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  • GameboyRMH

    Sept. 25, 2008 10:32 a.m. GameboyRMH Dork

    On cars.

    http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/24/quiet-cars-speed-02.html

    Not news to me...Going 80kph in the Samurai feels like doing 140+ in the AE92, since it sounds like I'm skydiving in a sailboat that's being pelted with bowling balls.

    On the other hand, if one of the windows isn't closed up very tightly on the AE92, when I start to slip up to higher speeds I notice it quite easily with the whistling and howling noises.

  • moxnix

    Sept. 25, 2008 10:45 a.m. moxnix New Reader

    That is why I drive a miata with the top down.

  • Jack

    Sept. 25, 2008 2:15 p.m. Jack SuperDork

    Yikes, someone paid to learn this.

    Jack

  • Jensenman

    Sept. 26, 2008 6:23 a.m. Jensenman SuperDork

    (sigh) Today's youth. They have to do studies to 'discover' what Brit car owners knew 50 years ago.

  • mtn

    Sept. 26, 2008 6:56 a.m. mtn Dork

    I wonder if this will finally convince my dad that I need a (insert any LBC/miata/loud beater here)

    Ok... I have a loud, slow convertible in the summer.... but its not really mine.

  • Volksroddin

    Sept. 26, 2008 7:44 a.m. Volksroddin Reader

    Hmmm, my beetle is louder then hell even if its just idolling.

  • MiatarPowar

    Sept. 26, 2008 8:22 a.m. MiatarPowar Reader

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  • Apexcarver

    Sept. 26, 2008 10:31 a.m. Apexcarver SuperDork

    I think the exhaust on my mustang cobra made me drive slower for the most part...

    that plus getting the feeling that i had a bullseye painted on my car every time i drove by a cop

  • walterj

    Sept. 26, 2008 10:44 a.m. walterj HalfDork

    Loud pipes!?

 
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