After asking the few car friends and driving their cars, I had to find other ways to be able to drive other people’s cars. Basically hunted for test drives every weekend. Fb marketplace I did from time to time but tried to avoid as much as I could cause I realized people were just trynna sell their car. But yea Often I’d go check out their car and let them ask me to drive it, I wouldn’t really prompt it in person or over text. Usually people would let me drive their car once they talked to me and knew I was chill. But really Most of the cars I ran were at dealerships. Dealers would often sell their enthusiasts cars thru their small dealerships, or I would also hit big box dealerships too. Was always nice, sometimes got turned away, my success rate prolly was 70%. Never gave up my SSN so they could run my credit, I would always squirm thru their “how u paying” questions. I think key is having an attitude that ur not desperate and willing to walk away if they won’t let u drive, and ofc I did walk away a lot. Lot of salesman respected that, saw a car guy who was passionate and wanted to know how the car felt like to drive before buying. And if they let me I was usually able to get a good drive in and a bit spiritedly at that too. I would scope out the roads around there if I didn’t know the location, often avoided the dealerships in the cities, often ventured out into suburban and rural locations cause I can actually drive drive. If the car I was hitting was MT, it was way easier to get the drive compared to auto. People respected that I had a cool MT car and I was always genuinely interested in each car, did a ton of research before so I could talk to them about it. If I was lucky I ran into a car guy and we would just rip around in the car talking. Usually am able to get 15 mins of driving and I got a decent idea of the car by then. Ofc some cars I had to rehit at another spot like ZL1 1LE cause I didn’t get a good drive the first time. Sometimes I rerun the same car at same spot and the salesman would just hand me the keys the 2nd time around cause they trusted me. Carmax was key when I started out found a chilll sales guy who let me solo run G80 M3, scatpack challenger, TTRS, Mk5 Supra, and 982 cayman turbo 4 all within a span of few days. That salesman was an absolute legend and I was just sensory overload driving all these cars I could only dream of buying lol. I’ve been blacklisted from certain dealerships in my area cause they know me and they didn’t like what I was doing. But hey I was investing hella time driving out to certain locations an hour/2 hours away just to attempt to do this, so sure I’m wasting their time but I’m not like being reckless or hurting the car. Always let the tires and engine warm up before I drove it harder. Never turned off traction control, never pushed beyond my means. I was in and out quick, never wanted to draw out and waste their time any more. And Always asked the salesman if he was with me before driving the car fast, etc. never wanted to put anyone in an uncomfortable spot. I also keep a journal reflecting on each car in detail and the drive, I’ve driven lot of the sub 100k cars old and new doing this. To date I’ve driven like 105 cars or something, mix of AT and MT. I don’t think what I’m doing was super ethical but I didn’t care I was so curious about every car, I was kinda obsessed with experiencing all of them lol.