Context: I drive a 15+ year old SUV, and I am no longer in the position to just replace everything should anything bad happen. So sadly I will have to buy a newer car at some point. Hopefully not anytime soon 🤞🏼🤞🏼 But, I noticed when shopping with other people that newer cars sound weird. My knowledge of car troubleshooting is little more than sounds good/sounds bad, looks good/looks bad, smells good/smells bad, feels good/feels bad.
So, how are newer cars supposed to sound?
If you get a plug-in hybrid then low speeds might also have a pedestrian safety sound which is a humming that gets louder until 24 km an hour which is when it will shut off because the car road noise is then loud enough to be audible to pedestrians.