America’s best-selling cars and trucks are built on lies

[AlwaysFSX]

It's a concept idea, but noise pollution is a real problem and does affect us human beings. Not everyone is well informed on it.

 

A car fan would surely love that his engine resembles the one from a race car, but in the logical thinking, it's the same that saying: Woah hear those loud fans on your PC! You sure have an impressive workstation!. Just because the noise resembles to the noise of a server rack.

The entire problem is smaller engines are becoming more common and people still want the noise of a larger engine.

[AlwaysFSX]

Or "Oh my gawd, how did they get so much power from a tiny 1 liter. Leave it to the brilliant Japanese"

Yeah, the thing that's essentially a toothpick frame with paper mache body weighing less than a ton, no shit it'll be zippy.

[EcoBoost]

Let's all forget the Japanese car makers' recall as only GM has those.

One word: EcoBoost

Excuse me?

[EcoBoost]

Worst idea of an engine ever.

thanks friend

[AlwaysFSX]

thanks friend

EcoBoost too stronk for Terry. Can't handle the torque.

[Biased Opinion]

Isn't America built on lies?

Joke...

no, just corruption.

 

Now Australia on the other hand, this is a country built on lies. Lies and sestemic racisim

[Speedyv]

Excuse me?

:mellow:

 

Well this is awkward. 

[AlwaysFSX]

I know! Let's call out Ford because we all hate Ford. As if no one else has done it.

 

Biased pricks.

 

:mellow:

 

Well this is awkward. 

Just a bit.

[EcoBoost]

He does. Twin Turbo V6 would make all Asian car nuts go mad. "Oh my god it's so powerful and uses so little fuel!"

GT-R?

 

 

The entire problem is smaller engines are becoming more common and people still want the noise of a larger engine.

I was thinking that to myself the other day too. Many of my friends with cars have these Civics or 240's with aftermarket exhaust systems, not the fart cannon kind but more of the kind that actually sounds somewhat powerful. Although I'm glad of the attempts to move away from the fart cannon sound and towards actually sounding powerful, I drove many of these cars, and none of them are actually more "powerful" sounding then my dad's Toyota Sienna. As much as companies may try there isn't a legitimate substitute for a larger engine if you want that larger engine sound.

[ZacDaMan72]

Why do you think I always buy Japanese cars? At least they keep their word.

A few jap cars have them eg. Lexus LFA, but I don't think it's a speaker thing, just tube amps or whatever.

[EcoBoost]

If anyone remembers that horrible MTV show, Pimp My Ride; I believe one of the cars that got pimped had something in it so you can make the engine sound like anything from a truck to a ferrari.

I remember that episode. It was a third-gen Town & Country that they stuck waterproof speakers to the bottom of that were connected to a device that I believe was called the VroomBox.

[AlwaysFSX]

GT-R? Precisely. Only thing that makes it fast is tuning and AWD.

 

 

I was thinking that to myself the other day too. Many of my friends with cars have these Civics or 240's with aftermarket exhaust systems, not the fart cannon kind but more of the kind that actually sounds somewhat powerful. Although I'm glad of the attempts to move away from the fart cannon sound and towards actually sounding powerful, I drove many of these cars, and none of them are actually more "powerful" sounding then my dad's Toyota Sienna. As much as companies may try there isn't a legitimate substitute for a larger engine if you want that larger engine sound.

Yeah but what gets me is why everyone has to bash one company for one reason when literally everyone does it.

[deVIZtation]

I remember that episode. It was a third-gen Town & Country that they stuck waterproof speakers to the bottom of that were connected to a device that I believe was called the VroomBox.

So cheesy, but I actually..... loved that show.

[EcoBoost]

Yeah but what gets me is why everyone has to bash one company for one reason when literally everyone does it.

Some companies actually use the same technology for the opposite reasoning, such as Buick with their QuietTuning, which actually takes the engine sound and runs it through sound processors to use as noise cancellation instead of amplifying it. This allows for a much quieter cabin.

[Speedyv]

A few jap cars have them eg. Lexus LFA, but I don't think it's a speaker thing, just tube amps or whatever.

 

And exhaust valves (butterfly valves) and so on. And the physical pipes of course. 

The article doesn't specify, but I don't mind that companies tune their exhausts to sound better.

[EcoBoost]

I actually used to have this little device, called the SoundRacer, which you plug into the cigarette lighter and it would measure engine RPMs through some sort of voodoo magic and play a fake V8 sound through the stereo's aux port. It actually did work and worked a lot better then I expected it to, but the sounds didn't exactly sound that realistic. Sounded like a recording from a game (probably what it was) but hey it was good fun. I wonder where that thing is now.

[AlwaysFSX]

Some companies actually use the same technology for the opposite reasoning, such as Buick with their QuietTuning, which actually takes the engine sound and runs it through sound processors to use as noise cancellation instead of amplifying it. This allows for a much quieter cabin.

Yeah but that's okay, according to "logic."

 

And exhaust valves (butterfly valves) and so on. And the physical pipes of course. 

The article doesn't specify, but I don't mind that companies tune their exhausts to sound better.

Borla anyone?

[EcoBoost]

Borla anyone?

More of a Magnaflow fan but that works too

[AlwaysFSX]

So apparently it's not very true. 8:50

More of a Magnaflow fan but that works too

Can't argue, Borla is too harsh of a sound. Doesn't act like a symphony.

[EcoBoost]

So apparently it's not very true. 8:50

 

Still has that obvious I4 sound though. 

 

IMO doesn't sound that much better then this

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSp9JqPjT60

[AlwaysFSX]

Still has that obvious I4 sound though. 

The problem is that it is an i4. You're not going to get a v8 soud out of something with half the cylinders. So people should stop whining if there's faked sounds or stop whining it doesn't sound like a v8.

[EcoBoost]

The problem is that it is an i4. You're not going to get a v8 soud out of something with half the cylinders. So people should stop whining if there's faked sounds or stop whining it doesn't sound like a v8.

I know, I'm definitely not whining. Anyone buying an i4 should be expecting it. Even a performance-optimized I4 won't sound as good as an economy-optimized V6.

[RedSpade]

IMHO if the major car manufacturers are building smaller engines out performing the larger engines but more economical who cares?

Agreed, if it looks good, sounds good and performs well why should we care if there is voodoo magic involved.

 

So is people that stupid that buys into the 'more sound more powah' ?

 

These are the vehicles drastically increasing noise pollution, and all this time they could have done the same thing quieter? This is a serious problem in cities and people doesn't even care.

People want what they want, it is possible to get a fast, powerful car that's quiet but some people just don't want that. Noise pollution in cities isn't overly influenced from a few noisy engines idling from my experience it's mostly from idiots honking for no particular reason.

 

no, just corruption.

 

Now Australia on the other hand, this is a country built on lies. Lies and sestemic racisim

Agreed, nearly every aussie is a little racist but generally not in a hate way 

[AlwaysFSX]

I know, I'm definitely not whining. Anyone buying an i4 should be expecting it. Even a performance-optimized I4 won't sound as good as an economy-optimized V6.

People just have to always complain about something. Thing makes power, gets decent gas mileage, oh noes. The horror.

[terrytek]

holy shit, how are 361 users viewing this? did linus come through with the power of social media?