Grumpy
11-13-2011, 08:00 AM
Walt Disney World's Richard Petty Driving Experience, which has lured more than 250,000 Orlando-bound lead foots with stock car drives, is launching an Exotic Driving Experience in January.
Prices will vary depending on the car, with starting prices ranging from $99 for "Thrill Rides" around the mile-long track with a Petty instructor driving (models include two Ferraris, two Lamborghinis, a Porsche 911 and an Audi R8) to $389 for six laps behind the wheel of a Ferrari 458 Italia with an instructor in the passenger seat.
Richard Petty won't be the only outfit that gives SUV Sams and Minivan Mollies a chance to drive outrageously expensive cars. Exotics Racing offers similar experiences at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, while World Class Driving organizes public-road tours in Las Vegas and other major cities across the U.S., along with a $4,995 "200 MPH Challenge" using exotic supercars on empty airstrips. (USA TODAY's Marco R. della Cava took a spin and lived to tell the tale here.)
"For a price point of a few hundred dollars, you'll be able to get behind the wheel of a car that costs a few hundred thousand dollars," says Petty's chief marketing officer Mike Bartelli, who adds that the company is expanding to exotics because "it's no secret that the NASCAR industry isn't what it used to be."
http://www.exoticdriving.com/
Prices will vary depending on the car, with starting prices ranging from $99 for "Thrill Rides" around the mile-long track with a Petty instructor driving (models include two Ferraris, two Lamborghinis, a Porsche 911 and an Audi R8) to $389 for six laps behind the wheel of a Ferrari 458 Italia with an instructor in the passenger seat.
Richard Petty won't be the only outfit that gives SUV Sams and Minivan Mollies a chance to drive outrageously expensive cars. Exotics Racing offers similar experiences at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, while World Class Driving organizes public-road tours in Las Vegas and other major cities across the U.S., along with a $4,995 "200 MPH Challenge" using exotic supercars on empty airstrips. (USA TODAY's Marco R. della Cava took a spin and lived to tell the tale here.)
"For a price point of a few hundred dollars, you'll be able to get behind the wheel of a car that costs a few hundred thousand dollars," says Petty's chief marketing officer Mike Bartelli, who adds that the company is expanding to exotics because "it's no secret that the NASCAR industry isn't what it used to be."
http://www.exoticdriving.com/