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Old October 28th 20, 01:17 AM posted to rec.autos.tech
Scott Dorsey
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Default Why do horns in small cars sound so weak and small?

In article >, Wade Garrett > wrote:
>On 10/23/20 4:34 PM, butler mike wrote:
>> On Friday, September 24, 1993 at 10:56:37 AM UTC-4, Don T. Borowski wrote:
>>> John R Laplante ) wrote:
>>> :
>>> : Big cars have horns that make 'big sounds.' Loud. Full.
>>> : Small cars have horns that make 'small sounds.' "tinny." "beep beep".

>
>Many people who drive weenie cars do so to virtue signal they are green.
>And the little horn sound fits right in...being polite and not adding to
>noise pollution ;-)


Notice the original post here was from 1993. Small car horns don't sound
the way they did in 1993, and small cheaply-made car doors don't sound
tinny any longer. Toyota got some acoustical guys in to look at making
small cars sound more solid, and the rest of the industry followed along
very quickly back in the nineties.
--scott
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