Road vehicle having: a passenger compartment; an internal combustion engine provided with at least one exhaust duct, which originates from an exhaust manifold and has at least one exhaust gas treatment device; and an exhaust noise transmission device provided with a transmission duct, which originates from the exhaust duct, and with a symposer device, which is arranged inside the transmission duct, is pneumatically insulating and is acoustically permeable; an inlet of the transmission duct being arranged between the exhaust manifold and the exhaust gas treatment device, hence upstream of the exhaust gas treatment device.