Re: Kilimanjaro Safari Truck Over Revving Engine Noise

On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:52:23 -0500, Rudeney <rudeney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Keane wrote:

Now let's talk about the V-8 sounds they pump through the
speakers in the Test Track vehicles. Those always make
me laugh... :-)

What? You mean that's not the real sound of those Saturn engines? ;-)

Actually, GM has long been adding resonators and special mufflers to
their vehicles to make the engines "sound better". They have even
experimented with engine-driven sound generators that serve absolutely
no purpose except to make a smaller engine sound larger. Basically,
this would give your 4-banger Saturn that nice V8 sound.

Saturn engines? At the world's largest slot car track? Or are you
talking about the KS vehicles?

It always made me chuckle knowing they had to simulate a
gas motor sound in an electric vehicle to make people believe
it's really a car.

During the past couple of months, there were articles about
how hybrid vehicles were too silent at start up, and Test
Track immediately came to mind. :-)

Keane
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