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to wonder if there is a hierachy of horns?

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ChristmasTrulyReigns · 09/11/2010 20:42

Just pondering. Grin

I know trucks have big feckoff air horns.

And little mopeds just have tiny beeps.

So does it follow that medium size cars have middle-of-the-road horns?

Boy racer cars have discordant horns?

Posh Cars have sedate horns?

Camper Vans have funky horns?

What's your horn like?

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Nagoo · 09/11/2010 20:44

I am obviously a very good driver as i have very limited horn experience Grin

SecretNutellaFix · 09/11/2010 20:44

depending on the time of the month, I have 2 which grow out of my forehead.Grin

FourEyesGood · 09/11/2010 20:47

My Honda Civic (which I loved but swapped for a five-door car when I got pregnant) made the most pathetic beep.

My Mercedes A-Class (which was rubbish! I hated it; had to take it to garage every few months for some problem or other, costing hundreds each year) made a similar noise but was perhaps marginally more "meaty".

My newish Vauxhall Vectra (by far the biggest car I've ever driven. I don't much like parking it, but love the fact that I can fit a baby elephant in the boot) makes a much more robust honk. Trouble is, it's got stereo controls on the steering wheel, so when I got angry with another driver last week, for swerving into my lane without even indicating, I accidentally switched over to Radio 1 before I managed to honk.

ChristmasTrulyReigns · 09/11/2010 21:02

Grin at nagoo.

SNF - sounds very true!

FourEyes -ROFL at the irate radio station changing.

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GeruptaSingh · 09/11/2010 21:06

As a child I remember a van with a horn that sounded like a cow mooing
The van was green by the way

ChristmasTrulyReigns · 09/11/2010 21:38

Hmm - green van = a horn that has a nature-realted sound?

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Anniegetyourgun · 09/11/2010 21:40

I want a horn that sounds like blowing a giant raspberry.

purplepidjin · 09/11/2010 21:44

My little 40 year old beetle has a very loud voice! Honks like a good'un and easily outrevs the boy racers Grin

BoysAreLikeDogs · 09/11/2010 21:48

my first car - a dear yellow Metro [heart] had a parp

was tres amusing

PhishFoodAddiction · 09/11/2010 21:50

What about horns that play a tune?! Used to be a car driving round here that did a very funny tune, it was a clapped out old banger!

I'm humming the tune now but no idea how to transcribe it!

ChristmasTrulyReigns · 10/11/2010 21:32

I have never heard a horn-tune.

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BusyMissIzzy · 10/11/2010 21:40

I want my horn to play La Cucaracha. But it would sounds silly from a wee Ford Ka.

GreatGreenArkleseziure · 10/11/2010 22:05

i want one like the little traction engines you see at steam rallies, the ones that go 'wheee-Whizz WhiZZZZ!!

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