Car horns rated for harshness

IF you like to make fellow motorists aware of how you feel about their driving with a swift blast on your vehicle's horn, you may also be interested to know how the sound that your horn makes compares to the horns on other models.

In a recent survey, professor Theo Van Leeuwen of Cardiff University conducted exhaustive tests on the horns of modern cars.

Of the models tested, the Ford Mondeo was found to have the most aggressive sounding horn and the Audi TT’s hooter tone rated as the most inoffensive.