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Posted: 4/26/2024 5:53:09 PM EDT
https://www.sciencealert.com/study-links-preference-for-loud-cars-to-some-unsurprising-personality-traits
Most of us have experienced the sudden, deafening blare of a car's modified muffler, shattering your tranquility into a million pieces as it speeds past. If you live in a neighborhood where these disruptive sounds are familiar, it probably won't surprise you that research links a desire to own this type of car to higher levels of sadism and psychopathy. Psychologist Julie Aitken Schermer of the University of Western Ontario in Canada analyzed over 500 people to investigate the relationship between 'dark' personality traits and a preference for loud cars with modified mufflers. "As these exhaust modifications are both a disturbance to people and animals and are illegal in some jurisdictions… understanding who wants their vehicle to be loud is an interesting research question," Schermer wrote in Psychology Today about her pilot study. Schermer surveyed 529 business students who had an average age of 18 years, 52 percent of whom were men. The 'car scale' asked three questions about participants' feelings towards loud cars, identification with their own cars, and the potential to modify their mufflers, with higher scores indicating a preference for loud cars. |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 5:56:43 PM EDT
[Last Edit: ARandomClaymore]
[#1]
Fuck feelings!
 Stop getting butt-hurt while driving your soulless EV below the speed limit while acting pretentious, self-righteous and pompous-assed. You're damn right I'll bury the gas pedal to the floor in my V8, cammed, header, catless/ mufflerless exhaust! Edit: Come to think of it, I want your nosehairs to burn while inhaling all that raw unspent gas! Aw shit, my dark personality traits are showing! 
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Posted: 4/26/2024 5:57:11 PM EDT
[#2]
Couldn't possibly have anything to do with lowering back pressure and increasing horsepower. Nope, people just do it to be loud and piss other, peaceful people off.
Well, ok, some do it for exactly that reason. But not all of us! |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 5:59:48 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Scrote]
[#3]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By ARandomClaymore: Fuck feelings! Stop getting butt-hurt while driving your soulless EV below the speed limit while acting pretentious, righteous and pompous-assed. You're damn right I'll bury the gas pedal to the floor in my cammed, header, catless/ mufflerless exhaust!   Attached File |
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TX, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 6:00:02 PM EDT
[#4]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By R2point0: Couldn't possibly have anything to do with lowering back pressure and increasing horsepower. Nope, people just do it to be loud and piss other, peaceful people off. Well, ok, some do it for exactly that reason. But not all of us! To be fair, it isn't just about performance, it is also to piss off commie cunts like the author. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 6:02:12 PM EDT
[#5]
Fuck tree huggers
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Posted: 4/26/2024 6:04:17 PM EDT
[#6]
I'm not a sadist. Just raised by a kickass gearhead, to be a gearhead, and I've since raised more gearheads.
These people want to genocide my entire species. 
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Posted: 4/26/2024 6:08:16 PM EDT
[#7]
The author of that would probably get the vapours if they saw black smoke rolling out of the MBRP turbo-back on my powerstroke
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PA, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 6:08:18 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Smash47]
[#8]
I loved how my 77 Z28 with headers no mufflers turned out the sides under the doors sounded. Total ear rape to those next to me on cruise night.
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Posted: 4/26/2024 6:10:41 PM EDT
[#9]
Every fucking guy in High School wanted a muscle car with glass packs on it.
Every, single one. Cept for the gay guy. He rode a bicycle to school. Dumbest article ever. I like my shit loud. You don't like that? Oh, here's some more. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 6:16:25 PM EDT
[#10]
Who the fuck has mufflers?
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Posted: 4/26/2024 6:17:18 PM EDT
[Last Edit: RealityCheck0311]
[#11]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By R2point0: Couldn't possibly have anything to do with lowering back pressure and increasing horsepower. Nope, people just do it to be loud and piss other, peaceful people off. Well, ok, some do it for exactly that reason. But not all of us! I've owned a lot of tuned cars, many of them with straight pipes, loud induction, etc.. I can drive around neighborhoods in a higher gear/lower revs and keep the noise down. In this article I think they're mainly talking about people that have loud cars just to be loud and annoying as possible. Like a fart can and too big of piping on some 1.6 SOHC Civic. Where as a smaller exhaust system would like create more horsepower. But they just want the loudness. Same types like have subwoofers that rattle your house windows from a block away. And they'll just sit in their car at 3am talking to their girlfriend with the stereo cranked up. Or the guy that lives near me driving a new Charger and straight pipes. And every morning has to rev the piss out of the car like he's making a dyno run. It's all being considerate about the people around you. Doesn't mean you need to drive a silent Prius. Just means don't be an asshole. |
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TN, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 6:20:51 PM EDT
[#12]
Douchebaggery
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Posted: 4/26/2024 6:27:12 PM EDT
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Posted: 4/26/2024 6:29:18 PM EDT
[#14]
Psychology is gay, but using loud exhaust systems in public is super gay.
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Posted: 4/26/2024 6:30:03 PM EDT
[#15]
According to Psychologist Julie Aitken Schermer
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Posted: 4/26/2024 6:31:56 PM EDT
[#16]
Where do whistle tips factor into this equation
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OH, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 6:34:39 PM EDT
[#17]
The turnout collector style exhaust was built to deal with minivan mom douchebaggery. Especially camping in the left lane with the speedo locked at 2MPH below the posted limit.
(BruceBanner)Don't make me pass you. You wouldn't like it if I pass you...(/Bruce) |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 6:39:33 PM EDT
[#18]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By planovet: https://31.media.tumblr.com/b023e58f193122c086c0f37f9901398b/tumblr_n3ish0WVi51tnc0spo8_500.gif Lol! |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 6:39:50 PM EDT
[#19]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Bravo_Six: Psychology is gay, but using loud exhaust systems in public is super gay. 
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Posted: 4/26/2024 6:42:16 PM EDT
[#20]
I like a nice throaty exhaust on any car.
I fucking hate assholes that put systems that cause constant backfiring when the throttle is released. It doesn't sound good, Mr. Attention Whore. |
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WI, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 6:45:38 PM EDT
[#21]
I love unrestricted V8s in pretty much all brands and sizes. Something about that blurble at idle and scream at full throttle.
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Posted: 4/26/2024 6:46:35 PM EDT
[#22]
So every Harley owner is a psychopath?
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 6:48:19 PM EDT
[Last Edit: azmp5]
[#23]
I'll be the first to admit my cars exhaust I'd probably alittle on the louder side (18 zl1 with kook headers, no cats, into a borla s-type) but there is mo drone inside the car and you can have a normal conversation but still alittle throaty when I get on it.
The iroc has a 4" muffler and the wifes ws6 is still rocking the factory slp loudmouth. But fuck.... there are SO many people (mostly dodge boys) running straight pipes. Imo it just sounds like shit cause of all the rasp... but then again, people these days like that raspy "popcorn" borbol bullshit sound. And jesus...if it pops a flame out the back, they nut right there. I just don't get it. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 6:50:07 PM EDT
[#24]
Better to have it stock quiet until it spools up.
Hard to bait people with a loud car.
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 6:50:10 PM EDT
[#25]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Ronnoc: So every Harley owner is a psychopath? No... South Park went over what every Harley owner is. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 6:52:17 PM EDT
[#26]
So being young is a personality trait?
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Posted: 4/26/2024 6:53:05 PM EDT
[#27]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By CouncilOfDave: Better to have it stock quiet until it spools up. Hard to bait people with a loud car. True... |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 6:54:49 PM EDT
[#28]
What if you just like the sound and potential performance gains depending on the situation?
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Posted: 4/26/2024 6:56:36 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Dru]
[#29]
I live in a small town that is increasingly becoming a large town, thanks to transplants, I love the high school kids and young adults in their 60 to 80k bro-dozers driving around with loud pipes with, what some deem offensive, flags flying off the back..... Keeps the mosquitoes away!
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:00:15 PM EDT
[#30]
I don't care what other people think.
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:01:11 PM EDT
[#31]
Quote HistoryNothing on this planet sounds better than an RSV4 with SC Project exhaust. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:03:22 PM EDT
[#32]
How about loud chainsaws. Get yourself a McCulloch 10-10 chainsaw for one of the loudest most masculine chainsaws ever made. What is a muffler? Who gives a shit? They made that thing for performance in a time before the epa was a bunch of fagggots. Your neighbors won’t have the,”is that a weed wacker or a chainsaw?,” anymore. THEY WILL KNOW!
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:07:10 PM EDT
[#33]
Do you think Milner or Falfa gave a s**t if people thought their pipes were "too loud?"
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FL, USA
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:10:03 PM EDT
[#34]
 INSANE Takeover CRASH / FAIL Compilation | Tanner Scott |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:10:35 PM EDT
[#35]
Please do a follow up study on rolling coal.
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:10:37 PM EDT
[#36]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By timeless: Nothing on this planet sounds better than an RSV4 with SC Project exhaust. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By timeless: Nothing on this planet sounds better than an RSV4 with SC Project exhaust. Sickest sounding bike I've ever had. It's a 2023 Tuono V4 Factory. Really wanted the SC Project GP-22, but my ear ringing is getting to be a bit too much to handle. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:13:26 PM EDT
[#37]
It's all about penis size
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:14:10 PM EDT
[#38]
That was written as gay and any anti gun article I’ve ever seen where the author had no idea what they are talking about.
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:15:06 PM EDT
[#39]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By fordtuff: What if you just like the sound and potential performance gains depending on the situation? |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:18:51 PM EDT
[#40]
 My wife and daughter make a huge deal of it whenever one zips by us on the road. The car is in and out of our lives in a matter of seconds. Why get worked up over it? |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:23:25 PM EDT
[#41]
So what's next? I've run Walker Mini Turbo Flows on my Miata for 16 years and I've have a pair of LaScalis that I have cranked unmercifully for the last 35. Does that mean I have squads of hot missing cheerleaders buried in the crawlspace under my house?
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:25:39 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Global_Cooling]
[#42]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By johnnypantz: Who the fuck has mufflers? Straight pipe V8 are the sound of freedom! I love mine. I should add some catless headers. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:39:05 PM EDT
[#43]
That lady has dry vag syndrome.
That's the biggest bitch article I've read so far this year. Here  69 Charger 440 Start up Open Headers |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:42:33 PM EDT
[#44]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By pestilence12: That lady has dry vag syndrome. That's the biggest bitch article I've read so far this year. Here  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBCLOr5nT_MLooks good. Sounds even better! |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:48:07 PM EDT
[#45]
Have you noticed that every behavior opposed to being a strict rule follower is being labeled as something on the level of criminal/insane/sociopathic/psychopathic lately? I sure have. I'm going to continue to do whatever the fuck I want anyway.
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:53:28 PM EDT
[#46]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By southerncross: Have you noticed that every behavior opposed to being a strict rule follower is being labeled as something on the level of criminal/insane/sociopathic/psychopathic lately? I sure have. I'm going to continue to do whatever the fuck I want anyway. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 7:54:36 PM EDT
[#47]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By tifosi: I'm not a sadist. Just raised by a kickass gearhead, to be a gearhead, and I've since raised more gearheads. These people want to genocide my entire species. You are doing Gods work sir. The avatar is quite fitting as well.
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:06:10 PM EDT
[#48]
But what about the people doing it just for the sake of being an obnoxious douche?
Don't try to tell me there aren't any. Those fuckers can FOAD. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:11:04 PM EDT
[#49]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Bronsonburner: But what about the people doing it just for the sake of being an obnoxious douche? Don't try to tell me there aren't any. Those fuckers can FOAD. |
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Posted: 4/26/2024 8:15:09 PM EDT
[Last Edit: Mojo_Jojo]
[#50]
I hate loud cars that are not fast. False advertising. NO, your econo coupe is not a fast car.
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