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July 2, 2003

Yet Another New Level of Trunk Thumpin' (dB Drag Racing)

You may not have seen them, but chances are pretty good that you've heard them: mega-subwoofer-packin' automotive thunderboxes (often with accompanying resonator-boy exhaust.) I had no clue how far these decibel-drunk automotive afficionados have extended their passions for sound pressure until I caught this byline on CNN:

"By Stephan Wilkinson
Popular Science Wednesday, July 2, 2003 Posted: 10:23 AM EDT (1423 GMT)
-- Troy Irving's 18-year-old Dodge Caravan has a heck of a sound system: 72 amplifiers -- you got it, 72 -- and 36 big 16-volt batteries to put out the 130,000 watts of power needed to rumble his nine 15-inch subwoofers.

To put that into perspective, the most powerful production-car audio I know of is the $230,000+ 2003 Aston Martin Vanquish's 1,200-watt system. Irving carries $80,000 worth of audio alone, in a vehicle that is worth, admittedly, slightly less than the Maybach. Must be fun to ride down Main Street with the windows rolled down, right?

Not really. At a curb weight of about 10,000 pounds, the Caravan is basically undrivable. There is virtually no room for a driver, and even less for a passenger."

Yow. Ow!


Read the full story via cnn.com

Posted by Turfdigger at July 2, 2003 5:07 PM
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