Listen To The Curious V8 Noise Of The BMW M8 GTE

The best-sounding GTE cars from the World Endurance Championship are - perhaps inevitably - the naturally-aspirated ones. Currently, only the Porsche 911 RSR and the soon-to-be-departing Aston Martin V8 Vantage tick that box.

But that’s not to say the other GTE machines all make dull noises. Just take the BMW M8 GTE, for example. Granted, it’s been competing for a little while now, but this great footage gives us a good chance to hear it in isolation.

It’s a curious-sounding beast, isn’t it? The car uses an evolution of the M6 GTE’s 4.4-litre V8, downsized to 4.0 litres and now sporting a flat-plane crank instead of cross-plane arrangement. But it doesn’t have that traditional flat-plane sound - there’s a weird, furious burble going on. It’s also accompanied by some wicked pops and bangs - an anti-lag system, we’re thinking. And one that perhaps sounds a little angrier than last time we heard it.

What do you think?

Video via Jalopnik