Lastsoul
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- Jul 9, 2005
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- MX5, 406 Coup?, 106 Rallye, Porsche 924, X300 Six
As much as I like German engineering, there are things where simple solution would be much better. Or actually they just should have realized in the beginning that technology is not a solution for a problem that doesn't exist. My main complaint is their automatic coffee machines, you have to search a long time for a proper hand made cappuccino, while italians still know that you just can't make good coffee by automating the process.
Coffee and engine sounds, like all good things in life, are best when they're simple and pure. If you've just spend thousands of man-hours to create exhaust system to mute all the sounds the other engineering team has just created to make the V8 biturbo breath well, you then hire third team to design artificial sound created by communicating the amplifier with the ECU and putting the signal through complicated DSPs to create something you just removed. Active exhaust flaps. Shouldn't be that difficult. But that's old technology, there's no challenge, no new ways to make the car more complicated, no new acronyms to create.
And just like good old manual way of making espresso, there was nothing wrong with the original way producing the engine note through exhaust and intake.
Coffee and engine sounds, like all good things in life, are best when they're simple and pure. If you've just spend thousands of man-hours to create exhaust system to mute all the sounds the other engineering team has just created to make the V8 biturbo breath well, you then hire third team to design artificial sound created by communicating the amplifier with the ECU and putting the signal through complicated DSPs to create something you just removed. Active exhaust flaps. Shouldn't be that difficult. But that's old technology, there's no challenge, no new ways to make the car more complicated, no new acronyms to create.
And just like good old manual way of making espresso, there was nothing wrong with the original way producing the engine note through exhaust and intake.