Patent ID: 8384528

Claim:
An apparatus for customizing a vehicle sound profile comprising: a controller; a vehicle exhaust, said vehicle exhaust including a mechanism operative to mechanically change a configuration of said vehicle exhaust and thereby vary the sound emitted by said vehicle exhaust such that said vehicle exhaust is configured to emit a plurality of sounds; a vehicle intake, said vehicle intake configured to emit a plurality of sounds; a vehicle exterior and a vehicle interior; at least one sound generator located in said vehicle interior and at least one sound generator located on said vehicle exterior, said controller connected to said sound generator located in said vehicle interior and said controller connected to said sound generator located on said vehicle exterior; said controller connected to said mechanism of said vehicle exhaust and said vehicle intake, whereby said controller is operative to independently control and vary the sound emitted by each of said vehicle exhaust, said vehicle intake, said sound generator located in said vehicle interior and said sound generator located on said vehicle exterior to create an overall sound profile of the vehicle; and said controller controlling the sound emitted by said vehicle exhaust, said vehicle intake, said sound generator located in said vehicle interior and said sound generator located on said vehicle exterior and correspondingly generating the sound profile in real time wherein the sound profile is a function of and based on vehicle operator commands such that the vehicle operator selects a preprogrammed sound profile wherein the sound levels in the vehicle interior and vehicle exterior vary independently of each other to achieve the sound profile.