X

XCAR Awards 2013: Best Sound

The noise that falls from the back of cars can evoke some pretty great feelings. Here's our choice of the best from 2013.

Alex Goy Editor / Roadshow
Alex Goy is an editor for Roadshow. He loves all things on four wheels and has a penchant for British sports cars - the more impractical the better. He also likes tea.
Alex Goy
Watch this: XCAR Awards 2013 - Best Sound

The shortlist for this one was LONG, but Jaguar's F-Type makes an incredible noise no matter which one you go for.

Watch this: Jaguar F-Type: It's All In The Name

Throwing a V-8 in a family car is no new thing, but the 4.2-litre V-8 found the Audi RS 4 is a dirty, mechanical, guttural thing that throws out a noise unlike any other. It'll encourage you to drive everywhere in second gear.

Watch this: Audi RS4: Fast and Loud

BMW's 327 may be older than your grandparents but it makes a noise that caused the whole team to go wobbly at the knees. If that's what family wagons sounded like way back when then sign us up.

Watch this: A history of the BMW Roadsters, from the 30s to the present day

A 6.0-litre V-12 will sound good in anything, but Aston Martin's engineers made it sing in the V12 Vantage. We can't help but love it.

Watch this: Aston Martin V12 Vantage

The Pagani Huayra was designed to give those who experience a sensory overload, so you'd expect its twin-turbo 6.0-litre V-12 to be pretty special. It's more than that -- much, much more.

Watch this: Pagani Huayra: A hypercar unlike any other

Firing its noise out of four side-mounted exhausts, the Morgan Aero Coupe's BMW-sourced V-8 lends the Mog a noise to suits its 1930's looks.

Watch this: Morgan Aero Coupe: Steampunk Supercar

Our winner isn't modern. It isn't bursting with power either. It's an icon that showed Enzo Ferrari where to stick his prancing horse. It's the Mk III Ford GT40. Nothing sounds quite as good as that thing's V-8. Sadly, nothing probably ever will.

Watch this: Ford GT40, Ford GT70 and Ford GT: Fifty years of a legendary name