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Test Track opened By 1978 as the World of Motion pavilion in 1982 with designs became more defined, the rest of EPCOT Center. The Transportation pavilion was sponsored by General Motors, the first company began to agree to sponsor an Epcot paviliontake form. The World Inside of Motion the pavilion was shaped like to be a large, chrome wheel. The pavilion only featured one attraction, dark ride (which would eventually also called bet titled the World of Motion, ) which took guests through the history of human transportation- beginning with man walking and ending in a large futuristic model city. The Following the attraction featured 30 different scenes which showed transportation advance, from the invention guests would be able to visit a series of the wheelinteractive, all the way to the modern highway systemtransportation themed exhibits. The World of Motion even predicted what the future of transportation would be pavilion itself was designed to look like, by showing guests CenterCore, a futuristic metropolis where everything seemed to be in motion. The ride specifically focused on how advancements in transportation have made our lives more fun large wheel (albeit one that was 65ft high and free. Unlike the other Epcot pavilions320 feet across), The World of Motion took with guests entering through a humorous approach to its subject. Imagineer Ward Kimball helped create “wedge” that had been removed from the attractions storyline, while Imagineers X Atencio and Buddy Baker penned the attractions theme song "It's Fun to Be Free". After exiting the attraction, guests would enter General Motors' TransCenter. Here guests could see new prototype transportation methods, and even watch automated robots assemble various vehicleswheel.

In 1992 General Motor's ten year sponsorship The Transportation pavilion was eventually named the World of Motion, and the pavilion ran up, along with its title attraction and General Motors was unsure if they wanted to renew it. Due to the slumping economyinteractive TransCenter opened with the rest of EPCOT Center on October 1, 1982. By the end of GM was facing large cutbacks and layoffs's original contract in 1992, and the company was not sure how beneficial their Epcot sponsorship waspopularity of the World of Motion had declined. If With this is mind General Motors was to renew hesitant about continuing their sponsorship, it would require them to perform major renovations or even develop and new attraction altogether (as Disney wanted)of the pavilion. After 1992, GM eventually decided sponsored the World of Motion on a year to renew their sponsorship for one year. The stop-gap sponsorship allowed basis, in order to reevaluate the company to determine how beneficial benefits of their sponsorship was, while also protecting the pavilion from a rival sponsor. The one year sponsorship also gave GM time Eventually, General Motors decided to see if renew, but with the economy would recover. At understanding that the end World of the year GM decided to re-up their sponsorship for (presumably) ten yearsMotion would be updated. With the signing Instead of renovating the new sponsorshipexisting attraction however, Disney and GM and Disney decided to create a new attraction for the pavilion. It was also decided that the World of Motion attraction would remain open until the new attraction was developedall together.

[[Image:Worldofmotion.jpg|thumb|The World of Motion pavilion, which was open With instructions from 1982 until 1999.]]When designing GM to narrow the new attraction, General Motors decided that they wanted to focus the new attraction to focus on the automobile side of transportation. automobiles, Walt Disney Imagineering decided to revisit one of their the original ideas for the pavilion, - an attraction that would let guests experience how cars were tested before making in they became available to the lotpublic. Disney and GM engineers then visited After getting inspiration from the GM's General Motors proving grounds, to get ideas for Imagineering pitched the new attraction. It was eventually decided that the attraction would be called idea of Test Track, and an E ticket attraction that it would take guests through the rigorous testing that GM cars are put through. On January 2, 1996 the World of Motion was permanently closed. Later in the year, the GM Test Track Preview Center opened giving guests an idea of what the new attraction would be like. Although Test Track was supposed to open in the spring of 1997, problems with the ride vehicles plagued the attraction. Due to the delay, Test Track officially opened on March 17, 1999. Test Track took guests through the various training exercises that crash test dummies usually go through. When it opened, the attraction was the fastest in Walt Disney World, with speeds reaching 65 mph.

In With plans for Test Track underway, on January 2, 1996 the World of Motion pavilion closed for renovations. On February 13, the GM Preview Center opened in front of the closed pavilion, featuring concept art for Test Track, and a large mural painted by Catherine Feff (which was installed in order to hide the pavilion during its construction). Due to a series of delays related to both Test Track's post showride system and ride vehicles, the attraction was not ready for its May 1997 opening. Instead, in 1998 the GM Preview Center was updated to feature new attraction artwork. Finally, in late 1998, the Preview Center was removed and the attraction opened to guests can see General Motors newest on December 19, 1998.  On January 6, 2012 Disney announced that Test Track would be closing for a refurbishment. Although the track and ride vehicles remained, the theming of the attraction was altered. As opposed to showing guests how cars up close were made, the new version of Test Track focused on the testing of cars. In Test Track 2.0, guests design their own ride vehicle in the queue before testing its capability, efficiency, responsiveness, and personalpower in the attraction itself. They Following the attraction, guests now receive a card with their car information on it, which they can also learn about use to play various interactive games. Since the newest technology in 2012 refurbishment, Test Track has been sponsored by General Motors' Chevrolet as opposed to the automotive industryparent company GM.