Renting seems the natural solution to this dilemma, but again you are paying good money to walk into another of the prime drawbacks of supercars – they can’t be exploited pushed explored to within 10% of their abilities on public roads. Enter the Xtreme Xperience.

Not only does this company put you in the seat of some of the greatest supercars on the planet right now, but they deliver that supercar to a track for you. Then they put a professional driver in the passenger seat to help you wring the absolute bejeezus out of your steed. You’re welcome.

Ferrari, Porsche, Lambo,GT-R, McLaren – they are all here and yours for 3 of the quickest laps you can manage around your local track. The travelling octane circus that is the Xtreme Xperience brings these rides to tracks around the country, along with their stable of professional drivers. All you need to do is show up, register for your cars, and get down to turning tires into vapor. And when you’re done depreciating the exotic metal, you just walk away and let them deal with it. This is the way our founding fathers wanted it.

The vast majority of people selected more than one car to drive during the day, and I highly suggest you do the same. They also sell onboard video packages, as well as upgraded insurance in case you are prone to a lead foot and a slow head. The staff are all extremely helpful, and if you’re paying attention you can genuinely leave the day as a faster and more capable driver.

So what would you like to do with your next splurging Saturday? Spend a day at Disneyland fighting off disease-ridden sticky children or hot lapping a supercar at your local track? That’s a call only you can make esé. But you’ll find me at the track enjoying these expensive toys without a worry in the world.

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That seems strange to me, as the Jag succeeded the former and was toppled by the latter for the title world’s fastest production car. It could and did do over 210mph. It accelerated faster than the F40, a car that seems to be all things to all enthusiasts. On paper, everything is there for the Jag to always have been a darling of the collector car circuit, but for most of the twenty-five years since the car was introduced, customers seem to have met the XJ220 with a collective shrug of indifference.

Part of the blame lies in forces beyond Jaguar’s control – the XJ220 launched in the midst of the economic recession of the early 1990s, which helped keep customers at bay. This doesn’t quite explain the lukewarm reception for the car though, as all manufacturers were equally affected, and at any rate, prices should have shot up once the recession eased – but they didn’t, at least, not as much as they did for competing cars.

The usual explanation for the Jag’s poor showing in the minds and hearts of the collector audience is down to some questionable decision-making on the part of Jaguar. When the car was previewed, it was supposed to have a fiery V12 and blistering performance. However, due to the recession – and partly because Jaguar was not yet owned by the deep, deep pockets of Ford – the XJ220 arrived with a turbocharged V6. The body was made from aluminum at a time when carbon fiber was already the obvious way forward in the supercar class. On paper, both of those facts are a bit of a letdown. Pre-orders evaporated, and after two years, less than 300 were made.

That low production number – less than a quarter the number of F40s Ferrari churned out – ensured that the Jag couldn’t be ignored forever. This is especially so, since – despite the seemingly pedestrian cylinder count, the XJ220 was always the faster car. The 3.5 liter turbocharged V6 was a Group B rally engine. It made the Jag the fastest car, period, for an entire year until the McLaren F1 debuted in 1993. Even though the body wasn’t space-age, it didn’t lack drama. Today, the XJ220 is still a beautiful car to behold. It is seriously long, low, and wide – all textbook proportions for a supercar (though the front always did look a bit like a carp to me). Looks may be subjective, but there are no glaring errors in the way the car was styled.

It was really only a question of time before the world re-discovered the Jaguar XJ220, and though we might be in something of a collector car bubble, I think the surge in prices for the XJ220 is here to stay. Any commoner with a million dollars to blow can have a Ferrari F40, but you’ll probably be the only guy at the collector-car gathering with the ultimate Jaguar. If I had a spare quarter-million dollars lying around, I certainly wouldn’t hesitate – this thing’s got to qualify as some sort of collector-car investment.

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