Cars You Can Identify From Noise Alone

[twazzock]

Embarrassingly: Ford Fiesta 1.25, and Transit/Mondeo diesels of the same era.

[melvster]

Any petrol engined Rover/MG as the head gasket is bound to have given up

on a serious note as already been mentioned

Impreza
Transit (especially the really old ones registered on an N reg that have never been serviced)

Not mentioned

BMW X5 3.0D
VW/Audi TDI engine
Aston Martin V8 Vantage

[traffman]

Scooby doo flat fours and those v8 ferraris.

It is a flat 4 isnt it?

[Rob81]

2CV
Beetle
Mini
BX with rattling drop links
Corsa with rattling timing chain
Subaru
Old metro
Black cab
DI Transit

[Vipers]

Remember the tv prog "You bet", some guy could (blind folded), inentify a car by the sound of the car door closing.

[Billy Hunt]

944, the belt noise is very distinctive

[corvus]

I heard what I thought was an Audi Ur Quattro blat past the house a while back, but it sounded more exotic somehow. Managed to catch it the second time - Audi R8 V10. Fantastic noise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnkhCp8x1UI

I thought that was good until I heard the Lamborghini version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdM_qOeZuvE&fea...

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melvster said:

Any petrol engined Rover/MG as the head gasket is bound to have given up

BMW X5 3.0D

You're strange!

[melvster]

0aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa said:

You're strange!

A lot of the other cars i recognise have been mentioned. I only recognise the X5 3.0D as the next door neighbor has one.

[seeby]

Urban Sports said:

Petrolhead95 said:

Ice cream van..

It was done on the previous page, it failed the first time because an ice cream van isn't a car.

You didn't read the title nor the previous pages in the thread.

How can you not allow Ice Cream Van ,when Transit VAN has been mentioned quite often in this thread ? Or is a Transit VAN a car? So here,s another,A Routemaster Bus

[Hudson]

Impreza's, Skylines (or Skyline RB26 engine'd cars anyway), Merc V8's, BM straight 6 engines and Focus RS/Volvo T5's.


Oh and barryboy corsas.

[jackh707]

I can identify many of the above big petrol v8s and 6s but the curiously unpetrolhead sound I can distinguish is the Honda 2.2 cdti as found in civics, accords, crvs. Has a lovely chirrippy spaceship sound as the turbo spools up.