Walt Disney World Florida's Test Track 3.0 has been presented by GM to tell the magical tale of the history of transport

Walt Disney World Florida’s Test Track 3.0 has been presented by GM to tell the magical tale of the history of transport.

Test Track is a ride found at Walt Disney World in Florida at the EPCOT Center, one of the four theme parks you can visit in Orlando.

Replacing the World of Motion ride in 1999, Test Track has been a staple for gearheads and Disney fans alike, but this time, the ride has gone back to basics.

The ride shows off both the history and future of cars, all while putting you in the driver’s seat like you’re testing your very own supercar.

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Walt Disney World is ever-changing

If you know anything about Walt Disney World or have travelled there anytime since it opened in 1971, you’ll know that the Orlando theme park is split into four smaller parks, all with different themes.

Magic Kingdom is the park with the castle, and it focuses on classic Disney fairytales, Hollywood Studios puts you behind the scenes on a film lot, and Animal Kingdom focuses on, well, animals.

The underappreciated star of the show is EPCOT, once known as the Epcot Center and characterized by a gigantic golf ball called Spaceship Earth.

EPCOT is Walt Disney’s dream for a community of tomorrow.

The pioneer of film had a dream that one day he could launch an experimental planned community that could showcase the exciting innovation of the future.

The Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT) launched as a part of the Disney World theme park in the 80s, and not as a real futuristic community like Disney wanted, but it had one goal: ‘edutainment’.

The spirit of EPCOT was always to entertain and educate, and one of the rides that embodied this spirit was the World of Motion ride sponsored by GM, which told the history of transport as a whole.

When the World of Motion closed, it was replaced by Test Track, a ride still sponsored by GM, which put you behind the driver’s seat as if you were a crash test dummy.

The ride queue showed haunting footage of crash tests and was characterized by the high-speed loop that gave thrill-seekers a heart-racing moment of speeding around on a real race track in a ride car.

Test Track 3.0 tells the magical tale of the history of transport

Test Track 2.0 was launched in 2012, and sponsored by Chevrolet, this was a strange era for Test Track fans because it was characterized by a lot of on-screen special effects as opposed to the rough and ready feel of 1.0.

In the ride queue, children enjoyed designing their own test cars, but some people felt as though the heart of Test Track had been removed.

Gone were the haunting test dummies, and it was all futuristic TRON-like light features and a post-show Chevy showroom.

In 2024 it was announced that Test Track was getting another makeover and GM was taking back the reins.

Launching recently, Test Track 3.0 is everything Disney wanted EPCOT to be, and it is very much in keeping with the original spirit of World of Motion.

The digital design-your-own car queues are gone, and instead, important memorabilia and exhibits displaying artifacts about the history of transport have taken their place.

During the ride itself, you can see a house of the future and even display what the Disney Imagineers believe the future of transport will be.

You still get the thrilling loop but you also get to be part of a LIDAR test too.

It seems like third time lucky with this new iteration of Test Track 3.0, and while you still stumble into a GM car showroom at the end of the ride, you feel you learned something, just like Disney himself intended.

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