Listen To The Curious V8 Noise Of The BMW M8 GTE
The best-sounding GTE cars from the World Endurance Championship are - perhaps inevitably - the naturally-aspirated ones. Currently, only the Porsche 911 RSR and the soon-to-be-departing Aston Martin V8 Vantage tick that box.
But that’s not to say the other GTE machines all make dull noises. Just take the BMW M8 GTE, for example. Granted, it’s been competing for a little while now, but this great footage gives us a good chance to hear it in isolation.
It’s a curious-sounding beast, isn’t it? The car uses an evolution of the M6 GTE’s 4.4-litre V8, downsized to 4.0 litres and now sporting a flat-plane crank instead of cross-plane arrangement. But it doesn’t have that traditional flat-plane sound - there’s a weird, furious burble going on. It’s also accompanied by some wicked pops and bangs - an anti-lag system, we’re thinking. And one that perhaps sounds a little angrier than last time we heard it.
What do you think?
Video via Jalopnik
Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.
Comments
Under full throttle it sounds like a flat plane V8, but the anti lag that activates when lifting off sounds like thunder!
The M8s V8 sounds Gr8 m8, I really appreci8 BMW for this Gr8 car. Finally they can rel8 with what us v8 enthusiasts want. I therefore r8 it 8/8 m8
Stop.
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No need to deliber8, no h8 for the m8
ffs
Sounds awesome, hopefully the road car will sound even better
Engine bay shot:
Downshifts sounds like how a vacuum cleaner picks some stuff and makes that grrr sound
oh damn, so theres a gas turbine under the hood?
Finally Gran Turismo sounds realistic.
Post about BMW M8, and surprise surprise. First comment is a version “Gr8 M8 m8, I r8 8/8 m8” joke. Surprise, eh?
Probably not 😂😂
I cannot say that I am suprised
Outside of all the ridiculous popping and crackling from the anti-lag (if that’s what it is), I hope the production engine sounds close to this, because that would be AMAZING.
A re-use of the exhaust technologu found in f1 thqt made horrendous noises?
It sounds like satan’s popcorn machine.
Thats definetly a first
That’s quite the colorful description!
In any case it sounds a lot better than the M6 GT3/GTLM does. That thing is just as quiet as the road car on throttle, though it does have a similar anti lag rumble.