We get them with tuned big bore exhausts and remapped engines that snap and snarl to creat noise on gearchanges and overuns.

As you but its motorcycles that do most of the revving and a lot of wheel spins including look alike circus tricks, no doubt they will come a cropper soon enough.

yet we have a couple of V8 American cars around the corner but you only hear the purr of the engines as they pass the houses which I like the sound of....

There's a chap drives down my road that you can hear coming miles away. His vehicle is somewhat unusual in that it's a properly pimped up S5, garish purple paint job and bits of plastic stuck to it, although I'm fairly sure it does have a real V8 under the bonnet.

He drops his old mum off outside the flats opposite :)

Also I'm quite near the A4 in Chippenham where the road goes from 2 lanes to one after some traffic lights (Avenue le Fleche if you're familiar with the area). I get the impression it doubles as a drag strip for the local boy(?) racers.

I remember shopping in our local co-op a few years ago. As we left we heard a motorbike with a loud exhaust going past the traffic lights a few hundred yards away. A couple of coppers entering the shop asked us if we knew anything about the noisy bike. How could we? It was a few hundred yards away, we couldn't see the junction as we didn't have x-ray vision and we'd only just left the shop. f*****g i****s

I remember shopping in our local co-op a few years ago. As we left we heard a motorbike with a loud exhaust going past the traffic lights a few hundred yards away. A couple of coppers entering the shop asked us if we knew anything about the noisy bike. How could we? It was a few hundred yards away, we couldn't see the junction as we didn't have x-ray vision and we'd only just left the shop. f*****g i****s

Were you wearing biker gear and carrying skid lids?