2012 Ford Focus Electric Vehicle Test Sound A

Learn more about the 2012 Focus Electric: http://www.ford.com/electric/focusele... . Ford wants your feedback on the way its electric vehicles sound. Which word would you use to describe this version?

*These example sounds are not necessarily correct for the vehicle's speed as shown in the video. Please focus on the sound character, rather than on the sound volume or imagined "speed".

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  Autos & Vehicles

[Sam Tripp]

How about no sound? 

[Germán -Biálbero-]

Horrible!!!

[freddotu]

Adding noise to an otherwise quiet motor vehicle is just another way to removing responsibility from the driver. The driver should be well aware of pedestrians and cyclists and other road users and not have additional environmental noise to "warn" them of approaching automobiles. US motorists have an inflated sense of "ownership" of the roadway and this isn't going to remove or reduce that misconception.

[Camnpac]

The two words that come immediately to mind are "phony" and "tinny."

I think the people who are designing the car tones are the same ones who are designing the bodies. Let's get some auto enthusiasts on board both teams, and make something that is not offensively bland.

[RingSight91]

The difference being, if a sailboat were to "run down" an unwitting swimmer, nobody gets crunched beneath tires and pavement. You forget that water waves splashing about, like on a hull, makes its own noise. What a horrible analogy anyway, as if sea lanes had pedestrian crosswalks or that sailors didn't have to be fit to sail in the first place.

[Russ Nelligan]

You should be able to select your own and change it. Download new car sounds... like ring tones. MIne would sound like chitty-chitty-bang-bang

[bdfeldt]

Couldn't you just clip some playing cards in the spokes with a clothespin?

[John Daniels]

I truly wouldnt mind sound B  Thanks for caring

[dennisdahl3]

nope, sound is too big, too overbearing. Is better for a bus or large truck.

[Chewayne Harrod]

Sounds like a space ship but idk if it make me move out the way LOL