Rant about noise, skip if you wish

Background: On August 24 of last year I actually ordered a new vehicle, a Ford Maverick. In case you aren't exposed to vehicular media, that's a compact pick-up truck, not the muscle car that once was sold under the same name. My truck has yet to even be scheduled for production, so I've not even seen it. Ford is moving awfully slow at producing these, apparently in part because they got far more orders than anticipated, and most of the orders were for the hybrid power train that they didn't expect would be so popular. After all, it doesn't have as high a horsepower rating. (Come on, Ford, climate change is real and your customers are aware of it whether you are or not.)

Anyway, this has spread my e-mail around to any number of sources for auto and truck stuff, filling my mailbox with a lot of trash as well as some useful information.

I chose the smallest truck because it was 1) all I needed; 2) much more fuel-efficient, especially in the hybrid version; and 3) attractively priced. It helped that reviewers compared its driving characteristics favorably to my previous car, a Ford Escape, and that they described it as "smooth and quiet."

Now come several articles along the lines of this one:
https://carbuzz.com/news/new-dual-tip-exhaust-now-available-for-ford-maverick

Jeez, if people want a noisy, smelly truck, why don't they just buy one? Why are they buying one designed to be fuel-efficient and quiet and immediately modifying it to make offensive and irritating noise? There are thousands of new and used trucks available to make disgusting noise with. Most of them will also do "0 to 60" much faster than a hybrid Maverick does.

I guess this is why I'm an equine. Humans are irritatingly stupid.

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