Engine noise makes us more nervous than any other automotive sound because noise can mean expense and inconvenience. And, sometimes engine noise is nothing more than a normal dynamic of the engine’s ...

Cars are intricate machines that rely on a series of chemical and mechanical processes to work properly. When things go wrong with one of those processes, your car can start to make some strange ...

Sound coming from your engine bay is typically very normal, as it means the engine is working and providing power to help move your vehicle. Most drivers have an idea of what their vehicle should ...

Engineers are not just adding more insulation, they are reinventing how interior noise is captured, modeled, and judged so ...

You're tooling along on your way home from a cruise night or a car show when you pull up to a stop sign. As the engine drops down to an idle, you hear astrange sound from under the hood. It's not a ...

The final engine-downsizing complaint—that a V6, no matter how powerful, can't sound like a V8—is dead, thanks to Ford. We recently learned that the EcoBoost engine's aural deficiencies are being ...

The Rolls-Royce Spectre is supposed to glide around in near silence, but Mansory decided that simply would not do. Its latest ...

When I try to explain to ‘non-car people’ how important an engine note is to ‘car people,’ I always get the same, puzzled look. Like most consumers, utilitarian drivers value things like efficiency, ...