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   Scott Dorsey to wade@cooler.net   
   Re: Why do horns in small cars sound so    
   28 Oct 20 00:17:14   
   
   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
   In article , Wade Garrett   wrote:   
   >On 10/23/20 4:34 PM, butler mike wrote:   
   >> On Friday, September 24, 1993 at 10:56:37 AM UTC-4, Don T. Borowski wrote:   
   >>> John R Laplante (jlap...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) wrote:   
   >>> :   
   >>> : Big cars have horns that make 'big sounds.' Loud. Full.   
   >>> : Small cars have horns that make 'small sounds.' "tinny." "beep beep".   
   >   
   >Many people who drive weenie cars do so to virtue signal they are green.   
   >And the little horn sound fits right in...being polite and not adding to   
   >noise pollution ;-)   
      
   Notice the original post here was from 1993.  Small car horns don't sound   
   the way they did in 1993, and small cheaply-made car doors don't sound   
   tinny any longer.  Toyota got some acoustical guys in to look at making   
   small cars sound more solid, and the rest of the industry followed along   
   very quickly back in the nineties.   
   --scott   
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