While You Were Sleeping: January 22, 2015
Published: January 22nd, 2015
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We’re back to our regularly scheduled programming. The Jeep Renegade drive was wrapped up, and our review will be published tomorrow. In the mean time, here’s your daily dose of overnight news.
- The mainstream media is only just catching on to the “fake engine noise” epidemic.
- The Cadillac CT6 will debut in two months.
- Sales of the Toyota Mirai are off to a great start.
- Motorists in the UK are putting off crucial maintenance.
- Tokyo’s city government is demanding more fuel cell cars by the end of the decade.
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Engine noise and handling is all my beat up old T-Bird has going for it...it's not fast, and it clearly doesn't look cool because nobody ever tells me so.
Direct injection is good for performance, but it sounds awful. In the Accord, Honda uses the opposite of fake noise--active noise cancellation. I'm fine with fake noise for those who want it, as long as there is a way for the rest of us to turn it OFF. If Cadillac must ape the Germans, ape them properly: have one character that indicates the body style, and another that indicates the engine. Honestly, what does CT6 tell you about the product? It could be a subcompact hatchback. Or a blender, for that matter. Can't Cadillac use names that are part of their heritage? The Toyota Mirai looks fine. What's that? You don't like vampires? Oh, okay. In that case it looks horrible.
Is your car faking it?
That's the most frightening photo of a Mirai I've seen. Fake noise - well, the fake noise of the BMW i8 sounds tremendous: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7G8mVOUUAQ"