Hypothetical question - What would a sports exhaust sound like on Gen 4?

There is a new VW GOLF Diesel DSG around the corner from me, drives past at least a dozen annoying times a day - he has a "SPORTS EXHAUST" - which sounds awful. It's sort of like I would imagine a bass bagpipe would sound playing the same note, but changing gear from time to time. Or like an ill Bassoon. Blowing raspberries like.

Whenever I hear it, it has me thinking - has anybody ever put a "SPORTS EXHAUST" on a PRIUS, and what would it sound like.

 

Yep, I wondered about how the Atkinson Cycle would dull the sound - still, I think it's nicer than the VW Diesel raspy farting sound I hear often. No, I'm unlikely to do it - at least while it's under warranty.

The stop-start could be interesting - mine will go on EV for maybe ½km, then burst into Atkinson Cycle life, then back to EV. Silent at traffic lights, but if you plant the foot, back to Atkinson Cycle at reasonably high (for a PRIUS) revs.

 

Lovely, thanks. I'd be interested to hear it do a drive-by recording, I've heard mufflers sound just OK in the shop, but really great in ordinary driving - and vice-versa. But even static it's much better than the VW diesel cruising my street.

 

TRUE - I'm not 25 either. The question started when I kept hearing the pathetic VW Diesel sound - and kept thinking "I wonder what a PRIUS would sound like - what with the combination of sometimes EV, an eCVT, and an Atkinson Cycle engine".

BUT - now thinking in the future, there is a generation coming who, in days past would have probably craved, lusted for and maybe bought a V8 (or V10/12/16) with a sports exhaust. But, someday soon that won't be happening, the V8's days are numbered I suspect, replaced soon by an intermediate period of small turbo-petrol/gasoline engines which can be made to sound sporty, and maybe Hybrids. WHAT WILL THEY DO, though, when there is nothing other than 2030 Leafs, Teslas, PRIME MK7 EVs etc. How will they make an EV sound sporty?