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Originally Posted by MaDalton
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I understand the appeal of a big throaty V8 engine. Car engineers spend lots of time to tune the exhaust note to be "just right" during the design of a new sports car. And of course, car owners spend more money swapping the exhausts and mufflers to get the sound they want, because.... just because. I get why a lot of people love the sound and think its cool.
But to me though, that sound doesn't impress me anymore, and I no longer think that sound is "cool".
The sound you hear is of course, air rushing out of the cylinder after each little explosion of each cylinder. This is actually wasted energy. The louder the car is, the more energy it takes just to move that air around. Even worse, it's dirty air. In North America at least, you need to have a catalytic converter to reduce pollution, which of course reduces air flow and efficiency, adding more weight, etc.
What I think is "Cool" is doing away with all of that. Electric means no explosions, so no exhaust, no muffler, no catalytic converter, so you save money, save weight, etc. It's just smarter and makes a lot more sense, and is therefore cool, to me.
Add a sci-fi whirring sound? Meh.. I'd still prefer it to be silent, but the sci-fi whirring sound seems kind of cool.
Peace.