The new M5 reproduces the car's engine sound via the in-car audio system. In other word, if you're sitting inside the car you not only hear the engine coming from outside, but also an audio track of the engine based on throttle input, speed, and engine revs. As BMW puts it, this makes for better feedback as you hear exactly what the engine is doing. Another obvious benefit is that it allows to change the noise levels based on your driving behaviour as the reproduction by the audio system gets louder and more intense in Sport and Sport+ settings.
Press release in gobbledy speak and videos
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my old Super-Minx used to sound like that, till i put a suppressor on the Distributor!
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If that isn't a wind up it is a another good reason for not owning a BEEMMMWWUUBBLLUUU.
Are you supposed to drive with the windows open to impress the pedestrians?
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Lotus cars have had a system to do the exact reverse for years; similar to noise-cancelling headphones but using the car's speakers to reduce perceived in-car noise.
www.lotuscars.com/engineering/en/active-noise-control-halosonic
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It's a windup. Only BMW drivers are dumb enough to want such a system.
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Someone on t'other side, yonks ago, pointed us to a system on ebay that plugged into the lighter socket and picked up the alternator interference to produce 4, 6, V8 or V12 sound.
I know someone with a Ferrari style bodykit on his MR2 was very interested in feeding the output through an amp to speakers audible from the outside.
I remember fitting a 'straight-through' silencer to my A35 in the '60s. It was cheaper than the standard replacement. Peco brand IIRC. Gave it a lovely 'ripping calico' note.
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>> I remember fitting a 'straight-through' silencer to my A35 in the '60s. It was cheaper
>> than the standard replacement. Peco brand IIRC. Gave it a lovely 'ripping calico' note.
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It was a screwdriver through the silencer when I was a youngster.
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>>It's a windup. Only BMW drivers are dumb enough to want such a system.<<
I look forward to what Sniffpetrol makes of this.
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>> I remember fitting a 'straight-through' silencer to my A35 in the '60s. It was cheaper
>> than the standard replacement. Peco brand IIRC. Gave it a lovely 'ripping calico' note.
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Me too!
In addition I fitted an anti-roll bar on mine + a very small wooden steering wheel.
Anti-roll bar - what a misnomer!
Very early one Sunday morning, I was going pick up a pal to go to Cadwell Park (a diabolically difficult circuit, by the way, in those days),.
I later raced my Mini there, so can speak from experience!
Coming down Smithy Row, in Nottingham City Centre, I applied hard left lock to pull up in front of the Council House. Moments later I was looking at the road about 6" away from my right hand side: more moments later the car came to rest upside down, in front of the left hand lion guarding steps to the Council House!
My pal was waiting and together we pushed the little, now sadly dented, car back on its wheels and went on to watch the day's racing.
Unfortunately a miserable Nottingham Corporation bus driver on early shift saw it all, reported me to the B.I.B and it cost me 3 points & £30 (much money then) for dangerous driving!
I had the little beast repaired, getting it painted in BRG with yellow wheels (Team Lotus - remember?).
Unfortunately (again!) a few weeks later I put it on its side in a ditch while pub-crawling in the wilds of Nottinghamshire!
My next car was a Mini!
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I've seen a front anti-roll bar on an A35, off a Spridget IIRC. The front of the sump had been cut off and re-fabricated to accommodate it.
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I would have been more impressed if it worked from an actual live recording of the engine at that time. In other words, hearing YOUR engine, not a synthesised reproduction of one in a lab somewhere.
Regardless of this nonsense, the new M5 is a thing of beauty in the flesh.
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Presumably you can still get them, bit of kit with an underbonnet speaker that simulates a turbo dump valve.
Words fail me too.
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How does your car sound ?? - devonite
