Autopia

Autopia
Disneyland's Autopia
Disneyland
AreaTomorrowland
Coordinates33°48′45″N 117°54′59″W / 33.8125°N 117.9164°W / 33.8125; -117.9164
StatusOperating
Opening dateJuly 17, 1955
Lightning Lane available
Magic Kingdom
NameTomorrowland Speedway
AreaTomorrowland
Coordinates28°25′10″N 81°34′45″W / 28.4194°N 81.5792°W / 28.4194; -81.5792
StatusOperating
Opening dateOctober 1, 1971; 52 years ago (October 1, 1971)
Lightning Lane available
Tokyo Disneyland
NameGrand Circuit Raceway
AreaTomorrowland
Coordinates35°37′53″N 139°52′44″E / 35.6314°N 139.8788°E / 35.6314; 139.8788
StatusRemoved
Opening dateApril 15, 1983
Closing dateJanuary 11, 2017
Replaced byEnchanted Tale of Beauty and the Beast
(Fantasyland)
Disneyland Park (Paris)
AreaDiscoveryland
Coordinates48°52′22″N 2°46′46″E / 48.8729°N 2.7794°E / 48.8729; 2.7794
StatusOperating
Opening dateApril 12, 1992
Hong Kong Disneyland
AreaTomorrowland
Coordinates22°18′53″N 114°02′31″E / 22.3147°N 114.0419°E / 22.3147; 114.0419
StatusRemoved
Opening dateJuly 13, 2006
Closing dateJune 11, 2016
Replaced bySpider-Man Attraction
Ride statistics
Attraction typeRace track
ManufacturerArrow Development
DesignerWalt Disney Imagineering
Length782 m (2,566 ft)
Vehicle typeRace cars
Riders per vehicle2
Duration5:10 minutes
Height restriction32 in (81 cm)
Must transfer from wheelchair

Autopia is a race car track attraction at various Disney theme parks, in which patrons steer specially designed cars through an enclosed track. Versions of Autopia exist at Disneyland at Anaheim, California and Disneyland Paris in Marne-la-Vallée, France. There was also an Autopia at Hong Kong Disneyland on Lantau Island, Hong Kong before it closed on June 11, 2016. Other versions of the attraction can be found at the Magic Kingdom as the Tomorrowland Speedway and formerly at Tokyo Disneyland as the Grand Circuit Raceway. A previous generation of Disneyland's Autopia operated for over a decade at the Walt Disney Hometown Museum in Marceline, Missouri; one of the retired cars is now on display.

The name Autopia is a portmanteau of the words "automobile utopia." The term was later popularized in academic circles by British architecture critic Reyner Banham to describe Los Angeles in his 1971 book Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies.[not verified in body]