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I really don’t understand the claim that the REX engine is noisy. I drove one and was a passenger in one for about 40 mins and really struggled to hear it! I do wonder if they are just looking to repeat some other journalist’s unresearched remark to make comments like this - 'That’ll be the unsuppressed chug of the moped engine waking behind you, puncturing the ambience’. Not least to use such a disparaging remark as to claim it is a 'unsuppressed moped engine’ really shows the total lack of knowledge.
 
I haven't heard one yet, but there is a video from Spain on the insideevs site:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCDn5r8WZI4

It's definitely quite audible outside the car, and a lot less so inside, but lets not pretend it's quiet.
 
Well I have and I found it barely audible inside the car even when when sat in the back seat. No idea about external noise except that when we had the windows down it was not intrusive. As for the video, I wonder where they had the microphone?
 
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