Driving Schools
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The vehicles may change, and as the saying goes, the off-roading is never the same twice. The overlords at HQ even get hot-swapped every decade or so. Still, the quintessential Land Rover experience remains the same. Clamber into a plushly lined, regally poised off-road specialist, and proceed to apply layer, upon layer, upon layer of beautifying mud. Even the Queen does this, so we're confident that our most recent adventure at the Land Rover Experience at England's Eastnor Castle was entirely fitting. We've climbed to the top of Mayan temples with Land Rover, plunged to the depths of...
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Jaguar Expands Performance Driving Academy In U.S.First launched in 2009 for buyers of the XFR and XKR, Jaguar's Performance Driving Academy is now open to all Jaguar owners and other driving enthusiasts, too. Two different courses, Basic and Advanced, will be offered at four different tracks this year. As Jaguar North America's brand vice...
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AMG Winter Driving Academy Sweden Season Highlights: Video
Even as most of the U.S. warms up to summer, the AMG Driving Academy is showing off the highlights of its Winter Sporting season in Sweden. With all the powersliding, engine revving, snow-flinging fun you'd expect, it looks like a great way to spend a few days in the colder months. Come August...
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Porsche Silverstone Experience Centre Fun: Video
Ever wondered exactly what goes on at the Porsche Experience Centre at Silverstone? Wonder no more. And if you're not in the U.K., or not planning a trip there, rest easy: we're getting two of our own Experience Centers here in the U.S., complete with properly-ordered "e"s and "r"s. In this...
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Simraceway School Of Racing Stage 1: Getting To Know Formula Cars
If you've never had a car try to rip your head from your neck at 100 mph over nothing but a high-speed turn, you've probably never driven a formula car. If you'd like to, no matter your experience, the Simraceway Performance Driving Center is a great opportunity. I just spent a couple of days...
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Bentley Offers Up Continental Supersports Frozen Lake Tours
We already know the Bentley Continental Supersports is capable of reaching speeds of up to 205.48 mph--on ice--but now you no longer have to take Bentley’s word for it as the automaker is offering its customers the opportunity to find out for themselves. Whether you have a passion for speed...
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Racing, track days, and other forms of four-wheeled motorsports are tremendous fun; that's something many of us understand first-hand. But some of us don't have the time or the budget to dedicate to getting a real car on a real track. For some, simulators are as close as they can get on a regular basis. Fortunately for them, simulators have come a long way in the last several years. But in the serious sim community, particularly among those who also race in the real world, there's one brand that has risen to the top: iRacing. It has done so through a combination of marketing, building a solid...
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Skip Barber 3-Day Mazdaspeed Racing School Review
As you expertly trail-brake your MX-5 Cup car into T11 and get a run on the driver in front of you heading up the hill on the front straight at Laguna Seca, you have just a few seconds to think "shift, aim at the telephone pole, holy hell, I'm really moving--how is this just three days in--BRAKE...
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Mercedes Wants To Teach You To Drive In Snow, Too: Video
Mercedes-Benz offers multiple winter-driver-training programs, at facilities in Austria and in Lapland.
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Porsche Announces West Coast "Experience Center" With Included Track
Porsche is building a second North American Experience Center, to be located in Carson, CA, where it will offer training programs for the entire family.
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Lamborghini Wants To Teach You Winter Driving--In An Aventador
Lamborghini has expanded its Winter Academy to include the 700-horsepower, V-12 powered Aventador.
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Ferrari Launches Winter Driving School
Ferrari has introduced its first-ever winter driving school, the 2012 Winter Driving Experience.
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For the rest of the details on the Skip Barber High Performance Driving School, visit part one and part two of this review. We pick up with the last two elements, the slalom and the road course. Slalom The slalom might be the simplest of vehicle dynamics tests, but it's also one of the most engaging: you'll have to control not just your hands, feet, and eyes, but also judge the maximum speed at which the car can execute transitions from maximal grip in one direction to the other. The instructors again offer feedback after each run. You'll get multiple passes down the slalom and back, working...
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Skip Barber Two-Day High Performance Driving School: Review (Part 2)
We're back for part two of our review of the Skip Barber Racing School two-day High Performance Driving School, and this time we cover the threshold braking exercises and emergency lane changes. These two exercises are perhaps the most relevant to everyday street driving, as almost everyone is...
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Skip Barber Two-Day High Performance Driving School: Review (Part 1)
Today's supercars, sports cars, and performance sedans are without doubt some of the most impressive bits of machinery humans have ever built, capable of feats of speed and handling that were unthinkable just a decade ago. But it takes a capable driver to get at that performance, and a quality...
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All Corvette Buyers Now Eligible For Free Driving School Through February
A few thousand bucks for the price of a driving school is small beans compared to the purchase price of a new Corvette, Grand Sport, or Z06. But if you're new to the world of high-power performance cars, it could be the best few grand you ever spend. Except now you can get the school for free. The...
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