good sounding small engined petrols

[dieseluser07]

Im moving away from speed and heading more towards a nice sounding car.

My mate has an old school clio 1.2 8v and the pipe to the airbox has come off and it actually sounds quite good between 3-5500 revs, and although he revs it a lot it always gets 40mpg plus.

what other small engined petrols could sound good with a slight airbox mod/panel filter, be nippy on the road, good handling and return 35mpg with a lead foot?

[dieseluser07]

BL Fanboy said:

My 2002 1.0 litre Corsa Club.

3 cylinders punching like Mohammed Ali.

haha i used to have one of these, sounded almost like a ferrari at high revs

[dieseluser07]

does a fiat panda 100hp sound good? if so whats the real world mpg?

[dieseluser07]

MarkRSi said:

I suspect any (small) engine with some breathing mods can (but not necessarily) sound good.

I fitted a Pipercross (foam) filter to my old 1.0l Nissan Micra.

Under idle/light loaded it sounded normal, but at wider throttle opening (which was a lot with only 998cc) it sounded fking awesome like a rorty Elise

does swapping air filters make much of a difference to noise?

[dieseluser07]

any other suggestions?