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Originally Posted by rousseau
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They're both awesome in their own ways. You're comparing old-school flat-6 to modern V8.
I love that mechanical sound of the flat-6. It's just so
mechanical in the way it sounds. It wasn't the product of engineers trying to balance customer desires of what it should sound like (aside from some regulatory noise bits). It was a product of the engine layout and the engineers trying to extract what they could from that engine. Sound didn't even probably enter the conversation, except for 'We have to make this quiet so it doesn't get banned'.
The IS-F is different. It's modern, catered. It's definitely a nice-sounding V8, certainly and elicits a certain nostalgia of Detroit V8s of yore. It just sounds like it was engineered to be that; it's too clean (I'm struggling for the right word) and the rumble is something that was designed-in. The sound is a product of what the engineers wanted it to sound like, not what the natural sound of the engine really is.