{"id":49314,"date":"2015-01-22T09:23:25","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T16:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/22\/hear-the-mighty-engine-roar-now-in-stereo.html"},"modified":"2015-01-22T09:23:25","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T16:23:25","slug":"hear-the-mighty-engine-roar-now-in-stereo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/22\/hear-the-mighty-engine-roar-now-in-stereo.html","title":{"rendered":"Hear the Mighty Engine Roar! (Now in Stereo!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That mighty rumble, purr, or deep-throated roar of your uber-sexy muscle-car-pickup-vehicle &#8230; may be being &quot;enhanced&quot; by sound files played through your stereo system.<\/p>\n<p>On the one hand, it seems so goofy as to be laughable. It&#39;s arguably deceptive, but not in a way that affects the actual performance or mileage. And, let&#39;s face it, there&#39;s a lot, already, about vehicle design that is just &quot;fabricating the car&rsquo;s sexiness.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Still &#8230; it certainly says something about people (Americans, at least) and their cars.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/americas-best-selling-cars-and-trucks-are-built-on-lies-the-rise-of-fake-engine-noise\/2015\/01\/21\/6db09a10-a0ba-11e4-b146-577832eafcb4_story.html'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh5.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/z2RkG0u3Ta0mWNsGYu3T3gmlwrmHYVQV6c8KY6Yisc9cz_BwJ8rnTQi1DFhDAyzg-_7w9Z_2mnWudc7bpW2N2D1rzJX_q0qJhaT_5fDbbNxhxqfob76jni-l_D8X8EzLnq24m29ihuhEK08G9Pgk-qafmO9k8qqX7jXaE2hqVvDa__HuniNJZPopap9X=w506-h303-p' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/americas-best-selling-cars-and-trucks-are-built-on-lies-the-rise-of-fake-engine-noise\/2015\/01\/21\/6db09a10-a0ba-11e4-b146-577832eafcb4_story.html'>America&rsquo;s best-selling cars and trucks are built on lies: The rise of fake engine noise<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nThe growl from some best-selling cars and trucks is actually well-tuned lip-syncing or digitally faked.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/buatpkg1LnK'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That mighty rumble, purr, or deep-throated roar of your uber-sexy muscle-car-pickup-vehicle &#8230; may be being &quot;enhanced&quot; by sound files played through your stereo system. On the one hand, it seems so goofy as to be laughable. It&#39;s arguably deceptive, but not in a way that affects the actual performance or mileage. And, let&#39;s face it, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/01\/22\/hear-the-mighty-engine-roar-now-in-stereo.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hear the Mighty Engine Roar! (Now in Stereo!)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18694,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/23\/the-case-of-the-car-break-in-that-wasnt.html","url_meta":{"origin":49314,"position":0},"title":"The Case of the Car Break-In That Wasn&#8217;t","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 23-Sep-10 9:39am","format":false,"excerpt":"I tend not to park in shadowy, out-of-the-way places, far from crowds and surveillance cameras and the like. \u00a0I tend to park in public, close-in, well-populated areas. 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