It is really just a little bit too loud on road trips. I drove from Indy to Chicago with a friend of mine and I had nearly lost my voice by the time i got there. It does sound really wicked though. I'm not a big fan of the huge tips, but they come out more or less straight (sometimes I look at them and think they're angled, sometimes not). They were on the car when I got it, so I can't tell you about price, but there is a stamp on the muffler that says something like Powersports Extreme. If that is the original manufacturer of the whole cat-back system and not just the muffler, then I'm sure they sell it cheaper than Courtesy does.
