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Buckle up for a wild ride around a 1.6-mile circuit designed to mimic a winding country road. At one of only two Porsche Experience Centers in the country, you can drive yourself or ride shotgun with a pro driver.

To a fourth-generation Hapeville resident like Hallman, this growing Fulton County city of 6,600—with the world’s busiest airport and Porsche’s new North American headquarters next door—is a contrast to the sleepy town it used to be.

The main attraction of the $100 million Porsche Experience Center, located near Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, is the 1.6-mile track, where you can take a spin in about a dozen different models.

In May, Porsche opened its $100 million Experience Center in Hapeville—the company’s largest investment ever outside of its headquarters in Germany. But another German company, kitchen cabinet maker Poggenpohl, has also brought the auto manufacturer’s state-of-the-art technology to metro Atlanta.

For its “Dream Cars” exhibition, which runs May 21 through September 7, the High Museum of Art becomes a showroom for seventeen concept cars built by Ferrari, GM, and Porsche. The fleet represents auto design ambition from the 1930s through the twenty-first century.