Your top ten electric car noises

The European Union wants noisier cars. While this is something Top Gear has been advocating for some time now, the EU cites safety reasons; specifically, the noise an electric car must make.

Earlier this month, the European Parliament decreed that all new electric and hybrid cars must be fitted with ‘sound generating devices' by the year 2021, in a bid to prevent road accidents.

This is because an electric car doesn't sound like a normal engine. It sounds like... nothing, really. Maybe a milk float. Or distant train. We came up with some alternative suggestions - things like the Ghostbusters' proton pack, or a big fat dinosaur - but it seems we have been outfoxed by you, the good folk of TG.com.

You've sent in some funnier, finer efforts. Here, in no particular order, are ten of your best suggestions.

While Top Gear's preferred method of personal transportation involves a bloody great V12, Dr Who prefers his personal time machine. More specifically, a Time And Relative Dimension In Space machine. The TARDIS can transport its occupants to any time or place in the galaxy and beyond, including the time Jeremy Clarkson's hair inhabited its own strange universe. It also makes quite a cool sound, too.

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Suggested by M. A. Szadkowski, ansthestig, Tyler Manfred

A Top Fuel dragster can accelerate to 100mph in around one second. They're really, really, fast things, and in fact, the fastest sanctioned category of drag racing. While the drivers are subjected to interminable amounts of g-force rendering their reproductive capabilities useless, we - the audience - are treated to a cacophony of noise and sheer poweeerrr.

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Suggested by aRagingSkater

Aww, it's the adorable flying car from the adorable cartoon family of the future! And just listen to its adorable little sound! Somehow fits a Renault Twizy down to a tee, less so a Mercedes S-Class. Though the latter would be hilarious.

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Suggested by Peyton Waskey

The TIE Fighter is very much the Porsche Boxster of the Star Wars world, just with less inherent reliability and build quality. Because though its Twin Ion Engines afford it great speed and maneuverability, it's hopelessly rubbish at staying in one piece when confronted with a FRICKIN' LASER.

Still, sounds ace.

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Suggested by edgydrifter, Terry Paddi Bear Dunne and Mr Nice

Holy. Mother. Of. Godzilla. The Mazda 787B is a milestone of a car: it's the first and only Japanese-built motor to take a win at Le Mans, in the hands of Johnny Herbert, Volker Weidler and Bertrand Gachot in 1991.

But it's also a milestone in NOISE. Because its 2.6-litre rotary race engine sounds just superb.

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Suggested by Tak, Scott Brady

This is a very Top Gear kind of car. Partly because it sports a 46-litre bomber plane-sourced V12 engine that manages 0.18mpg and produces 493bhp at just 1500rpm, and partly because it sounds absolutely... satanic.

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Suggested by Joe1612

OK, so there are plenty of Formula One cars that sound good - not least these older Ferrari efforts - but Mika Hakkinen's company car from the 2001 season was especially symphonic.

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Suggested by Rowan Murray

Come on, this really doesn't need any more explanation. It's MORGAN FREEMAN, a man who could read the shipping forecast and make it sound utterly captivating. Imagine what he could do to a Nissan Leaf.

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Suggested by CKarta

We like this suggestion for obvious reasons.

Though not as much as...

Suggested by Tak

It's by far the most popular suggestion, and who are we to disagree? Just imagine. No seriously, just imagine.

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Suggested by Ammaar Kasim, oliverrr, homegrownhero, W_is_for_wambo