I want this car to be dead silence.....You can scare people to death with the look of it....I wan't the mimer version

Jaws shark attack tune.

Why all the fake muscles on something that only goes 125?

"Get out of my way, poor people. I'm environmentally superior and have more disposable income than you."

@PhoneticLorin: 125 is fast for an electric and 0-60 in 6 seconds for a hybrid 4 door sedan(coupe?) is fairly quick.

Oooh, I know. "Electric Funeral" by Black Sabbath.

I'm picturing something that was sold here in NJ for a long while - small conical plastic devices that you would adhere to your bumper. In theory, at speed they would emit a high pitched whistle in front of the car that was supposed to make deer run away.

Certainly something like that could be engineered to be audible to people in front of the car, but not inside it? That would alert people to its oncoming presence?

"Ride the Lightning" by Metallica

that "puta puta puta" jetson's sound would be cool. The Flintstones feet shuffling thing when your first leave the line would also be fun.

The Jaws Theme, if it could be played at different speeds as you drove would be awesome.

And I thought the Q Drive thing stood for Quiet Drive...
Agrree though with Ash78, I'd go for the Jaws motion picture soundtrack... Na,na,na...

@RalphieDC: "...Fast for an electric..." Still doesn't make it fast. The styling makes it look like it should be real-car fast, not just electric-car fast. It's just so extremely wide and long-nosed.

That is so stupid, but here are the options I want:
1. Computer Voice: "Warning, I am an Electric Car. Warning, I am an Electric Car..."
2. Pauly Shore: "Righteous Dude, Righteous Dude, Righteous Dude..."
3. College Student: "Don't Taze Me Bro, Don't Taze Me Bro, Don't Taze Me Bro..."
4. New York Philharmonic: "Theme from Psycho"

just get the generic sound of a woman screaming that was used in all the old horror movies.

i really think they should just let the thing be silent. if people can't be bothered to look both ways then why should we be bothered with having to basically yell at them via external speakers? i kid, of course.

the jetson's sound was probably the best suggestion so far though. it was sort of a moog version of the old beetle engine.

Couldn't we just put some baseball cards in the spokes?

The rhythmic squeaking of a spinning hamster wheel.
Or
The sound of a horse drawn cart on a cobblestone street.
Or
Flatulence

How about Speed Buggy's sputtering sounds and "Roomazoomzoom!" when you mash the accelerator.

Leave it silent and run over inattentive kids before they grow up to make another generation of inattentive escalade drivers. I'm a firm believer in Darwinism.

[I realize some jokes don't seem to work over teh interwebs, but I just signed "W" "T" "F"...in a Helen Keller accent.]

@milo_carrera: COTD!

I vote for the awesome jet turbine sound of the Batmobile. TELL ME you wouldn't want your car to make that noise as you pulled up in the Batcave... uh... I mean... the, uh, grocery store. AT the grocery store.

Okay, I'm going back to my comic books and bubblegum now.

@milo_carrera:

COTD Seconded!

The TIE Fighter wail is the coolest fake engine sound. Either that or nails-on-the-blackboard would be nice.

@Greg A.: I'd like to retract my vote and vote for the TIE fighter instead... I hate it when people have better ideas than me.

I'd want the sound of the Jetson mobile...

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Somehow, this idea reminds me of an old SciFi story called "The Marching Morons". In that story, the worlds elite had fooled the worlds overpopulating, breeding morons into driving cars that used speakers to give the impression of speed through phony engine and wind noise and fudging the speedometer readings while the morons were actually driving slowly. Now if only we could get all the morons to jump on a spaceship headed for Venus...

I need the additional fake blow off noise

"Born to be Wild" by Steppenwolf... I am showing my age, I guess.

Get your motor runnin'
Head out on the highway...

@Greg A.: Damn, that would've been my pick too.

@TR3-A: I've been a Steppenwolf fan since I was 12 (I'm 31 now) but I'm really sick to death of that song. On the plus side, it's still not in Pink Floyd/Zeppelin realm of "Enough already!"

How about "Highway Star", "Speed King", or "Space Truckin" by Deep Purple?

@slantsick: "..still not in the Pink Floyd/Zeppelin realm.."

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As usual, the realm of high-tech automotive design has been beaten to the punch by the Oakland car scene. We've had grill speakers in our scrapers for years.

I certainly hope one of the sound choices will be "classic rice" - the unmistakable "blat" noise made during deceleration by a rusted out Mazda with a bad valve, a leaking header, $3000 in plastic ground effects, $1000 a pop rims and of course the chrome megaphone exhaust tip

@PhoneticLorin:
Hey man, it's one speed. 125mph is pretty fast for 1 gear. Most don't have use for speeds higher than that anyway, like in Europe where many of these sedans have 155mph limiters. Just don't want people thinking somehow just because it is electric that it can't go faster than 125. It can, but it needs a transmission to do so. Basically all the EV companies are using reduction gear because they can reach 100+ or near it without a transmission. This helps efficiency and makes it so there are less parts to break (transmissions are NEVER 100% reliable, a reduction gear on the other hand can be close to 100%). The upper ranges are pretty much useless everyday except for bragging rights and for magazine comparisons of cars...I mean how many chances do you get to go 155.

@stopcrazypp: I see your point, but bragging rights are priceless.

Theramin.

@stopcrazypp: I did 140 on my bike this morning. But the again I don't live in LA. Also, sure it does 120, but it drains the batts in two minutes.

I want the Luftwaffe Edition sound effects package. You can choose between 'Stuka' for when you're driving aggressively, or 'Squadron of Heinkels' when you're just droning across the New York State Thruway.