With a decade of downsizing, turbocharging and pop’n’crackle exhausts now behind us in the contemporary performance car world, it would be easy to forget one of the great joys in all of cars. That, of a really good induction noise. Exhaust noise is, if you’ll forgive us for a moment, cheap and easy to do. Everything with an M-sport or AMG line badge has a burble mode these days. What you will struggle to find anywhere, is the raw sound of air rushing through an intake plenum and into throttle bodies. So we thought we’d come up with a list of the very best cars for induction noise we could think of. Let us know if we missed any.
11 cars with the best induction sound
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