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"Old diesels were filthy. Modern diesels are not filthy and were momentarily the "king of high tech" until the hybrids came along and dethroned them." Maybe, b
by rsync 11y ago
"Old diesels were filthy. Modern diesels are not filthy and were momentarily the "king of high tech" until the hybrids came along and dethroned them."
Maybe, but even the nicest, newest diesels are still aesthetic abominations.
I just walked past a gleaming brand new porsche cayenne diesel and it sounds like a chitty-chitty-bang-bang set piece.
If you're a sound designer and you need to evoke low-tech, rattle-trap primitives, you could do a lot worse than just record a new diesel porsche/bmw/audi.
Also, vibration, as compared to similar gasoline engines (and this is also true for the diesel-like gasoline engines that utilize things like TFSI ... much more vibration than the corresponding non-TFSI engine).
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- ptaipale 11y agoDepends on context - over here (north Europe), diesels may be more a symbol of wealth than a gasoline engine. Gas guzzlers are prole, for people who have furry dice in the rear view mirror and silly "vocational school mustache". Compare that to your statement about "smaller petrol engines" for which your example is Macan Turbo 3.6L engine. Over here, such an engine is ridiculously large and almost stupid. A small, efficient petrol engine over here is something like a 1.0 litre turbocharged gas engine in a Ford Mondeo.
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