Our cars can make some pretty strange sounds. If you drive them for long enough, you'll most likely experience some fairly unsettling noises at some point or another. While any unusual sound coming ...

Engine sound has long been treated as a performance metric, a kind of acoustic dyno sheet that tells drivers how hard a car is working. As digital audio and electrification spread, engine sounds are ...

Car designers spend their lives trying to make their vehicles distinctive, giving them an identity that will ensure you’ll never confuse them with a rival product. Unique grilles, and more recently, ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Car engines derive power from thousands of miniature explosions contained within their cylinders every minute. We quickly become accustomed to ...

Evan Williams is an automotive journalist and mechanical engineering technologist with more than a decade of experience in the industry. He has written for the Toronto Star and AutoTrader Canada and ...

BMW reveals that it recorded engine sounds from three iconic M cars to give the electric M3 character and a sense of connection. The cars sampled were the E63 M6, F82 M4 and the E90 M3. The prototype ...

An exhaust note helps give a cars its personality, and what that personality is has a lot to do to the type of engine it has. Toyota has released a helpful explainer on why that is. It starts with the ...

A red Corvette with a license plate reading "Suprtoy" sits amid exotic European sports cars, handmade hot rods, a 1934 Ford owned by a retired Ford car designer and even one of the first 1968 Ford ...

When Jaguar completes its transition to an all-EV brand, a famous part of the storied British brand's heritage — the snarling exhaust tones from its high-performance engines — will fade into memory.

Florida lawmakers approved a bill banning intentional engine revving and replacing objective noise limits ...