To be sick to death of noisy cars?

@JohnofWessex so …not a car ?

No, an 8500shp steam turbine installation doesnt purr

No noise or vibration outside the machinery spaces

That would be ‘purring’ wouldn’t it 🐈‍⬛

Empty twisty road, good headlights, full tank, couple of roundabouts for drifting.

or this.

The most powerful thing I ever drove was completely silent outside.

Part of the reason why they do it. That and sheer ignorance. The little shits that do it in my area don't do at their mammies.

When I was a young and immature teenager my boyfriend had an old mini that could shoot a flame out of the exhaust. He used to drive down the highstreet in the middle of the day and make it pop.
I found it bloody hillarious at the time, but now I do worry that he may have caused the odd heart attack.
Youngesters think of no-one but themselves unfortunately- I was one of them.

Incidently my husband purchased a new and loud exhaust for his car recently, only to take it back after a couple of days and have the original put back on because it was too loud and antisocial. It gave him a headache 😂
I took great pleasure in reminding him that he's not twenty anymore.

@ISeeCheekyFuckers what is proper driving ?

I live in a very remote area. Fabulous roads for proper driving (at night when the dawdlers have gone) but you’ll almost certainly die waiting for an ambulance. Swings and roundabouts.

That’s criminal damage

Cool story and totally irrelevant to the OP.

Harley’s with their uneven firing, so loud especially when they are next to you at lights 🙉 sometimes in pairs

In my sister's estate, There was someone who went around to all the noisy modified cars and wedged a banana into the exhaust. Think it actually caused some damage, my sis said it was all anyone talked about for weeks . Due to the age profile of the estate there were quite a number of boy racers in thr same estate and the noise was pretty bad apparently.
Just shows you what people are driven to.

I agree, but point needs to be made that “modified” doesn’t automatically mean noisy.

I’m sick of cars in general,roads are busy all day everyday,nobody seems to work,so much for saving the planet.🌎

It won't be a problem soon once we're all driving EVs.

This why I live in the middle of nowhere.

Last time I went to London I tried to hold a conversation with someone as we were walking along - fat chance - could not hear each other at all.

@cinquanta in the context of this thread, “modified” refers to modified to make a lot of noise. I couldn’t care less about any other modifications and I’d be surprised if anyone else did either. Deliberately making a vehicle louder is anti social behaviour,

@Dappy777 Your initial comment “the police do nothing” is the relevant one here. We live in a tiny village but we can occasionally hear racing on the bypass around 1 mile away. We see tyre doughnuts around a roundabout or in the road. One assumes the police are having their cocoa. If it was in a residential street I’d certainly be calling the police commissioner. It’s very unsafe but when did the police worry about any of this? It’s a case of getting publicity and speaking out.

You do know, we don't do it for other people, right?

I also don't have a willy.

I'm a professional who also happens to love modified cars. i could afford to go out and buy an "expensive" car tomorrow, but life's too short to do boring things.

i use one of my cars on track days, it's less than 100db at full chat.

Pop & bang maps however, should absolutely be illegal. There are very few cars that "need" to do that and Joe Bloggs in his Astra VXR or Golf GTi isn't one of them.

This is also caused by people driving way too fast. I've noticed a massive increase in dangerous driving over the last couple of years. People seem to have forgotten that they're in control of a potentially lethal machine.

Also, just the sheer number of cars on the road. Most people (who are perfectly capable) don't seem to walk, even the shortest of distances any more. It's sometimes a struggle to hold a conversation with my DC on the way to school in the mornings because there's so much traffic noise.

I always taught my sons that if they see a man driving aggressively and dangerously it means they have a small willy and I would add modified cars to that

Surely it depends on what the modifications are.

My husband drives a modified car and so do I. I haven’t got a willy at all, and my husband must be the exception that proves the rule.

They don’t make any more noise than an unmodified car.

Please can we add in the bastards who have to crank up the music and drive with their windows open as they crawl along in traffic jams (and of course, at all other times). Yes, we know you want us to look at you, trust me, we are, just not for the reason you want.

I'd sooner have noise than the quiet electric cars, at least you know they're there.