Valkuri

Yeah; good point. That's why 'music' never caught on. It's just noise. Absolutely no purpose to it.
Nobody ever found a way to make a living making it, so: it no longer exists.

NOSUB2T

Lol!! Bravo!

babyjocko

I see. Well, let me know when that 911 song hits the top 40.

Dirac

There are no 911 owners that would rather listen to their PSE than the stereo?

Geiss

lol no I'm referring to my GTS not a .2

fester

It's about how you drive your 911 as well. If you drive aggressively you'll be in crosshairs of others and that's creating a stereotype...

Dewinator

Very true, let the 370Z drivers keep the aggressive driver stereotype on their side.

Also there are lots of comments about not being let in, I don't think you're supposed to be let in. I feel like my job as a driver is to find an open space and take it.

babyjocko

Absolutely agree. I always remember growing up seeing the sign entering the Lincoln Tunnel: Take Gap, Give Gap. In NYC, it's Take Gap. If you don't, somebody else will.

This is why I start with having a car that immediately responds on demand because I will take that gap...and then some. Some people car my driving aggressive. I call it assertive.

Need4S

Mufflers were invented because internal combustion engines are very loud without any downstream control of the rapidly expanding gases resulting from each firing pulse. Slowing down that expansion within the confines of a car most often results in back pressure, which tends to rob power from the engine, as IC engines are really pumps that are most efficient when they operate wide open and with as little restriction possible. Noise control is inversely related to that wide open power. A very quiet exhaust slows down the exiting exhaust gases so much as to cause the engine to develop less than optimal power, all other things being held equal. This is why racing cars tend not to run mufflers of any kind, unless required by the rules of the organization or the track. Yes, you can optimize an exhaust to cause as little negative effect on power as possible, but there is no way to get a very quiet exhaust without some power reduction. Thus, over the years, enthusiasts tend to equate noisier exhausts with more power compared to a quieter, more muffled car. And they would not be wrong. Mostly. Today, there are ways to compensate for exhaust restriction, and exhausts are often optimized in performance cars so that there is very little if any gain to be had by going to a louder exhaust. But note that none of these cars is completely quiet, and due to legacy human nature, a louder exhaust is often perceived as making more power even if it isn't.

fast1

Hell, a couple of months ago I took a 15 minute test drive in a 2016 991S, and during the test drive I had a Mustang come flying up on the 991's rear end and then pass to the right. This guy wanted to race on an extremely busy four lane county road with traffic lights every 1/4 mile. I think he had that new Mustang GT350 and wanted to show me how fast his car was. Anyway the Mustang owner made sounds like a chicken when I declined to race him, and he sped off. It's unfortunate that they don't insist that the buyer of a high performance car have to pass a maturity test before they allow him to purchase the car.

roadrat

Not making this political, but there seems to be an increasing level of anger in large cities in the US. Perhaps it's the wealth gap, perhaps it's something else. Houston for example is a hotbed of angry people. So much so that I am planning my exit strategy within a year. I rarely drive my car.

Geiss

this is absolutely true. Overall quality of life is diminishing for many people. Wealth gap is widening etc. the population is increasing and so is the density in large cities. And it doesn't help that builders place homes right next to each other.

Mark Dreyer

As someone who lives in a similarly miserable climate (most of the year) I speculate it's the heat and humidity rather than a class envy thing.

Dewinator

It's a solid theory. Look at all the problems there are in the middle east where it's miserable 365 days a year.

oolor13

I had a teen in a Toyota "show me up" by flying past me doing ~60mph in a 35 zone today. Yep, I was impressed. Impressed that someone that stupid managed to figure out which pedal is the gas and which is the brake.