its just another way of getting attention like having the new phone etc. 18/19/20 year old in more debt than most banks.
To be fair though some of my best cars have cost peanuts and ended up fitted with ashley exhausts that you could hear in the next town over
Used to love waking a mate up driving past his every morning and intentionally getting it to backfire, turns out I also woke the landlady of the pub opposite much to her annoyance. But that was years ago.