test-drive
verb (used with object)
to drive (a vehicle) on the highway or a special track or route in order to evaluate performance and reliability.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Seven years later and Moore, now into his 40s but still modelling a piled, half-duck’s arse 50s hairdo, is test-driving a racing car through the English countryside.
From The Guardian ● May 24, 2017