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News reaches us this week that the European Commission is worried that the electric or battery powered car, designed to lower the decibel level of the rush hour cacophony is in fact, er, too quiet.

This could mean that each manufacturer will be permitted to provide its own theme or signature tune to it’s car hot off the production line, with regulations simply setting a minimum volume to prevent pedestrians, cyclists and especially blind people from stepping into the path of battery-powered cars.

Now this is all very well and good, but when it’s been suggested by some car designers that the signature tune could be the revolutionary sound of a, wait for it, petrol engine, we think that this idea is a bit of a waste of time to say the least.

This got us thinking – wouldn’t it be great if the manufacturers adopted aircraft sounds or that of a space ship, for instance the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars. But what if YOU could choose your own car theme tune – a real drive-ring tone. Here’s our suggestions of what we would like to hear on the street. Have you got any? Please post your comments in the box below if you have!

1. Fleetwood Mac – The Chain (BBC Formula 1 Grand Prix Theme)
2. TV Theme – Doctor Who
3. TV Theme – Benny Hill
4. Movie Theme – 633 Squadron
5. TV Advert – We Buy Any Car.Com
6. Wolf Whistle
7. Dukes Of Hazzard – Dixie Horn
8. TV Theme – Knight Rider
9. The Wurzels – Combine Harvester
10. TV Theme – Magic Roundabout

Incidently faking sounds and even smells is not a new thing -

• An unpleasant odour has been added to natural gas since 300 children died in 1937 after a leak at a Texas school went unnoticed

• Digital cameras make the sound of a shutter closing to reassure users

• Cash machines whirr to convince us that our money is on its way

• Manufacturers use dye to make strawberry ice-cream pink, ketchup red and squash orange

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