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I think this is an idiot talking point shared by journalists. The car in quiet/normal mode, coasting; it woke up the neighborhood--so many people were coming out of their houses to see when I stopped by my friend's house, it was actually disruptive. How much more "look at meeeeeee" quotient do you need?He has got it backwards, it actually does sound good from the outside, inside, nope.
jkheit for President. There's hope for this forum, after all.![]()
I totally respect the corvettes. Good bang for buck cars, and serious competition at the track with someone behind the wheel that knows what they're doing.There was a corvette Z06 on the road at the traffic light. He had a modified exhaust and sounded like a tractor trailer!! But, ill tell you this: everybody was checking out his car.
I promptly zipped past (in my non mclaren) and actually thought of this message board.
PS. Yes I know z06 not a super car.
All good points,i bought one of the first AM v8 vantages,it was the best sounding car I have ever owned,as well as the most beautiful,but the slowest in its class,and the newest,so no excuses,in the end it was ideal for the Lady of the house,but I want performance above all.I totally respect the corvettes. Good bang for buck cars, and serious competition at the track with someone behind the wheel that knows what they're doing.
Anyway, I also respect hondas. Good little cars that never break. Zippy for what they are. Good solid transport. I've also seen people put on insane muffler do-hickeys and giant whale tails on those cars to make them "sound and look faster" or in reality, ridiculous. It's all so much plumage.
Frankly, it's batshit to me that even the Mac's have some system to pipe in sound. Some day electric cars will surpass all the current petrol super cars in performance. It will be insane to play a sound track of a gas engine. Seems a very dinosaur-like thing to do.
The beauty of the performance of a car, or much anything in life, is in its excellence at achieving its own end. Whether that is gas economy, beautiful dance, speed, whatever. I don't need a beautiful dancer to have a spray on tan to enjoy the dance. I don't need an eco box car to have fake wings to make it look aerodynamic, I'd rather it just be aerodynamic. And I don't need a fake sound track to make me believe the car is fast. At one point that sound was a necessary byproduct of the technology of a past age;. That byproduct isn't as necessary as it once was, and it's weird to artificially pump it up in any way. Especially of a company that is shaving ounces off with carbon fiber ashtrays, its weird that there would be any time wasted on piping in sound, much less the weight it wastes.
It's the same way old farts are putting manual gear shifts on a pedestal, or physical keyboards on phones, or print over internet, or anything else that old folks without imagination get stuck in.
You kids today with your engine sound piping, rocks and rolls! Get off my lawn! Waving my cane in the air. Anyway, enough of my rants. /grumpiness
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More, more, keep ranting please! (Waving my cane too, in solidarity)I totally respect the corvettes. Good bang for buck cars, and serious competition at the track with someone behind the wheel that knows what they're doing.
Anyway, I also respect hondas. Good little cars that never break. Zippy for what they are. Good solid transport. I've also seen people put on insane muffler do-hickeys and giant whale tails on those cars to make them "sound and look faster" or in reality, ridiculous. It's all so much plumage.
Frankly, it's batshit to me that even the Mac's have some system to pipe in sound. Some day electric cars will surpass all the current petrol super cars in performance. It will be insane to play a sound track of a gas engine. Seems a very dinosaur-like thing to do.
The beauty of the performance of a car, or much anything in life, is in its excellence at achieving its own end. Whether that is gas economy, beautiful dance, speed, whatever. I don't need a beautiful dancer to have a spray on tan to enjoy the dance. I don't need an eco box car to have fake wings to make it look aerodynamic, I'd rather it just be aerodynamic. And I don't need a fake sound track to make me believe the car is fast. At one point that sound was a necessary byproduct of the technology of a past age;. That byproduct isn't as necessary as it once was, and it's weird to artificially pump it up in any way. Especially of a company that is shaving ounces off with carbon fiber ashtrays, its weird that there would be any time wasted on piping in sound, much less the weight it wastes.
It's the same way old farts are putting manual gear shifts on a pedestal, or physical keyboards on phones, or print over internet, or anything else that old folks without imagination get stuck in.
You kids today with your engine sound piping, rocks and rolls! Get off my lawn! Waving my cane in the air. Anyway, enough of my rants. /grumpiness
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Sorry about that Limey. I meant no disrespect. I should have been more precise in my rant as as those old of heart and spirit. Something tells me, other than myself, not a lot of fuddy duddies buying macs.jkheit,
Remember .... Some of us manual shifting old farts were driving high-performance vehicles, when some of you kids were still riding tricycles !![]()
Yea, I saw the bbc special. Anyone else feel awkward for the guy knowing the "doesn't sound like a Ferrari" comments while watching his self lauding? But I digress.As you probably know, jk, mclaren/Ricardo hired a sound consultant to work on the 12C.
It still sounds like it has an exhaust leak at idle, and the jet engine thingies are too quiet.
Anyone who spends $300k on a car has a bit of retard in them. Or, if you prefer, a bit of anime kid on a muscular horse racing bareback down a beach toward nirvana.
I felt awkward for the guy as soon as he mentioned Kanye West. Actually right then I almost called my dealer to take the car back. Cooler head prevailed.Yea, I saw the bbc special. Anyone else feel awkward for the guy
Whaletails don't serve a purpose? Or are you talking about spoilers... Because these are legitimate aerodynamic devicesYea, I saw the bbc special. Anyone else feel awkward for the guy knowing the "doesn't sound like a Ferrari" comments while watching his self lauding? But I digress.
I suppose you're right. Ultimately it's an irrational toy thinly veiled as transportation. The demographic lends itself to more whim set and reckless/conspicuous consumption.
I guess I have 2 points on that. (1) The guys doing the review ain't of that demographic and are supposedly being more rational in their critic assessment (and if they gushed about how awesome quiet the car was, the anime/pony set would just bobble head to that instead),
And (2) that there is a market for spinners and whale tails and grey puopon tuned exhaust notes with no actual functional purpose (and 300k to blow) doesn't diminish the taking of conspicuous consumption to the next retarded level.
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On a Honda civic, probably not.Whaletails don't serve a purpose? Or are you talking about spoilers... Because these are legitimate aerodynamic devices