Actually, in a lot of cases, loud goes hand in hand with performance. My Neon SRT-4 comes factory with a turbo and no muffler. It does come with a resonator. A turbo'd car loves no restriction at all in it's exhaust system. Is my car loud? Yes, when I open it up and I never get on it in neighborhoods and cities. Other performance cars have performance exhausts that benefit their high horsepower cars. Now there are cars out there, mostly imports, who put on a loud, noisy exhaust and call it good. These cars are still slow, but loud. A lot of it depends on the driver and how respectable they are towards others. Some people just like to be annoying.
