Best sounding cars/engines

[Barry]

What are your favourite cars/engines in regards to sounds?

I love the sound of an Escort with a Millington Diamond engine. Especially when you're up close in a forest and can hear one echoing from a mile away. 

 

[brandan]

Chevrolet Corvette, I can identify it's screaming noise in my dream even...

[Danny]

Ford Mustang 05 - 14 Model after that it become more quieter and before that it was quiet rough.

[Gaurav]

Ford Mustang Shelby or Roush Edition - Stage 3.

Go to 1:42 Minute for exhaust note.

 

[treks]

@Technician should remember the old 3 liter Ford Essex V6 engines. Although they were primitive even by the standards of their day, they had a distinctive sound like no other engine.

They were hugely popular in Southern Africa when I was there, and everybody and his cousin had a "Big Six" built into anything from VW Kombi's, to Morris Minors,  Ford Escorts, and just about everything else in between. I personally hated this engine, but even I have to admit that apart from some modern V8's, there is still nothing to compare to the beautiful sound of a Big Six engine under full throttle.

Not that a full throttle meant anything- even the best tuned Big Six was hard pressed to do 170 km/hour with its silly four speed gearbox. Full throttle only got some meaning whith the arrival of five-speed gearboxes, but that destroyed the engine's exhaust note, and sadly, the terrible Big Six died along with it's raucous exhaust note. RIP.

Edited August 11, 2016 by treks
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[Barry]

@treks much love for the 3 litre Capri here. I restored a 280 Brooklands for a guy last year with the Cologne V6. I remember sitting in it when it was finished and just thinking, wow. Must have been something pretty special to own when it was new.