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.
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It sounds like if a rally car had a V8 M8.
I’ve been keeping a few certain tabs of racing open during class and watching them on mute when I can when I decided to look up the cars and write down the make and model (mainly lmp) I found out those weren’t m4s they were an m6 and m8 and I couldn’t here it.😩
Anti-lag in a naturally aspirated car? 🤔🤔
it’s twin turbo
Rev higher!
If the dogs of war were mechanical, I reckon they would sound like this.
“Currently, only the Porsche 911 RSR and the soon-to-be-departing Aston Martin V8 Vantage tick that box. “
Man… please. Poor forgotten Corvette is crying.
It’s an interesting mix of sounds…almost like a cross between a “conventional” V8, a gas turbine engine, a Shop-Vac picking up large loose debris and the usual turbo car noises.
In other words, it sounds fine to me.
i want to hear it irl and ill be there at the 24h