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Originally Posted by Martinjlm
I feel the need to defend Dodge on this one. We all saw the Banshee launch and the fake sound was a HUGE mistake. Wish they had never done that, because the technology the car will really have is actually kinda cool.
There will be sound with the Banshee, but it’s not faked. Why they chose to try to “simulate” it for the reveal is beyond me. To improve the handling of Banshee, Dodge has engineered baffles under the car to direct the air and keep the car planted. Very similar to what Chevrolet does with C8. They also channel the sound of that air flowing through the baffles to generate an engine-like sound. That sound changes in pitch and tone as the vehicle increases speed, so it naturally sounds like an engine revving. At highway speeds it’s as loud as a Hemi.
Because the car they showed at the reveal could only crawl at about 5 mph, they piped in the sound. I still can’t figure out who would have ok’d that plan. The result was very predictable and now they have to dig out of a hole to get anybody to take the real sound seriously.
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That tone generator with the wind under the car sounds like a terrible idea. The way you describe it, it sounds like it winds up similar to a jet engine and doesn't "rev" back down, which is obviously how an ICE works, rev up, then down, and settle in a quiet thrum on the highway that sort of blends in with the road noise, or quieter in a regular passenger car.
That reveal and the subsequent fake engine revving sound on the Banshee was one of the worst ideas I've ever seen, way worse than the S650 Mustang reveal where they were bragging about remote rev and an electronic handle parking brake and drift mode. Both were cringe-worthy, but the Banshee definitely takes the cake.