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Byline: Tara Weingarten
Showy you're not. You don't have the means or the moxie to cruise the Champs-Elysees in a super-flashy SLR McLaren. But secretly, you'd die to do it. Luckily there are ways to drive dream cars that don't require selling your firstborn.
World Class Driving (worldclassdriving.com) tours the globe with a dozen exceptional sports cars, giving participants the keys and letting them rip on twisty back roads. In one day I was able to drive some of the world's sexiest cars--including the Alfa Romeo 8C, Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren, Audi R8, Ferrari F430 Scuderia, Ford GT and Lamborghini Superleggera--along Southern California's Pacific Coast Highway and through the Malibu hills.
The program's dozen or so cars tour cities in the U.S and Europe, in one- to five-day events. Drives start at $1,695 for a full day. Each single-day event gets participants into six cars (chosen by the company) for drives of up to an hour each. A fleet service ships the vehicles city to city and country to country.
World Class Driving does an outstanding job selecting roads that are lightly traveled. In my Malibu-coast drive, I snaked up challenging mountain roads that revealed all the pleasures of these sporty cars. While in the Ferrari F430, I thrilled to the car's extraordinary road handling and ...