The Vette still sounds like a Chevy truck, with a silencer or a mute button on the exhaust. It sputters and spits, completely atonal, non-musical, big and bad but sputtering, off-beat. The Ferrari sounds like a Ferrari- it sings. And for the first time in a long time you don't need a Tubi or a Capristo to really enjoy the music. No comparison or similarity between the two other than the on/off bypass switch. You Vette guys are funny. But I should say this model of Vette is definitely the best looking since the 1960s classics. It has presence and was executed with a confident, clear hand and eye. Forza, Cavallini
This vid is a repost, and is over a month old. In the other thread, somebody said that the switch is not the bypass but switching from "sport" to "race" mode. Changes rather dramatically...
How biased....the Vette sounds awesome....MANY think an American V8 is one of the best sounding engines. The sound of the C5-R at the track when I heard it was awesome....on par with any F-car. Just different.
At idle, in that clip, the Vette sounded like your run-of-the-mill Z-71 Chevy truck at idle, nowhere near the 599 clip. On the open road even at partial throttle the American V8s sound great. I especially like the Ford Mustang's roar. I haven't had the pleasure to hear one of the new Vettes at full stride. I still don't think they're on par with an Italian V8 or V12 or the Aston V12, and I include the Zonda as an Italian because Pagani did something or had MB do something to that engine that sounds unlike any MB I've ever heard or heard of. The American V8s don't have the musical quality that the Italian engines have, whether at idle or at full song. They still please the ear and are very strong and earthy but they don't sing, the sound is not as complex. Forza, Cavallini
Man, that vette sounds ugly. Incomparable to a Ferrari...how can someone even say that Ferrari copied Chevy when the corvette only has a bypass switch. The knob on the 599 changes the car entirely, from sport to race to trac off to snow. It wasn't only meant to change the sound of the exhaust.
This was posted by Manuma a long time ago, but it is still really cool. If I'm not mistaken, he was there.
