Context: I own a 440i with the MPPSK exhaust, so I’m speaking from experience here.

When I got my car, it was fun for a bit to get it to do the pops and bangs. But the rare times that my car doesn’t pop on downshift, it sounds so much better. It has such a great natural growl that I now wish my MPPSK exhaust didn’t pop because it just sounds incredible without it.

Now I just find the pops and bangs obnoxious and over the top, especially now that everyone and their mothers with a BMW is popping and banging.

  • Crinkled_BellBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I don’t think the opinion is unpopular, I personally really like the stock burbles or pops. What I don’t like is when people tune it to be even louder, it’s already perfect from stock (in my opinion) but when people tune it to sound like a legitimate gun then it becomes obnoxious.

  • TurtleBilliamBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I used to own a mini jcw with the pro exhaust and I loved the pops and bangs when I was younger but now the gurgle and growls of downshifts and letting off the throttle in my M2 is just beastly. Fucking love it. I agree.

  • pyrophorekBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I like the quiet, throaty, inoffensive burbles, but not the pops and bangs. But every stock BMW I’ve driven does the burbles, not pops and bangs

  • Bob_Loblaw16BEnglish
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    11 months ago

    This is why BMW stopped making exciting cars. Don’t buy a sports car if you don’t want sports car noises.

  • ewwdav1dBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I drive a f30 340i… i hear the growl of my engine in sports plus node, but never i heard pops… unless im downshifting in a parking garage