OT: Best sounding car ever?

[benb]

That 787b might sound good in the video, my experience IRL is that Mazda rotaries are pretty horrible to listen to at the race track.. the sound is almost painful compared to other cars due to the tone.

I'll take a BMW inline 6 or just about any type of V8 (cross plane/inline plane or whatever it's called) instead for nice sounds. Some Motos sound amazing too, Ducati V-twins, just about any V-4, etc... Inline 4 motos sound OK at the track but horrible out on the street IMO.

But the absence of sound of a Tesla is pretty nice too. When race cars fully switch over we won't have to build tracks in the middle of nowhere too.

[soulspinner]

Originally Posted by commonguy001

I'm partial to the old V10/V12 Ferrari F1 cars.
The sound used to put shivers down my spine and apparently still does as it happened again watching this clip.
Good times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvWxhhi0_yk

Yes

[MTB81]

One of my favorite (gotta love downshifts): Ferrari 430 Scuderia Novitec Rosso

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMo3pwyDNns

[pjm]

Porsche Carrera GT or Audi R8 V10. Both sound very similiar.....https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cVFkreHsTHI

[BrakeL8]

Lamborghini Countach
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFqslG0Axbk

[choke]

Porsche 917K - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkP5Svl16Qg

Originally Posted by seanile

Beast of Turin starting for the first time in over 100 years has my vote

That was my first thought....though I think this is the first time it was started.

[EPIC! Stratton]

Porsche 911SC (I'm partial to the 1980 and 1982 myself).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFamrDHwuRQ

[Spdntrxi]

Originally Posted by bthornt

One lap around Le Mans in a Mazda 787b in 2011, celebrating 20 year anniversary of the 1991 victory. Sounds so good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXvjzk3qaP8

As I have heard this car up close and personally in SoCal at an RX7 meet a few years back.. I agree

[crankles]

being from detroit, I was gonna go with the mustang, then the hemi cuda showed up...

but that Beast of Turin is
just, well, such an ape of a motor. Winner!

[slidey]

Originally Posted by commonguy001

I'm partial to the old V10/V12 Ferrari F1 cars.
The sound used to put shivers down my spine and apparently still does as it happened again watching this clip.
Good times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvWxhhi0_yk

Every so often, I find some flying lap videos of a qualifying/racing session, and play them as a soundtrack while doing some work.

Good times!

[Slow Eddie]

There has been some debate as to what car was actually used to make the film, or whether the engine sounds heard even belong to the same car, but the soundtrack to "C'etait un Rendez-vous" is right up there ATMO.

[Fishbike]

Ultegra hubs. . . .

[uno-speedo]

Group B rally cars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrlhepfy9-I

[paredown]

Originally Posted by Slow Eddie

There has been some debate as to what car was actually used to make the film, or whether the engine sounds heard even belong to the same car, but the soundtrack to "C'etait un Rendez-vous" is right up there ATMO.

Last thing I read (and repeated in a French documentary about the making of the film) is that the actual car with the camera mounted was a big Merc 450SEL, but they re-recorded the sound of Lelouch's Ferrari 275 GTB to dub the sound.

(Someone's posted the 'Making Of' video here--haven't watched it to see the quality: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9b7_1427148672 )

So that's my favorite too--V12 Ferrari...

BTW--anyone who had not watched this, should. I saw it way back on a 16mm print, and then my lovely wife picked up the DvD when it was re-released (we were in London and the guy from Spirit Films dropped it off!). Now on Youtube.

[Clancy]

My very first car, a '59 VW Bug, I was 16. Every time I turned the key and heard that little 4 cyc engine start up I'd almost **** myself.