No more. The new Dodge Challenger will be either an EV with the recorded/synthetic sound of a V8 engine or a little three-liter six that's turbocharged near to the exploding point in order to get some power out of it.
Only those CPAs and MBAs running things could take a six-cylinder car and. by having the engineers slap on turbochargers, claim to make it a muscle car. It's about as legit a muscle car as Mark McGwire and Barry Bonds were legitimate home-run kings.
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My eMini is a muscle-car. Not much on the long-run but I'd go against a Charger off the line
EVs were always going to need to advertise their presence to protect pedestrians.Looking forward to v8 noise equivalents analogous to the pistol in "Who framed Roger Rabbit". When does it become parody?
The Koenigsegg Tiny Friendly Giant is a 3 cylinder, 2.0 Litre turbocharged engine putting out 600 HP at 154 lbs dry weight. Drop that in almost any car and it will GO.
Mark, they could have used the sound of hoofbeats or circus wagons.
J4r, true, but the mystique of a muscle car involves big-block engines, not just horsepower. Putting a gas-turbine into a car would make it powerful, but that’s not an American musclecar.
I am told my necessary evil SUV has an "performance engine sound" added to the audio system output...
Whether or not the audio is on. I would pay (very little) to have the Jetson's car sound instead.
They should use the sound of the flying cars from the Jetsons.
Artificial big engine sound, heard it and its stupid.
The biggest thing has been for me was passing gas stations.
Eck!
It's going to take at least a generation for engine sound to fade as a signifier. I'm on old trucker and the noise that the 4 cylinder Cummins transplanted into my 1993 f250 makes puts a smile on my face every time I fire it up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jrJs4PO1NU
A V-12 went for not that much money recently.
https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1996-bmw-850ci-15-2/
My 2015 Genesis 3.8 keeps me pretty loose in my old age and isn't as digital tricky as a lot of cars are these days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEPatDpT_ek
Okay, Boomer.
Guilty, whippersnapper.
Been through the numbers 3, 4, 6, 8, and 10 cylinders. Straight, slant, V and a Wankel. Turbo's, Supercharged, and naturally aspirated. No Nitro though.
V8 and V10 of what ever size always sounded best to me. Nothing beats a long pull in second or third to 7, 8, 9,000 rpm.
My Tesla, sold off a couple of years ago, was the fastest, but by no means the funnest!
BAT! My second favorite blog.
When I goofed up, my grandfather would call me out as a "scissorbill".
Whippersnapper came later, but with a smile.
JM, “BAT”?
I never had a problem with a gas turbine engine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS5ajIANFdY
The software on these digital cars are logically inconsistent. You can get stuck or stuck in things like limp mode if some sensor says something the main brain doesn't like when it fails and nothing is really wrong. The part will be cheap and labor to get at it will be expensive.
CM, Bring A Trailer!
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