mmm-five said:
Had a mate who worked for Ford and then Aston, based at the 'Ring, so have been a good few times in everything from a 20 year old e34 M5 to an e46 M3 CSL to a 1988 Golf Gti.
Really love it, but it's becoming a very expensive weekend (i.e. £1000 per 3-day trip).
Yes, you need to be an AMG owner, but used AMGs are cheaper than you think. eBay has several low-miles four- or five-year-old C55 or E55 AMGs for sale right now for between $26,000 and $35,000. Round-trip flights to Germany can be had for less than a grand, and besides, you've wanted to go there and drive the autobahn ever since you stopped playing with Hot Wheels, right? There's a good stretch of autobahn between the Frankfurt airport and the Nürburgring.
What's more, the $3,040 price of the AMG Driving Academy, Nürburgring edition, seems downright reasonable next to the cost of other multiday driving schools, and that's before you factor in the lodging and meals that AMG includes in the price. It is true that you'll pay about $1,750 to rent something like a C63 AMG sedan for the training (a capable machine that we love), but that's probably less money than the market price to replace the AMG brakes and high-performance low-profile tires you'd use if the car were your own.
It's all doable. As long as you don't stuff your rented AMG into the guardrail at Flugplatz, you'll be fine. It'll be the fastest 9-minute lap of your life.
........ just kidding mind you it is fun to watch too
I did it some 10 years ago it was a birthday gift
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