TRIPLE TAILPIPE CARS

01 Toyota GR Corolla

The hot Corolla isn’t coming to the UK, however we do have the fantastic GR Yaris, and the GR86 to look forward to. But what neither of those cars offer is an odd number of exhausts. The GR Corolla has two medium ones either side of the rear bumper and a big’un in the middle.

04 Lamborghini Aventador S

Sant’Agata seem to have appreciated the LFA’s exhaust pipe pyramid scheme, because when the time came to facelift the mighty Aventador, the designers dispensed with the old single-pipe tunnel and went for this triple-threat organ for the 6.5-litre V12 to shout out of.

07 Mercedes-AMG GT R

The AMG GT R has a massive central exhaust, but peer closely and you’ll see two more hiding in the rear diffuser, blowing hot gases from the 4.0-litre bi-turbo V8 into the airstream. And sounding like a [insert your favourite carnivorous animal] gargling a [insert name of our chosen motorbike].

02 Honda Civic Type R

The Civic Type R’s triple exhaust isn’t merely a styling exercise: the smaller central outlet is a resonator, while the outer two feature bigger mufflers further down the pipe. This reduces the boomy engine note so the car is a bit more refined when you’re behaving, and not when you gun it...

05 Ferrari F40

Even people who‘re rubbish at drawing could make a decent stab at sketching the back of an F40. Like the Civic Type R, there’s more here than meets the eye. The centre pipe doesn’t exhale the V8’s bad breath: it’s a wastegate outlet directly from the twin turbochargers. A work of art.

08 McLaren Senna

If you bought your Senna outside of the EU, it had a lighter exhaust with just the two outlets. But in the EU, stronger noise regulations meant McLaren had to fit a different version of the Inconel exhaust with a third tailpipe and an extra muffler to reduce drone.

03 Lexus LFA

An iconic exhaust trinity from a car with possibly the most memorable engine note of the 21st century. The LFA’s 4.8-litre, 9,000rpm, 552bhp V10 breathes out through triple pipes in a triangular formation clustered together to avoid upsetting airflow under the car’s rear diffuser.

06 Ferrari 458 Italia

So good, in fact, Ferrari paid homage to the F40’s exhaust holes on one of its best cars since: the stunning 458 Italia. True tifosi geeks know that there are actually four exhaust pipes funnelling the shriek of the 562bhp V8, but two combine into the central outlet just as they arrive at the rear.

09 Mitsubishi Minica Dangan ZZ

The sixth-gen Dangan ZZ got a performance version featuring a turbocharger and a world first: five valves per cylinder. Playing host to a feisty 64 horsepower, the Dangan ZZ needed to announce its potential, and did so with the cutest darn triple-exhaust you’ve ever seen. Bless!