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Old 08 April 2009, 01:53 PM
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Default The best sounding car of all time?
For me it has got to be this. Not the F40 thats on first but the F50 after it, you'll know what i mean

Gives me goosbumps every time i watch it...

YouTube - Ferrari F40 & F50 Fly By @ The Old Reims Circuit
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Old 08 April 2009, 01:58 PM
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Nope - here we go:

YouTube - Carrera GT Sound Compilation

Carrera GT.
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Old 08 April 2009, 02:16 PM
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Where's that Mclaren F1 LM sound clip when you need it!
 
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Nonsense: that Porker's just a manufactured noise. The F50 is the closest thing you'll hear to a road-going F1 car, which is esentially what it was (bored-out 1992 ex-F1 engine). I'd never heard one on full chat until today: it could wake the dead!
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This is pretty close to sounding like a F1 car

YouTube - Top Gear Pagani Zonda F Roadster Lap Time

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Mclaren F1 road car, would be my immediate choice too.

Though I would also like to counter with this.....

YouTube - EDO MC12 Corsa
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The CLK black series is my current favorite. The group B Audi quattro is music to my ear's and every other 5 pot I have heard is almost as good!
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Originally Posted by Andy M3
The CLK black series is my current favorite. The group B Audi quattro is music to my ear's and every other 5 pot I have heard is almost as good!
You'll love this then....

YouTube - Audi 90 IMSA GTO sound
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Old 08 April 2009, 02:37 PM
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On a more accessable level....a 355 with decent pipes takes come beating for £30K.
 
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Oh and if anyone mentions a 4-cyl engine of any kind they need to go away and think seriously about what they've said
 
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But I'm not keen on the F1 car sound - just a load of screeching to my ears.
AMG V8 Mercs do sound very nice indeed.

Wasn't mad keen on the inlaws 355 sound - again to screechy and always sounded broken (like some 911s).
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I personally think this takes some beating, becuase it,s not your usual MUSCLE car that most people would post on a thread like this.....



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These always impressed when I was a teenager:

YouTube - Lamborghini Countach LP500S
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Anything with a V12 is up there....
 
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Originally Posted by Pete
I personally think this takes some beating, becuase it,s not your usual MUSCLE car that most people would post on a thread like this.....



YouTube - Ford Sierra Cosworth RS 500 Norway
sounds like someone squeezing a weasel
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4cyl car FAIL as predicted.
 
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That I've heard in the flesh - SLR McLaren at full chat.
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Originally Posted by Nat21
4cyl car FAIL as predicted.

None sound much good but a Type R engine isn't too bad...
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Lambo V12.
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Originally Posted by Nat21
4cyl car FAIL as predicted.
Don't be soft

BDA ****

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Not sure if that Escort is the best-sounding: most 4 cylinders of that era sound(ed) like that in a high-state of rally tune. Noisy yes, but not special like a later V6 Metro 6R4.

An old family friend of ours used to have a competition-spec 450 bhp modified 1973 Ferrari Daytona. It was a wonderful brute of a car with flared arches and massively wide tyres and, best of all, side exiting exhaust pipes on each side! Needless to say it sounded like the coming of armageddon when he fired it up! Went well too.
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Turbo - that bloke must have been rather wealthy.

Remember seeing a Daytona Spyder (1 of 6 RHD - I have seen 3 of the 6) for £1.6m in the mid 80s!
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YouTube - Audi Sport Quattro E2 "The Sound"

That's the only car that literally sends shivers down my spine whenever I hear one
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Old 08 April 2009, 05:46 PM
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Some beauties here but i still love the F50
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Gotta be V8 or 12. Big Lambo, or Fezza.
Even that new Alfa coupe thing.

Monaro, Dodge Charger maybe?

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For me a V12 fezza or lambo but for a classic metro 6r4
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Couple for the F50 fans

YouTube - Ferrari F50GT....Turn up sound!!!

YouTube - Ferrari f50 gt1 dyno

Personal favourite

YouTube - Ferrari F40 Twin Turbo on a dyno

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These cars weren't really designed for the road except the XJS. Mazda 787B, Tom Wallkinshaws XJS and Hawthorne & Buebs race spec D Type.

YouTube - TWR Jaguar V12 XJS Always loved the sound of the Jaguar V12's (race and road engines)

Start up of No 1 TWR XJS race car @ Le Mans classic 2006

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RM2N...eature=related

Mazda 787b
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qjKZ...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1BWv...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PnTN...eature=related

The engine in this 787b, well i aint heard another engine similar to it magnificent.


A Trip along the Le Mans circuit with Mike Hawthorn in 1956

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Have a listen to this
YouTube - Fifth Gear Jaguar D-type 1955

BRM V16 and H16 brought tears to my eyes.The H16 has got to be a crowd stopping tool surely.

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YouTube - Corvette Dyno 00:37

one my fav's

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Sorry I love the sound of my 3 cylinder Charade GTtis

YouTube - Daihatsu Charade Gtti race car Manfield Session 1

Heres my car in action

YouTube - Works Daihatsu Charade GTti Rallycar

Love that 3 cylinder burble

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