Exotic driving expirience?

[venom]

Anyone see this or try this before? It's only 3 laps around the track, but it still might be fun...

•$49 for ride-along experience in a BMW M3 ($99 value)
•$99 for ride-along experience in a Porsche 996 1000 hp ($199 value)
•$89 for a three-lap driving experience in a Nissan GT-R ($179 value)
•$164 for a three-lap driving experience in a Ferrari F430 or Lamborghini LP 570 SuperTrofeo ($329 value)
•$199 for a three-lap driving experience in a McLaren MP4-12C ($399 value)
•$199 for a three-lap driving experience in a Ferrari 458 Italia ($399 value)
•$379 for a three-lap driving experience in a Lamborghini LP 700 Aventador ($759 value)


http://www.groupon.com/deals/adventu...ars-pittsburgh

[speedracer]

I'd give $200 to flog the guts out of a 458...

[GOT SVT]

what does the insurance cost on top of the registration?

[krupa35]

Okay ill share my personal experience with it.

Last Saturday I drove the GT-R. Me and my buddy paid for this with the %20 APEX promotion code. So for both of us it was like $411 all said and done. That includes Insurance (which comes standard in the price you pay for the car).

The instructors are VERY STRICT. You HAVE to know the track before you drive it because when youre going 130 mph and theres a bend coming and you don't know it, youre going to push hard. And they know this. You DO NOT get to go "flat-out", only on straightaways and that's just boring dude. Sure it feels good when 500+ HP takes off under your balls but you cant launch the car, you cant drive it aggresivley and you only get 2 laps, because the first one is a warm-up lap and you go slow as ****.

What we did afterwards was go rent the karts at my work (Pittsburgh Intl Raceway) and I got us a %25 discount because im an employee, It was $91 for 30 min sessions for both of us. so that's $45 a person for a very long session of karting. Within my FIRST LAP OF KARTING, I HAD 9 TIMES MORE FUN IN A 50MPH GO KART THAN I DID GOING 140MPH IN A GT-R. I kid you not. It is a waste of money. You could buy atleast 5 30 min sessions of karts and have a ****ING BLAST dude. You will be sore the next day but damn its so worth it. I woke up today and went karting just because I didn't sleep good last night, and now my whole day has been made and im happy as hell right now.

Hope this helps, come up my work and let me introduce you to karting. Youll never want to put another dime into your car again and straight up want to buy a kart.

[venom]

Great reply. I have always wanted to come up there and cart around.

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[krupa35]

Here is my feedback i just sent them...

Its not worth the amount of money you pay, even with promotion codes and everything. It actually 2 laps because the first is a warm-up lap basically, and if you calculate it it's roughly ~$100 per lap...I could understand if we would have got ATLEAST 7 laps. And you can't really go all out, the instructor is a nervous wreck, and that's understandable because 1. if you don't know the track, and you try entering a corner thats crested over a hill going 100mph, you're going to wreck. The warm up lap will not give you adequate time to remember the bends, because you are so concentrated on everything else (mainly how badass the car is itself, the instructor talking to you, other cars in front or behind, the engine noise, plus you're (probably) nervous as hell. 2. He doesn't know you, know what youve done, how many cars you have had, how many cars you wrecked, how many races you've won in SCCA, nothing. So that means they assume you're a terrible driver and freak out anytime you try to go through a turn fast or hit an apex the way you should. I understand he is looking out for you, him, the car, and the track, but you need to have a box to fill out on the sign-up page for people that want to DRIVE the car because they know how, and maybe they can even provide records and certifications of them being in the SCCA or NASA or any racing they have done so that way you guys know this person better and the instructor can talk to the person before the driving so they're on the same level. I work at Pittsburgh Intl. Raceway and I know that track like the back of my hand. I work corners there and flag for all kinds of events. I told this to my instructor. After the warm up lap I wanted to go all-out, he really didn't like that idea and kept telling me to brake early, and throttle-out late. I know this track, I know this car, I know what I'm doing and I told him that. He has a right to not trust me but give me one chance to prove that I know what im doing. I have driven a 530 wheel horsepower cobra and having driven on that track many many many times. An AWD, traction control-stability control, corner hugging monster that the GT-R is, is a piece of cake to handle compared to a high horsepower, RWD car that constantly spins tires without any stability control or traction control or any active suspension or braking whatsoever. You can't drive a car that's built for speed and racing the way you should be able to; FLAT OUT. Of course you have to know what you're doing and you have to know how to drive well, but give us people who know how to drive and are familiar with speed and racing and track procedures the chance to DRIVE THE CAR. Not just go full-throttle on straight aways and brake early into bends and slowly go around the turns. Again, the 3-lap thing is bullshit and im thoroughly pissed off that you guys charge this much for such a short amount of time. I could have went to Nissan in South Hills, dressed up like a rich 22 year old and test drove a GT-R there and still would have had not only more fun, more time behind the wheel, got to talk to people that know about the car and educate me on it more, AND I could have done it all for free. People with no common logic will pay you mass amounts of money to drive these cars because they're either too dumb to research dealerships that have them in stock and test drive them from there (which is frowned upon, but myself and many others I know have done since I first acquired my license), or they simply do not have the resources or know anyone who has access to such cars, so they justify that by paying you all of this money to go for a short drive. It is not an extreme experience, it is a joke. I went karting immediately after the GT-R drive and purchased a 30 minute session for $49. And by the 2nd lap I had 6 times more fun in a 50 MPH GO-KART THAN I DID IN A GT-R ON THE TRACK. I probably ran a total of about 40-50 laps. So that's $1 per lap, Compared to your $100 per lap...something is wrong here. In fact, the day after I didnt even have work but I came up there again to rent karts out for another hour. If i would have spent all the money on karting that I gave you guys, I would be absolutely more than satisfied and smiling for weeks with bruised ribs and sore wrists that cant even turn a door knob from pulling 3 G's through a turn. Everyone that brings your company up, i'm going to tell them the same thing i'm telling you. You need to realize they're are two different type of people coming into your business...people that KNOW how to drive a car, and people that simply do it because they want to fit into society by bragging about how they drove a Ferrari on a race track. How about you do yourself a favor, go drive a kart for 20 laps, then go do 3 in a GT-R and shoot me an e-mail on which one you had more fun in. I'll even PayPal you money to go do it, I don't give a shit, as long as it gives you a perspective on how the TRUE DRIVER feels when he is very limited to what he has paid alot of money to do in a car that he truely loves on a track that he knows like his own brother. Forward this to the CEO or every instructor, you need to open your eyes and step back and evaluate and understand the people who are about to drive your cars, because some die-hard gear-heads like me give a shit or two when it comes to DRIVING. Make sure you stretch before driving the karts, you'll thank me later...

[Mark Aubele]

Dude, I'm not really sure what you expect to do in an exotic car driving experience. You talked about going 140 mph, which on the North Track is moving even in a GT-R. They aren't gonna let some civilian jump into a 100k and instantly go 10/10ths.

Did you really send them that email?

[TooFast98Cobra]

Lol at this thread .

[PaxtonShelby]

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[Darren]

All I have to say is I had a blast with them in Vegas, much better instructor, more time for less money as well. Idk how they are here lol

P.S. I got 7 laps in a Ferrari 430 for only $275.