RE: Time for Tea: Ferrari 355 noise factory

RE: Time for Tea: Ferrari 355 noise factory

Thursday 13th September 2012

Time for Tea: Ferrari 355 noise factory

Is the 355 the best sounding car of all time? Harris reckons it's right up there...



One of the great things about YouTube is that it serves as a kind of taster menu for the sounds of motor cars. Back in the day, if you wanted to fit a Devil exhaust to your 205GTi, you wouldn’t know what it sounded like until the first time you started the car. If you didn’t like it – tough cookie.

Not so these days. Want to know what music an E92 M3 makes with Akrapovic pipes? – it’s all there.

Now this is partly a nudge for everyone to find their favourite noise clips, but it’s also a chance to worship at the alter of the Ferrari 355’s five-valve V8. Its 400bhp looks pretty modest these days, but this motor makes some of the great car sounds, and this one here is preposterously pleasant on the ears.

Please admire the de-clutch up-shifts delivered purely in the interests of noise.

There’s too much opinion to declare this any kind of ‘best engine noise’, but I’d love to know if anyone genuinely finds the sound of this car unappealing.

 

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BBS-LM

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3,972 posts

223 months

Wednesday 12th September 2012
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That is Dirty. biggrin

handbraketurn

1,371 posts

165 months

Wednesday 12th September 2012
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I'd agree with you there Chris, 355 is a beaut, especially with that Tubi on it.

Personally, I get excited by the metalic intake sound of the M3 CSL.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLRXy7Qyns4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8j_NkjVPUVM

Followed closley by this EPIC GT3 Akrapovic Sound

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dJqx-IjnC8

_Batty_

12,268 posts

249 months

Wednesday 12th September 2012
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lovely.
I will own a 355 at some stage.
However, the Zonda 760RS does sound even more epic (IMHO) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb05nRyDrY8 (1.25 onwards for the best noise)

2loud

53 posts

152 months

Wednesday 12th September 2012
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Wow !

As a point of interest, what do these rev to ?

MrTappets

881 posts

190 months

Wednesday 12th September 2012
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My personal fav is the old Countach with Kreissieg pipes. They make the maddest sounding systems I've heard so far.

BBS-LM

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Wednesday 12th September 2012
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O.K, I see your 355, and rase you Porsche GT3 Rally.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq5hUqX5VVk

KungFuPanda

4,324 posts

169 months

Wednesday 12th September 2012
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But it's got a Tubi exhaust so isn't that cheating?

handbraketurn

1,371 posts

165 months

Wednesday 12th September 2012
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_Batty_ said:
lovely.
I will own a 355 at some stage.
However, the Zonda 760RS does sound even more epic (IMHO) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb05nRyDrY8 (1.25 onwards for the best noise)
I take my suggestions back, this is the one... cloud9

Also the R

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uNw6nTngGA&fea...

Edited by handbraketurn on Wednesday 12th September 16:04

Steamer

13,844 posts

212 months

Wednesday 12th September 2012
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The 355 really is quite a unique sound..

..rather amusingly someone at the Hamlet Cigar company knew this too, and thats why whenever I hear one I think of this chap:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkwdGJ4WDaI

wells

8 posts

227 months

Wednesday 12th September 2012
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ST150HB

446 posts

148 months

Wednesday 12th September 2012
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Ooph what a filthy noise!

Brightened my afternoon up!

Stig

11,817 posts

283 months

Wednesday 12th September 2012
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Hard to top a 355 with a Tubi for banshee mentalness.

But I'm also a fan of some old school V8 muscle car rumble:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve91uA2mg5o

(biased of course) wink

BlackCup

1,231 posts

182 months

Wednesday 12th September 2012
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Love the sound of a 355, Wilton house had a beautiful black one that sounded amazing revving on the parade in!
I still love the bit in the fast and furious when they race a tw@t at the lights, that sounds amazing too! Although prob a tad altered!
Matt

Wadeski

8,132 posts

212 months

Wednesday 12th September 2012
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Plenty of Yanks dont like the Ferrari sound - its described as "tearing paper". Then again, if its not a Detroit iron lump its not really a V8 to Americans wink

I'm not sure anything sounds better than this though...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFqslG0Axbk


handbraketurn

1,371 posts

165 months

Wednesday 12th September 2012
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Now I think about it, think the best Rarri sound is the 360 CS

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_XgtVkQ1xI&fea...

Ten Four

292 posts

150 months

Wednesday 12th September 2012
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Spot on Mr Harris.

beer

Ginja

1,018 posts

200 months

Wednesday 12th September 2012
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We all have our vices, these are mine :0

Supercharged Viper

And having heard this car in person I can confirm it is totally epic!

Daytona Cobra


PhilJames

234 posts

192 months

Wednesday 12th September 2012
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It sounds perrrfect! But the Zonda.. Truly amazing to witness this going full throttle all the way up the gears!

_Batty_

12,268 posts

249 months

Wednesday 12th September 2012
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wells said:
Dear lord, that is epic!

BBS-LM

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Wednesday 12th September 2012
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