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"The Fratzonic Chambered Exhaust—the name refers to a Dodge logo— combines various chambers underneath the Charger's body with some woofers and mid-range speakers, all driven by a dedicated 600 W amplifier. The system is also designed to transmit vibrations into the chassis through elastomeric bushings, mimicking an internal combustion engine and its motor mounts."

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[–] JoMomma@lemm.ee 49 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This should only be allowed if the sound is directed onto the cabin vs outside Let them nerds hear their fake sounds and leave the rest of us in peace

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I want to modify my car engine sound like Rocket League.

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Soon: engine custom sound DLC

[–] JoMomma@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

BMW already did it

[–] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 3 months ago

I want mine to sound like the monoliths from 2001.

[–] Albbi@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

Gimmie that motormouth sound.

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

I want mine to make that buzzing sound that you hear bugs make when they fly into your ear canal.

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 25 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is ridiculous as fuck. What kind of moron actually wants this?

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The type of person who feels emasculated driving an electric car.

[–] cornshark@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What's the overlap between that group and the group of people who would drive one?

[–] Death_Equity@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Considerable, but only because their truck costs so much to fill and they had to sell the boat to cover their alimony and child support.

[–] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 months ago

No clue. Even car guys think this is lame.

Dodge is just grasping to find any foothold in a market that has no future for muscle cars.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago
[–] whyNotSquirrel@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 months ago

Meh, I do the same with a beer mat attached to my bike wheel, and it only cost me 10 beers!

[–] Killer57@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Everyone in these comments seems to be overlooking the fact that EV's are required by law to have noisemakers, pedestrians need to be able to hear a vehicle approaching.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 28 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sure, but does it have to be loud and obnoxious?

[–] toaster@slrpnk.net 18 points 3 months ago

Quite the sci-fi name for fake engine noises.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

dedicated 600W amplifier

Strange that anyone would voluntarily trade electricity (which must be generated) for car sounds.. explicitly reducing total driving range the louder you get 😂

[–] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It is ridiculous, but it's also exactly what is happening with loud combustion engines. Any sound coming from it is just higher-entropy (i.e., unused) energy being produced and promptly lost instead of contributing to power.

[–] graymess@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The system is also designed to transmit vibrations into the chassis through elastomeric bushings, mimicking an internal combustion engine and its motor mounts.

I get that EVs need to make noise, but what the fuck is this? One of the best things about driving something without an ICE is the car doesn't vibrate at all while it's on.

[–] deuleb_biezelbob@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

Its like vaping vs smoking

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

This is Dodge. The car must be “manly.”

No matter what stupid contortions they must use to do it… like an otherwise useless dedicated 600w amplifier(!). The car must be “manly.”

[–] Hawke@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Welcome to the fartzone.

[–] bruhbeans@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 months ago

FARTSONIC SCAT PACK

[–] Shawdow194@kbin.run 6 points 3 months ago

"Hey bruh, sounds sick what pipes you got on there"

"Duuude it's a 15" in a 3.8cf box, running 1800w at 1ohm"

"Oh..."

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I dunno. Is it like “tofurkey” masquerading as turkey? It’s not fooling anyone. I’m not against EV at all, and maybe we need to fake an exhaust note to cover some egos in the transition to EV, but I’d rather just call a spade a spade. Throw some straight cut gears and some hard shifts into the lower gears to get some noise or something.

[–] Noobnarski@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Most EVs just have one permanently engaged gear, so yeah, not really possible

[–] Blackout@kbin.run 4 points 3 months ago

Why would anyone want that sound when instead they could have Enterprise D at warp 4?

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

This system just makes you a very sad little man with a little peepee