Sound library

Turn it up.

Real recordings with their sources. No synthesised exhaust notes and no guesswork about what you are hearing.

Inline-six diesel BMW M57

An M57 engine recording. The exact vehicle, exhaust and individual operating phases are not documented.

Jojhnjoy · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

Inline-four petrol BMW S14

Recorded at Bimmerfest 2018. Use it as an S14 reference, not a recording of every E30 trim.

Johannes Maximilian · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

V12 petrol BMW M70

Recorded at Bimmerfest 2018. Microphone position and the individual vehicle affect the sound.

Johannes Maximilian · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source

Racing V8 BMW M3 GT2

A race car accelerating from the Goodwood hillclimb start in 2010. This is not a standard road-going M3 exhaust.

Edvvc · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Racing V12 BMW V12 LMR

Recorded at the Goodwood hillclimb start in 2009. This race-car recording is separate from road-car engine examples.

Edvvc · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Historic inline-six BMW 328 Mille Miglia Touring Coupé

A stationary paddock recording at Goodwood in 2010. Background event noise remains in the original.

Edvvc · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Challenge

Name that engine

Listen, then pick the engine.

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