True Detective's Dodge Charger Exhaust Note: Could It Be Real? - Car and Driver (blog)
Say what you will about season two of the HBO series True Detective , but of all the show’s implausible over-complication, and as Wired points out , its impossible driving timelines, it did get one unexpected thing so very, very right. All season, those on staff watching the show have wondered how the various cop-spec Dodge Chargers driven by Detective Velcoro (played by Colin Farrell) could possibly sound so bad-ass. When the lights went out on last night’s season finale, we started thinking back to the last time we drove a rear-drive Dodge Charger Pursuit—the police-spec model—and we had it. We did a Name That Exhaust Note segment on a 2012 Dodge Charger... But while True Detective ‘s sound people nailed the rippling exhaust note of the Charger’s 5. 7-liter Hemi V-8, there were a few times the team seems to have taken some liberties with the sound editing. For example, in one scene (which you can watch here ), Velcoro and another of the show’s characters are having a heart-to-heart inside the Charger as it sits in traffic. We hear another instance of over-amplified idling exhaust notes in a scene where Velcoro leaves his cruiser running at the curb while pummeling some guy’s face in—on that guy’s porch. Unless the police deleted Velcoro’s muffler in the name of awesomely menacing exhaust thumping, we highly doubt the car’s sounds would be audible nearly 30 feet from the street. Source: blog.caranddriver.com
