Renting an upscale sports car is an excellent way to fulfill a fantasy without having to don a cape and beat up a sleeping person. Steer toward your goals with today’s Groupon for a luxury-car rental from HiGear. Customers’ driving records will be checked to ensure responsible driving history and may factor into insurance costs. Choose between the following options:

• For $149, you get a full-day Tesla Roadster Sport rental (a $499 value).
• For $39, you get $100 toward rental of a luxury or sport car.
  
  

HiGear, a secure, high-end car-sharing community, allows auto aficionados to choose and cruise from an impressive fleet of luxury, sport, and collectors’ cars. Pedal pushers can spend the day behind the wheel of a brand-new, arctic-white 2011 Tesla Roadster Sport, an all-electric corner-kisser that can accelerate from zero to 60 miles per hour in 3.7 seconds, about as long as it takes a needle to get lost in a haystack. Featured in an upcoming Bruce Willis action flick Looper, the Tesla Roadster, one of only 1,000 produced, carries itself quietly and confidently while possessing more torque than a Ferrari 458.

Car connoisseurs seeking to sample varying breeds of four-wheel friends can put $100 toward any rental and spend a day cruising in a 2002 Porsche Boxster S ($80/day), blasting oldies from behind the wheel of a mint-condition 1965 Ford Thunderbird ($100/day), or trying to get the attention of an old guidance counselor from the front seat of a 380 HP Tungsten 2006 Aston Martin Vantage ($400/day).

Many cars available in the second option have a minimum rental of two days or longer.