U Drive Cars Avaliações 101

Horrible, they sell lemons & still haven't received my title after 10 months.

Everytime I have to deal with something with this car, ima leave a bad review because it's sad. Just coming up on a year having this van and it's been down more months than I've owned it.

UPDATE: They tried to call and bribe me with a gift card to change my review then said they will give me a discount on a car as if I would give them another dime! Please STAY AWAY .. & don't trust the reviews my only option is to try to sell it to a mechanic as is, & pray I get a fraction of what I paid

& btw they don't do dmv work correctly, I still have no title to this day and bought the car out right so guess what ! I have to sit in the dmv for a copy of the title to even sell the car. Thank you so much drive for a stressful year and no car

Finally got a title, had to go to the dmv for it and pick and pull is only offering 374 nobody else wants to buy it. So I paid 7,000 in cash for this van, never got to drive it and put more money into it for work and coming out with nothing. This is ridiculous. WORSE EXPERIENCE EVER!

Do not deserve for any stars,This company
is pathetic , waste of time.

My partner bought me the Aston Martin (Vantage & DB9) driving experience for my birthday.
After parking up at the venue, we then had a long wait in a slow moving que to register and obtain my drivers card.
The first car was the Vantage. Just looking at it from outside it was a bit of an old wreck. But things got worse when I got into the car. It was disgusting with its filthy tatty condition. When I reved the engine it was slow to respond and it rattled like a box of spanners - let alone the strong smell of petrol. As I set off around the circuit, which was disapointingly very short and very busy with lots of other cars on track thus slow, I went to brake and my foot went almost to the floor - No brakes! A quick release and applied again, then the front brakes locked up. My instructor told me I braked too hard. No, I told him, 'this car had a brake failure'! He didn't say anything.
We completed two more laps at a very slow pace due to all the other cars out at the same time - and due to my concerns over the brakes. When I did get up some speed there was a very loud clonking from the back of the car - like a drive shaft worn out. When we stoppped to get out I was asked 'What was that like'? I replied, the car is an absolute wreck - horrible. He said, 'They do get a hard life'.
After a 35 minute wait in the pouring rain I eventually got into the DB9. Same again filthy, disgusting interior with bits missing and/or broken. The car did drive marginally better and seemed to be in a slightly better condition than the Vantage but I considered it still to be a wreck. Again, hardly any speed could be made on the very short circuit so there was no exhillaration or excitement - utterly boring.
Next, I had the three lap high speed ride in a Golf Gti. It was okay but due to the short track it was all over in less than a couple of minutes.
When checking out I was asked if I wanted any photos or the videos. I declined as I want to forget about this dreadfully disapointing day. I didn't lodge a complaint or anything as I knew this company do not do refunds. Also, I didn't want to be offered another drive in one of their death traps. I wanted to get out and on my way home.
I've been to lots of track days and driving experience days. This is the worst ever. I am a very experienced motor vehicle technician and I could see all their cars were old and in poor condition and many had worn out brake discs.
Do not waste your money with this company or their sister company Car Chase Heroes. How others can give them a 5 star rating beggars belief.

Do not use..... After receiving a gift voucher for my birthday for a 2 car 80's experience was informed this was no longer available, but I could upgrade (and pay more), but could not get a refund!!

Didn't even get past the booking stage. This company is pathetic as you pay money up front for the experience but then half the cars they advertise aren't available and you have to pay a load more money for the track you want to go to, the insurance and then £20-£40 more to drive a different car because the cars 'included' in your experience aren't available. I checked all dates for all tracks for the rest of 2024 (over 50 dates) and only 1 of those dates actually had the cars available, and even then only 2 of 4 that I paid for were available to book.

Save your money and use a reputable company.

A total shambles. What should have been a wonderful experience was actually awful. I was supposed to drive 2 Aston Martins. I needed up not diving one. Had to change and then spent half of my laps driving around the track at 25mph as it was so busy. Like rush hour in London because it was so busy. This is because it’s all about money and getting as many people on track as possible and ended up in a traffic jam. I was also called to drive two different cars at the same time. Missed my allotted time as was so behind. Chaos and left a massive downer on what should have been a great day. AVOID this company. Terrible.

Absolute waste of money. The cars themselves were old and in poor condition. You get about 2 minutes on average track, full of other cars doing different things so you can’t really test the car. There are a couple of extra charges. Value wise this is incredibly poor experience for 4 minutes driving and huge waiting time as they book so many people in. Don’t waste your money and beware this company goes by another name too, so do your research. Go and do a full hour with Mercedes at Brooklands for a brilliant experience, brilliant car and expert coaching.

It was good but it could be better if u has disabled facilities and the toilets was distugsting the car was brilliant I drove the lamborghini hurracan yes there was a wait but it was worth the wait

The event was much busier than I anticipated but it was extremely well organised with minimal waiting time. My son who is 16 years old had an exceptional time in both cars and then topped off by a high speed lap with a professional driver! A faultless experience that I’d highly recommend!

Took an age to book in... because the WiFi wasn't working....but the staff were working very hard and very apologetic...so the driving... there were six of us all my family....the driving was great fun...we all drove four supercars ..the instructors were kind and knowledgeable about the cars...so yeah a good day..2nd time we have done this

Very poor experience. Massive queue to get in, queue again for sighting lap and then queue again for your car. Track was ridiculously small with multiple cars on the track at the same time so no real chance to go very fast. I waited 40 minutes for my second car and after after asking what the wait was for, I was advised the car wasn’t even ready to drive! Queue after for the media photos was also too long.
So my experience consisted of 3 tiny laps in one car, missing out driving the other car as i couldn’t wait any longer and no photos of the day.
As we were queuing I heard one of the staff members saying they had 633 people booked in which is far too many. My experience in total cost £145, complete waste of money.

Overall experience fab, my husband & son enjoyed it a lot but remember to read the small print first. Upon arrival they had to pay £25 each car to cover cost of any damage that was to occur. That's £50 on top of the price we paid for the experience!! Don't think we will be doing this again

Had a “Virgin experience day” gift voucher to drive a truck….
Arrived at the airfield and queued for a long time to sign in, was given a media card with my lanyard to be able to buy some professional photo’s of my day.
Got to the area for the truck driving experience only to find the truck was obviously the car transporter used to bring the cars to the driving experiences going on further up the airfield.
Spent my 40 minutes almost driving around in circles as the designated are was extremely small….only good thing was my instructor was very nice and pleasant.
After my experience we walked back and joined the “media” queue to purchase our photo’s, after queuing for over half hour we got to the desk only to be told “ sorry we don’t take photo’s of the truck driving experience” really disappointed, why was I given a media card if I don’t get any photo’s!!! even an earlier email before my experience said there would be professional photo’s available afterwards.
So consequently I have no memories of my day.

Slow: Superday car day where you get to wait around for hours to drive around and do a few parade laps of a car park. It’s like driving your gran down a muddy, bumpy country lane with a tray of eggs on her knees. Only the instructors are more terrified of the approach to corners than your gran would ever be.

Boring: The ‘circuit’ is congested and whilst they ask you to drive at no more than 40-45 mph because it’s slippery, the chances of you doing that are limited given the pedestrian pace of many on circuit. It's refered to as a raceway - presumably it was once a dog track or something. The damage waiver is a bit academic too. At the speed you’re allowed to drive at there more risk of damaging the car if you leave the handbrake off.

Cars not availabale: Two of five cars I booked weren’t available on the day (F360 and AMV8). They were actually a key reason for me choosing to do the ‘day’ so a huge let down and honestly felt cheated. In fact it turned out that the AMV8 was available but I was forced to accept a lesser alternative as they’d clearly over booked it and were trying to free up space by getting me to swap to another car. I had also paid for extra laps in the F360 (which wasn't available) and they refused to refund them when swapping me to a lesser, cheaper car.

Lot's of doing nothing: They give you an hour window per car but suggest you may need up to three hours. I waited over five hours between cars at one point. They have a fancy queuing system online so you can see what's going on - which includes continually inserting new names in to the queue ahead of you.

Staff: The Staff are friendly and unlike many other posts, I'd say they were generally professional. It's a bit confusing at times but there's enough of them and most people are willing to help.

Conclusion: Bit of a joke shop outfit when you consider they also don’t have the cars available that you pay for. There were a couple of young kids getting rides in supercars that really enjoyed it but overall, it's just an process to tick off being in one of these cars rather than really driving one or having fun.

14 October 2022 - Farnborough - Ferrari 360 (not available on the day) - Mclaren 570S - AMV8 Vantage (not available on the day) - Lambo Gallardo - Corvette C8

Very disappointing, due to the unwelcoming, arrogant attitude of the staff. They really go out of their way to make you feel you shouldn’t be at their party and that you are not welcome.

My start time was 8.30 and instructions were to arrive 10 minutes early. I had a long journey including M25 so set off early. I arrived 20 minutes early to the site where most of the staff had arrived and were in place.
I was ignored by a group of instructors at the reception area who refused to acknowledge me, I was then ignored by the reception staff for some time, until one looked up and said we’ll call you when we’re ready.

At 8.30 a queue had formed by customers and still no one was prepared to say hello, welcome, be with you shortly. After check in, I went to installation lap area…where drivers, organisers ignored everyone. The instructors went for a briefing which consisted of much cheering and singing happy birthday etc. at 8.45 they sauntered back to position and started thinking about starting cars.

By 9.00 they were fully into their happy routine of barking orders to everyone and being very rude to anyone who transgressed. One person moved a seat to chat with his friend and was told off as if he was still at school.

Also the driving was disappointing. I chose Abingdon because the description said, long fast straight and fast flowing corners. I felt cheated because the straight was cut in half, and the circuit was made very short. 6/7 corners only. I assume to reduce track time and get more people out so they could sell more laps.

I wasted £10 on slighter lap. Not needed on such a short lap where instructor is telling you where to go, what to do. £25 on collision waiver as you don’t get to do go anywhere that could be a risk.

Very poor experience, avoid.

I booked to drive two cars, an Aston Martin Vantage & DB9 via ‘U-Drive cars’ but on arrival at the venue the queues were very long and not very well organised. The track also appeared to be booked for another company ‘Car Chase Heroes’ however they both appear to be part of ‘Blendini Motorsport’. The drive itself was short but a relatively a good experience and the instructors in the cars with you were friendly making you feel very at ease with the cars. My only disappointment with them was they were automatics not manual and also felt there were too many cars on the track preventing you from getting the most out of your car but this didn’t really reduce the experience too much.
My biggest disappointment though was with the so-called photo/video packages they offer, they are ridiculously expensive and not that great. They charge £25 for photos and if you want a video with it for 1 to 3 cars its £50. At the end of your session, you get to view the photo’s/video’s and although the photos were sort of ok, they were basically all the same where the camera was on burst mode taking multiple pictures on the same spot so there was little variation but I did decide to purchase these.
Regarding the videos the one for the DB9 failed to record but the remaining one for the Vantage was shown to me but due to long queues and time constraints I was only shown snippets of the laps so it appeared to me to be ok so made the purchase. It was only when I got home and played it in its entirety, I realised that this was also corrupt and was not one complete video. It seemed to have stopped recording after two laps so was in two parts, the first of two laps and the second video being the final lap but with part of it completely missing?
I have since contacted ‘Car Chase Heroes’ (the contact for the videos) several times but despite my valid complaint they have decided to totally ignore my issue in that the video is faulty just saying that I viewed it at the time and media is sold as seen so I had accepted it so they will not make any refund, however, it was not seen in its entirety so I couldn’t possible have known about the fault, if I had I would not have purchased it.
My warning to anyone considering a photo/video package is DON’T, its not that great, its too expensive for what it is, not very professional and if like me you have an issue the company will not listen to you.
Read the other reviews re: videos as I am not alone in this opinion.

Uncoordinated, unprofessional, underwhelming and unimpressed.
The whole experience was pretty poor and didn't live up the hype.
Not being able to drive the cars you pick, hidden charges and having to wait around for hours to actually get to drive made this experience frustrating and not enjoyable.

Very bad experience... from the beginning to the end..
Parking issues -- long wait times
The slots are not as provided in the booking, there are long wait times for registering/waiver ... and then we go into a car queue..

This car queue is a catch -- u are in Ready, 20 min, 40 min wait slots, then u move up from 40 to 20 and then to Ready.. but if someone who booked an earlier slot but tuned up late for their slot, they get their slot back i.e. cutting the 40 min wait time literally to nothing..... and you are now pushed from "Ready slot to 20 min wait slot, if there are 2 joining, there are chances u start your clock from 40 min slot. This happened with us.... from 0 to 40 in 3 sec. "

Very Bad organisation, very bad venue, No seating area, very busy food van..
The whole thing was 3 hr 30 min wait for a 10-12 min ride.. Utter waste of time .... but it was an experience for a child..

They also give a link to check your status on your mobile --- however there is hardly any network there.. no display screens either to track.. so people are confused ...waiting for hours and no clue why they have been bumping up and down.

I was giv en a drive in a jaguar E Type by way of a RED LETTER DAYS voucher. When I tried to book on the U Drive website it would not accept this type of voucher - instead it required me to book by telephone. I spent literally hours on the phone, waiting for someone to answer and never got beyond second place in the queue. I eventually got a reply by email from a helpful girl, who only worked from home evenings! She was unable to help much though she did assure me that she had reserved my slot. She put me in touch with Emily, who is supposed to be the General manager to confirm details and take the payment for extras, but, I had no hepl from her either.
On my way to the circuit I had a message to tell me that the car had gone unserviceable and I would have to telephone the office to re-book......................I am still waiting for them to get back to me. HOPELESS. AVOID.

I had paid to drive a Mk1 Lotus Cortina. I opted for the extra three laps so that I got a real feel for the car. I had owned a Lotus Cortina back in the 60/70's for 5 years so I was keen to refresh my memory of its performance. It was a disappointing experience for me, because I came away with the doubts as to its authenticity! The body was of a Mk1 Cortina, but the side badges were not original. The facia was split through the middle - possibly trying to remove it and fit the push button start button (not invented in 1964/5). The gearbox was a 5 speed not the original 4 speed close ratio as per original. The guy told me it had an upgraded gearbox! The woodrim steering wheel was a lookalike version of the original made by Les Leston. The engine performed and sounded like a diesel and didn't want to rev beyond about 3000 revs! An original twincam engine only picked up at 3000 revs and on to 6500 revs- not this one. It also felt very heavy on the front end. All in all it was fun driving round the airfield, but it wasn't a trip 'down memory lane' for me trying to recall the heady fun days of owning a Mk1 Lotus Cortina from my youth!