Everyone has a secret dream. Some wish they were a Toronto architect with many famous buildings to their name. Others want to be successful musicians. Still others fantasize about being race car drivers. If your dream is to be a race car driver but the closest you've ever been is a shop that does collision repair in Windsor, you might want to drop by the Naperville Auto Test Track when you move to or vacation in Naperville, Illinois. Here's the lowdown on the track.

You know how, when you're watching a car commercial that features your normal suburban sedan performing insane feats of defensive driving, they always post "professional driver on a closed course" down the bottom? Well, the closed courses they're talking about are like the Naperville Auto Test Track. They allow drivers, professional or not, to drive consumer vehicles, shrink labels and all, in a closed environment to test them out.

The Naperville Auto Test Track has numerous different environments that simulate the type of places you might want to take your vehicle after you buy it. There's asphalt and concrete roadways, cobblestone streets, railroad tracks, dirt road, driveways, high banks, and even an off road area and a high bank that can help you judge from the keel types and handling of SUVs whether they're likely to roll during your commonly done maneuvers.

The point of the Naperville Auto Test Track isn't actually to indulge suburbanites' desires to act like Mario Andretti. It was actually built as an area for auto dealerships to take their potential customers to test drive vehicles. But if testing a car out to see if it meets your needs requires you to drive like Mario Andretti, well, who are they to complain? The track is located off Jefferson Avenue, and if you'd like to try it out just visit one of the participating auto dealerships. That includes Mercedes Benz of Naperville, Gerald Nissan, and Village Buick/GMC Trucks.

Like any major project from the establishment of a firm that does search engine optimization in Toronto to the landscaping of a new park, the Naperville Auto Test Track was accomplished by a partnership of hard working people. The idea was put forward in 2002 to make a test track to reduce the number of people doing test drives in residential neighborhoods and in 2004 consultants were hired to do the design work. By May of 2006 work was already underway and now, in 2010, the track is up and running and ready for your visit.