My friends at Autocar magazine have a noise meter. It measures in decibels the level of racket inside the car that they’re testing, and with most family motors at full throttle that’ll be around 74 decibels (dB).
A typical high performance car at its noisiest registers around 90dB on the meter.
But the car that we’re testing this week scored 109dB on Autocar’s gizmo when its engine is at the 9,000rpm redline in third gear. And that is loud.
