The RS6 was the first car I had that did pops'n'bangs but only when you put it into sport mode. It had a performance exhaust yet was so quiet it was a bit boring so if you wanted to hear the PnB's you had to hit the sport button. At this point everything went rabid and it tried to eat numberplates off the cars in front if you twitched. On a black Audi estate I always felt a bit naff and so avoided using it. Maybe it was the fact that the car was so sober and the engine was so quiet that they stood out as childish and out of place.
The Aero Coupe with the dual side exhausts seems to do it a bit on overrun but not excessively, I quite like it on the Coupe as the car is different enough to get away with it.
If you put the ML63 into sports node it does it a little and it also seems to perform a blip of the throttle on change down at higher revs. On a lorry that size it actually makes me laugh as it is so out of place. Given the thing is so big and heavy I don't tend to do it very often. However the AMG engines make such a wonderful burble normally that a bit of additional PnB does not feel as out of place as the Audi did. It is also not quite as excessive as the Audi's.
From a smaller highly tuned carb fed engine I think it sounds brilliant. The Dolomite I raced had a hairy cam and twin 40's and I loved it for all the noises and bangs (from the induction not almost everywhere else on the car) and I could not get enough of it. However I was 22 and perhaps less thoughtful.
I dislike the over-wrought element of it being added to every mental hatch now, it seems to goad them into demonstrating it at every single opportunity.
