Absolutely, but it's too expensive and too short.

Atlanta Experience
The Porsche Drive program is fantastic - at least it was, it's been a few years but here's what it was like: Fly into Atlanta, take a uber to Porsche Perimeter North. Walk in, identify myself, wait for about 3 mins. A junior guy comes out, and with respect and consideration shows me the car. It's a 992 base carrera with exactly 1 mile over the initial break in miles. (Yes I read the manual). That's it, no hoops to jump through, no paperwork, it's all done online. He hands me the keys and off I go. Just an absolute joy in the hills of northern Georgia for hours. About $400 for one day, no gotchas or surprises.
Nashville Experience
The author had another great experience with Porsche in Nashville, TN. Fly in, take an uber to the dealership, about 20 mins later you're driving a 991 carrera. A slightly older model now, but it was current during the time of the event. This was down the Nachez Trace Parkway. A road built in the 1930's with a 45mph speed limit, but engineered for safe visibility out to 60+70mph with this vehicle. Huge, well maintained shoulders and no hidden access roads. Just an absolute joy on a cold, dreary January Tuesday morning when everybody else is at work. Again, about $400 for one day, no gotchas or surprises.
Program Limitations
The only problem with these experiences is they are too short. If money was not the issue, the Porsche drive program seems like the ideal option. You basically rent their fleet and can switch out as often as you like. This showed me that even with 2 hours of near perfect driving conditions, a steak dinner and a nice hotel, it's still fatiguing to spend more than 3 hours in the car per day.
Current Status
Since the time of this event, the Porsche Drive program has changed as is now administered by Loopit. The Author has not tried this new program yet.

Traditional Rental Companies

This was a surprisingly great experience, once the I got into the car. They have what we want, which is easy access to vehicles at the airport. Their user interfaces are built to show this. Go ahead and book 'camaro SS' or equivalent, but don't be surprised when you get a Camaro LS (v6) or some other rando two-door 'performance equivalent'. You're probably not going to get what you want. The author has searched far and wide and with the exception of a few major cities, you cannot secure a vehicle in the range you want like with Turo.

With that said, I did drop off a 992 Carrera, then took an Uber to the airport and picked up a Camaro SS equivalent. It was a convertible 2020 Ford Mustang GT 5.0 with an 10 speed automatic. Driving that back for a 6 hour trip to my home base, and dropping it off at the airport was glorious. 70mph on I-85, 50 degree weather, cold gear on and cranking Taylor Swift.

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