Yeah I'm not into cars at all, but my fiance and his friends are. The same car I think is annoyingly loud, they will be trying to give thumbs ups and cheering for (none of them have loud cars).
On the other hand, they will clown on a car that's loud just to be loud. Usually this is if they don't have a muffler or some shit. That's comparable to putting cards in your bike wheel to go brrrrr. They want the loudness to represent a powerful engine.
Literally this, I don't see why people can't fathom thatThere *are** different groups of people with varying levels of 'loud' car which get lumped together which I understand.
I have a car which is somewhat louder, but growls a little when I put my foot down. It's quiet enough when I need it to be (parking up, driving through residential areas etc) but if I'm on the motorway, I can get a loud sound when I accelerate.
That loud noise for whatever reason releases some happy chems in my brain.
I am fully aware that not everyone (spoiler: most people) aren't fazed or even dislike it, but it isn't for them.
All of that said though, I do my best to be considerate because I am aware that my car can be obnoxious.
Edit to tack on: I'm not disputing that there are a lot of idiots who straight pipe the bottom of their old Corsa and think that they're the shit for driving what sounds like a tractor having a seizure. Folks like me and people like that however are not the same. I get the confusion though.
Same here. Car guys like to hear their cars. Assholes just like to be loud. My shit is loud if I get on it, so if I'm in a residential area, I just accelerate gently so as not to annoy people. But there are always assholes in any enthusiast group.
Not a muscle car lol. A fully deleted and straight piped diesel BMW X5. It's mostly just turbo whistle while cruising, but under load it gets pretty rowdy.
Ok. So it sounds exactly how it's supposed to sound because it has the power to back it up. Sweet car, btw. My uncle had a 2000 or 2001 model. They can get rowdy. Lol.
Yeah without the sound, being a diesel, it also wouldn't have the power. That engine really doesn't like a restricted exhaust. And thanks! I've owned a couple early 2000s BMWs as well. Always fun cars
Same. I'll coast at the highest gear I can without lugging the motor through residential areas. I'll stay below 3K RPM and try not to build too much boost when I'm in town. There's no drone, and you can hold a conversation in a normal tone inside. But, I also have the option to stay in the power band, full boost, with the exhaust screaming down the back roads if I want to. Even then, it's not even close to as loud as the straight piped boys that everyone fuckin hates.
I hate loud cars too, when it's a true, straight duals, 06 squatted Silverado, or a clapped 90s civic with a pep boys special fart can on it. If a Huracan or similar cruises by, I ain't gonna be mad about it. There's a difference between loud and obnoxious, and loud but tuned to be so.
What kind of car? My neighbor has a honda Sedan. He put a fart attachment to make it loud. It's stupid, and i hate it. Now, if it was 1970 Chevelle, I wouldn't be annoyed by the noise bc, at the very least, I get to look at a sweet ride.
I ride motorcycles, like motorcycle engines and their sound, it releases something happy in me....that said I do not like when I have to wear ear plugs due to the engine noise. I wear plugs on the highway due to wind-noise just over certain speeds it gets loud but some bikes like 30mph is too loud. Actually put exhausts on to quiet my bikes these days, straight-thru sounds good for a few minutes and feels fun to get more power but gets tiring quickly.
Also to me, I've noticed that engine noise in my brain kinda correlates to speed, when my 250cc bike is running at 65mph it feels like it's going fast as hell as the engine is screaming, my 800cc bike is quietly cruising at 65mph.
Just remember there’s a group of people EVERYONE here is forgetting:
Those of us who don’t give a shit if you have a loud car/truck or not. The sound enters in one ear and out the other, and no judgement is passed onto the driver one way or the other. We’re not impressed, but we’re not annoyed either. Definitely not full-blown, fuming angry like some in this thread. We just don’t care.
I think a majority of people fall into this group, but I could be wrong.
Drive whatever you want, however you want. Just drive safe and we’re all good.
But we don't get a choice. You like your loud car, fine, but I don't like the fact the your fun disrupts my peace. You want to make a bunch of noise somewhere I can't hear it? Go ahead, why should I have to listen to it if it's not for me?
It's the same problem we had with smokers, they have the right to smoke, but why shouldn't I have the right to breath smoke free air? That smoke isn't contained in your lungs, and that car noise isn't contained in your ears.
I appreciate that you seem to be considerate about it, just as I did when people were considerate smokers. But not everyone is, so you get painted with the same brush.
Exactly. Good manners is something that everyone should learn. If something you do creates a situation that others can't avoid then you should be the one to avoid creating that situation. Basically accept the fact that the world doesn't revolve around you. Be considerate of others.
Agreed, but half of the people here are complaining that loud cars exist in general. The only people doing that are teenagers, or someone in an emergency that didn't have another vehicle to take.
half of the people here are complaining that loud cars exist in general
Sure, but they wouldn't be complaining if the people, like yourself, we considerate about it. I doubt any of these "complainers" would tell people at a monster truck rally they their vehicles are too loud. It's all about context. There is a time an place for loud cars, trucks, etc. but it's not on a residential street with people trying to enjoy their backyard BBQ.
It is if it's daylight enough to be having a backyard barbecue. You, nor anyone else here, are the arbiters of what anyone else drives or how they drive it. That's life.
Yeah man, we should have decibel readers on every street corner, and we should arrest anyone that ever goes over the limit. Now we live in a perfect world. I'm glad you solved it.
I own a sleeper for a daily driver for that reason though. Cause I don't wanna rip off through residential areas but can still get rowdy when the situation calls for it.
There ain't no reason to hit your limiter at a stop sign at 4 am. Idgaf how much you love it there's a time and place. Residentials are never it and that's coming from a car guy.
Seriously, personally I just love hearing V8s roar. I grew up on a farm and lived in a house that had a huge V8 irrigation power unit screaming from a quarter mile away. I loved listening to it on the porch. There was no one for miles around to impress. Still can hear it actually lol
Yeah it’s so comforting to me. Just don’t open up in residential and in city areas. On a highway for a sec just to hear a road? I put up with everyone else’s bull shit all day they can deal with mine for half a sec. Not gonna not enjoy my stuff. Just don’t be an asshole is what we should really be looking for. Cause just like any hobby there are people who ruin it for everyone.
I think this is the right answer, much of the time. I remember being young and thinking this and it never once occurred to me what other people might think.
Exactly. Guys with vehicles like this haven't matured emotionally beyond the level of a 12-year-old to understand that how their actions impact others matters. Like, even if you think it is cool, why is it worth annoying hundreds of people every time you drive to feel cool? I feel like if these people realized how others are actually perceiving them, they wouldn't feel cool anymore, but again, they have no emotional intelligence.
Its not even a lack of awareness. I am aware that people might not like the noise, I just genuinely dont care. I put up with listening to normal people do stupid shit all the time, this is my stupid shit. Be as accepting of me as I am of you. Its really not that complex.
The only time I care about what other people think about the noise level of my car is the inspector to make sure it passes legal limits so I can continue to enjoy it. Past that, other peoples opinions matter zero
Generally? Existing. People are dumb and annoying.
Specifically? Those people that freak out over something that has nothing to do with them. Real HOA Karen types who let things like 5 seconds of noise ruin their lives and cause them to push their weird psych issues onto others.
Sure you can. The same way I'd laugh at people freaking out because it doesn't affect me at all, you could laugh at Harley dudes and move on with your day, thinking nothing of it.
The question was directed at people that didn't realise they were being assholes. In your case, you're fully aware of it so, I'd file that under lead poisoning.
I think that only partially makes sense. If it was a genetic survival imperative, you'd think they'd be more conscious of the noise they're making. Prey animals understand the spatial/auditory link between making too much noise and getting eaten by a predator.
You think humans are prey animals? We are apex predators. In this case, i would consider the loud car to be an example of a predator making noise. It’s a form of power. A statement to the world of fearing no one.
I wasn't suggesting humans are prey animals, It was just an example. There are also examples of predators understanding the relationship between making less noise and successfully ambushing prey.
It was just an example. It holds true for predators as well. They understand the relationship between making less noise and successfully surprising prey.
My car is bone stock so whatever. You can’t tell me someone with straight pipes and a crackle tune slow rolling through an urban outdoor dining area while bouncing off the limiter isn’t doing it for attention.
Rolling coal is entirely different from just a loud exhaust. There's mods the rest of us don't like too. Rolling coal and squatted trucks are stupid as fuck lmao
Yeah but who do you think the average person has in mind when they think loud vehicle? Some chode with a loud exhaust, rolling coal. Y'all get lumped in with those motherfuckers.
IKR? Most of the car guys are giving actual answers while a pretty decent chunk of the people who find it annoying are just replying with ad hominem arguments. Obviously, roaring through a residential area with an obnoxiously loud car isn’t a good idea, but it seems like some of these people just hate loud cars in general. Like christ, maybe learn to live and let live?
It’s not some overcompensation or sign of insecurity just because you find it annoying lol
I don't care if, or especially think that, it's overcompensation or a sign of insecurity. The issue is that it's obnoxious as hell and a clear sign of being an entitled prick.
Oh it’s definitely for many people that simple. That doesn’t make it acceptable though.
If I thought it was cool to blast bagpipes at absolute max volume, or blast airhorns all the time, etc - people would look at me like I’m a dick (as they should.)
But as soon as it’s car guys, suddenly they should get a pass for making a shitload of noise?
It doesn’t matter what the source of that noise is - whether it’s a car or an air raid siren - if you have actual control over the thing making the noise and you’re making that noise intentionally around other people who didn’t ask for it, you’re a dick. The end. Your thought process is irrelevant to the equation.
Right? I drive a loud car and every time I hear another loud car I get excited and check it out as it drives by.
It is funny when someone has a base model commuter car straight piped but I know they're having fun either way.
I think they know that most women find the loud trucks fucking annoying. It's like makeup. Just as much for the other girls as obnoxious cars are for the other boys.
Which comes back to they lack confidence in themselves (not cool enough to get sex) and think they need big loud machine to get female attention, in other words, they are overcompensating.
Yep, this. I built my exhaust from scratch because I like having bespoke parts, because it was fun, and because I could. That said, I am not a monster, the thing still has both cats, and I made sure to incorporate resonators and mufflers. Is it loud? Not really, not during regular commutes. But when the road opens up, and I step on it, and that bassy growl tickles me in all kinds of ways, reminding me that 400hp may not be all that wild, but still plenty to get me in trouble. Those are the moments which make all that work and time worth it. And in those moments I couldn't give a damn about what some idiot, putting along at 55mph in the left lane, thinks of my car, or me as a person.
It’s really that simple. It’s not some overcompensation or sign of insecurity just because you find it annoying lol
Having been on Reddit much longer than I'd like to admit (and longer than this account shows), this will never get through to most of the userbase here.
Nah, being interested in machines and how they work is a respectable hobby, but that is a different type of person. These types are attracted to loud machines the way moths are attracted to lights.
I think you're applying your personal reason as an answer, but my argument is that most of them really do it for perceived status and identity when, in fact, it's seen to the actual public as a virus to actaul producing members of society.
Your argument is a fabrication of your own projection. You are wrong. This conversation is like asking my dog what it thinks of my clothes. You have no idea what you're talking about.
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u/heyitsvonage 1d ago
For some guys:
Machine = cool
Big loud machine = more cool
It’s really that simple. It’s not some overcompensation or sign of insecurity just because you find it annoying lol