Honda's 2015 engine

[Scuffers]

Crafty_ said:

Do Kenwood even still exist?

apparently so

[zac510]

At least it has more variation than the drone from the F1 forums about how terrible it is.

[thiscocks]

Scuffers said:

dr_gn said:

Wouldn't put it past them to end up fitting the cars with speakers to play 'real' racing engine sounds as part of another attempt to fix broken F1 by artificial means.

much like Audi have with the Q5 dismal...

ffs, how sad is it that we a even discussing this?

agree. This is what a 1.6 t sounds like. Big wow its different from a 2.4 v8. Do people really expect F1 engines to be 'tuned' so they sound 'better' to a casual F1 fan? lame

[Dr Z]

OK, a bit of perspective. All these engine noises put out there of the next year's V6 Turbos, sound compressed to buggery and I'm highly skeptical that this is how it will sound in real life. Certainly, it gives us an idea of the overall tone of the engine but in no way does it give us an idea of the loudness (which plays a huge part in how the human ear perceives sound!).

I'm fairly sure that it will sound similar to the MP4/4 clip somebody posted above. It may not have the high pitched squeal/scream of the current V8s or the V10s due to the lower rev limits, but who cares if it could sound like the V6 Turbos of yore, right?

[Scuffers]

look, 100% guaranteed they'll not sound anything like the V6 turbos of old.

[Crafty_]

By the same token they are very unlikely to sound like an engine without a proper load on it, being recorded in a brick room.

[dr_gn]

And how are they ever going to sound as loud? The whole point is to harvest as much energy (in whatever form) from the exhaust. Dump what's left through a single outlet and it will be like listening to some chav's knackered Impreza.

[Crafty_]

Who said anything about them being as loud ?

[dr_gn]

Crafty_ said:

Who said anything about them being as loud ?

Probably nobody

Why?

[Dr Z]

Thing is, those who are saying that the new engines will sound terrible in its final 'track' trim and those who are a bit more optimistic (including me) are both extrapolating, just that I'm extrapolating from more concrete evidence (i.e. an audio clip).