We’re pleased to to announce the acquisition of certain assets of World Class Driving. World Class Driving is an industry leader in supercar entertainment driving events. Launched in 2006 by Jean Paul Libert, World Class Driving has operated 350 supercar driving events for more than 8,000 driving participants in 45 cities across the United States. Major partners include Pirelli, Automobile Magazine, and MotorTrend Magazine.

World Class Driving operates a variety of supercar driving experiences, including:

THE US SUPERCAR TOUR: Offers private drivetime in a selection of late-model exotic supercars on a 120 mile public road tour. The event starts at a designated location, where drivers receive an overview of each vehicle from our instructors, and a review of the tour route. Then, drivers pilot each vehicle through some of the most scenic and demanding roads in the region, rotating cars at designated checkpoints. There simply is no better way to experience the most thrilling exotic cars on the planet in one day.

200MPH Challenge Event: This exclusive event gives drivers the opportunity to break the magical 200MPH barrier in a safe, controlled environment on select locations and dates across the United States. Covered extensively by Bloomberg, Automobile Magazine, Wired, and more.

ROAD & RACING: This two-part event includes a half-day on-road supercar experience tour. Drivers get behind the wheel of some of the world’s best supercars on the most scenic back-roads available. Then, drivers spend the remainder of the day in 36 on-track lapping sessions at select racetracks across America. This combined event offers the best of both on-track and public road touring, and gets drivers on the most challenging and exclusive tracks in the U.S. This experience of a lifetime includes catered trackside meals, end-of-day champagne podium reception, exclusive World Class Driving gear & a trophy.

With this acquisition, Vulcan Motor Club acquired several additional supercars (including a Mercedes SLR Mclaren, Ferrari 599GTB, Maserati GranTurismo, and Lamborghini Superleggera). Over the next several months, we expect offer a wider selection of supercars to both Vulcan Motor Club members and World Class Driving participants.

Our Wind & Fire Tours are now rebranded and offered under the World Class Driving brand, and the dates, staff, fleet choice, starting location, and route remain unchanged. We also expect to offer access to the rich portfolio of World Class Driving events to Vulcan Motor Club members.

Both Tom and I remain fully engaged and committed to growing the organization and providing a world-class club experience.

Warm Regards,

Aaron Fessler
Chief Executive Officer

Spring came a little early this year. With weather reaching into the mid 70′s and bright sun all around, we’ve thrown open the doors. Vulcan Club member Randy wrote with a great summary of his road trip in the F430 Spider yesterday:

Guys:

Today’s drive is what this club is all about, in my opinion. A Beautiful Spring day, the open road [with very little traffic], open-air driving, and piloting the 490-hp F430 Italian piece of automotive art. Driving thru the twisties at Hawk’s Nest with the sound of that mid-engined V8 right over my shoulder, I’m thinking it just doesn’t get any better than this.

Attached are a few pictures from today’s outing. Not too bad for my little cell-phone camera, you can clearly see the twists and turns of the road at Hawk’s Nest.

Thanks again, I had an excellent adventure – can’t wait for the next one!

Regards,

Randy

Thanks Randy!

Virgin unveiled the latest addition to Richard Branson’s luxury fleet on Friday: an underwater plane that will fly riders into the depths of the Caribbean Sea.

Guests on Necker Island, a retreat in the British Virgin Islands, will be able to dive underwater in a submarine dubbed the Necker Nymph for $25,000 a week. But that’s only after shelling out around $300,000 for a one-week stay on Necker, the private island owned by billionaire and Virgin Group chairman Richard Branson.
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by Kent Lewis

Those of you that know me know I like cars. Specifically, I like driving fast cars. More specifically, I really like driving exotic cars, as fast as possible, without the risk of jail time. Unfortunately, I don’t own any exotic cars. Fortunately, I learned about World Class Driving a few years ago, and they’ve recently managed to address my need for extremely high speed.

I should start by saying I have a history with World Class Driving. On two separate occasions, I’ve had the opportunity to participate in their US Tour, where I drove 5 exotic cars on the back roads of Washington State on separate half-day events. I learned to appreciate the drivability of exotic cars in a touring environment, but it lacked the eminent danger of high speed crashes, yet still offered envious members of law enforcement opportunities to hand out tickets for “5 over” the posted speed limited, just because.

I recently flew down to Miami to meet up with the World Class Driving team for a very special experience: The 200MPH Challenge Event. On December 13th, 2009, I and 15 other lucky individuals drove deep into the Everglades to drive 7 exotic cars to their limits. We would later use of those cars to try to break the 200 MPH barrier, all without the prying eyes of law enforcement.

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Replicating the clasic Hot Wheels set, Fifth Gear TV attempts to perform a full 360 degree loop in a full size car.

While anyone with a Hot Wheels track growing up might know that the stunt can be done, a real-world reenactment with a real car and real driver is so dangerous it is referred to as the “Death Loop” by professional stuntmen. While it might seem that a driver could merely power in at a high speed to carry enough momentum to complete the loop, the truth is that the g-forces on the driver at anything above 30 mph can be catastrophic. So stuntman Steve Truglia trained with jet pilots to learn techniques that would help him deal with the centripetal forces.

January gives us one of those rare windows to make sure everything is absolutely perfect before the 2010 member driving season kicks off. Here, the Lamborghini LP560-4 gets some tender loving care in the shop.

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If you’re tired of anemic, one-lung snowblowers with their slipping drive belts, you might consider Kai Grundt’s V8 snow blower which raises the bar on the traditional snow blower in every respect. With electric start, electric block heater, antifreeze heater and eight cylinders, it has no drive belts to freeze up and you’ll never get bored with the job as the Chevrolet V8 produces 412 horsepower, 430 foot pounds of torque and can throw snow 50 feet at just 3500 rpm.

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WOR’s Ideal Businessman, Andrew Jacobs, introduces Joe to an exciting business that allows its clients to drive expensive and fancy sports cars.

Joe Bartlett

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What do riding at Laguna Seca, touring beautiful Northern California in some of the world’s most exclusive exotic cars, and mashing cars with legendary Monster Truck “Gravedigger” have in common? Easy. These are the pulse pounding activities you’ll be doing if you win the SPEED Dream Ride sweepstakes.

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It’s not hard to imagine the snorting and pawing of a wild stallion straining to be turned loose when you press the ignition button of the brand new Ferrari 458 Italia.

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