Would you ever destroy a car with an axe?

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Could I? Yes.
Would I? Probably not. If it's someone else's vehicle, I could be in some legal trouble. Nothing would ever provoke me to, but if it's my own car and I have some urge to use an axe on it, I would.
I don't think I would call it insane to do so. Could be an interesting icebreaker though. "Hey I destroyed my car with an axe today, what about you?"
Just an idea if you're looking for conversation starters

I would probably just embarrass myself with how little damage each strike did if I tried that, even before my current health issues started I’ve never been strong, or even average. I also don’t ever have an urge to destroy anything, even when I’m as angry as angry gets or having a meltdown (I will throw any object I come in contact with, but the goal is to get it away, not to damage it in any way). Don’t know why, but it has always baffled me that people feel a need to break, damage, and destroy things when angry.

So the short answer is no, I can’t see any situation where I’d have any urge to do that.

This sort of exercise falls under the general class of therapy first popularized with tennis rackets hitting pillows. For that, I browsed my junk, and hung up a water-filled inner tube, and beat it with a stick. To see permanent results and get better sound effects, breaking glass bottles in a recycling stream is one possibility. I have a friend who by chance acquired a machete, and began taking out his frustrations on his overgrown paths. I think the exercise saved his life. Juvenile delinquents can benefit greatly by being allowed to weed a garden of their own plants.

It sounds like fun. Wouldn't an axe keep getting stuck though?

^Exactly. Better to use a sledgehammer. Axes are better for wooden furniture.

I was toying with the idea of starting a U Tube channel devoted solely to blowing stuff up.

Old cars would be a good thing to use. I would stand on a high ground with the cars parked below. And one day I would just toss hand grenades onto the cars. The next day toss molotov cocktails onto cars. And then use sticks of dynomite on another batch of cars. Then compare footage ...so that the viewers could smell the bouquet, and savior the subtle differences in flavor between a car being exploded by a molotov cocktail vs a similar car being blown up dynamite.

In all seriousness, this would be an absolutely stupid and useless thing to do on many levels.

Why would I want to destroy a car?

Only if I did not have my nine inch angle grinder.

I normally smash up wooden pallets with a sledgehammer if I need to work off some energy. It is reasonably hard work but otherwise quite straightforward, and produces handy firewood. [Just watch out for the nails.]

Attacking a car with an axe sounds very likely to end up damaging you more than the car.

If you want to completely destroy a car, a much better choice is a sawzall (mechanical chop saw). I have cut up two 1960s cars that I bought for parts using this method. The bodies were still in good shape overall but had underneath frame damage that would have been too costly to repair. It is best to pay the price and upgrade to nitride hardened cutting blades (or it will cost you both money and time with cheap blades constantly going dull in the process). I have a portable battery powered version that I can use if needed for cutting quarter panels on parts cars that I might find in a junkyard. New cars have such thin steel it is not much of a challenge to cut them with that tool. I like plasma cutters, but they often heat the metal up too much and cause warpage to the panel.

To clarify, it is a noise issue but more car door bangs than music (although recently had an alarm too, but that was the first time ever, the former is a more regular problem). I've created other threads about this before, it just feels so hopeless and I seem stuck here and this after being forced to move here too, full of greedy people who can't be bothered closing doors softly.

At least they don't sound like they are sneaking up on you.
"It's quiet out there."
"Yeah, Too quiet."
Movie dialogue cliche.

I'd never do that because I love cars.