What I find just ludicrous is the price tag of a Mustang (more so than other cars).
Dubbed sound, hallmark of 70s TV, especially Starsky and Hutch, now per vehicle.
You mean that rubber band in there doesn’t growl? I didn’t think so. I thought it more like squeaks.
There is an old science fiction story, probably 1950ies with the premise that technology has degraded and partially an illusion with cars that can only go at slow speeds because they are so poorly made, but with sound effects that make them seem to go much faster.
BMW has been doing this for several years at least. Not just “enhancement,” but a fake sound track. Many other vehicles are doing this too.
People have come to associate a loud exhaust note and excessive idle speed engine sound with “power”. But all that energy that is expended in generating a range of engine sounds in the acoustic mode, is really wasted and not available to drive the vehicle down the road rapidly and with relative economy.
The digital sounds created, and synchronized with the actual engine speed, provide a psychological satisfaction that “performance” is being displayed. Is this dishonest? Only in the same sense that pretty and scantily clad females draped over the subject vehicle also enhance its road performance.
Many would really rather have the fantasy than the reality.
I would rather have a quite car. I had a car that had cheap tires. Those tires where just plane loud. You wouldn’t think that it would be an issue, but it drove me crazy!
Virtual reality. Get used to it.
I’d consider engine noise coming through the speakers to be a defect in the stereo system.
Government Motors, Government controlled media propaganda.
Not even mentioning GM. But then again GM cars are more
soviet socialist as it’s government owned and controlled
than a true American built car or truck. And like all
government controlled companies they cant compete.
So they attack legitimate businesses.
Next they will make GM employees exempt from paying
social security taxes.
GM should have went bankrupt. If it weren’t for special
tax exemptions and loans they couldn’t compete anyway.
I like Ford, yet some of my tax dollars went to bail out
a defunct and ill-managed communist auto company.
I have no respect for GM and anyone who buys GM is supporting
the Obama and the communist takeover of this country.
I’d rather live with sound from resonance on a ford than the Marxist sound of Government Motors.
I also like the new Un-government Fiat sounds from the return to the flock MOPARS. So much so that I went and bought a new RAM 1500 Big Horn this past September. B*tchin’ HEMI sound.
I just stick a playing card in the spokes.
I’m quite happy to have a car make only ‘necessary’ noises.
If it had been technologically practical would Henry Ford have considered making his cars create horse gallop noises?
Can I get one that also perpetually vents “new car smell” inside every time I step on the accelerator?
The issue here is that today’s modern I-4 and V-6 engines don’t make the type of “throaty” exhaust note the the old V-8’s used to do. Small wonder why they put in synthetic engine sounds just to please American car buyers.
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The problem with this theory is that these modern engines are digitally finding a Brake Mean Effective Pressure that exceeds pre-digital engines by about 50%.
Its not fake.
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This is no different than the way that today’s MSM reporters lip-sync “reporting”.