounds better than anything i've ever heard. The 1.9tdi sounds lovely aswel.

Mac 3

Aston Martin Vanquish - DB9 - DBS - V8 Vantage. No contest...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7vOLT2HZkM

Brian

It's got to be Rotary.

13b-REW [RX-7]

26B [787B Le Mans]
Whatever the Furai runs, that's just insane..

SV

dohc vtec tbh.

peasant

nothing beats a 10.5 liter single cylinder

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJP5t3xh_nA

except maybe this:
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=54611785&postcount=1

skyhighflyer

This:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foDcLUhUKqI

Brian

skyhighflyer wrote: »

This:

Fixed your post.

SV

Baza210 wrote: »

Fixed your post.

You didn't change it?

Brian

They originally had [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foDcLUhUKqI[/youtube]
a format which doesn't work afaik. I posted it using the HTML Embed coding, but it seems to have changed to just the end of the YouTube URL, ie the video's identifier. Didn't know you could do that..

Táck

Stufinnegan wrote: »

For me it has to be the RX8 in the 6-9K rev range.

fatboymsport

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fpsxPqA2yY

this thing has a engine out of a DTM car in it

craichoe

Imagine starting this outside your local Aldi :P

Yakult

^Batman? :O

or me its the nissan Gti-r. Yum.

S.I.R

Baza210 wrote: »

It's got to be Rotary.

13b-REW [RX-7]

26B [787B Le Mans]
Whatever the Furai runs, that's just insane..

you mean the tri rotar engine that got it banned for being too good ?

rabbitinlights

CLK63 Black Series, I'm not really a fan of the car, but it sounds like a fighter plane:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDstnrgZENE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kVVlCmXU80

Amazing sound......