Ewww…

[IanF]

[Gavin]

nope

[Jobbo]

AMG don’t have a good current track record do they.

Front lights of this look like they’re from that Maserati SUV which Harry Metcalfe owns. Whose name I have forgotten.

[jamcg]

Aw a video of toto driving it, loads of fake v8 noise to complete the looking like a twatness of the car

[Mito Man]

I was reading about the features of the car which I found really odd
“Fake V8 noise”
“Simulated rev counter”
“Simulated gear shifts”
“Seat vibration to simulate engine”

[mik]

I was reading about the features of the car which I found really odd
“Fake V8 noise”
“Simulated rev counter”
“Simulated gear shifts”
“Seat vibration to simulate engine”

It’s actually quite difficult to decide which one of those I loathe the most….

[Jobbo]

“Simulated rev counter”

What did I say in that Porsche Mission S thread?

[Mito Man]

“Simulated rev counter”

What did I say in that Porsche Mission S thread?

That would be really poor form as the Mission S has exhausts too. I’m now imagining they all lead to speaker for more stimulation by simulation.

[jamcg]

Found it

[jamcg]

Just when it couldn’t get any dafter

[dinny_g]

I prefer the sound of a 6 cylinder engine than a V8 anyway...

[Jobbo]

It's at least 20 years since I first read about someone hacking a Big Mouth Billy Bass - the original article I read online was about hacking it to say 'Pork' but I can't find that now. This is more sophisticated from 2016: https://automateeverythingsite.wordpres ... s-part-13/
Surely hacking your car to make it sound like an F1 car or a 2CV, or a footballer or say 'Pork' is perfectly feasible?

[jamcg]

Think I’d rather hack it to disable the fake noise to be honest

[dinny_g]

I wonder does is this engine noise thing hide a horrible electric motor sound??

[jamcg]

I’d rather they sounded like a formula e car, like a powerful electric motor, than fake engine sounds. If I wanted fake engine sounds I’d play gran turisimo

[Sundayjumper]

BMW have had "Active Sound Design" (ASD) for years, my M5 has it. All the different engines are included in the firmware and you can code in (or out) whichever you want with E-Sys. So I'm going to assume that some enterprising individuals will figure out how to activate the Merc V8 noises quite quickly.

I've coded it out completely on mine. I'm old and the exhaust is quite loud enough on its own TYVM

Not my pic, but in BMW E-Sys:

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[Simon]

As a Merc fan I can forgive a lot, but that is goping. What the hell are they smoking over there?

[DeskJockey]

ChatGPT: "design me an SUV version of a low sports car, but make it look like it was based on the drawings of an eight year old. Sadly can't have rockets, but otherwise everything goes".

Meanwhile in Tesla HQ:

Flunky: "E-Man, Merc are using AI to design their car, but said no rockets"
Elon (he asked them to call him E-Man): "hold my ket-laced beer".