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I did once post that I would not want to drive a car that whirrs. Someone at Lotus reads this forum. Is there a knob on the dash marked "Aston Martin / Ferrari / Metro" etc?
JH
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I remember Jeremy Clarkson commenting on the Prius not particulary safe on built up areas over a year ago on TG.
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I first drove electric cars in the early 1990s - it was particularly noticeable that pedestrians had no idea that a car was approaching them.
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>>Is there a knob on the dash marked "Aston Martin / Ferrari / Metro" etc?
Maybe future electric vehicles will allow you to download and install different kinds of sounds, like ringtones.
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Maybe future electric vehicles will allow you to download and install different kinds of sounds like ringtones.
Be fantastic wouldn't it. Imagine being able to get one of a backfiring Ford Granada with knocking big-ends and a shot exhaust.
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Not an electric car, but I've just seen a chavved-up Vauxhall Corsa with bodykit and
two large transverse silencers and tailpipes mounted across the rear bumper! - presumably aping what TVR tried on one of their deadlier cars.
If we have quiet hybrids and electric cars, we'll get used to them be thankful they are quiet eventually.
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If one could download nostalgic vritual sounds for electric cars, what would be the most annoying when played at an acceptble volume? I always found the tinny whining sound made by older Renaults irritating. The noise made by Subaru Imprezzas gets on my nerves too, especially as so many have been made deliberately noisier by their owners.
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Dewy eyed visions of travelling up the road in my own 'Deltic', that'd make em turn and look in awe.
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Maybe they could make them sound like the old whizzy plastic gears sound on a scalextric car ?
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What they should work on is the sound of rattling milk bottles.
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