Fifth Gear - Web TV - Graham tests the SoundRacer

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwith Christmas Around the Corner we're all fretting over what to buy the car lovers in our lives well we might not need fret any longer because I found this costs just 30 quid doesn't need any batteries and could provide hours of entertainment it's an incar sound generator it's called The Sound racer and claims to give any car the engine note of a V8 or a V10 through the car's speakers you plug it into the 12volt socket tune the car's FM radio to the sound Racers transmitting frequency and then calibrate it to match your car's revs it'll give you a beat when it's figured out where idle is when the revs of the engine rise so does the current going into the lighter and the sound eraser detects this and plays out a higher or lower engine not accordingly so basically think of it like this more revs equals more electricity equals more noise I'll try out the V10 first and see if it's any good what you're about to hear will sound exactly like a Lamborghini guyardo W really high revving Lamborghini guyardo that's really odd you get to 3,000 RPM and because you can't hear the engine the actual engine it feels like you're about to bust the Pistons out the side but you're not like that 22,000 RPM three sounds like my guy Ardo wants to change up yeah it's sort of works but it even though I've calibrated it properly it doesn't really match it that sounds like the red line maybe in Mardo and it's just 3 and a half th000 RPM so it doesn't really feel in sync with my revs ah dear I don't like that that was 4,000 RPM and it started to go a bit flaky so I'm not impressed at all to be honest if it cost just a tener the quirks would be forgivable for a quick laugh but at 30 quid it's a bit disappointing maybe the V8 will Fair better so I'm hoping for this to sound exactly like a TVR Griffith 500 nice V8 it's me it's burbly yeah it's making me drive all lazily oh yeah sort of second this is more satisfying I prefer having a TVR than having a fake Lamborghini but I think still it sounds higher than the actual engine does which is a bit off put to be honest it makes you change gear too soon it's fun but I just don't trust it so is the sound racer worth a Christmas flutter if you want one you can get one from click shop.com and well it'll keep a car geek happy for a few hours but to be honest it's not going to hold anyone's attention for that long me I'd rather just have £3 worth a petrol for Christmaswith Christmas Around the Corner we're all fretting over what to buy the car lovers in our lives well we might not need fret any longer because I found this costs just 30 quid doesn't need any batteries and could provide hours of entertainment it's an incar sound generator it's called The Sound racer and claims to give any car the engine note of a V8 or a V10 through the car's speakers you plug it into the 12volt socket tune the car's FM radio to the sound Racers transmitting frequency and then calibrate it to match your car's revs it'll give you a beat when it's figured out where idle is when the revs of the engine rise so does the current going into the lighter and the sound eraser detects this and plays out a higher or lower engine not accordingly so basically think of it like this more revs equals more electricity equals more noise I'll try out the V10 first and see if it's any good what you're about to hear will sound exactly like a Lamborghini guyardo W really high revving Lamborghini guyardo that's really odd you get to 3,000 RPM and because you can't hear the engine the actual engine it feels like you're about to bust the Pistons out the side but you're not like that 22,000 RPM three sounds like my guy Ardo wants to change up yeah it's sort of works but it even though I've calibrated it properly it doesn't really match it that sounds like the red line maybe in Mardo and it's just 3 and a half th000 RPM so it doesn't really feel in sync with my revs ah dear I don't like that that was 4,000 RPM and it started to go a bit flaky so I'm not impressed at all to be honest if it cost just a tener the quirks would be forgivable for a quick laugh but at 30 quid it's a bit disappointing maybe the V8 will Fair better so I'm hoping for this to sound exactly like a TVR Griffith 500 nice V8 it's me it's burbly yeah it's making me drive all lazily oh yeah sort of second this is more satisfying I prefer having a TVR than having a fake Lamborghini but I think still it sounds higher than the actual engine does which is a bit off put to be honest it makes you change gear too soon it's fun but I just don't trust it so is the sound racer worth a Christmas flutter if you want one you can get one from click shop.com and well it'll keep a car geek happy for a few hours but to be honest it's not going to hold anyone's attention for that long me I'd rather just have £3 worth a petrol for Christmas\n"