Thanks guys
I am working on something for the space situation... No cars are leaving the garage again LOL - not even the Beetle
I drove it to work and had some unexpected traffic for good measure. The Akrapovic exhaust in 'natural' mode is actually very civilized! I managed to have perfectly good conversations en route (obviously not quite as good as the M5 LOL).
The Akrapovic exhaust is a lot more complex than the Novitec and the optional race exhaust available from factory. This enables it to sound very nice (but tame) in some modes yet with the car in Dynamic mode it becomes insane (it has been years since I set off an alarm in a parking lot LOL)