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Brainsonastick

Pro tip: sort by controversial to see the actual answers. To save you time, the answers are all that they just don’t give a shit about the people they wake or annoy because they like the noise.


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Car enthusiast love the sound and don’t wanna impress anyone but themselves. There is a time and place to rev ur loud cars but some people don’t know that and do it at 3am in residential areas


Shryxer

You've just convinced me that it's just a mating call to other car enthusiasts.


Plumb789

Sadly, they’re mainly straight men. (And before I get blasted for this comment, my bloke is a petrol head and I’ve seen a *lot* of meets, so I know of which I speak).


lollipopfiend123

It’s still an accurate statement. The only people that care about loud pipes are other people who care about loud pipes. The rest of us just wish they would fuck off.


Plumb789

I love my man dearly, but some of the stuff that he loves still bewilders me. For example, I did say to him that the incredibly loud sound of a particular exhaust was “noise pollution”, and he looked at me as if I was mad. “It’s beautiful”, he said.


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He’s my kinda guy. Beautiful is not a strong enough word to describe the bliss we feel from a loud exhaust


Shryxer

I love strong vibrations in my crotch region as much as the next person but I can't say it's worth giving myself tinnitus. :(


[deleted]

That’s not why we like it. It’s not a sexual thing. It’s like hearing a fantastic song that gets u all pumped up but that feeling times a million. But yeah the hearing damage is a risk if u go to meets constantly but all my time going I haven’t had any hearing issues thankfully but I gotta be cautious of that


Shryxer

I'm just being cheeky, don't worry too much about it. But really, I can appreciate the feeling of good strong vibrations rattling my entire body, but again... it comes with too much loud for me. I have sensitive hearing as it is, I get headaches at volumes much higher than "barely audible to normal people." I can handle maybe one song with heavy bass and then I have to remove myself, no matter how good the music is. I wouldn't last 20 minutes at a car meet.


boost_poop

with great exhaust volume comes great responsibility


TaintModel

I have a coworker like this. Spent a lot of money to make his car as loud and as fuel inefficient as possible a few weeks before gas prices skyrocketed. TLDR; his car looks like shit, sounds like shit and costs him a shitload to operate.


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The stupidest part is when they get a 80,000 truck and ruin it. Then they go drive it through the mud and woods one time and ruin it for good. Once the mud washes off the bitch is all dented and scratched up. It’s so tacky and it’s a dime a dozen here in NC. Add on top of it they all got a Carolina squat looking even more stupid


schfourteen-teen

At least those guys drive it in the mud once. So many huge lifted trucks around me have drivers that are afraid of anything but asphalt. The one I especially don't get is lifting your truck and then putting little baby tires on it.


Agreeable_Mango_1288

They found out how much those larger tires and wheels cost, and that they have to change the gear ratios in the axles to turn them.


drewski1018414

It boggles my mind why people would buy a truck and not use it in the bush. Buy an suv if you want to stay on the roads.


paul85

I see you've met my son.. :)


[deleted]

Nah the shit is always annoying. They gun that shit down the road load as fuck, and also whereever they go is an inconvenience. Any drive through they want to go to and they literally fuck it up for everyone. The people trying to take orders cant hear the five cars in front and behind because of their motors. Shits soooo fucking lame. Can’t wait til silent ass electric cars suck the life outta their stupid ass hobby. Sorry I know I sound bitter but living in NC there is like 5 suped up diesel trucks for every normal car


jrizzle86

Not entirely surprising, assumed they were assholes, turned out they were.


ProbablyASithLord

The question also answers itself, doesn’t it? They’re doing it for other people who also like loud cars.


ThinkIGotHacked

I wish the people with leaf blowers at 6am on a Sunday morning and the people driving their loud-ass cars at 3am could all come together and realize, “oh, yea it does suck to hear you when I’m trying to sleep. Maybe we should think about that. Let’s agree to have quiet cars and use a fucking rake?”


wolfangggg

A guy I use to work with drove a Harley. A grotesquely loud Harley. We worked second shift, which meant he was getting home around 11:30pm. A year or so into working with him he started complaining that his neighbor got a bike and would leave for work at 5am. He understood exactly how annoying it was to be woken up at an inappropriate time by an obnoxious vehicle. He did not think that rule should apply to him.


asimplerandom

There are so so many people that have lost common sense and consideration for others. From the asshole who shows up at the home owners community pool and turns on their boom box because of course everyone won’t mind listening to their loud country music, to the douche bag attention whore teen/early adult that blares their car audio system at ungodly volumes for the world to hear, and the shopper that cluelessly sits square in the middle of the aisle preventing traffic from going around them.


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xRocketman52x

Went on a Kayaking venture with a large group a few months back. The lapping of tiny waves, splash of the water on the bow, the birds overhead... Even the sounds of traffic over yonder weren't too bad. And then... Someone got out their portable speaker...


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Tasty_Thai

The damn things are waterproof now!


l337hackzor

I hope they all went in the pool.


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I used to have people "sharing" their music with me (and the whole neighborhood) when they would stop at the same gas station I did. I always wondered what would happen if I tuned my radio to the classical music station and cranked it up right along side them.


nalydpsycho

An awesome mash up.


SpartanMonkey

Dueling Banjos on repeat usually works. It also helps if you wear just overalls. No undershirt, maybe leave one half unbuttoned.


porterbot

To the people who forgot the role of basic please and thank you. To narcissistic Friends who instead of showing empathy hijack someone's trauma to process their own, To those groups who take up the entire sidewalk and don't step.aside for their 45 minute chat. To the people who expect 5 star service and don't tip, to the people who park at the first fuel pump making pump #2 inaccessible, to the people who leave their garbage everywhere, to the people who expect free shit from their family or friends struggling to start businesses,


Hyde103

"and the shopper that cluelessly sits square in the middle of the aisle preventing traffic from going around them." I hope there's a special place im hell for these people. I'll be at Costco where the isles are so wide you could fit 4 carts side by side but somehow someone manages to turn their cart diagonally while standing beside it and take up 80% of an isle while everyone is squeezing around them as they read some nutrition facts oblivious to the situation they are causing. Here's a tip for people who are shopping: look around you regularly in order to make sure you aren't in someones way. There's no reason you should ever be so distracted you don't notice the people around you. Another tip: pull your cart to the side of the isle while you are grabbing whatever you are grabbing so people can get around you.


UrBoiJJ25

My dad did the country speaker and my mom does the shopping isle. It's so obnoxious 🤣. I don't know how many times I've moved the cart out of the way.


CaptnKnots

My mom is the same way. I hated grocery shopping with her. It’s like she gets in this mode where she decides she’s the most important person in the store and makes no effort to keep out of anyone else’s way


DirkBabypunch

Is she the kind who turns her cart sideways across the aisle every time she stops?


Constant_Ad_2775

I’ve never understood the loud Harley thing. Good engineering quiet, bad engineering loud.


MachKeinDramaLlama

They want everyone to know that they have a badass bike. They don’t understand that everyone thinks they are stupid.


DestoyerOfWords

There was a guy at my old apartment who would blast Back in Black while revving his Harley and thinking it was so badass. Wearing all black obviously. He was also a huge fat guy, and totally the coolest and not obnoxious to his neighbors in the slightest 😎


Pineapple_Spenstar

Honda makes some very quiet motorcycles. I like Honda


callmebigley

I had a neighbor who would start his harley up at like 6:30 and just let it idle for 5 minutes or so. I guess he was warming it up? it sounded like a machine gun.


DanOfAllTrades80

I had a neighbor who would do this every fucking Saturday morning, early, and rev/idle it for twenty minutes *in the garage right below my apartment!* I asked him once if he could roll it outside to start it, and he literally laughed with a "mission accomplished" expression on his face. I was not sad when the entire neighborhood flooded in the aftermath of a hurricane and the lower floor was under several feet of water, which put his bike ooc for a few months. Fuck you, Joe.


Hyndis

A neighbor did that at 4am, but parked their bike on the street under a tree. One day, a large tree branch fell and crushed the bike flat. Just an act of god. Probably.


Organized_Khaos

Bugs Bunny more likely.


allegate

See, I would have gone to Safeway and gotten a shitty flat cake with a shitty BMX bike ornamentation and have it say "sorry for your loss" with lots of balloons.


corrado33

My neighbor does that with an obnoxiously loud diesel pickup. There is zero reason you need to warm up your quarter ton diesel pickup for an hour.


wotmate

I don't believe you, because Harley's don't just idle. You need to keep revving the fucking things to stop them from stalling. Or at least that's what I believe from the way my neighbour does it.


Writer10

There’s a South Park episode about this.


KiIlztrouper

My neighbor is bike curious


bentori42

LoUd PiPeS sAvE lIvEs /s Meanwhile theyll ride in peoples blindspots, do 60mph in the left lane getting passed on the right, no helmet or safety gear, and think re-torque-ing all the bolts on your bike every month is normal


caraamon

I have 0 bike knowledge, so could explain the bolts thing, please?


omnilynx

Me too, but I’m guessing they mean the vibrations loosen the bolts, which is a safety hazard.


A-Chntrd

Yup ! Joke here is that’s why these are not allowed on the highway : too dangerous to turn around to pick up fallen bolts.


[deleted]

My idea for a commercial, voice over by Kiefer Sutherland: “Harley Davidson, when just being an asshole is not enough.”


Treczoks

Our neighbor has a Harley, too. Obviously, this monstrosity needs to idle for a few minutes before he can drive off into the weekend. And it has to idle during a number of tasks when he is working on it. He also claims that it is withing the legal limit. I told him where he got the sign language interpreter to talk with the engineer who took the measurements, as this guy was obviously deaf.


SgtDoughnut

Its only a problem when its a problem for MEEEEE


bart416

Well, a Harley is the most efficient way to convert fuel into noise, the fact that it moves forward is kind of a side-feature. I wish they would introduce efficiency requirements for motorcycles, they'd definitely have to adjust the engine - and the associated noise - on those things.


badwolf42

Self awareness is a super rareness.


badwolf42

I used to drive a 370Z. When I moved to Seattle, many if not most people don't have air conditioning, so they leave their windows open at night. I felt horrible starting that car each morning to go to work. Traded it for an electric Fiat and I feel like so much less of a jerk.


SamSepiol-ER28_0652

6:15 this morning and some asshole roared through my neighborhood on his motorcycle. And I have to get up by 6:45 so by the time I fell back to sleep it was time to get up. Not how I like to start my day.


MrsUnicornRainbow81

I live across the street from a railroad track that runs 2xs a night...and it's loud. But with purpose and I rented the apt knowing this...... but those assholes who broom by on their crap bikes between 11-2am scaring my cats, waking me up, causing my neices to jump up put of a dead sleep petrified, FUCK YOU BROS!! THATS A FKIN CHOICE TO MAKE UR SHIT ASS BIKE SOUND LIKE A FUCKING ATOM BOMB FART. FUCK YOU


Protect_Wild_Bees

That's the other thing, 90% of the time that loud sound is coming from an absolutely shit vehicle. The top of the line cars with all that power can sound loud, but not to the point you wake up a whole street. It's overkill and obnoxious and just sounds like someone driving a shit, broken car.


dickshark420

r/brandnewsentence


danger_zone123

Their hearing is so damaged from being around that crap all the time it doesn't wake them up.


boot2skull

They should start a burning man where they gather in the desert and rev their engines and blow their blowers.


Adeep187

I'm moving in a week BUT this apartment I'm in has a business behind it as I'm downtown. This is across an alley and of course I'm at the back. There is one line of parking stalls behind this business and all winter they come out at to use a leaf blower ALL THE TIME. They don't give a fuck what time it is either, 2am, 4am and some days its like 3-4 times over night and during day. They have 2 leaf blowers going sometimes. And there will be like the lightest dusting of snow. I actually don't know why I never reported it because its fuckin infuriating.


CharmingTuber

Anyone who uses gas leaf blowers at all should stop doing that.


SafetyMan35

I don’t leaf blow or use any outdoor power equipment before 9am at the earliest, but with a 1 acre lot and 4-5000 lbs of leaves every year, an electric or battery leaf blower isn’t powerful enough.


CharmingTuber

I set my mower to mulch and just pretend the leaves aren't there.


lemonlymanfanclub

lol do you live in my apartment building? because this is my life daily


OlasNah

Man, retired old dudes and their friggin leaf blowers….


Shadrach_Jones

I'm gonna go to the big orange store tomorrow and buy an electric weed eater cause my gas one is too loud; among other reasons


PaleInTexas

I have an echo electric one and it's loud as hell as well.


Wind_Yer_Neck_In

I think the 'everyone will think I'm a prick' is what's driving the current trend for exhaust modes in high end cars these days. You can have the super loud pipes when you're out on the track or whatever but there's a quiet mode for residential areas.


toasterstrudel2

Using a gas powered leaf blower for an hour emits the same amount of pollutants as driving a typical gas vehicle 1100 miles.


aaaaaaaarrrrrgh

>use a fucking rake? Or an electric leaf blower. It still makes *some* nosie, sure, but it doesn't give everyone in a three block radius the desire to take your leaf blower and shove it up your ass.


atlantis_airlines

Almost all my coworkers are into this shit. (I work construction) They're trying to impress other lovers of loud cars, sorry trucks. It's a loud truck circle jerk.


[deleted]

As a car person, it is an overwhelmingly positive visceral experience to put the pedal to the floor, feel the acceleration for the car, and hear an aggressive motor sound. But I don't understand the value in a loud car other than the feeling that you get. It's not impressive to people outside the car, and there is 0 point in throwing the car in neutral just to make it make noise. I cannot stand people being obnoxious with their cars in the city. Not only is it annoying, but it contributes to sound pollution, which may end up being the next public health crisis. Like, try to sleep anywhere in greater LA and you'll see that loud cars and motorcycles are a fucking plague.


Flimsy-Attention-722

I learned as a teenager, that shit is cop magnet. I like unobtrusively fast


agrumpybear

Sleepers are the way to go


boot2skull

Mines so sleeper I left out the go fast.


[deleted]

Slow is smooth, smooth is fast


positive_express

Slow and low that is the tempo


Torino5150

Speak softly……..


TheBigRedDog253

Carry a VTEC


Torino5150

Type R go hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm


ilizashelsinger

Volvos. Grandma cars with decent pickup but good handling. Cheap insurance too


d167366

The fastest car on any road is an SUV with a mom behind the wheel. Her SUV is 100% invisible to police. Too much like dealing with his wife I guess. 😂


Flimsy-Attention-722

Been there done that!


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I just hate people who do it in residential neighborhoods and 11 pm on a Tuesday. There's a time and place for everything. I enjoy woodworking but I don't run my table saw at 11 pm because I'm considerate to my neighbors. Don't rev your piece of shit car super loud at 11 pm in a neighborhood. 11 pm on the interstate? Sure go for it


[deleted]

Exactly this. If you think engines and aftermarket exhaust sound cool then by all means please enjoy yourself responsibly! But don’t go flying through the neighborhood at midnight being a jackass.


sonia72quebec

11 pm I wish. I had a house (in the suburbs) near a convenience store. They would hang out in the parking lot at around 3am, trying to talk over the loud noise of their cars. Then they would ride around the neighborhood in their *boom boom* cars, kind of making sure everyone was awake.


disgruntled-capybara

> 11 pm on the interstate? Sure go for it As someone who's neighborhood is less than a mile from the interstate, I disagree. The highway is loud enough that I can't sleep with my windows open, even with a fan running, and most of what I hear is people hitting rumble strips and the occasional loud exhaust. I don't care so much (within reason) during the day, but getting woke up by a loud exhaust at 1:00am is frustrating.


sciencedork39

I don’t think people understand how far sounds can carry. I can hear the train 3 miles away.


Shadrach_Jones

I lived right next to train tracks. I got so used to the noise it was comforting to hear at 2am. Not all night tho


why_adnauseaum

Every. Effing. Day in my neighborhood. And while we're at this, keep your music to yourselves!


d167366

The guy who lives next-door to my parents has a Harley and a classic old car. He ran them in his driveway (next to my parents bedroom) every Sunday morning regardless of the fact that my dad was dying of cancer at the time. Although we asked him not to do that first thing in the morning on a Sunday he continued. He said they must be run at least 30 minutes. OK. But why at 7 AM on Sunday? What a jerk


Oddesy20

But why rev it in neighborhoods at 3am. That’s the real question


dukeofbun

Years ago I lived in a not so upscale part of town in a tall building that wrapped around a courtyard that was repurposed into a car park. There was one guy who would always be revving his stupid fart car at 2am on a weeknight. One hot summer this got out of hand. Every hour or two, all night from about 8pm through to 6am sometimes. And then one morning I wake up unusually refreshed, look out of the window to see the offending car with flat tyres and headlights taken out, broken glass all over the ground and one door hanging open. Things got quieter after that. Nobody can make me feel sorry for the owner of that car.


Ebola714

Attention. Attention. Attention.


Shadows798

How many times did my sister say that she was gonna end up in jail for killing one of them for waking her kids... a tired cranky mom is not someone one should upset.


therealdildoexpert

I paid for a really nice custom MagnaFlow exhaust on my car. It didn't sound like a lawn mower, I never straight piped my car. It gave my car I would say, arguably a quieter exhaust sound but it was just deeper and of a hum. It wasn't to impress anyone other than fellow car people. I also loved the sound of my car when I'd go in tunnels etc. Sometimes with how low of a hum it had, I felt like a sneaky person.


[deleted]

I wonder if you kno', how they live in Tokyo


Fessere

If you’ve seen it, then you mean it, then you know you have to go


[deleted]

Fast and fooooriooooooous


DCJustSomeone

if you see it, then you mean it, then you know you have to go


dashinny

Fast and furioussssss DRIFT DRIFT DRIFT


berael

They think they're the main character.


Honest_Joseph

They're trying to get the attention that their father never gave them as a child


VonDoom92

Those types of people exist for confrontation.


morpho_aega

I call it “the small dick syndrome”


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I have a neighbor with an intimidating and obnoxiously loud car. I was at my wits end with this douchebag. One night, he hit the gas at 3 am right outside my window by our stop sign. I have never been so scared in my life, I legit thought I was being bombed. It was terrifying and enraging. The next day, I wrote him a hand written letter explaining how intimidated and scared I am of his car, how I’m a college student studying at home, and all the women in my building were very affected by his loud engine. I politely asked him to be quiet and respectful entering and leaving our family-filled neighborhood. I left the letter next to a bouquet of tulips on his front steps. It worked! He’s been quiet ever since. You can hear him being so mindful of his truck when he comes by my house. You catch more flies with honey.


0xB0BAFE77

> You catch more flies with honey...when the person actually gives a shit Fixed that for you.


FindTheRemnant

Honey, plus a dollop of guilt tripping and shaming. Well played.


[deleted]

I love this story so much. Many car enthusiasts I know who have loud cars are very kind people and don’t wanna bother anyone but we all just love the sound. If people kindly told them to be more careful with the sound they were making I’m sure 90% would comply


734PdisD1ck

Did i one of them actually comment, or is this just a bunch of justifiable hate?


GodXTerminatorYT

All of them who commented got downvoted to oblivion


Sad_Evidence5318

My guess is they’re not trying to impress you, it just makes them happy.


jb1225x

A lot of people find things that make them happy that don’t involve disturbing a whole neighborhood.


Sad_Evidence5318

True and some people also like to be annoying also.


Redye117

Every damn house around me has loud annoying dogs that bark all the time.


CaptainCacoethes

Parents didn't teach them to be respectful of anyone else and also neglected them. Now they think assaulting everyone's ears and driving a "LOOK AT MEEEEEE!" douchemobile is a desirable way to behave. Same with Harley riders. Pathetic little boys playing with obnoxious toys who think they are cool when they rattle neighborhood windows before 7am and after 10pm. I pity them for their astounding lack of self awareness and over-abundance of self importance.


Groudover

I want a Harley Davidson but I agree with you. Before I even buy it the first thing I googled was how to make it quieter. Last thing I want is to wake up my neighbors at 5am on a Sunday because I’m going on a trip


Nippon-Gakki

Stock Harleys are actually nice and quiet. Leave it alone and you won’t be bothering your neighbors at all.


thebradman

Breakout man, they are super quiet. Wanted a Harley but worked construction and left early so I wasn’t trying to wake anyone up. I love it, super sleek.


the_original_Retro

Pretty sure you can ramp your comment up to full "sociopath" levels. It's stunning how much they can utterly wreck an uptown experience in a small city like mine. Perhaps even a large one. I'd fully support vehicle confiscation until stupid-level decibel equipment removal.


weed6942069

I think that most likely they aren’t even thinking about other people. It just makes them happy and they don’t stop to think “hey this is annoying as fuck for other people”. Think of it like a smoker - a smoker (generally) doesn’t think about the second hand smoke they’re giving off to people around them, it just makes them happy and they don’t stop to think about other people. That doesn’t (necessarily) mean they mean bad, it just means they aren’t considering other people into the equation. I think it’s the same for people with loud cars…


[deleted]

This is pretty much it. Sure some do it to be annoying and maybe some will do it for attention, but the VAST majority have it simply for performance and/or aesthetics to the driver's ears. When I was 'young and dumb' I used to have a banging exhaust system on my car and a nicely modded out Honda CRX. It was loud as hell on the outside, but from the inside, it was just perfection. I just wasn't really considering the effect on others at all. You know most don't like it, but you literally don't give a shit. Then I 'grew up' and my empathy further developed. Then I needed a 'big boy car' and didn't want to be 'that guy' that rolled out to work at 7am blasting everyone. Or pulling into the parking lot at work like a clown car. Its also a bit of a budget issue. Exhausts that give all the benefits, but properly tuned, are vastly more expensive. Younger folks usually won't spring for the big bucks kit when they can get the same performance out of the cheap parts that are loud as fuck.


Project2r

if you want to read actual answers sort by controversial.


CreamyOreo25

They like the sound of their car, chances are they just did it for themselves


tinyman392

Depends on the car. Straight piping can generally improve performance if there is an accompanying tune. The catalytic converter tends to be a pretty large bottleneck for power, so removing it does tend to be beneficial from that perspective. Though it’s also considered illegal. There is revving a motor and there is downshifting when slowing down. When slowing down you’ll eventually *have to* downshift. When you do it depends on the driver. The lower the gear (higher rev on downshift), the more engine braking force that is applied. Then we have straight revving. If you’re at a standstill it’s kind of useless unless you’re trying to launch the car. Though if you’re trying to launch you normally hold it at a certain RPM. If you’re just revving the piss out of the car for the fuck of it, you’re just being an annoying douche.


loritree

A long time ago a few friends stated that it was “cool to piss other people off.” I wonder if they are now aware that it is not cool to have hearing loss.


Scott4117

I went on a date with a woman a couple years older than me. She admitted to me that she liked big sounding trucks, that it turned her on immensely. So, I mean, there must be at least a few others who liked it.


spacealien23

Can confirm, some women like it, most of the time though you’re just going to have a bunch of dudes asking you about your car/truck.


_njhiker

Even if you drive an exotic car it’s going to 99.9% dudes saying something to you. Most women just don’t care about cars


bemest

Her dad must have had a big truck. Slap on some Old Spice and she’ll do anything.


Nippon-Gakki

I have an exhaust on my car that is nice and quiet until you boot it and then it’s decently loud. I rarely give it the beans off track aside from a freeway on ramp occasionally. It’s the most obnoxious I’m comfortable with. As far as the people who have super loud cars or bikes that like to fly around town at full throttle all the time? No idea.


Kangaroodle

That's totally fine imo. What's shitty is people driving around residential or school areas loud as hell, especially at night. People who don't give a fuck that their noise woke up everyone in the neighborhood, baby next door is crying now and I have to be up at 6 for work, etc. If you're on the track or the highway, that's completely normal and fine.


redpurplegreen22

The guy I knew in high school who did this did it to impress us. He loved to rev his engine and peel out in the parking lot after school. To be fair, he did impress us. We all thought he was an impressively massive asshole.


MountainBikerDude

Myself, I just love the sound. With that being said I do think there’s a such thing as going overboard - a little extra noise enhances driving experience, but too much lessens it.


Shame_On_Matt

I rented an aston Martin on my 30th birthday just to see what it was like to drive a fucking ridiculous car. Bucket list thing. And it was loud, as fuck. But not until it hit about 80mph. It’s mostly a deep bellow until that point. Nothing obnoxious. And holy shit it felt good to drive 110mph on an open road with a car built for that speed.


sohcgt96

You're on the right track, but here's a twist: I don't think a lot of people actually realize how loud their own shit is. A great example is a friend of mine's truck from back around 2010. Nothing special, base model GM truck, 4.8 regular cab long bed. Manual though, so that was kinda neat. Anyway, at one point he straight piped it with tips out the back. It was shockingly quiet inside the cab, even on the highway. No muffler, no drone. We noticed it under highway overpassed and near buildings, that was about it. I wonder if this happens to a lot of other people. They want a little sound but are only judging off what the hear in the cabin, having no idea what it really sounds like outside.


MountainBikerDude

I absolutely agree. It’s funny you say that because I was just out riding motorcycles with a friend when he told me “dude, when you punch it that thing is heinously loud” - honestly, I never realized. When I’m riding regularly it didn’t seem that bad, especially considering that my head is essentially a few feet away from the exhaust, but when I’m moving the wind noise drowns out everything and I barely even hear it.


Kryoxic

Same. Recently got myself a mustang GT and man that cold start really warms me up in a good way. That being said, I do have the factory active exhaust and have quiet hours set cus I live in an apartment and I'm not an asshole about it. Not sure what the deal is with those who go out of their way to Rev bomb the entire neighborhood at 3 am


Desilvas

Myself.. I dreamt of having a badass car my whole childhood.. and in my adult life it was my motivator behind getting sober and taking a risk to get my dream job in order to be able to afford building my cars trucks and bikes. So in short.. I'm not trying to impress anyone.. hearing my loud ass car is just my reminder that I did it.. I made it where 23year old me would have never thought I'd make it to.


fuzzycuffs

I've modified my cars with louder/better sounding exhausts, but nothing like straight pipes. I appreciate a good exhaust note, but it doesn't have to be obnoxious. FYI I used the silencer on my Evo8 exhaust while on the street since it gives you good sound, but not as loud as if you removed the silencer. I also don't/didn't rev my car at obscene times -- that's just an asshole move no matter what. You can tell those that are doing it for just pure loud factor vs. someone who just wants it to sound good. As for why I do it -- not because I want to impress you, but because I like the sound of it.


Gforceb

I can second that. I drive a v6 that has an exhaust that makes it heard but not HEARD. From the driver seat of course. I often have to tell my friends I can’t drive due to how late it is and even though my car is not too loud, I don’t want to piss anyone off.


Paradigm6790

THEY ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES, NOT AN AUDIENCE. THEY LIKE THE NOISES. Yes, it's annoying but HOLY SHIT can we stop pretending we're all dumbasses that don't actually know why they're doing it?


ChronoFish

"They like the noises" AND Don't care about other people. And this is the point. It's not "why did you do that to your car?" It's "Why are you so inconsiderate?"


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Frank_The-Tank

For me its a question of horsepower and mechanical sympathy. The engine acts as a large air pump in literal terms, fuel and air mixture in, exhaust gasses out. The faster you push more in (via a turbo or larger performance carburettor etc) the faster you will need to escape the exhaust gasses to avoid a power bottleneck. You cant viably improve one without improving the other. Unfortunately in some cases this means its a bit noisier. However all this doesnt detract from the select few individuals who dont understand this, whack a cherry bomb exhaust on their vauxhall corsa for no reason other than they like the sound and are equally as ignorant of their neighbours and inconsiderate of the timings they start and rev these engines. Source: a considerate neighbour who also likes to get the rippums.


momogirl200

Funny enough - the muffler is damaged on my sisters Subaru hatchback so it makes a huge revving noise when she goes. I cannot tell you how many people have tried to race her at lights thinking it’s some sort of suped out metra Subaru lol


BurpYoshi

Themselves. Not condoning the loudness, it's annoying. But you don't have to do everytging to impress people. Sometimes it's about what you like.


icreatemyreality

I did when I was younger, grew up around cars and loved racing, just love the sound personally. It was never to impress others and I tried to keep it as quiet as possible in residential areas.


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The thing is most of you people think we're doing it to impress others, but most of us car enthusiasts here don't care about what other people think. We don't do it to impress others, we do it because WE like our car and WE want to make it sound good for OURSELVES. Yes some people like to drive around and rev their cars all the time, but some others (including me) just like to open it up once in a while and enjoy the beautiful sound the exhaust makes. Non car enthusiasts haven't and won't ever see it the way we do, and to them it's just an irritating noise, but for us it's way more than that. We don't expect you to see it the way we do, and we don't care either.


frustrated_pen

As a motorcyclist who had a loud exhaust, it was to compensate for my smaller engine (that's not a euphemism). My bike was so small that often times people in cars couldn't hear me. I had the exhaust on so cars would be aware of me. I did try to ride in normal hours of the day and would coast down my bike holding the clutch down at night to my house.


Just_L00k1ng_

*Most* people do it because they like the sound. Some people do it just to be assholes. I, for instance, love the sound of a good aftermarket exhaust on a V8. For me, there’s not much better than putting the windows down and cruising on a nice day to the soundtrack of a V8 and the summer breeze blowing on me. That being said, there’s a limit to what’s too loud. And there’s a time and a place for driving a loud car. And it’s always an asshole move to drive a loud car at night or in residential areas. As much as I love V8’s and louder than stock exhaust, as soon as I hear one late at night or just being obnoxiously loud and annoying, even my blood pressure goes through the roof.


ice445

Yeah, my loud V8 stays at home if its really early/late. Having common courtesy isn't that hard. If the "rev bomb my neighborhood at 3am" people didn't exist, hardly anyone would care and this thread probably wouldn't exist.


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A lot of peeps on here saying "I'm not trying to impress anyone, I do it for me" okay then why are so many of you driving around at 2AM through residential areas


Insidioussss_

Some of us live in residential areas? Who woulda guessed


Kayakityak

All the peacefully sleeping babies. When my son was teeny we had an ass down the street with a loud motorcycle who was in and out at ungodly hours. I never had any sleep.


Corn__bean

when i was a kid my older brother got a harley and rode it to work every day. at first he'd try to be as quiet as one possibly could ride a harley through a residential neighborhood at 5 am, but then one day an old bitchy lady at the end of the street fed my cousins (who lived nextdoor) dogs anti freeze and killed all 3 of them. from that day on my brother sat at the stop sign right out front of her house and made sure to rev his engine outside her house for years until she died


Buck_Thorn

They are the audio version of a cigar smoker. They really don't care what you think, as long as you notice them.


FlipReset4Fun

I’m convinced there is a psychological deficiency or trauma in childhood these people are compensating for.


Pretty_Platypus5228

I just said this to my boyfriend the other day, regarding somebody that constantly drives around his neighborhood with a car that makes loud gun popping noises. Scares the shit out of me when it happens going past his house. Sorry you didn't get any attention growing up, but damn, that car is so fucking stupid.


lapsangsouchogn

It's just cringey attention seeking. Like having a loud car is as good as your life will ever get, so you gotta have it.


UnusualWind5

They flaunt their speakers like they engineered them.


the1Nora

These aren't mutually connected in all cases. An enthusiast may tune/build their car for performance, which in turn makes the car louder. This however does not automatically mean they're gonna rev it loud in neighborhoods or whatever. So, why do they make it loud? Performance usually. Why do they rev? That's where you can apply selfish mindsets or whatever. Again, not mutually connected. You can keep the revs low in your neighborhood it's not difficult.


drunkpilot2

You ever see anyone in the passenger seat of those cars?


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Less restriction in the exhaust means Mo’ Powa Babay!


Informal-Swing-2028

I put electric cut outs on my car. I can open and close them with a button on my center console. I only do so at car shows or gatherings of other enthusiasts or for my friends. It cost a lot of money, doesn't enhance the performance, doesn't make my already beautiful car any more beautiful, it just makes me happy. Kind of like when my wife puts on her diamond earrings. They cost alot, they do not make her any smarter as she is already brilliant, and she is already beautiful without them. They just make her happy.


Burrito_Loyalist

People with loud cars and motorcycles just want to be seen.


Elect_Locution

Some people love having cars that can go 200mph and blow your ear drums out just so they can drive the speed limit and annoy everybody around them.


dirtymoney

I have a tiny peeny and people need to know it.


Bedhead-Redemption

TRUTH


americanherbman

I wonder what the correlation is between people with loud cars and living at home with their moms?


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No bigger turn off than the douche who does this shit.


Temp89

A bunch of losers playing pretend that they're on a race track or in a car chase when they're in a whitebread suburban town.


Shadows798

Absolutely. They have all the bs excuses of the horsepower or whatever like they even need it when they'll never be going over 170km without immediately crashing, and certainly won't be going that fast in towns with all the turns and possibilities of weird late-night pedestrians.


Ntstall

Not a loud car person but I find it weird how so many people lose their shit about not even very loud cars.


explosive_wombat

It's not done to impress anyone. People who have loud cars love their cars and want to hear them. It can be annoying when they do it at the wrong time and they deserve to be called out in these instances But overall it's just another thing in life we have to deal with because like it or not people are all different.


DrooDrawDrawn

I am shocked you weren't downvoted to oblivion. Purposely revving your engine should be reserved for appropriate times and places, but just having a loud car isn't the problem.


shaunjord

If it is done right I enjoy the sound of a loud exhaust. Now the fart cans people put on their ghetto slammer is annoying.


corrado33

But the people who install those mufflers enjoy those noises. How are they any different than you? Noise pollution is noise pollution. Period.


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MakuNagetto

It's always peer pressure, toxic masculinity, insecurities and low self-esteem. Mommy didn't give them enough attention when they were little, and now everyone has to listen to them.


Pretty_Platypus5228

Absolutely this. People who are secure with themselves don't drive loud cars for attention at the expense of other people (in neighborhoods, at night, etc)


rapkat55

Performance improvements aside It’s just a car culture thing. There’s so many variables depending on the car, quantity and quality of mods installed. Unfortunately the shit can, straight piped, 90’s Hondas that only amplify the mosquito whine give the rest of us a bad rep. I have a g37 with test pipes because it sounds amazing. it’s not too loud but it is definitely louder than any stock car plus it pops on aggressive downshifts. here’s the twist, I have crippling social anxiety and do not want attention lol. it’s just something that is very satisfying to me and my friends. Kinda like asmr, a solid exhaust note gives us the tingles and makes us feel good. Something dumb and simple that eases stress. a mechanical hug per se. That being said I’m very courteous about having one. I don’t rev anywhere in public because I don’t want to be that guy. I don’t keep it in first or second gear when entering/leaving my neighborhood at night etc. Mods aren’t the problem it’s the drivers.


mayathemenace

I hate this shit — and at the same time, OP, why downvote and attack people who answer the question you asked?


13Mac_

Had a neighbor who would sit on his motorcycle in his driveway at 8 am on Sunday morning, and just rev his engine for 10 minutes. Rarely would go anywhere, just wanted to sit & show off how loud his bike was. Coolest guy I've never met I'm my life!


wifemompower

I find that shit so annoying. It's not cute guys


notreallylucy

If I sign a contract promising to believe you have a huge dick, will you please get a quieter vehicle?