Same effect, but cheaper:
It reminds me of the Jeff Dunham routine where his puppet “Walter” is talking about Jeff’s Prius. Says it makes a sound as it drives by…
“I’mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Gay”.
So I guess with the BMW they can now add any sound-track you want…
Love Jeff Dunham. But I digress…
I’ll just RE-state my position on the subject.
Sound ?? dude, who needs sound …any sound. Think about it…
longer …
The entire automotive industry, since inception of the horseless carriage/automobile, has made it their repeated and constant challenge to make vehicles QUIET !!! And very successfuly at that .
– I have cars in this shop…
sitting hear idling…
that you have to see the tachometer to know they’re even running !
They’ve even painstakingly redesigned the tires for…
wait for it…
…
( shhh )…quietness.
I read about this in recent car european car mag articles. Personally, I think it’s silly. But I suppose it isn’t any sillier than Harvey Earl’s tailfins.
How about Yoko Ono singing as you drive, or yodeling accompanied by accordion? That’ll surely wake up any pedestrians and make them take notice, possibly even hearing-impaired ones. I can’t wait to hear the sound of an alcohol-injected, blown big-block V8 coming from a little hamster-powered Prius…
Wow virtual driving? Why drive at all? Just put the disc in and watch the computer screen while you sit in the garage. Pick any road you want and if you crash, just put a new disc in and start over. I’m starting to wonder about German engineers. Maybe its the German marketing genius? You’d think there would be someone at the meeting that would have the guts to put that idea on the bottom of the list.
It MUST have come from marketing or management. Any real engineer would cough up his dinner at such a suggestion. A few probably DID! Engineers are programmed to accept the real sesults of their designs/tests/experiments, altering the results by altering the design.The original Miata deaign team spent much time designing the exhaust to sound like an MGB. Salepeople are the ones who are programmed to manufacture a false perception. .