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
New Reader
9/25/08 10:45 a.m.
That is why I drive a miata with the top down.
Jack
SuperDork
9/25/08 2:15 p.m.
Yikes, someone paid to learn this.
Jack
(sigh) Today's youth. They have to do studies to 'discover' what Brit car owners knew 50 years ago.
mtn
Dork
9/26/08 6:56 a.m.
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.
Hmmm, my beetle is louder then hell even if its just idolling.
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