When I bought my now 11-year-old Lexus, I was amazed by two aspects: how sporty and well controlled it was [for a luxury car], and how silent it was. It was literally more quiet than a Prius and it had an inline six.
And I hated it.
After a few months of hitting the gas and hearing nothing, I opened up the hood and ripped the tiny ram-air front inlet off the air intake. I also took apart the air box and gutted the parts that didn't affect the air filter. The result was a tiny but definitely noticeable engine roar when high-revving. It finally sounded about as mean as a Toyota Corolla.
They can pry my engine noise from my cold, dead, ricer hands.
Priuses aren't really very quiet (at least on the inside) unless you're cruising at <60MPH or so, or decelerating. The engine gets pretty noisy when accelerating at any rate that isn't painfully slow, and the power output needed merely to maintain higher highway speeds gets pretty noisy.
Noise is actually one of the big reasons I'm looking forward to switching from a Prius to a pure electric.
When I bought my now 11-year-old Lexus, I was amazed by two aspects: how sporty and well controlled it was [for a luxury car], and how silent it was. It was literally more quiet than a Prius and it had an inline six.
And I hated it.
After a few months of hitting the gas and hearing nothing, I opened up the hood and ripped the tiny ram-air front inlet off the air intake. I also took apart the air box and gutted the parts that didn't affect the air filter. The result was a tiny but definitely noticeable engine roar when high-revving. It finally sounded about as mean as a Toyota Corolla.
They can pry my engine noise from my cold, dead, ricer hands.