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

[welcometothnuthouse]

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'.

If you don't want to be woken up by cars, don't buy a house next to a motorway. I used to live next to the main a road in this town. If you opened the window you'd hear it. I could hardly complain after I chosen to rent there. I'd have been laughed at.

If you don't want to be woken up by cars, don't buy a house next to a motorway

Im perfectly aware that living near a motorway will likely mean hearing more cars. The thread is about modified cars that emit far more noise than normal, that’s a personal choice by the owner, done for no other reason than their own enjoyment, and yes, it does sometimes have an impact on others.

If it wasn't these knobs it would be some other kind of hoodlum (bin rattlers, dodgy tradespeople, sports yellers, whatever). The reality is if you want peace the only option is moving to a better area where these kinds are priced out.

Neither of my loud cars are modified. It’s how they came from the factory.

It’s a problem when it wakes my sleeping toddler, who then can’t get back to sleep and spends the next hour and a half crying. I live in the dip between two steep hills and people will absolutely gun it down one hill so they don’t have to accelerate too much to get up the other, so this happens with distressing regularity.

Wrong . These knobs travel through nice areas .

The only possible option is that there is much tougher emphasis on eradicating this anti social behaviour .

What the fuck! Such snobbery. Priced out? The factory cars that make this sound are not cheap and those old modified cars may be the way someone chooses to spend their money, of which they have vast amounts.

They can drive through the nice areas and live in them. Listen to yourselves!

And stop saying they have small penises. It's ok to have a small penis and we don't need to be saying it as an insult and then have to talk everyone down when they don't measure up. For the record, I don't have a penis of any size but I can come up with more original insults.

I'm quite happy to call them "noisy morons" or similar, regardless of social class.

Of course it is snobbery . No-one with class would drive one of these shitty banging 15yrs old corsas or fiestas . Embarrassing.

@AngeloMysterioso a problem for you then. That no doubt you share with others.
That makes it subjective to the person. As I also have a young child, and they do not get woken up by this despite living on a main road and sleeping front of house.

So, because it isn’t a problem for you, it just doesn’t matter?

I'm quite happy to call them "noisy morons" or similar, regardless of social class

I’ll stick with twats myself

So, because it isn’t a problem for you, it just doesn’t matter?

This is the essence of antisocial behaviour: I will do what I like and I don’t actually care about the impact on others because (some sort of justification)

But ragging around in a loud car, no matter how much you enjoy it is antisocial.

FWIW I don’t think the Op is really talking about newer, non modified but still high powered cars, it’s more your corsa/fiesta/old pile of crap car with a shouty exhaust. They’re the ones that really make a racket. I’d like to think if you’re that much into this stuff that you spend lots of money on new cars, the owners aren’t going to drive like twats. I’d hope not anyway.

I’ll stick with twats myself

@Lonelycrab still milder than the word I originally had in mind.

This one has no penis and earns six figures!

@AngeloMysterioso yes, it does not matter to me. It may to you, but it doesn't to me. Which is why I have the opinion that I do

Yeah this. It’s something race cars do so some people try and emulate that race car sound in their own car

im no stranger to quick cars, and yep some are a bit noisier than normal but I’d much rather have the actual quick car than fake the sound like a lot of these people are doing

@Britpop123 i like the throaty, bass rumble sound of a powerful car, over a high pitched whine of a race teak iyswim. As for the fart car exhausts… I can’t see the point, it’s a bit ‘oooo look at me’ and I bet something they don’t do when no one is around- like in the middle of nowhere.

As for the fart car exhausts… I can’t see the point, it’s a bit ‘oooo look at me’ and I bet something they don’t do when no one is around- like in the middle of nowhere.

I must say that’s why I love switchable exhausts, reasonably quiet so you can potter around built up areas without everyone thinking you’re a complete cunt then open the valves once you’re out in the countryside. Enter a village on a trailing throttle and close the valves again and there’s a bit of a burble but nothing too offensive.