These Are The Most Recognizable Exhaust Notes, According To Our Readers

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Every car enthusiast has knowledgeable those moments wherever you're connected a locomotion aliases astatine meal pinch a friend aliases a date, and while that personification is talking to you and you're (hopefully) actively listening, you get wholly distracted by the sound of an engine location nearby.  Maybe you're pinch different enthusiast friends, successful which lawsuit each of you are astir apt turning your heads to fig retired what benignant of car was making nan noise. Sometimes a car has an motor and exhaust sound that is instantly recognizable, which brought maine to my mobility earlier this week, erstwhile I asked our beautiful readers what cars person nan astir recognizable exhaust notes.

Some of your answers were ones I was perfectly expecting — who isn't perpetually haunted by nan sound of a Nissan VQ aliases Subaru EJ? Others were cars aliases engines I hadn't thought of, but aft I thought astir it for a sec aliases watched a video, I'm inclined to agree. As immoderate of you rightfully pointed out, an exhaust sound doesn't really person to beryllium bully aliases appealing to beryllium recognizable and iconic. I picked my favourite answers here, truthful ever make judge you cheque retired nan original station to spot them all, and caput into nan comments if there's 1 you deliberation group missed.

Most recognizable? That air-cooled VW putta-putta. There are nary adjacent contenders.

Concur. The 1 singular exhaust statement that everyone has been exposed to hundreds of times, aliases more, almost everyplace connected nan planet.

I'd reason that nary exhaust statement is much universally recognizable than nan VW Beetle, isolated from among nan young-uns. But past again, I don't cognize if they moreover salary attraction to specified things.

Submitted by: jrhmobile, Rick C., teauxmater

Based connected nan sheer number of cars successful nan world pinch this engine, it's astir apt nan astir correct answer. Also, I cognize that video isn't typical of what a banal Beetle sounds like, but travel on! It's excessively cool not to share.

Based purely connected Charger income volumes, it's astir apt a Dodge Hemi.

Submitted by: Give Me Tacos Or Give Me Death

I'm amazed nary 1 said Hellcat, but this works.

An EJ pinch unequal magnitude headers and aftermarket exhaust.

Agreed. I owned a 2012 STi and because of wherever I unrecorded location tons of Subarus and this statement is thing I tin prime retired each nan clip from acold away.

Subaru Boxer. Good, but usually bad and unmistakable. You ever cognize erstwhile 1 is coming aliases going.

Subaru WRX/STi. There isn't a azygous car that you could correction it with. Any different car you whitethorn mistake. V8s for illustration tin easy get missed up.

Submitted by: Minivanman, Scott Fry, JaredOfLondon, EPDTY

Not my favourite flat-4 sound (not moreover close, frankly), but decidedly recognizable.

The 5 Cyl from nan Audi RS3 and TT RS

Submitted by: Sennamp4

This is simply a awesome pick. I wish location were much modern five-cylinders retired there

The VQ Engine nissans and infinities each sound precisely nan aforesaid and are highly distinct

This is nan astir correct reply – specifically nan Zs and G35/37 coupes. G63s are instantly identifiable, particularly if you unrecorded a half mile from nan entranceway of backstage schoolhouse and your location windows resonate successful their frames arsenic nan Gs rumble by – if you spot capable of them past you know. But nan VQs successful nan Zs and G35/37 coupes.... There were tons of them erstwhile they were new, and they were distinct. Maybe not your favourite flavor, but location is thing other for illustration them. Now they each beryllium to teens and young adults truthful they are conscionable arsenic common, and louder.

G35 coupe of nan mid 2000's. That VQ motor exhaust note, specifically to nan coupes was infectious. Back erstwhile Infiniti was crushing it. My, really nan mighty person fallen.

At that time, location was nary mistaking a VQ 350Z aliases G35 for thing other connected nan road. That mostly remains existent today.

Submitted by: Dr.Cigarettes, Matt, sclass8, Stephen.

Scarier than immoderate Halloween movie.

I'll spell pinch nan 5.0 Mustang... banal aliases aftermarket exhaust they are truthful easy to peg and truthful loud. 

Came present to opportunity this. A 5.0 pinch Flowmasters is for illustration proceeding your ain kid successful a crowd; you conscionable cognize it.when you perceive it.

Due to wave illusion aka nan Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, what ever YOU drive. Ever since I sewage a Mustang I committedness I tin prime a Coyote retired of freeway traffic.

Simple – 5.0 Mustang (Fox/SN95) pinch Flowmaster 40s. They each person them. They each sound nan same. You cognize what is coming (directly astatine you, connected nan sidewalk).

Those Coyote motors sound mighty good and are instantly recognizable.

Submitted by: cintocrunch1, FiveLiters2, Markus C, MP81, Bruno

There were a batch of different answers for this, aliases akin Ford V8s.

I'm biased but nevertheless, nan Alfa Busso V6 exhaust is chopped and recognizable. I'll besides adhd that nan intake sound is chopped and sonorous.

Submitted by: monstrodiavel

One of nan best-sounding (and best-looking) engines of each time

I americium personally a large instrumentality of immoderate M156 motor sound. They spell from semi-normal to perfectly insane, depending connected really overmuch you want to unfastened them up.

Submitted by: Big Block I-4

Hell yeah.

VAG's v10's. Either successful Lambo aliases Audi form. No different V10 sounds rather for illustration them and you instantly cognize it's going to beryllium 1 of 2 brands erstwhile you perceive them. One of nan champion sounding engines connected nan satellite IMO

Specifically nan Huracan/R8 v10, I tin ever show 1 without looking from nan infinitesimal its successful receptor shot

Submitted by: Bengal55, Crashed Lambo

Such a bully engine.

I'm amazed nary 1 mentioned nan unmistakable sound of nan 60 grade V6 from GM... or, nan 3400. It's successful astir a cardinal cars, and depending connected wherever you lived, that was nan sound of astir everything connected nan road. I tin perceive it successful my caput without having 1 anyplace adjacent me.

It's for illustration a bad opus that becomes a lifelong receptor worm nan infinitesimal it's mentioned. I stake location are a batch of readers present that cognize precisely nan sound I'm talking about.

The Gm 60° V6s. They each had that aforesaid drone. I ever knew erstwhile 1 was coming up nan road. They were everyplace erstwhile I was younger. When I perceive 1 coming it takes maine back.

Submitted by: dolsh, Dustin F

In trying to find a bully YouTube video of nan 3400's sound, I chiefly came crossed videos of 3400s making strange, problematic noises that request diagnosing.

I don't cognize astir about recognizable, but thing pinch a VR6 surely is recognizable, and sounds great.

The VW VR6 motor champion sound ever, not a V8 not a consecutive 6 conscionable nan alien sound of nan VR6 glorious.

Submitted by: Michael Smith, Herm60

Volkswagen has a immense history of unusual engines that sound unthinkable and unmistakable — I'm honestly disappointed that nary 1 brought up the Bugatti W16.

Lexus LFA, afloat stop. I erstwhile heard 1 occurrence up and rev from a artifact distant astatine PPIHC Fan Fest successful Colorado Springs, and knew precisely what it was nan 2nd I heard it. I started stepping briskly that guidance immediately, of course!

Submitted by: JL

I deliberation nan LFA is astir apt nan best-sounding accumulation car of each time, and its V10 decidedly sounds chopped from others.

Air-cooled Harley Davidson.

...ka-chumfa-ka-chumfa-ka-chumfa-ka-chumfa...

We each cognize nan nonstop sound of those V-twins.

In Wisconsin: It's been Harley Davidson for nan past 100+ years.

The obnoxious, lumpy and overly large exhaust of a Harley pinch large pipes.

They're redeeming lives, you know.

Years agone I'm astatine a cafe successful Kentucky, sitting extracurricular enjoying meal pinch my girlfriend. As we're sitting there, nan astir obnoxiously large jackass harley pulls up to nan postulation ray and proceeds to rev his motor and shingle windows and mostly make everyone person to salary attraction to him. After he pulls away, I loudly say, "there are cheaper ways to beryllium nan halfway of attention" and nan female astatine nan array down maine says "Oh, I work together and what's worse is that's my SON."

It's not a car. Or moreover a circumstantial conveyance model. It's Harley-Davidson motorcycles. So overmuch truthful that they fought a six twelvemonth ineligible conflict to trademark it, only to lose.

Submitted by: LBJsPNS, potbellyjoe, Anonymous Person, Buckfiddious, Mark D. Doiron