Insanely loud Mercedes

[vixen1700]

Driving along the North Circular this morning and at the lights this black and red Merc of some description pulls up behind. I can hear a bit of noise, but when he went past it was absolutely deafening.

I had to look over and laugh as it was so mad. You could feel the vibration from about 50 yards behind. Must have been some kind of AMG Black or something.

Made my car sound like a Prius.

Seriously the loudest car I've ever heard on the road.

Yeah, I know cool story and all that.

[vixen1700]

LordGrover said:

I'm clearly getting old, but most of the 'hot'/'desirable' cars sound ridiculous these days.
AMG and dare I say AM amongst the worst offenders.
I love a nice sounding TVR, Ferrari or Lamborghini, but these souped-up autobahn mile munchers are just antisocial.

Know exactly what you mean, this thing was in a different league of loud.

I was in the ExCel last week and there were vintage race cars revving that were quieter than this thing.

[vixen1700]

HardtopManual said:

Loudness isn't the same as musicality.

Indeed, this Merc was loud and powerful sounding but musical and nice sounding it certainly wasn't.

Got back this morning and slowly reversed my TVR into the parking space and would have that any day of the week