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Glob posted...

Not heard that one, but Id assume its more in reference to joy riders, who drive recklessly because they dont care if the car gets damaged.

It's 100% this. It's an idiom that basically means you drive a car like you don't care what happens to it. And we saw a lot of joyriding a few years ago. Kia's and Hyudai's were discovered to have a major security flaw that made them really easy to steal. And that info spread around on social media. Teenagers would steal one of those cars, speed, drift, do donuts, etc., and then abandon the car somewhere once they crashed it.