GT4 gear whine.
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I believe it's Anglesey race circuit in Wales. You see Chris Harris shoot some of his videos there too.
Never been there but it's an amazing setting for a track.
Never been there but it's an amazing setting for a track.
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M22 - Oooh yeah!
Worse than smoothed out performance cars is fake engine noise. Our family VW GTI came with the "Soundaktor" fake engine sound maker. Disconnected it right away.
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On the subject of the GT4's gear whine, I was pleasantly surprised with it. From what I'd read, I thought it might be one of those noises that enthusiasts would just say they liked to hear as part of the mechanical/raw nature of the car but that at the end of the day would be an overlaid noise that may or may not really enhance the experience and that would cause non-enthusiasts to ask you what was wrong with your car. In my limited break-in style driving thus far (part throttle, staying below 4K RPM), I've found that the gearbox whine is very well implemented as just being part of the "sonic signature" of the car. It doesn't give the impression that it's overpowering or diluting the rest of the car's sounds at all. It's most pronounced at lower RPMs and milder throttle applications (as the RPMs climb to 3-4K and with more throttle, the engine and exhaust take over), but even cooler than that for me is that the high-pitched nature of the gearbox whine sounds very futuristic, sort of a quasi-electric car noise. I like it a lot, and I can't imagine it ever growing tiresome. Instead, I get a choice between a future-y sound during casual driving or an already delicious exhaust sound when driving a bit harder, the latter of which I imagine will only get better once I finish my 1K break-in.