Unholy Aural Assault...

[Sterillium]

I just walked through a village square (I had popped out for a newspaper and some chocolate) and had an unholy aural assault of biblical proportions.

A low, thunderous throbbing rumble - I could feel it - and I instinctively looked up, thinking it was a helicopter from the nearby marine base.

It wasn't.

It was a BMW E60 M5 sat at idle.

I've not stood near one before, let alone heard one at idle, it sounded fantastic. Now all I can think about is a plan to ditch my 530 sport touring and get one.

Hell of a noise.

[Loyly]

That old video of an E60 M5 with an Eisenmann exhaust pulling away onto a main road in America always raises a smile. What a noise!

The looks, the noise, that brilliant engine. We'll probably never see an M5 that good again.

[shotta287]

My old man had one a few years back, the top end on those would give most performance cars today a run for their money.

[Contigo]

You need to hear one with a rear silencer delete like I had on mine! Was EPIC!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAZQuHmG59I

[cayman-black]

There i was think that you had been abused.

[Contigo]

cayman-black said:

There i was think that you had been abused.

Lol did you read it as Unholy Oral assault or Anal assault?

[PhillipM]

Try one with no cats and straight through silencers with a big aribox above the throttle bodies, fecking thing made a right racket just idling

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2boA2zl7YIA

[Osinjak]

Contigo said:

You need to hear one with a rear silencer delete like I had on mine! Was EPIC!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAZQuHmG59I

Is that in Newbury?!

[Contigo]

Osinjak said:

Is that in Newbury?!

Yes indeedy!

[Thermobaric]

A friend of mine had a neighbour with a 911 for a while. I don't know what exhaust he had on it but when it was sitting at the junction outside my friends house, it would vibrate the living room windows at idle. Sounded amazing.

[TooLateForAName]

I really don't get this.

I see loud exhausts as just being massively antisocial and rather chav.

[Osinjak]

Contigo said:

Osinjak said:

Is that in Newbury?!

Yes indeedy!

Ha! I knew I recognised it! I was in that car park a few weeks ago when someone started up a C63, I nearly wet myself. Just glorious!

[anonymous-user]

TooLateForAName said:

I really don't get this.

I see loud exhausts as just being massively antisocial and rather chav.

That's because you are very boring.

My neighbour has a Ducati 996 with a race engine, at idle it makes my house shake, amazing noise. I've not heard it at full chat but I expect you can feel it through the road a few kms away.

Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 22 January 13:52

[DaveGoddard]

TooLateForAName said:

I really don't get this.

I see loud exhausts as just being massively antisocial and rather chav.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjwwV20iZYE

Now tell me you don't like that.

[NordicCrankShaft]

Went straight to YouTube and searched E60 M% with Eisenmann exhaust. Was not disappointed

Beautiful sound.

[Yipper]

You won't be so happy when it's sliding sideways toward a ditch at 40mph on a wet bumpy country road

[J4CKO]

Second only to the unholy wail from the owner when they get a bill on one

[anonymous-user]

At idle the V10 sounds like a bag of spanners, due to the high lift cams required to make the high specific power output!

[littleredrooster]

Max_Torque said:

At idle the V10 sounds like a bag of spanners, due to the high lift cams required to make the high specific power output!

Ah! So that's normal, then? The one I saw/heard a while back sounded like a Dalek having a w@nk in a dustbin.

[Blue Oval84]

JimSuperSix said:

TooLateForAName said:

I really don't get this.

I see loud exhausts as just being massively antisocial and rather chav.

That's because you are very boring.

My neighbour has a Ducati 996 with a race engine, at idle it makes my house shake, amazing noise. I've not heard it at full chat but I expect you can feel it through the road a few kms away.

Edited by JimSuperSix on Sunday 22 January 13:52

I love a nice sports exhaust on a decent engine as much as the next man.

But, and it's a big but, most of them are fking st, fitted to fking st little cars, that sound, unsurprisingly, fking st.

I live almost on top of the A23 (not my first choice of location but crazy house prices mean it was the best acceptable property I could afford) Its actually not bad, normal traffic is fine, and a lovely big engine with a throaty exhaust note brings a smile to my face.

However, when some throbber drives or rides past with an exhaust that is simply designed to be loud rather than sound good, and you can't hear the TV even with the double glazed windows closed, you do develop a dislike for them.

When these throbbers drive past the flats at 2am in a 30mph zone, and drop a gear in order to redline it, you find yourself wishing unpleasant things on them.