The BMW seems to like playing with its flagships` engines, as they can actually add some faking sound generators to their cars.

And the one responsible for this is nobody than the i8 that can actually run silently without being noticed by the pedestrians.

The engine that can be found under the hood, is a three-cylinder unit with a turbocharged system that can really put some muscles into it.

The video shown reveals the inside of a pre-production BMW i8 with a fake sound-generating. There is also an Active Sound Design system that can be disabled for testing purposes.

Why would anybody add a system inside the car if it is able to produce such a noise? It seems that is a case over engineering, where engineers are adding features simply for showing off.

More than that, those who own an i8, would actually run to the first dealer and asked them how to disable the system.

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The Germans from BMW recently announced that the all-new BMW M5, internally known as F10, will benefit from a new technology called Active Sound Design which is able to replicate the sound of the V8 engine in the cabin and offer the driver and the passengers a unique experience. Moreover, the new system developed by BMW is quite smart as it needs to analyze and adjust several factors such as the speed of the car and performance in order to deliver an accurate response.

“The Active Sound Design technology specially developed for the new BMW M5 takes its cues from the driving situation at any one time to deliver an accurate reproduction of the engine’s sound through the car’s audio system,” explains the Bavarian company.

It is still hard to anticipate if the new Active Sound Design technology will be able to reproduce the sound of the 560HP 4.4-liter V8 engine but one thing is clear: all the M5 drivers will get this system fitted on their cars.

Even you are the driver or just a passenger in the rear seat, BMW says that you won’t feel any differences: “At the same time the Active Sound Design control unit ensures an even spread of sound across all five seats of the new BMW M5, while observing the legal guidelines governing noise emissions inside and outside the car.”

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