I can hear it all the way here too, except I know that the people who like guzzling V8s as the "only" real way to power a car share the same logic if not the exact same person as the people who
1. Love music and breakfast cereal so much, they want whatever they're listening to to come with some Snap, Crackle, and Pop
2. Will argue that, despite data and the ghosts of Snap, Crackle, and Pop, that it actually has greater than 16bits of dynamic range and has a blacker background
As for the 3cyl+electric not getting enough serious car buyers:
Also, there are actually serious car guys who don't don't need V8s to go fast, when they can go fast around a track with a small, light, agile 4cyl car instead of, say, using a V8 car to go around a trailer park turning in one direction five hundred times, or going in a straight line to the adulation of the scantily clad chicks at the other end of the block.
Hell, I once drew up a design exercise for a similarly small car, with a transverse-midmount V6 using a drivetrain design similar to the Miura's (the redesigned one, with the separate lubrication) and a central driving position for weight distribution (engine will similarly be positioned to optimize weight balance) and more importantly to get rid of the need for time alignment DSP on the stereo system, and around 95% of the people I discussed it with (including a guy who potentially could have funded it) asked "so where does the hot chick sit? nobody would buy that" (sic). That's how you separate those who want to go fast from the posers who just want to get into somebody's pants fast. They want to drive a "race inspired" car, but balk at the idea of not having a passenger seat, despite the fact that LMPs and open-wheel racers have only one seat save for the ones they use for media events to drive some TV reporter around the track in. The best part is that if you're starting with a car that doesn't have provisions for the unnecessary stuff the chassis potentially makes a better platform for a racer, but the problem is that too many posers will not buy it so it won't meet hte minimum sales requirement for GT racing.
My point exactly - if there's a lot of noise on it and it can't be modified to have low gain (or it can, but the noise is still there), then it's probably a bad design.
The problem is that audiophiles tend to separate themselves from other people solely by the complexity of their gear - if you don't have an iPod strapped to an iDevice DAC strapped to a balanced amplifier driving an LCD-3 in the train, or some obscure DAP that could be mistaken for a GameBoy (from the bulk all the way down to the screen and UI), you're not really an audiophile.
Kind of like Shaffer up there who thinks that not being a fan of big block V8s means you're not serious about cars and just want to look cool, when I've seen more posers driving around in Camaros than in an Exige, let alone the Seven (you'd have to be really hardcore to drive a car that looks a lot more like an old racer in terms of how crappy the interior and amenities are). Being serious about cars isn't always about popping open the hood like dropping one's pants and whipping out a tape measure (or popping open the hood because they can't compete by dropping their pants with a tape measure around), but by saying "screw creature comforts! I'm here to drive!"