I just gone done driving a Cayman at the Porsche Experience Center in LA. I cannot recommend it highly enough!
One can choose from base 718 (like I did) on up to 911 Turbos and GT3 RS. The price goes up commensurately, of course.
You get a driving coach for 90 minutes, and 7 different areas to play, including a 1.3 mile road course. You get to do multiple launch-control runs (up to about 110 mph), drift on a track, drift on a wet skid pad. The fun was huge.
I got to hot lap the road course till the brakes began to fade a little, about 12 or so laps (I didn’t count but somewhere around there).
All the staff were great. If you would like to drive a Porsche in anger, it’s totally worth the price. They don’t make you baby the cars, you get to really push as hard as you and the coach are comfortable. And of course he did a hot lap or two to keep me humble.
No need to pay for a Porsche test drive. Just rent a Sonata or a Focus. Keep that hammer down as you skid around the parking lot. And you’re not limited to some modest test-track. You can do the same thing on a new car test drive.
With the money you save you could then lease an Encore!
