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Ford asks customers to choose sound of new electric Focus
Fuel Fix ^
| July 26, 2011
| Brett Clanton
Posted on 07/27/2011 5:24:14 AM PDT by thackney
Ford Motor Co. recently thought of a creative, ahem, vehicle for soliciting input from consumers about its 2012 Focus electric car.
The Dearborn, Mich. automaker asked fans on Facebook to rate their top pick among four proposed sound the car will make when traveling at low speeds.
Those who click on the site — and there have been hundreds so far – can visit four YouTube links, each with a unique noise, and then register their favorites.
The project stems from new federal regulation that will soon hybrids and electric vehicles to be equipped with noisemakers that function when the usually-silent vehicles are driving below 15 mph. Advocates for the blind had pushed for the rules.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: efv; electricity; energy
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They need to allow users to download and install sounds just like ring tones.
I would want sounds of a Top-Fuel Dragster when accelerating from a stop. But I want an old steam train engine for cruising speeds.
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posted on
07/27/2011 5:24:15 AM PDT
by
thackney
To: thackney
Gaaaaaay....gaaaay........gaaaaaaaaay....
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posted on
07/27/2011 5:27:59 AM PDT
by
nevergore
("It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.")
To: thackney
That’s funny and seriously why not?
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posted on
07/27/2011 5:30:27 AM PDT
by
Straight Vermonter
(Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
To: thackney
Potato, potato, potato.
If I have to explain, you wouldn’t understand.
To: thackney
Click
here for my suggestion :)
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posted on
07/27/2011 5:33:46 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(Forget a third party. We need a second one.)
To: thackney
How about the classic Harley sound?????
No disrespect to bikers don’t ya know.
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posted on
07/27/2011 5:34:57 AM PDT
by
Puckster
To: thackney
Like the sound of a 428 Cobra?
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posted on
07/27/2011 5:35:33 AM PDT
by
Hatteras
To: nevergore
"Gaaaaaay....gaaaay........gaaaaaaaaay...."
As Walter would put it (although on a different subject) ...
Nag-na-nag-nag-nag-na-nag-nag-nag ...
Biiiiiitch ... biiiiiitch ... biiiiitch ...
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posted on
07/27/2011 5:37:22 AM PDT
by
BlueLancer
(Square Dancing - Drill and Ceremony Set To Music)
To: thackney
This is so funny.
One of their selling points with the enviro-wackos was how quiet they are running on the battery!
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posted on
07/27/2011 5:38:33 AM PDT
by
grobdriver
(Proud Member, Party Of No! No Socialism - No Fascism - Nobama - No Way!)
To: nevergore
<First Gear Tone>OOOOHHHHHHH-bamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamama
<Second Gear Tone>OOOOHHHHHHH-bamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamama
<Third Gear Tone>OOOOHHHHHHH-bamamamamamamamamamamamamamamamama
On a separate note, have you ever noticed in movies, when there's a motorcycle being ridden by a central character, the gears will PERPETUALLY shift up, as if the bike has an unending crescendo of gearing at it's disposal? It's like foley artists think the viewer won't perceive the rider as being on a bike unless the revs are climbing.
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posted on
07/27/2011 5:40:17 AM PDT
by
GreenAccord
(Bacon Akbar)
To: thackney
I think it should sound like the neighborhood ice cream trucks and play that same horrible tune over and over again with that marginal, worn out PA speakers sound.
No way you could ignore it.
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posted on
07/27/2011 5:40:36 AM PDT
by
GBA
To: thackney
Chitty-Chitty Bang-Bang.......................
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posted on
07/27/2011 5:41:49 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(PEAS in our time? Obama cries PEAS! PEAS! when there is no PEAS!..........................)
To: thackney
The car should play “We are the world”....
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posted on
07/27/2011 5:42:06 AM PDT
by
central_va
( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
To: GBA
Maybe just a neverending chorus of “It’s a Small World”?
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posted on
07/27/2011 5:43:25 AM PDT
by
Hatteras
To: GBA
LOL, that was exactly my first thought.
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posted on
07/27/2011 5:44:43 AM PDT
by
Paladin2
To: thackney
Or:
First this when starting to roll. Then:
This when it's time to put the metal to the pedal.
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posted on
07/27/2011 5:44:51 AM PDT
by
Puckster
To: mewzilla
I think there should be a law that every electric car should play It's a Small, Small World at all times while being driven......................
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posted on
07/27/2011 5:44:56 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(PEAS in our time? Obama cries PEAS! PEAS! when there is no PEAS!..........................)
To: thackney
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posted on
07/27/2011 5:49:34 AM PDT
by
Puckster
To: thackney
I vote for the sound of the flying cars in The Jetsons...
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posted on
07/27/2011 5:49:40 AM PDT
by
DJ Frisat
(How's that change workin' out for ya, Obama voters?)
To: thackney
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posted on
07/27/2011 5:50:30 AM PDT
by
headsonpikes
(Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism - "Who-whom?")
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