Porsche Carrera GT

Featured this week is another one of my favorite cars, the Porsche Carrera GT. My love of this car comes from two main points. One is that it is a beautiful Porsche. The other part is the sound created by the engine. The exterior is very agressive and it just looks like car that is very fast. The noise created by the engine is high pitched and almost the complete opposite of the growl from an Aston Martin DBS.

The Carrera GT was built between 2004 and 2006 and was meant to be the peak of Porsche technology. The engine sits right behind the two seats. It has a 612 hp engine which is more than three times the horsepower of a Honda Civic. The engine is based on a Porsche race car that was never put on the racetrack because of new rule changes. This power has allowed the Carrera GT to be clocked in the 3.5 second range for going from 0-60. This is obviously a very serious car which why if you would like to buy it, you'd have to pay about a half million dollars when it was new.

Personally, I believe one of the most amazing things about cars, that never comes up in stats is the exhaust note that is put out. When you are paying that much, I want something that sounds beautiful every time the engine is opened up. There is such diversity for sounds that are out there. Muscle cars from the 60's sound much different than the Carrera GT. That is what is amazing to follow through the years, which is see how with regards to exhaust note, there has been such an evolution. Companies put a lot of effort into making beautiful sounds from their cars and that comes from having their exhausts tune by music companies like Yamaha so that the engine sounds as best as possible.