Several firms including Lotus are working on technologies to synthesize the sound of a rumbling engine so that silent running cars like hybrids and electric vehicles can be made safer for those with ...

The first time I heard the sound of a diesel train was about fifteen years ago in Le Puy, in Haute-Loire. This train ran on a winding track over the Monts du Velay past Fix St. Geneys and down to St.

BMW has been offering its customers what they call Active Sound Design for quite some time now and, no matter how they tried to sugarcoat it, it remains one of the things that most enthusiasts don’t ...

You may know that we here at autoevolution are very interested in performance diesels and we would like to see more sporty diesels on our roads. However, despite the fact that the number of such cars ...

Imagine you’re driving along and coming up behind you, you spy the large chrome kidney grilles of a fancy looking BMW X5. With glistening paint it looks like it just rolled off the assembly line ...

Monster and Diesel have formed a partnership under the newly established Diesel Noise Division to create trend setting products that fuse Monster's audio expertise and passion for great sound with ...

Several words describe the Jeep Wrangler: boxy, iconic, fun, capable. But a word I wouldn’t associate with Jeep’s off-road specialist is efficient. The Wrangler has always suffered in the fuel economy ...

The natural characteristics of a diesel engine are not thought of as luxurious; no one wants a loud, coarse engine under the hood of a luxury cruiser. But it has been proven in recent years, mainly by ...

If you're one of the many long-term readers and subscribers of Truck Trend, you may remember Chuck Schifsky's article published back in 2002, in which he compared the relative merits between diesel ...