The streets of The Windy City will be filled with the roar of V8 engines when NASCAR comes to town this summer, but things are already loud at the Chicago Auto Show. Dodge brought its Charger Daytona ...

Fake exhaust notes are becoming a trend with carmakers recently. The trend started once sports cars became more and more silent as their platforms progressed. While customers who cared about cars with ...

COLUMBUS, Ind. -- Andrew Pontius, Faurecia’s chief exhaust engineer, sat in the front seat of a BMW 328i sedan. With his finger on an iPad touchscreen and one foot on the accelerator pedal, he showed ...

Engine sound has long been treated as a performance metric, a kind of acoustic dyno sheet that tells drivers how hard a car is working. As digital audio and electrification spread, engine sounds are ...

Listening to a tuneful engine note is one of the joys of driving a performance car, but it’s becoming increasingly harder for manufacturers to engineer great sound into their models. Ever more ...

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When it comes to defining a car's character, a crucial component lies in the engine sound. Whether it's an operatic Ferrari V12, or the burble from a Subaru boxer, there are certain sounds we identify ...

If your biggest complaint about electric cars is that they're too quiet — there's a fix for that. Or at least there's a fix if you own a Ford Mustang Mach E. The solution is speakers that make the ...