RE: PH Fleet Update: SEAT Leon Cupra R

[Simon Henly]

I am afraid that is really sad, a speaker to make the engine sound nice in the cabin?
Even Audi are at it with the new S5, it has a device which makes a booming noise when you change gear.
Now I love fast cars, I have a Seat Leon FR, which, whilst not as fast as the Cupra does not have this sad little boy racer device.
Reminds me of the pathetic turbo wastegates you hear on chavved-up RS Turbos.

[CliveM]

Chris-R said:

All engine noises are 'engineered' one way or another these days, and exotic supercar soundtracks more than most. Can a line be so easily drawn between what's acceptable and what's 'fraudulent'?

(That's a question, not a statement!)

I know it's not straightforward, but for me at least the use of speakers is taking the piss. It seems lazy and patronising.

[Bobanegra]

I own a Bocanegra and somehow managed to get this amplified engine noise turned off, by mistake of course, when I put it in for a service last year, 3 months and 7 trips back to the garage later it's only starting to sound like it's old self again but the noise seems stuck inside the engine bay rather than coming into the cabin as it did before - if these sub woofers that are creating the noise are underneath the windscreen is there a chance that these are being blocked or are disconnected from the cabin somehow?

[CliveM]

Bobanegra said:

I own a Bocanegra and somehow managed to get this amplified engine noise turned off, by mistake of course, when I put it in for a service last year, 3 months and 7 trips back to the garage later it's only starting to sound like it's old self again but the noise seems stuck inside the engine bay rather than coming into the cabin as it did before - if these sub woofers that are creating the noise are underneath the windscreen is there a chance that these are being blocked or are disconnected from the cabin somehow?

Just out of interest - as the owner ofa car that has amplified engine noise, does it make any difference to you whether the noise is coming mechanically from the engine or being produced by a computer and fed into speakers?

BTW - I'm not having a poke at your choice of car, just genuinely interested.

[Bobanegra]

CliveM said:

Just out of interest - as the owner ofa car that has amplified engine noise, does it make any difference to you whether the noise is coming mechanically from the engine or being produced by a computer and fed into speakers?

BTW - I'm not having a poke at your choice of car, just genuinely interested.

It doesn't make any difference to me at all how the noise is produced as long as it is being produced

[Mastodon2]

Just because this is a subwoofer transferring engine noise into the cabin, is it really any different to the pipe or horn used on many other cars? I used to think that using a speaker was pretty contrived, but in truth it's no different from any other method.