![]() 02/16/2015 at 19:02 • Filed to: None | ![]() | ![]() |
Not my best, just an example: "The hulk shooting lightning bolts from an M134 at an erupting volcano"
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I've always thought the Abarth's sound was best described as "a snarling animal ripping a bodice with every press of the pedal."
you may quote me.
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From the Ascari A10 review on Top Gear. Clarkson described it as "the sound of men in stovepipe hats furiously smelting."
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A Jaguar F-Type exhaust sounds like my stomach after eating dairy. (I'm lactose intolerant.)
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"Firecrackers in a garbage can" LS1 Camaro with an aftermarket muffler.
"Fokker DR1 being shotdown in WW1" MK3 VW Golf with a fart can.
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I've often seen nice sounding engines described as "ripping canvas" by journalists, but it's never made sense.
Pictured: A Ju-87 Stuka dive bombing a vacuum cleaner factory.
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I've always thought that the best way to describe the glorious sound made by the 787B is "a banshee being raped by a chainsaw".
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On overrun, my dad's C6 sounds exactly like a coffeemaker, or like when you try to suck up the last bits of soda through a straw.
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I recently referred to the exhaust note of a Subaru STi as a "lion barfing violently into a metal trash can". My friends absolutely cannot handle me merging onto the highway anymore without chuckling.
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There's a couple I can think of that I like:
'Like a thunder goddess' orgasm' and 'guttural and raw, like some heathen war-god bellowing in rage'