All road cars are silenced.
An M3 or R8 is pretty exciting to listen to, but you're not hearing the whole thing. An uncorked engine is a wonder to hear, but it'll rattle your brains out in seconds.
When you're in any street vehicle, you're not getting everything. You're not getting the full sound of the tires, the feel of the wheels clattering over bumps, you're not getting the full induction roar and exhaust snarl of the engine.
In that way, the Tesla isn't much different from many modern cars... just much quieter in the engine aspect.
While I agree that engine music is an integral part of the sportscar package, I'd like to note that much of what you hear is edited for tone, character and volume. Manufacturers go to great lengths to...
manufacture an exhaust note for their cars... even going so far as to adding what are essentially speakers (induction resonators) to the cabin so you can hear it.
Quite dishonest, though I agree, entertaining, but still dishonest. The Tesla, at least, makes no pretensions, but some people are working on ways to endow it with an equally fake engine snarl.
Because like hippies they like to save the environment. The reason I chose the word hippie is because I couldn't think of a more technical or less offensive word to describe that type of person or car.
Hippies are all about freedom from societal norms and standards... as such, while they loved the open road, they often didn't own cars. The Beetle and Microbus became associated with hippies because they were cheap. Really cheap. Hippies, instead of buying cars from, y'know, the
Man, bused their way or hitch-hiked around.
Left them more money to spend on LSD and marijuana.... peaaaaaace, man.
Now, some tree-huggers
may have once been hippies, but not all tree-huggers are hippies, and not all hippies have become tree-huggers... the Prius is not a "hippie" thing. It's a car for thirty-something white collar liberal-minded yuppies with a thing for things green.
It has the unfortunate distinction of being the car of choice for celebrities and politicians who want to make a political statement while still enjoying a lavish, energy-wasteful lifestyle on the side... but a lot of Prius owners are practical people, and quite a few are tech-geeks who play around with their cars... they're... gasp... tuners.
Or is that hackers?
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The thumb is the hippie thing. It's greener, too.
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More technical?
How about:
Roly-poly
Bland
Boring
Over-priced
Under-tired
Overweight...
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