Topic: Ford Mustang

A professional automotive builder provides insight into why modern car manufacturers like Porsche, BMW, and Ford pump artificial engine sounds into cabins. The practice is attributed to heavy sound-deadening materials that make modern engines too quiet for performance enthusiasts. The discussion also covers noise-canceling muffler technology and the history of audio engineering in cars.

The hosts cover three tech news items: the Obama administration's reversal on sharing consumer data from Healthcare.gov with private advertisers, Ford's use of "active noise control" to play fake engine sounds through car speakers, and historical inaccuracies in the film "The Imitation Game." They note the movie ignores the Polish cryptologists who first broke the Enigma code.