TVR Sagaris: those pipes have to go
The TVR Sagaris is to get a bit more conventional, it would appear, as its distinctive side-exiting exhaust are to go. Instead, they'll be replaced by conventional rear-facing tubes as par of the company's bid to break the European market.
The reason is that, as currently constituted, the music made by the pipes busts noise regulations wide open. By pointing the exhausts away from, rather than at, the microphones measuring the decibels in drive-by noise tests, the hope is that they'll help the car become acceptable.
The original Dodge Viper was forced to change to rear-exiting pipes for similar reasons.
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