[tranquility]

I often see people harping on some sportscars due to their substandard sound. For sure, who doesn't want all the boxes ticked? But, I sometimes feel that we place too much emphasis on that aspect. I would've thought that the highest priority for a sportscar is performance (and, for me, that would ultimately be handling, not top speed / straight line numbers).

If you had to choose between one or the other - sound or performance - which would it be?

Here's a hyperbolic example: both cars look the same, the best-looking one, say, a Lamborghini Miura or whatever, car #1 drives like it's on rails but has a very weak exhaust note (or, gasp! silent like an EV) and car #2 has amazing sound of the best V12, V10, V8 (or whatever is your dream sound) but drives like a cargo van. Do you really value sound *that* much? I personally think sound is way overrated.