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Thread: Car guys: Best-sounding 4 and 6 cyl engines?

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    Car guys: Best-sounding 4 and 6 cyl engines?

    I'm thinking my next car needs to be on the lighter-side weight-wise. (At least a few hundred pounds lighter than a Mustang so were talking about 3200 lbs or lighter) This probably means it's going to be a 4 or 6 cyl.

    Sound is very important to me so it begs the question: What is the best / better sounding 4 and 6 cyl engines / cars?

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    I don't think there are many for me. Some might be fast, but they sound buzzy obnoxious. Nothing like a V8/10/12.

    Sixes overs fours.

    If I had to pick, the Nissan makes a decent one (370Z) and the older Toyota Supra and the Audi TT is nice. Exotic would be the Alfa Romeo. Even Porsche's, although fast, are buzzy as hell.

    If I had to pick a four...it wouldn't be a car; it would be the awesome sounding V-4's in the Aprilia RSV4 and Ducati's Panigale V4. No car compares. Edit:Forgot the STI and EVO if I had to pick a 4.


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    Best V6 I ever heard was the Toyota 2JZ

    The Nissan VR38 TT sounds bad ass too.
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    The 2JZ is an inline 6.....

    Generally inline 6’s have a firing order that sounds great. V6’s not so much.

    Inline 4’s are not much in the audio pleasure department. So find a horizontally opposed 4, they rumble.

    My personal favorite I6 is the BMW S54, which is no longer in production and would be a horrible proposition to maintain long term because BMW build quality is barely a few steps above British or Italian garbage.

    Otherwise the venerable H6 as used by Porsche is tough to beat when naturally aspirated. So find a 911 GT3 with the 4.0L H6, try not to cream your shorts.
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    Air cooled Flat six
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    They’re getting more and more expensive. The 993 series cars and prior are climbing in value.

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    I am also going suggest a Porsche flat 6.

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    An I6 can sound good, other than that a turbo will sound more like a turbo, and much better to me, than an I4 or V6. Then there are boxers, that's it's own sound, with the turbo Subaru's unrefined but unapologetically brute force sound being distinct.

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    The Volvo T6 twin charged engines have a nice throb to them, for a 4 cyl.

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    Fours at low revs sound like a dwarf farting down a drainpipe-. A turbo straight six sounds better than any V6.

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