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olly22n
11,750 posts
75 months
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S3_Graham said: olly22n said: Eighteeteewhy said: Three pot diesels.  Actually most three pots. Not sure I would agree. I have yet to hear a bad three pot. +1 the smart cars sound great. My integra sounds s  t until about 6000. Anbd Triumphs, 107's et al, foggu petronas, mv augusta, etc etc
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HustleRussell
4,114 posts
29 months
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StevieB said: Was listening to a 2004 Mondeo TDCI exiting a multi storey today and just thought, this must be one of the most horrible sounding cars out there! Very similar to a transit with that horrible whine when pulling away! These old shape Mondeo TDCIs seem to have got really noisy with age and mileage. In fact, is it me or do most dervs just get rattlier with age? Couldn't agree more- I have one... At least it's distinctive. If I hear one outside I know that either my cab has arrived or mine is being nicked  Cam chain, dual mass flywheel, aux. belt tensioner are all contributing factors. The only thing that could possibly be worse is an electric motor. In terms of petrol... I hate the sound of a slushbox particularly hooked up to less than six cylinders. Rover 'k'-series sounds like a bag of nails. Toyota yaris 1.0 is pretty nasty.
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carl_w
4,167 posts
127 months
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JCW
870 posts
76 months
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snapdragon69 said: Old Subaru Impretza, usually metallic blue.
The ones with the big handle on the back.
Sounds and looks like a poof's fart. And you'd know that, how?
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Stu R
19,503 posts
84 months
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Any ford fitted with a 1.3 kent engine, particularly in endura-e form.
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CO2000
1,911 posts
78 months
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RX7/8's sound like a feeble engine with a burst exhaust.
I've never liked the sound of Evo engines much & the Galant before it (even GPA rally ones)
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djdestiny
1,381 posts
47 months
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I HATE the sound of a V8. Yes, any V8. There, I said it  Call me mad, call me deaf, whatever. My opinion is that they sound nasty and Ive never liked them! Oh, got to add, the engine note of an automatic changing gear is pretty cringe worthy too
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Toltec
1,809 posts
92 months
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? kambites said: Tonberry said: kambites said: Flat four Subarus with unequal length headers - horrible, horrible things. You kid. Right? No, it makes me cringe - they sound broken. Absolutely awful things. Out of interest do you prefer V8s with a crossplane or flatplane crank? Assuming you like either that is.
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omgus
4,841 posts
44 months
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[dons industrial strength radioactive flamesuit]
The cat rattle on E46 M3s.
That engine sounds amazing until that horrible rattle develops.
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kambites
32,864 posts
90 months
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Toltec said: Out of interest do you prefer V8s with a crossplane or flatplane crank? Assuming you like either that is. It does depend on the application, but I think overall I prefer flat-plane ones.
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Dalto123
1,806 posts
32 months
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caine100 said: All four cylinder engines. Doesn't matter if petrol or diesel, they sound s t. Which unfortunately is all you hear these days. I wouldnt necessarily agree. My dads 944 was a 4 cylinder and it sounded lovely. On another note, my micra sounds s t. No one can say it sounds good 
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Negative Creep
11,266 posts
96 months
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Current shape M5 went past me the other day - could barely hear anything except tyre and wind noise 
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Gman28
343 posts
13 months
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caine100 said: All four cylinder engines. Doesn't matter if petrol or diesel, they sound s t. Which unfortunately is all you hear these days. this sounds pretty good for a four pot, even if it is a race car http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfNZFurebtE
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Zaxxon
4,057 posts
29 months
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Not so much the engine noise, but:
New Mini with it's whineing steering whilst parking.
Ducati's with dry clutches.
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Lexual
99 posts
82 months
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Porsche. with maybe a couple of exceptions.
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carl_w
4,167 posts
127 months
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Lexual said: Porsche. with maybe a couple of exceptions. Agreed, I compete at sprint with a guy whose GT3 RS sounds sublime, proper echo-ey noise like a Ferrari. However, most of them sound like a bag of nails to me.
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olly22n
11,750 posts
75 months
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omgus][dons industrial strength radioactive flamesuit said: The cat rattle on E46 M3s.
That engine sounds amazing until that horrible rattle develops. You mean the rasp? 
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Nuclear Biscuit
197 posts
70 months
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I probably need to don flameproof overalls but I hate the sound of subarus. The boxer engine sounds like a 2CV with a knackered exhaust.
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Mastodon2
5,734 posts
34 months
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Wycombe83 said: The Endura-E engines used in the old Fiestas and Ka due become noisier with age due to the tappets I'm lead to believe. Indeed that appears to be the case. When I first started driving, I had a 9 year old Y reg Fiesta Flight with the 1.3L Endura, 18,000 miles on it, it was not at all rattly. On the other hand, one of my friends recently got shot of his old Fiesta 1.3L, built in 1999 with 140,000 miles on it, and it sounded like a toolbox falling down a flight of stairs, like a smokey old diesel. Worst sounding cars out there? Has to be the old coal burners. Even a s t petrol is miles better than a diesel. Even worse when diesel owners get carried with their "torquez" and start adding straight through exhausts and remapping. Makes the previously offensive sounding car sound like an absolute f king tractor, with the smoke blasting out of the exhaust to match.
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vit4
3,071 posts
39 months
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Mastodon2 said: Indeed that appears to be the case. When I first started driving, I had a 9 year old Y reg Fiesta Flight with the 1.3L Endura, 18,000 miles on it, it was not at all rattly. On the other hand, one of my friends recently got shot of his old Fiesta 1.3L, built in 1999 with 140,000 miles on it, and it sounded like a toolbox falling down a flight of stairs, like a smokey old diesel.  Funny you should mention the diesel analogy, a friend had a Fiesta with one in on 130,000 that wasn't exactly in rude health, and I always thought it sounded like a very sick diesel  Conversely, my Escort that's twice the age but less than half the mileage still runs very sweetly indeed *touch wood*. It does have the distinctive 'rattle' sound but it's nowhere near as pronounced as on any other one of those engines I've heard
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