A 1275cc Austin Sprite with a single exhaust, backing off in a tunnel, roof off, wonderful bubbling/backfiring sound, will never forget that, used to drive miles to find tunnels to that in 😉

subaru 2.5 (with a ‘normal’ exhaust) driven lazily just sounds lovely to my ears.

Now I am a bit older, have to agree with the above.

Could quite happily stand I’m the woods for hours just to listen to this!

S1 Quattro you say?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArPgSDVWFsU&feature=g-hist
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV6qX87FRcM&feature=g-hist

my mate’s Escort – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG9_VnuNqnQ
or his previous rally car, 911 –

My old diesel Skoda – just for the feeling of relief when it starts each morning!

TVR
TVR
TVR
TVR

nothing compares

French Matra V12s always sounded fantastic. This clip of a Ligier Matra F1 is the best sounding clip I can find although the late 60s/early 70s Matra sportscars sounded wonderful. You can just about hear them screaming in the background during Steve McQueen’s “Le Mans” film.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5_HRttJ1PI[/video]

TVR = well tuned Rover V8

Peugeot 205 … that french one … Just cos it sounds so silly!

Hmmm, RS1800 (Group 4 Spec.) or a Group B 6R4, or maybe a hillclimb single seater, Pillbeam etc.

Not an RS1800, but a 16v valve Pinto conversion (Warrior?) I believe, but otherwise probably to Gp. 4 spec (two bonus single seaters) here

Trabant.

I drove a Ferrari 430 Spyder on Sunday.Now that sounded pretty good!

DB9
Mini 1000, with basic stage 1 kit.
MGB with a janspeed.

2 I have had, 1 I dream of, bet you can guess what I have had!

Patient: Doctor, Doctor! Whenever I break wind, it sounds like a small Japanese motor car.

Doctor: Calm down. I suspect you have a small, pus-filled area in your colon.

Patient: But how can you tell?

Doctor: Everyone knows an abscess make the fart go “Honda”

Thinking about it, just about anything nicely tuned sounds pretty damn good, and the opposite is also true. Anything not well tuned but with a large exhaust in an attempt to sound good to those who don’t know any better sounds absolutely crap.

Most memorable exhaust notes I have heard.
Calloway Corvette (at Le Mans).
Lister XJS V12 7 litre
Metro 6 R4
F1 cars with a V10 in the back.

At the track day I went to at North Weald whre I drove the F430,the Maerati Gran Turissmo and Vanatge V8 also sounded pretty good.

Cobra didn’t have a Rover/Buick V8 it was a Ford 289, then later a 427 cu in.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YloMhEZnFZo[/video]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juOOVahiOBE[/video]
Or a Lamborghini Bat.

Enzo with Tubi exhaust. This clip is my all time classic.. At around 17sec’s I cream myself:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zItaYEGiErw

There was another with a Tubi-exhausted Ferrari zooming past the camera man and on shift up I swear I had a hard on 8)

333sp – fast forward to 2mins (unless like like idling)

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kr72xtbax4[/video]

Panoz (prototype that followed the GT1) awesome V8, side-exit noise, especially from 1min 20s on

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U86lf-LRXiE[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZMPDCNyQxE[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF0JqYqdQ3s[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YPabCzxMXM[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OafCq1izXE[/video]

AJP8 engine was TVR original engine before the speed 6 wasnt it ??

I had a vw golf v5 once which when nailed sounded almost like the old group b quattro rally cars !!

my favourites are as follows….

original impreza turbo
f1 safety car
AMG engined mercs
nascar cars
shelby gt500
TVR speed 12
group b quattro

1> my old 1303 Beetle with a stainless steel exhaust
2> my old Nova with a bean can exhaust
3> Maserati Quattroporte
4> Citroen 2CV

my old Nova with a bean can exhaust 😯

sound of a galvanised bucket of nails being vigorously shaken from the front and a flatulent mouse hanging out the back, kind of thing?

F355 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR_kz8l9CjE&feature=related
E30 M3 DTM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vap2nDUe27o
Judd V8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-lbxIJD3V8

sound of a galvanised bucket of nails being vigorously shaken from the front and a flatulent mouse hanging out the back, kind of thing?

🙂

when it was cold, yes, but you’d be surprised at the rich deep burbly raspy thunder that came out of the back end when it had warmed up – especially after a long motorway run.
it was such a contrast though as the previous owner had been meticulous in his eradication of rattles by putting random bits of sponge in literally every gap and join inside the car.

Was it a Peco big bore 4?

My 430bhp RX7!!

Was it a Peco big bore 4?

hell yes!
I deliberated for weeks over which Peco to get.
in the end, there was only one choice.

No video but my first car was a Mini 1275GT with a peco big bore, I was a total hooligan with that car and at night used to drag race with one of my neighbours who had a Mini 1000 with the same along Princes St in Edin circa 1991.

I moved onto a Lancia Beta HPE after that which had a large twin weber carb fitted, the noise of it sucking air into the engine was glorious, the engine was a rough as a bag of old nails at idle but at full chat it was smooth and would run all day (provided the days were like those on mercury…i.e. very short!)

This sounds good, in a 4-cyl car way, I use to have a standard Mi16:

This sounded good, before the gearbox lurched:

But this is brill, can you hear it yet?

+1 on the BRM V16

closely followed by a BDA in an escort

Matra 650 V12. Nothing comes close. I think I’ve just wee’d in my pants a little bit!
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-q4fPOXXDHk[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8fcA6lcpX4&feature=related[/video]

In the first vid fast forward half way then turn the sound up!

OMG how could I forget this! RIP Georg 🙁

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-lbxIJD3V8[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6lgWiqjeDw&feature=related[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh8w1zPte0w[/video]

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AQmgeMoM0A[/video]

Capri 2.8 Injection I had sounded nice.

oh and these:
[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eVznUgQB5Q&feature=endscreen[/video]
first time i heard one in real life i just about shat myself SO LOUD! 😀

6R4 through the welsh forests for me.

This is a similar set up to how my mustang was…

http://youtu.be/N_ETnQG5vCQ