Loudest Production Cars Ever

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We're taking a look at some of the loudest cars on the road, and we're starting with one that's sure to catch your attention. I'm talking about the Porsche 991 GT4 RS. This car is a beast, with a lightweight flat plane crankshaft under the hood. And let me tell you, it makes some noise. But not just any noise - an insane 102 DB sound that can be heard from miles away. That's right, folks, this car is so loud that it's been known to wake up entire neighborhoods.

But we're not done yet. Our next car on the list is one that you've probably heard before, and it's going to blow your mind. I'm talking about the Dodge Challenger Hellcat. This car is enormous, with a supercharged 6.2 L hem V8 engine under the hood. And let me tell you, it makes some sound. A sound so loud that it's been known to wake up an entire neighborhood. In fact, the Hellcat produces an incredible 105 DB, which is equivalent to an NFL game or a leaf blower. But what really sets this car apart is the wine from its massive supercharger. Sometimes, induction sounds are better than exhaust sounds, and the Hellcat is no exception.

But wait, there's more! Our next car on the list is the Porsche 991 GT4 RS again. Although it has a similar engine to the GT3 RS, this car produces an even greater amount of sound. The 4 L Flat 6 engine makes 500 horsepower and is tuned to make way more sound by way of a muffler that resonates like crazy at Red Line, which is an enormous 8,800 RPM. The result is a whale-like sound that can be heard inside the cabin of this car, with an incredible 108 DB. That's right, folks, this car is four times as loud as the inside of a Challenger Hellcat.

And finally, we have to talk about the Dodge Charger Daytona SRT. This electric car may not have a combustion engine, but it's got some tricks up its sleeve when it comes to sound. The Charger Daytona features an "exhaust" sound that's supposed to be similar to a supercharged V8 engine - but of course, it's not actually an engine at all. Instead, the sound is coming from an amplifier and electronically controlled whistle that changes level and pitch depending on the throttle inputs. But don't worry, Dodge claims that this sound is going to rock out to 126 DB, which is just above the threshold of actual physical pain.

And last but not least, we have the Lamborghini Huracan Performante. This car is a real drama - it's a track-focused rear-wheel drive machine with 631 HP and a 0-60 Tower time of 2.8 seconds. And let me tell you, it makes some sound. A sound so loud that it can be heard from miles away, like a trombone player playing straight into your ear. The Lamborghini signature "whale" is amplified by an upgraded intake manifold and a lighter, repositioned exhaust system to really help bring out the sound of this massive 5.2 L V10 engine. And with a DB level of 109, it's clear that this car means business.

Thanks for watching this video and every other video we upload! Make sure to hit that subscribe button so you don't miss anything we upload stuff multiple times a week. Follow James at @JamesPumFreMe on Instagram and NJ SES if you'd like. And finally, thank you to Porsche for letting us drive the GT4 RS - it was truly a dream come true.

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwe got a lot of loud cars around here but some of them come super loud straight from the factory today we're ranking the loudest production cars ever made like this one the Porsche Cayman GT4 RS we're going to talk about how automakers spend millions of dollars to make your car sound the way that it does there's way more thought that goes into it than we even anticipate yeah welcome to Donut all right so there's been this video floating around of a Hyundai a launcher and owner getting pulled over by an aggressive cop turns out James the car which is completely stocked makes more decb of sound than legally allowed in the state of California when it's in sport mode why is it back meiring uh making noise I know it's how it comes stock really the owner faced thousands of dollars in penalties despite having zero mods to the car and this Hyundai is actually pretty benign compared to some of the other cars on this list yeah benign is the one that you want it's 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draft King's promo code donut only a draft King sports book please call me the next car on this list is the Lotus aora GT the founder of lotus Colin Chapman we just did an entire episode of our past Gas podcast you can listen to anywhere you get Podcast Colin chin based his philosophy of car making on one simple phrase simplify then add lightness and you know it's complicated and heavy stuff that makes a car quiet the Lotus aora GT is one of the more unique cars on this list because it's the only sports car on this list with a Camry engine it's got a 3.5 L 24 valve Toyota V6 but it doesn't make normal Toyota V6 noises that's because Lotus added a flat plane crank and titanium exhaust which is tuned to sound almost like an F1 engine from 20 years ago and just like the Elantra n the avora GT makes even more noise when put into that sport mode baby when sport mode is toggled a butterfly valve in the exhaust system opens wide to produce more sound 91 DB Up full rev to put that in perspective James that's as loud as a reciprocating saw which is a saw that reciprocates I saw you you saw me so why would something like the shape of a crankshaft change the sound an engine makes let's break it down basically an engine gets its sound from a combination of four things the number of cylinders the cylinder Arrangement how regularly each cylinder fires and the order the cylinders fire in all those factors end up translated into a unique sound coming out of your exhaust a gas engine works thanks to a bunch of tiny explosions happening in the combustion chamber those explosions create gases that push down on the Pistons and then through the exhaust which is where the sound pulses out from the more cylinder your engine has the more frequent the pulses of sound that's why our four-cylinder Honda sounds like this and our V8 powered van sounds like this aside from Pistons you can have different kinds of crankshafts which rotate thanks to the pressure made in the combustion chamber but in other type flat plank crankshafts have recently spiked in popularity and have different sound characteristics they enable you to run an engine at a higher RPM and also fire the cylinders in a different sequence which gives you the higher pitch wine which some have described as screaming when it gets into the high RPMs then finally you have exhaust configurations which can alter the tone of the sound but we'll talk about that in a little bit next car on our list is our first American car and it's one close to Nolan's heart M let's give it up for the Ford Mustang Shelby gt350r American manufacturers usually use crossplane crankshafts but this 5.2 L V8 engine in the Mustang code named voodoo actually uses a flat plane crank a sequential multi-port injection system directly shoots the fuel into the cylinders and paired with a dual stainless steel active exhaust system the Mustang sounds a little bit like a Ferrari thanks to its whale which clocks in at 92 DB or if we're growing by OSHA guidelines it's the equivalent of a train whistle at 500t away you like trains James oh yeah dude who doesn't like trains the next car on our list is a perfect example of a car that we are currently driving in 718 Porsche came GT4 RS so this car basically has the same engine as the last generation 9911 GT3 it's a 4 L Flat 6 everyone loves the sound of a Porsche Flat 6 it's in the Bible and that's by Design oh I the crazy thing about this because it is what it is but also because the engine is right behind us yeah it sounds a lot different than other loud cars when we think of a loud car we think of exhaust noise but in this a lot of what we're hearing is induction noise the engine actually sucking air into it we are hearing this Beast breathe companies like Porsche spend millions of dollars making sure their cars sound incredible because that's part of the that's what you're paying for is that sound and this thing will do 92 DB at full rep I think it's probably louder than that honest that's what they say I think it's a lot louder than that when you open the door you notice there's a big old hole on each side of the car that's the actual intake where the air comes into the engine that is connected to a tube that goes right by my left and your right ear and you can hear it 100% you know exhaust is great but I love hearing a Caro when you hear intake noise whether it's like through a supercharger or like a turbo or just like a naturally aspirated engine sucking in air somehow for me it just makes it easy to visualize what's happening in there like it's like oh you're telling me how you work work you're this little living thing you can visualize the machine so not only is this Cayman loud but it sounds amazing but James what oh what exactly does a good sound look like sound engineers at car companies will tune these sounds to feed the emotions we get as we drive these cars smoother as you stay low in the Rev range as you would if you're just driving around your neighborhood but more aggressive and distorted as you get higher into the Rev range as you would if you were on the track or in the canyon or right next to my apartment at 3:00 a.m. yeah that guy is feeling a lot of emotion a lot of the time I I hope he's all right sound Engineers are literally shaping the emotional experience of driving with exhaust notes isn't that awesome but let's talk about one car even Louder Than This One the C7 Corvette ZR1 the ZR1 performance package is the top trim level of any Corvette for the 2019 C7 ZR1 it meant the most powerful engine ever in a Corvette topping out at 755 horsepower from a Supercharged lt5 V8 engine it too has an active exhaust system but this one works by using a passive valve that can divert exhaust flow through two different pipes one has a characteristics of loud straight piped car and the other one is quieter when you're driving your grandma a Red Lobster but when you're not with Grandma the ZR1 produces 99 DB at Full Throttle that's pretty freaking loud loud AF so this was the most powerful Corvette ever made but the ZR1 C8 is going to be more powerful and then there's the Zora on the horizon which will supposedly hit that 1,000 horsepower Mark we'll see we'll see see allegedly allegedly allegedly tons of different countries states and cities around the world have started Banning loud cars to prevent noise pollution since doctors think being around loud noises all the time can cause issues like heart disease and diarrhea and depression that actually explains a lot in my life me too so in the UK right now your car can't exceed 72 DB and by 2026 that number is going to drop down to just 68 DB and for reference that's the equivalent of a normal conversation level at 3 ft even RAC tracks are putting noise restrictions in place lunaa famously has a sound booth on the side of the track measuring cars as they go by which leads to a phenomenon we now know as the lagona pipe yeah you'll see these race cars with these giant mufflers coming out from behind the rear bumper and uh pointing away from those sound meters yeah it literally diverts the sound wave away from it so it can't be measured that's so they don't get tagged and and fined even cuz that restriction is strictly enforced in fact none of the cars on this list would pass Laguna sea uh without one of those Laguna pipes and you know what the racetrack was there before the houses for our next car we're taking a helicopter over the Atlantic for the McLaren Senna spider the insane twin turbocharged 4 L V8 engine under the butt Bonnet of this has a lightweight flat plane crankshaft I'm seeing a trend here in loud cars and a dual stainless steel exhaust system designed to make the Sena spider sound as smooth as it is loud if you've ever heard a jet fly over at 1,000 ft then every morning when you pass my house on your way to work the sen spider produces an insane 102 DB making it the first car on this list to hit Triple digit decb but we ain't done no not at all because the next car on this list is one that you've definitely heard before probably coming from miles away I am of course talking about the Dodge Challenger Hellcat meow meow it's enormous supercharged 6.2 L hem V8 pumps out an incredible 105 DB which is the equivalent of an NFL game or a leaf blower which is ironic because the leaf blower is our state MD but if you've ever been up close to a Hellcat you know the best part about that car is the wine from its massive supercharger spooling up sometimes induction sounds are better than exhaust sounds uh which I think we prove with the the the Porsche the second to last car on the list is the Porsche 9911 GT3 RS although it has a similar but newer engine to the GT4 RS the 4 L Flat 6 which makes 500 horsepower it's tuned to make way more Sound by way of a muffler that resonates like crazy at Red Line which is a enormous 8,800 RPM it whales at an insane 108 DB inside the cabin the 2016 Porsche GT3 RS is also four times as loud as the inside of a Challenger Hellcat speak of the devil Dodge announced a while ago that they were going to kill off all of their gas powered muscle cars but that doesn't mean that their car s are going to get quiet anytime soon no Dodge introduced an EV called the Charger Daytona SRT earlier this year you probably saw it looks amazing it came equipped with something pretty incredible called a frat zonic chambered exhaust what does that mean oh well in non-d Doge terms the Charger Daytona will have a fake exhaust sounds that's supposed to sound like a supercharged Hellcat V8 how do you feel about this I think it's fine so obviously it's not not coming from an engine it's an electric car instead the sound is coming from what amounts to an amplifier near the rear of the car and an electronically controlled whistle that changes level and Pitch depending on the throttle inputs maybe to make up for the fact that it's not an actual combustion noise Dodge claims that exhaust sound is going to rock it up to 126 DB which is just above the threshold of actual physical pain that's not necessary we're going to make that's not necessary but James we're not here to talk about fake engine noises we're here to talk about some real ones we're here to discuss that stanky exhaust air oh big old performance car farts and our final car on our list makes a ton of that stuff the Huracan performante I driven one in Italy and I cried you can watch it in a video dude it's a track focused rear wheeel drive lamborgine machine with 631 Herz Pur and a 0 to 6 Tower 2.8 seconds the Huracan performante power is the opposite of a joke It's a drama and I cried at it the Lamborghini signature whale happens thanks to an upgraded intake manifold James which has been paired with a lighter and reposition exhaust to really help amplify the sound of that massive 5.2 L V10 engine that's big that is as loud as a trom bone player playing straight into your ear 109 DB thanks for watching this video and every other video we upload make sure to hit that subscribe button so you don't miss anything we upload stuff multiple times a week follow James at James pum fre me and NJ SES if you'd like thank you so much to Porsche for letting us this GT4 RS it really was a dream come true what