An M57 engine recording. The exact vehicle, exhaust and individual operating phases are not documented.
Jojhnjoy · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
Real recordings with their sources. No synthesised exhaust notes and no guesswork about what you are hearing.
An M57 engine recording. The exact vehicle, exhaust and individual operating phases are not documented.
Jojhnjoy · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
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
Recorded at Bimmerfest 2018. Microphone position and the individual vehicle affect the sound.
Johannes Maximilian · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source
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
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
A stationary paddock recording at Goodwood in 2010. Background event noise remains in the original.
Edvvc · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source
Listen, then pick the engine.
Links to recordings published by their creators on YouTube and Vimeo.