Driving The Dream

Take the ride of your life behind the wheel of a luxury auto or exotic supercar.

- Lois Friedland

ARE DREAMS OF DRIVING a Porsche 911 GT3, a Ferrari 488GTB or a Lamborghini Huracán LP610-4 helping you escape on a rough work day? Can you picture yourself piloting a Land Rover on an obstacle-strewn off-road track? Feel the need for speed while stuck in city traffic? We have the solution. Set yourself behind the wheel of a luxury car or a Formula 1-style race car and turn those urges into reality.

Opportunities to drive ultra-high-end cars on racetracks or country roads, to take Land Rovers offroad or to drive race cars at 100-plus mph are plentiful. You can experience these highs for a few hours on racetracks or streets in cities from Los Angeles to Barcelona to St. Petersburg, Russia. Wouldn’t it be fun to wrap a trip around a driving experience at resorts such as the Equinox in Vermont, or to combine it with another experience like viewing the northern lights in Finland?

You don’t have to be a Porsche owner to attend one of Porsche’s programs. The car company operates two Porsche Experience Centers in the United States, one in Atlanta and one in Los Angeles. Both offer a variety of experiences, from piloting the latest models on tracks designed to show how well the cars perform to comparing the way mid- versus rear-engine Porsches perform. At the Porsche Driving School you pilot cars on a track that hosts the Indy Circuit: Barber Motor-sports Park in Birmingham, Ala. Here, Porsche offers an intensive one-day precision driving course and a two-day performance-driving course. If you love to drive fast, the next steps are the masters courses.