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Originally Posted by LuSe4
Not sure how it is a gimmick. Sounds like someone that is either jealous or has no idea What the hell they are talking about.
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From a pure performance point of view, this sort of extra cost and complexity is seen as appealing to people interested only in the sound of performance whether or not the extra performance is there. You would not find such a feature on a race car, nor would you likely pay extra for it in an aftermarket exhaust system.
That's not to say it's a universally bad thing, just that anything that provides image without much substance to back it up isn't going to be viewed by all as a universally good thing either.
There's an aura of artificiality about it, I guess.
It's really not much different from the OE muffler in the 2001 Anniversary Edition Maxima and I think some Infiniti model, which had some sort of internal valve arrangement that opened under some conditions. Except that Nissan's was 100% mechanically controlled and actuated. I'll have to cut that one open some day before I toss it out. No jealousy here, I just couldn't be bothered to touch that vehicle's exhaust until one of the joints started leaking and I had to.
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