Listen To The Curious V8 Noise Of The BMW M8 GTE

A few weeks ahead of the car tackling the 24 Hours of Le Mans, BMW's M8 GTE has been testing at Monza
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The best-sounding GTE cars from the World Endurance Championship are - perhaps inevitably - the naturally-aspirated ones. Currently, only the Porsche 911 RSR and the soon-to-be-departing Aston Martin V8 Vantage tick that box.

But that’s not to say the other GTE machines all make dull noises. Just take the BMW M8 GTE, for example. Granted, it’s been competing for a little while now, but this great footage gives us a good chance to hear it in isolation.

It’s a curious-sounding beast, isn’t it? The car uses an evolution of the M6 GTE’s 4.4-litre V8, downsized to 4.0 litres and now sporting a flat-plane crank instead of cross-plane arrangement. But it doesn’t have that traditional flat-plane sound - there’s a weird, furious burble going on. It’s also accompanied by some wicked pops and bangs - an anti-lag system, we’re thinking. And one that perhaps sounds a little angrier than last time we heard it.

What do you think?

Video via Jalopnik

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Wheel Nuts

Under full throttle it sounds like a flat plane V8, but the anti lag that activates when lifting off sounds like thunder!

05/22/2018 - 08:50 |
10 | 1
Nishant Dash

The M8s V8 sounds Gr8 m8, I really appreci8 BMW for this Gr8 car. Finally they can rel8 with what us v8 enthusiasts want. I therefore r8 it 8/8 m8

05/22/2018 - 08:58 |
69 | 14

Stop.

05/22/2018 - 11:07 |
26 | 2

No need to deliber8, no h8 for the m8

05/22/2018 - 22:37 |
0 | 0

ffs

05/22/2018 - 23:56 |
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BenPaye(JDMSquad)(MX5Squad)(LFAsquad)(Subie Squad) (Rotary F

Sounds awesome, hopefully the road car will sound even better

05/22/2018 - 08:59 |
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Conor Roberts
05/22/2018 - 09:02 |
14 | 0
Wogmidget

Engine bay shot:

05/22/2018 - 09:13 |
11 | 3

Downshifts sounds like how a vacuum cleaner picks some stuff and makes that grrr sound

05/22/2018 - 10:37 |
7 | 0

oh damn, so theres a gas turbine under the hood?

05/22/2018 - 13:45 |
2 | 0

Finally Gran Turismo sounds realistic.

05/25/2018 - 05:14 |
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Anonymous

Post about BMW M8, and surprise surprise. First comment is a version “Gr8 M8 m8, I r8 8/8 m8” joke. Surprise, eh?

05/22/2018 - 09:13 |
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Nishant Dash

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

Probably not 😂😂

05/22/2018 - 13:09 |
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Sean J.

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

I cannot say that I am suprised

05/22/2018 - 19:53 |
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Midwest Hoonigan

Outside of all the ridiculous popping and crackling from the anti-lag (if that’s what it is), I hope the production engine sounds close to this, because that would be AMAZING.

05/22/2018 - 10:21 |
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5:19.55

A re-use of the exhaust technologu found in f1 thqt made horrendous noises?

05/22/2018 - 10:47 |
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Ian MacDonald

It sounds like satan’s popcorn machine.

05/22/2018 - 11:08 |
5 | 0

Thats definetly a first

05/22/2018 - 16:01 |
1 | 0

That’s quite the colorful description!

05/23/2018 - 03:51 |
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Anonymous

In any case it sounds a lot better than the M6 GT3/GTLM does. That thing is just as quiet as the road car on throttle, though it does have a similar anti lag rumble.

05/22/2018 - 11:20 |
1 | 0