I doubt if any of us guys who spent lots of money with Abarth, Ansa, Smithy's, Borla, Magnaflow, etc are ever going to sign on to quiet cars. I owned two of the Fiat 124 Spiders that were used in the article's electric conversion.and although I always would have liked a little more acceleration, I wouldn't have traded the sound of that car revving to 7.000 rpm for the hum of an electric motor.