Ariel Atom test drive

if any of you are on the waiting list on their site, or just signed up on their site you already know. for all others here's the email i got today

Book your seats now at http://www.arielatomexperience.com !

You’ve got to experience it to believe it! We have full day events at VIR on SEP 3, 4 & 6, and for those on a time budget we have a ½ day event at VIRon the afternoon of SEP 5.

For those who live in other parts of the country, we’ll be at:

Autobahn Country Club in Joliet, IL SEP 13 – 16
Motorsports Ranch in Cresson, TX SEP 24 - 27
Streets of Willow in Rosamond, CA OCT 23 – 25
Spring Mountain Motorsports Ranch in Pahrump, NV OCT 29 – NOV 1
Thunderhill Raceway Park in Willows, CA NOV 12 - 15



even if youre not going to buy one its always fun to test drive a new car!

500 for half a day
1500 for a full day

That kind of $$$$ gets me a lot of track time in my own car or drive theirs for one day. Hmm decisions, decisions.

FYI - I looked into this last month when I heard about it. The half-day experience is only three lead-and-follow sessions, it does not include any actual open track time in the cars.

While I think it would be fun to drive one, doing so at 70% in a conga line ain't worth $500 to me.

Tempting but that's 2 sets of tires of the Miata which is like, hrmm 4 seasons worth of autocross rubber :)

Also it's the s/c Ecotec engine not the 300hp supercharged Civic Type R engine and it's on A048's not true R comps. I bet it still provides for plenty of code brown moments on track though :)