Re: Best/worst sounding road-going car

On Apr 5, 9:09 pm, "Kwyjibo" <kwyj...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I know it's subjective, but I'd be interested to hear what people
thought
> was the best sounding road car they had heard. Feel free to chime in
with
> what you think is the worst as well.
>
> For me the Zonda wins hands down. For something *slightly* more
> realistically priced the new BMW M3 sounds nice.
> For worst sound - Any turbocharged ricers.
>
> --
> Kwyj.

Most modern cars sound like a pierced scuba tank when they're
thrashed, and I personally think the E46 M3 sounded very strange from
the outside (although from experience, from the inside it sounds pure
F1!). There's a Bentley GT getting around my area with 'factory'
s****ts exhaust system, which manages to make this so-called V12
thoroughbred sound like a slightly sick XU-1 Torana.
A mate has just flicked his old E36 M3 for an E92 V8, which sounds
much better.
My faves would be the Audi RS4 (one passed me recently hooning against
a Monaro), a full blown original Audi Quattro (attended a classics
rally 10 years ago - the sound of approaching Armageddon followed by a
gun-blast before your eyes as it passed, sideways, left a pretty
strong impression), Ford's 289 V8, and air-cooled 911's (Jeremy
Clarkson, pre- Top Gear, described the sound best - "double cream
laced with shattered glass!")
Cool thread BTW ;-)