Freer-flowing exhaust with a good, tuned sound will never go out of style. Even once the EV switchover is almost complete. People are gonna pay metric fucktons for a great sounding V8 car in 25-30 years.
Sorry, I'd assumed my noise ordinance batman intro would've implied I was being facetious. I'm well aware of Borla's long history of performance tuning, I was really just poking fun at the fad back at the turn of the millennium of every stickered up Civic and Eclipse needing a Borla exhaust to add 7hp and 50dB in a sad attempt to make their 4-banger sound like a V-12. The OP was literally posting about a Borla mod to add sound and no performance to an EV, which feels a bit like the same thing.
I love the sound of a well tuned engine going thru the gears, or downshifting into a corner.... but that sound is a result of engineered performance in a well-tuned motor to maximize airflow. Adding a speaker to an EV that has a single speed transmission has no real purpose other than novelty.
I am thinking that I will have to convert my 5.0 V8 to run on natural gas eventually. Gasoline will become hard to find and expensive. I wonder if you can get a natural gas filling station installed at residence.
I watched that too. The coolest thing for me is that, because the system reads inputs including accelerator pedal position, one can "rev" a Mach-E while in Park. Personally, I don't particularly relish raucous engine noise, but I'm glad this exists for those who miss it. {Jonathan}I just watched a portion of the latest episode of All Girls Garage - Mach E vs Mustang and the girls installed Borla's new Active Performance Sound for Electric Vehicles underneath the Mach-E. The rep on the show said that there will be up to 1000 sounds available and users will be able to customize their sound.
The girls decided to make the Mach-E sound like a an ICE Mustang which I thought was super cringy but whatever.I'd love to see a wide variety EV performance sounds available instead of trying to mimic EVs sounding like they're powered by gas.
I'm thrilled to see the aftermarket make something like this but I'm sure that this will probably be a polarizing mod.
It looks like this system will be available for purchase sometime this fall.
There's a huge speaker that goes underneath the Mach-E right where an exhaust tip would normally be.
More details here: https://www.borla.com/products/active-performance-sound-for-electric-vehicles/
Thanks @RockwallRick for the heads up that this episode would be airing.
Per the Borla person in the episode, the sound palette will be customizable over time via an app. {Jonathan}
