As a 70+ juvenile when out on the open road with not a soul within miles, the pops and bangs are very much a part of my enjoyment and sense of interaction with a machine of the type which I spent much of my life in, around and mostly under, the smells it creates along with ALL the noises, stains on my clothes and occasional skinned knuckles and many many memories over the years is so very much of the whole experience for me, and ever has been.
As a motoring enthusiast my ears have ever pricked up at the sound of something interesting, other than those likely to be emitted by some form of a mundanemobile. As for the undoubted efficiency and almost silent power output of high performance electric vehicles... Just not my idea of an involving drive at road legal speeds.. Each to their own of course... and I can well understand where an overly noisy exhaust can be a real nuisance to neighbours and the like. Fortunately my old +8 purrs like a kitten unless I step on the LOUD pedal, or partially jump off it while in the process of attempting rev matching when dropping a few gears in a hurry, just the sort of aural pleasure I get from watching vids of the Goodwood weekend etc.etc.etc.
