What's the deal with 'farting cars' and boy racers?

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Just this really, everyone to their own I get that. But, what is so great about driving around in a car that backfires repeatedly? There was one just driven down the road near us and it's hilarious as it sounds like very loud farting.
The driver only needs over sized boots, a mad wig and huge nose to be in the circus.
I guess the noise is to draw attention but it just comes across as 'look at me I'm a twat'.

It’s Attention Seeking Behaviour.

We often have to live in very dense communities requiring people to be civil and courteous so we reduce stress. Some people can’t do this.

The Pap pap car drivers. The garden bonfire fans. The litterbugs. The ones with feral children. The ones who park in allocated spaces. UK is bad for it. Some other cultures do it better.

I have a boy racer car. I am a woman in my lateish 40s. It has a spoiler, low profile tyres and red racing seats. The exhaust doesn't bang and splutter but it does have a noise. I didn't buy it for the exhaust. I bought it for the driving experience.

I love it. Best car I've ever driven. Handles brilliantly and corners like a dream.

Some people genuinely enjoy driving and are interested in cars. I watch Formula 1 and attend the British Grand Prix every year. I am not seeking attention or harming anyone. I want to own something beautiful that feels nice to be in just like other people spend their money on expensive clothes or beauty products and makeup, all of which I see as pointless.

If I had neighbours and someone had a car like this I'd sabotage it., end of .

What have you got? I'm considering an AMG A45s for my next car.

You would cause criminal damage to someone's car because you dislike it?

Are you in the north east? It might be my brother .

Choose to sleep through it. White noise or earplugs.

@quisensoucie I live on a main road in a city centre, with a young child & pets - I enjoy watching and listening to these cars drive past at whatever given hour they choose to do so. Doesn't bother us

This!

There's a roundabout where I live with lights - if you drive it often enough (everyday for me) you know the pattern of the lights & if you're going to get right round depending on your starting point. I drive a car that looks like a soccer mom car but has a decent sized engine (not loud) & is like shit off a shovel so I take great pleasure in leaving the arsehole revving his car at the side of me in a cloud of (metaphorical) dust while he gets his wee putt-putt moving & gets confused about if the lights are going to change.

Disclaimer - I don't always drive like a dickhead but for some reason bald, 40 somethings in boy racer cars really piss me off.

I'm not really that bothered about the noise, actually I find it useful because most of the people who drive cars that sound like that around here also drive like twats, and I like the warning!
Gives me the chance to get out of the way if I can and let them get on with it. I know a few retired police officers and people who have cars like that as they go past can be referred to as organ donors.
It's the aggressive acceleration and then harsh braking that gets me, we have speed bumps on the estate I live on, there's a few that floor it up to the bump, slam on, crawl over and then floor it again to the next one, I mean I've only just passed my test and got a car in the last 6 months and even I could do that, it's not exactly the height of skilled driving really, I just don't see the point, maybe it's because it makes the car sound more growly and farty and then everyone looks at them because they're so cool 😎?!

But in seriousness I think people would mind less about the noise if the driving were less aggressive and you didn't have them sitting in your boot in 20/30 zones, overtaking in stupid places and generally making the road even more dangerous.

I am not a boy racer but have a car that I always wanted wanted when I was younger and it's quite noisy. I love driving and hearing the noise and it's a fantastic driving experience- it never fails to make me smile when I am driving it.

I am female and in my 40's.

I also have an electric car that has that annoying humming/high pitched noise, I much prefer the sound of a deep throaty engine.

he wants a 'sleeper' - an car that has a totally unassuming exterior but 'goes like stink!'

My last car got called a "pensioners car" quite often. Yep, may have looked like it, but it "went well".

Yes, the aggressive driving, zero regard for anyone else and general "look at me!" attitude, clearly so thick that they think they are impressing someone by noisily showing the world what a small appendage they have. Everyone rolls their eyes at these twats and inwardly thanks goodness it's not their kid/husband. I just wish young women weren't so often killed by the boy racers in vehicles driven over roundabouts and into walls. I've been clear with my kids to never get into a car with any petrol head that thinks speeding on public roads is "fun" after 3 such crashes near us last year.

It's attention seeking. Their car isn't enough in itself to attract attention so they have to make loud noises. 'Twas ever thus with little boys

For me it depends on the car. As discussed up thread, classics such as an unmodified Impreza or Evo, or cars with real heritage such as Maserati should have their (often distinctive) exhaust notes.

The small hatches that have been tuned especially to make noises ape-ing the real cars are just a bit try-hard. I can both appreciate cars that 'should' from factory have a noisy exhaust and be mildly irritated / amused by those try-hards!

Can confirm the last bit. I followed an Evo X down a quiet dual carriageway last summer and had my work cut out keeping up - in the nearly-500 bhp Merc AMG C63 I had then 😳

he wants a 'sleeper' - an car that has a totally unassuming exterior but 'goes like stink!'

Check out the Cupra Ateca - 300bhp and almost as fun as the Evo. Launch control is pretty spectacular. Was a clear winner when I was looking to replace a 4x4.

The X was more like a BMW than a true Evo. Mine’s a 9. 😇

@OneMoreTime23 such a shame that they don't make them any more. Something about the concept of modest Japanese saloon on steroids that has always amused me 😆

Yup. For a while police forces used them as marked and unmarked cars. It was like a parting sea when people
saw me in their rear view mirrors and assumed I was a cop! What blissful days.

The Ateca is similar. Looks like a gently styled SUV, goes like stink at the lights.

My 13 year old is determined to drive the Evo one day so we have a mission to keep her on the road. 🤞

some silly sods drive round here in the evening on the hour every hour we hear these damn cars. As someone said usually little piddly cars souped up to the hilt. annoying sods don't know how they can afford the fuel to keep driving round

A Morris Minor perhaps? They fart for England on the overrun!

I’m a bit of a petrol head and I had my car remapped to give it more power. They asked me if I wanted pops and bangs. I said why would I want that? I want it fast as fuck but quiet and refined……just like me😂

It is considerate of those who love such cars to let any potential girlfriend know that they are unsuitable so the young women concerned can just say no to any date to begin with.