Re:The 1980 Citroën Karin
by freehunter on Thursday August 10, 2017 @09:54AM
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>The big reason to have a loud exhaust is to keep people in cars from changing lanes into the space you're occupying.
That's what bikers tell people so that those people stop calling them names. Doesn't mean it's true. The real reason bikes or cars or trucks are modified to have loud exhausts is because the driver wants to draw more attention to themselves for purely cosmetic reasons. If safety was a priority, they would leave the exhaust stock and just not ride in blind spots, not weave in and out of traffic, keep to the speed limit, and generally drive in a predictable fashion.
>has to drive it like that for a week (who vastly outnumber people with loud exhausts)
This is also not true. How would the amount of rusted cars without a muffler for one week outnumber the people who drive like that permanently? The people who either drive without a muffler or who have a modified muffler? For the entire life of the car?
The best way to avoid listening to loud exhausts is for insecure assholes to stop modifying their muffler.
That's what bikers tell people so that those people stop calling them names. Doesn't mean it's true. The real reason bikes or cars or trucks are modified to have loud exhausts is because the driver wants to draw more attention to themselves for purely cosmetic reasons. If safety was a priority, they would leave the exhaust stock and just not ride in blind spots, not weave in and out of traffic, keep to the speed limit, and generally drive in a predictable fashion.
>has to drive it like that for a week (who vastly outnumber people with loud exhausts)
This is also not true. How would the amount of rusted cars without a muffler for one week outnumber the people who drive like that permanently? The people who either drive without a muffler or who have a modified muffler? For the entire life of the car?
The best way to avoid listening to loud exhausts is for insecure assholes to stop modifying their muffler.