Yes I know, even more cars, but I guess I had to compensate for the Prius, and then I am not too much into the gambling and glamour of The Strip, therefore I joined a track driving experience in Las Vegas – not really “track driving day” but still a few laps.

You pay a lot of money, you drive out into the desert to “Speedway Boulevard”, and the company now as their own race track. So you wait in line with a lot of other jerks who want to spend a lot of money in a very short time, listen to an introduction to racetrack driving course that is nowhere close to new to you, get a helmet and drive around a track with like 3 corners in about 10 seconds per lap, and you get five laps per car (of course you can always add to those, if you like, and as long as the car doesn’t break before that).

I actually broke the Porsche’s transmission while passing an Audi R8, but as it is a flappy-paddle gearbox, it is not my fault! Apart from that and the instructor breaking always before me in the Porsche, it was really not that much of an exciting car. Perfect, well balanced and probably really fast, but without any ado. The Nissan (and the instructor that came with it) was much more fun and instructive and the guy showed me the way round the track. The Nissan is a pretty heavy car that needs hard work at the wheel, but gosh is it fast!