Posted on 09/27/2014 10:56:20 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Road & Track’s Jason Cammisa busted a fuse during a recent drive of the 2015 Ford Mustang EcoBoost, he discovered something odd. Both the engine and the stereo went silent inside the car.
It appears that the vaunted Ford Mustang – “the original pony car,” according to Jalopnik – has succumbed to piping in enhanced engine noise through the speakers.
Autoblog investigated further, speaking to Ford engineer Shawn Carney who revealed that the engine-sound augmenting system is called “Active Noise Control,” and that only the turbocharged four-cylinder Mustang comes with it.
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“With the Ecoboost engine we have both active noise cancellation, and we also amplify the existing engine sound order,” Mustang Chief Engineer Dave Perciak told Car Magazine last December. “We don’t create an artificial sound, we don’t pluck one off the shelf, we bring in the real sound, process it, and play it through the car’s speakers.”
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I think porsche does something similar on the 911.
No replacement for Cubic Inches Displacement.
*facepalm*
Several car models do this now.
Wonder if this will stop those idiots that pull aside you at a stop sign in a car with loud pipes and rev their engines. Wife looked at me one time after that happened and said..”he must have a small penis”
My Brz has a pipe off the intake that routes to the interior to add motor sound. Not sure I like it yet
I read where this was necessary to alert dumbass jaywalkers that a hard, solid object was in their “space” and headed their way.
My 2014 GT (with 5.0L V8) has a “resonator” that is basically a drum that is beat by the intake pulses. It made the engine sound really nice inside, but still relatively quiet outside.
That thing went away the first week I had the car, and the exhaust got replaced by something that makes the same sound inside and outside! Flowmaster FTW!!
My Harley makes all its own noise. LOL!
Maybe it could be considered an Aural Tachometer.
Yeh, I’m not crazy about it as a trend. As nuch as I love them stylistically, I really think the muscle car as a breed has outlived its era. The fact that we’re at a point where car companies are piping in engine noise off a four cylinder underscores that, especially when the Fiesta ST or Focus RS can roll a comparable Mustang up and smoke it with no problem.
I recall fake hood scoops on numerous sporty type cars from days of yore so this is following an age old tradition.
Next factory option will be a deck of cards and a couple clothes pins.
How could you say the muscle car has outlived it’s era? My Mustang GT is my ‘bad” boyfriend. I love that car. Never “loved” anything material before.
VW and BMW are also doing it.
I’ve read that there are EU noise standards that are driving this foolishness.
IMHO, this as a sales gimmick to give unsophisticated buyers a dose of that “sports car sound” (phrase from old J.C. Whitney catalogs) for their 10 minute test drive.
A lot of people tire of the fake and excessively loud sound, and disable or remove the noise generators.
Sounds like Ford has their own version of the old cards on the spokes to titillate the rubes..............
Too bad that is about all there is.
Harley, Harley,
Hunk of tin.
Ride 'em out,
And push 'em in...
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