Earlier this month, Honda released a video that previewed the sound of their new vacuum clea... erm... Formula One engine McLaren will be using starting with the 2015 season. And as you might recall, we hate it and we’d kill it with fire!
Some of you might enjoy it though, which means you can revisit our article and hear that "roar" again. However, we’d like to apologize to the folks that found it rather irritating, and to do that we decided to feature another V6 mill. And don’t worry, it’s totally unrelated to the annoying 1.6-liter units F1 is about to get.
The engine we’re talking about used to power Alfa Romeo’s 155 Ti DTM race car in the mid-1990s. The 2.5-liter V6 produced up to 480 horsepower at almost 12,000 rpm, which makes it cooler than several powerplants used in today’s racing scene. To make it even better, it sounds like a race engine should - awesome, heavenly, like Mozart on a cool summer Sunday morning. Pump up the volume and hit the play button. There’s a bonus at the end - where the V6 engine is used by a hillclimb prototype car.
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