The World's Best-Sounding Drag Race: Lexus LFA vs Porsche Carrera GT vs Audi RS3 — w/ Jason Cammisa

The best-sounding cars of all time have inline-5s and V-10s, and so we lined up the 2023 Audi RS3 with the Lexus LFA and a Porsche Carrera GT!

First, Jason races the new Audi RS3 against an S3 to show how much quicker the 5-cylinder Audi is than its 4-cylinder brother.

The RS3 has the world's only remaining 5-cylinder engine, so Jason raced it against the first-ever production gasoline 5-cylinder — in its semifinal form in a 1991 Audi 200 20V Quattro.

Then it's time for a rev-off argument with Randy Pobst in a Porsche Carrera GT. Plus, an objective measurement of which is louder: CGT or LFA?

With special thanks to 034 Motorsport for bringing out their Audi S4!

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Chapters:
0:00 Five-cylinders, V-10s, and V-20s!
1:02 Drag Race: Audi RS3 vs Audi S3
2:20 Drag Race and 0-60 analysis: RS3 and S3
2:50 All About the 5-Cylinder Engine with Randy Pobst
4:16 RS3 vs Audi 200 20V Quattro vs Lexus LFA 1/4-mile drag race
4:55 Drag Race Walkback Analysis — LFA vs RS3 vs 200 20vt Quattro, 0-60 and 1/4-mile
6:52 Why 5-cylinder engines sound different - a perfect fifth!
7:38 Which is louder? Lexus LFA or Carrera GT?
8:12 Lexus LFA vs Porsche Carrera GT 1/4-mile drag race intro
8:23 LFA vs CGT rev-off "argument"
8:57 Headline drag race! CGT vs LFA
9:36 Drag Race Discussion
11:02 The Perfect Fifth Eargasm
11:37 Hagerty Driver's Club & "Ask Hagerty."

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[sanman]

Came here to listen to an LFA and a Carrera GT. Left wanting a 1991 Audi sedan.

[mbeasley]

Top tier editing.
Top tier presenter/drivers. Jason & Randy are always great together.
Top tier video.

[CMB]

When Motortrend died its slow death we all missed out on a few years of Jason and Randy's shenanigans. So glad to see them back together!

[melonenstrauch]

6:52 Musicology student here: It's really cool that you explained the part about the engine producing a musical interval. However you got it slightly wrong: the perfect 5th is produced by a 6 cylinder. That interval can sound agressive, which is why it is basically the entire identity of Rock music. The 5 and 10 cylinder engines produce a major 3rd, a very harmonious interval which can be percieved as "beautiful" and is why major chords sound like they do. I'm deeply in love with that sound (and specifically the LFA), so I didn't want to nitpick but my nerd brain felt the need to correct it.

[electrikoptik]

Man Hagerty and Cammisa have been consistently hitting homeruns after homeruns with their content!

[saketnaik]

Hagerty been putting out bangers w/ Jason cammisa

[mamba]

It’s not just that the LFA sounds incredible, it’s when you understand why it sounds like that you really appreciate it as a once in a generation engineering masterpiece.

[take-itizzy]

The editing @4:56 deserves recognition... The editors and cameramen deserve a holy cow.

[LOTUSELISER]

My jaw DROPPED when the '91 Quattro launched. Fantastic tune to put all that power to pavement!

[SUPASLY]

The editing on this channel is God tier!!

[kentbeitel]

The editing is so crazy! It’s movie quality. Hagerty is killing it! Plus I could even watch Jason review toaster ovens 😂

[jaredcrawford]

That LFA sound is purely seductive to any gear head. May not be the absolute fastest, it's actually just beautiful, ease of maintenance and the sound of pure automobile symphony.

[paultanis]

While everyone is talking about the new Corvette. This channel has again found another way to completely captivate me. Thank you!

[zollotech]

So good. Amazing sounds, but so hard to choose between Carrera GT and LFA

[a-rod]

20 years later and STILL my favorite car
The Carrera GT is a masterpiece of art

[kerun]

The Editing, the Sound, the whole Video is a Masterpiece thank you guys

[DoctaM]

This is just awesome. The cinematography is AMAZING. Jason & team, thank you for bringing this to us!

[highwaypatrol]

Sometimes things are not about being fastest... I love the sound of LFA. It just makes me smile. 🙂

[nicolasmikah]

Aside from its eargasmic sound, the LFA still looks sexy after 10 years

[DIVERSITY_MEDIA]

the LFA's orchestra will never get old, no matter how many times I hear it.