#Race car sounds driver#

Motorsport has and will always be the proving ground for automotive engineering-and if you’re looking to hear exhausts at wide-open throttle, you’ve come to the right place.

While I’m sure most of us can agree that the raspy tone of the E46 M3’s inline-six, the high-pitched V10 whine of an E60 M5, or the deep, guttural growl of an E90/2/3 M3 are music to our ears, nothing quite compares to the roars of the beasts that dominate racing tarmac.

#Race car sounds driver#

While removing your catalytic converters to increase air flow will certainly make your car louder, you won’t be making any friends with local law enforcement, the environmentally conscious, or the driver behind you in traffic, which is why street-legal, mass-manufactured models aren’t the best place to pick your favorite exhausts. For road-going models, exhaust noise is often suppressed by things like a silencer or packed muffler in order to conform to decibel limits and meet local noise regulations.

But this doesn’t mean that we can’t revisit some of the greatest BMW sounds of all time, straight from the track.īMW has engineered quite the menagerie of engines, from four-cylinder configurations all the way up to V12 designs, which means that we’ve heard a lot of different exhaust notes over the decades. BMW is entering a new electrified era, which means that (gasp!) our exhausts definitely won’t be getting any louder (especially if you don’t want the CHP to know where you live).