What Car? Christmas gift guide - Driving experience days

Silverstone Tour
From Virginexperiencedays.co.uk
Price £28
Know someone who loves motorsport, but wouldn't fancy racing around a track at enormous speed? For under £30, you can give them a behind-the-scenes tour of the home of British motorsport. They'll even get a photo opportunity on the famous podium!

Audi R8 Thrill
From Daystoamaze.co.uk
Price £90
Fancy a few laps in one of the most talked-about cars of 2007? The Audi R8 has been a real hit in the What Car? office, but even if you can afford to shell out £77,000 to buy one, you'll have to join the queue and wait around 16 months for it to arrive. For £90, you can give someone a few laps in one.

Silverstone single-seater experience From Silverstone.co.uk Price £99 You can buy someone the chance to feel like Lewis Hamilton this Christmas for under £100. They'll get to drive a single-seater racing car round Silverstone - just about the closest thing to a Formula One car.

Ferrari 360 Driving Experience
From Racing-school.co.uk
Price £99
Ferrari is the one name any car nut will want on his driven list. For less than £100, you can buy them six miles behind the wheel of a 400bhp 360 Modena at either Three Sisters (in Lancashire) or Rockingham (in Northamptonshire).

Caterham Driving Experience gift voucher From Caterham.co.uk Price £99 A Caterham gift voucher gives the recipient the choice of driving one of the finest-handling road cars on a track, slalom or drift course. It's not just one for the boys, either - apparently a third of vouchers are bought for female petrolheads.

4x4 Off-road experience
From Treatme.net
Price £139
For those who'd rather get off the Tarmac, half a day's off-roading could be just the trick. They'll get to test their driving skills to the limit over steep cliffs, drops and gullies, and choose from 14 locations across the country.

Young Driver Experience From Buyagift.co.uk Price £99 Petrolheads who haven't yet got their licence can still be given the chance to get behind the wheel of a proper car - as long as they're over 13 and at least 4ft 10in tall. The course covers how to start, stop and change gear - as well as gaining confidence on the open spaces of Brands Hatch (Kent) or Oulton Park (Cheshire).

Donington Park TrakZone track day
From Donington-park.co.uk
Price £139 (March to October)
Know someone who drives their own motor like a racing car? Then how about giving them the chance to drive it round Donington Park. They'll get at least an hour's track time, which is much more than a supercar driving experience of a similar price.

Stunt driving and rally day From Exelement.co.uk Price £290 A full day's double-whammy of stunt and rally driving. High-speed car chases, handbrake turns, reverse J-turns and heaps of sliding - find out how it's all done in Hollywood blockbusters. Then get behind the wheel of a selection of rally cars and do even more sideways stuff!

Full monty tank driving
From Redletterdays.co.uk
Price £250
At £250 it's not cheap, but they'll get a day of driving some huge military vehicles - such as the Abbott self-propelled gun - and even fire muskets and mortars. Best of all, the best driver of the day gets to crush a car with a 56-ton Chieftain tank!