Do You Want Your Mustang Mach E to Make Sound?

[DYohn]

I want minimal sounds inside and out. The Dodge system is one of the stupidest things I have ever seen as a car "feature." But I suspect it will sell to rich teen boys (or teen boys who never grew up.)

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[agdad]

 

[Chuck]

I happened to stumble across a YouTube video of a dodge introduction of their new electric challenger. Apparently, their market differentiator is going to be that they’ve developed a manual transmission for the car, and they’ve developed a proprietary system for it to make very loud “electric motor/combustion motor revving” sounds. You’d have to hear it. It doesn’t sound precisely like an internal combustion engine, but it definitely sounds like someone was trying to synthesize the sound of an internal combustion engine - LOUDLY! If ford offered that kind of sound effect for the Mustang Mach E, would you use it? I sure wouldn’t. It was obnoxious.

Not interested. I've always wanted a silent car and now I have it. Why would I want to change that?

This is a temporary fad that is being used to satiate the ICE lovers. It's a temporary thing that we'll look back on and laugh.

 

[abr]

Another one for quiet. I listened to the fake sound in the MME once and turned that setting off forever. If I want noise, I can stay home.

 

[RickMachE]

Yeah, like “This newfangled automobile thing is sweet but I want to drive it with reins and can you make the horn whinny?”

The shift thing is mind boggling to me. The only reason there was a shifter is because the car wouldn’t work well without it. Now that there is this electric motor technology that doesn’t need a transmission to work, they want to retro engineer it back in. That’s kinda like going back to the surgeon 20 years later and asking for him to put your appendix back in.

Car enthusiasts love stick shifts. My first car was a stick. Then I got a Datsun 280Z, and later a Jeep CJ-7, all with a stick. I mourn the demise of stick shifters.

 

[Chuck]

I want Ford to partner with Skywalker Sound to put Scifi sounds inside the car, with adjustable volume. We need more options than just the one propulsion sound.

My neighbor's Audi E-Tron sounds just like a Star Wars Land Speeder. It's very cool hearing it come down the street. I wish the Mach E had a cool sound.

 

[Valkyrja]

From my second car until the MME my cars have been manual. I thought I would never own an automatic and now that I have the MME I find I do not miss it. Even my new motorcycle has an automatic DCT that I can shift if I want to and I rarely use the option.

Back to the original subject, I have thought about it and I will stick to rolling down the windows and making fake motor sounds at the other drivers at red lights.

 

[Tampamike]

Car enthusiasts love stick shifts. My first car was a stick. Then I got a Datsun 280Z, and later a Jeep CJ-7, all with a stick. I mourn the demise of stick shifters.

Well, you could just mount a fake one on the console and make that motorboat noise with your lips while fake shifting off the line, right?

I learned on a Ford Grenada with a ”three on the tree” column shifter in drivers Ed. My first car was a Triumph and I’ve had a CJ-7 and a Taurus SHO as well. I don’t miss it. I lived around NYC for too many years and am glad I didn’t have to shift thousands of times going down the Van Wyck or the Cross Island. I used to fly airplanes for a living - the autopilot and autothrottles were nice too. But I get it, some of us old guys don’t like change. Most of the kids now, though, don’t know what a stick shift is.

 

[Mach1E]

I wonder if I could get the Imperial March from Star Wars? ?

Apparently this exists! (Or at least Star Wars sounds):

https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/tesla-model-3-sound-supercar-milltek-app/

 

[MrsZuko]

I like the look of the concept car and Dodge definitely knows their customer - I bet the sound goes over really well for them. Great play on their part. They've already got a post with 3 pages on a competitor's forum.

From what I'm seeing, most people are really hating the sound? Are you seeing something different? I'm genuinely curious. We sold our Hellcat about a year and half ago, we were strictly Mopar for years. My husband loved the styling, but was super turned off by the sound, I'm not a fan either. I get what Dodge is trying to accomplish, but they should focus on speed and not on trying to imitate the V8 noise...it's not reproducible. It's just making those who are digging their heels in about never converting to an EV even more angry.

 

[dmastro]

From what I'm seeing, most people are really hating the sound? Are you seeing something different? I'm genuinely curious. We sold our Hellcat about a year and half ago, we were strictly Mopar for years. My husband loved the styling, but was super turned off by the sound, I'm not a fan either. I get what Dodge is trying to accomplish, but they should focus on speed and not on trying to imitate the V8 noise...it's not reproducible. It's just making those who are digging their heels in about never converting to an EV even more angry.

I haven't heard anything yet, this post is the first I've heard of the new car. I'm just basing my guess on the Dodge owners I know and Dodge's marketing approach for their cars.

 

[ctenidae]

From my second car until the MME my cars have been manual. I thought I would never own an automatic and now that I have the MME I find I do not miss it. Even my new motorcycle has an automatic DCT that I can shift if I want to and I rarely use the option.

Back to the original subject, I have thought about it and I will stick to rolling down the windows and making fake motor sounds at the other drivers at red lights.

Similar - I've never owned an automatic, and I don't consider EV's to be "automatics." The best part of a manual is that it goes when you tell it to, not when 18 valves open and finally move a gallon of ATF to finally get something to engage to get the car to start thinking about maybe deciding on a gear it might choose. EVs also go when you tell them to, and slow down when you tell them to stop going. Love it.

As for noises, unless it's the Jetsons or some bad-ass Batman machine, I'll take a nice electric hum over any tinned fakery. It was a critical element of my last ICE (2012 BMW 650) that I was absolutely 100% certain that it didn't have that godawful piped in engine noise. We have enough "alternative facts" as it is, no need to put them in our cars, too.

 

[zhackwyatt]

Oh no! This is going to resurrect the "Ford is stupid for adding fake engine noise in the Mach-E" debate of 2020.

Next people will complain about it having a start button (us old-timers on the board know that reference).

 

[Mach1E]

From what I'm seeing, most people are really hating the sound? Are you seeing something different? I'm genuinely curious. We sold our Hellcat about a year and half ago, we were strictly Mopar for years. My husband loved the styling, but was super turned off by the sound, I'm not a fan either. I get what Dodge is trying to accomplish, but they should focus on speed and not on trying to imitate the V8 noise...it's not reproducible. It's just making those who are digging their heels in about never converting to an EV even more angry.

It’s a joke. And probably because when EV owners hear “Dodge,” this is likely what they picture:

YEEEEEEE HAAAAAW

 

[Jimrpa]

It’s a joke. And probably because when EV owners hear “Dodge,” this is likely what they picture:

YEEEEEEE HAAAAAW

And I suspect there will be some who will be fondly recalling Daisy Dukes.

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