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Today I learned BMW hired film composer Hans Zimmer to create an electric cars vroom

Today I learned that Hans Zimmer, known for his brilliant scores for movies such as Inception, Pirates of the Caribbean, and The Lion King, has also composed driving sounds for BMW. And they’re actually pretty good!

You can hear one coming to the company’s M version of its electric BMW i4 cars in this video (and jump to 1:30 if you just want to hear the sound).

And you can hear the driving sound that Zimmer composed for the BMW Vision M NEXT concept car in 2019 in this video:

These are cool, but they got The Verge staff wondering — what other composers should create sounds for cars? So we compiled just a few of our favorite composers into one list, and some ideas about what their car noises might sound like:

Please, car-makers: have more composers create drive sounds. I just gave you some excellent candidates you can consider.

In fact, tech industry in general, please hire them to make other sounds, too — you don’t always have ask to Zimmer to make things.

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Update: 2024-05-30