« Reply #66 on: 28 June 2015, 10:19 »
The road roar is unacceptable to the extent it affects conversation. It has to be addressed and will be addressed.
Who goes in an R for conversation? That's what cafés / bistros are for!
Seriously though maybe you've adjusted your doors too much to allow the noise in!
And here's the thing.
The R and all other hot hatches have quite wide tyres for obvious reasons of physics.
Wide tyres tend to make a bit of noise.
A hot hatch is based on a standard hatch - you get your 300 horses for £30k for that reason - economies of scale and all that.
A hot hatch is like a standard hatch with a few added ingredients; that's the beauty of them and why they're so popular in this overcrowded isle with lots of bendy roads. However, in order to behave like a fairly sporty car it won't have all the noise suppression of a limousine nor will it have the ride comfort levels. A fat bloke won't be able to compete on level terms with Mo Farrah despite all of the performance enhancing drugs the cows were fed before they became the fat bloke's beef burgers. Allegedly.
I've yet to decide whether my sh!testones are excessively noisy but in my limited (very limited) experience so far they seem ok considering what the R is all about. Lets put it this way - I wouldn't spec Dynaudio on an R unless I was going to be sat with the engine and air-con not running for long amounts of time, and I'd want better quality audio going into the system than crappy iPod quality or dodgy digital broadcasting (I think the nation was hoodwinked a little on that subject).
The R is designed with the PlayStation generation in mind, and with that it's designed to be a bit noisy so it can pretend to be something off a PlayStation game - particularly when you have DSG too and just have to steer it occasionally.
Exhaust noise seems to be all the rage so that's what manufacturers are giving us at the moment. I guess everything else on cars has to be dumbed down owing to EU and US legislation so your 300bhp is actually quite dull to drive compared to how VW
could have made it if they'd have been allowed to so they try and overcompensate that by attempting to make it sound like a sporty and exciting drive whilst pootling about 99% of the time in a 40mph limit between sets of traffic lights.
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