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I drove from Kansas to Road Atlanta, 870 miles each way. I got 33.5 mpgs for the trip there (including an overnite stop) and 31.0 on the return trip, non stop. I winds were light and favourable going there and the temperatures were nice. It was colder and rainy on the return trip with light head winds. There are some major uphill grades on the return trip to. This is on I24 in Western TN. A really nice route with some fanatastic senery. The 285 loop at Atlanta is quite impressive too. The I85-I285 interchange is a wonder to behold. I left with 20 ounces of Techron Concentrate in the tank and came back with Chevron Supreme in the tank.
Yes, I drove all night. Yes I feel like crap today. Comes with the territory.
I learned a lot on the course and had lots of fun. Everyone seemed to be very happy with the event, except with one soul who dropped out after getting disoriented with going around the circular skid pad. Spinning out contributes to the sensory overload. You might want to consider not being in the backseat while this is going on. Certainly if you are, don't then go driving with the next change over.
I really enjoyed the skid pad work. You get to going around at the limit of the tire grip then the instructor starts jerking around with the hand brake and you start spinning out. You then get to recover from this. For most of this the ESP is turned off so you can get the full experience. I found that my 30+ years of Canadian winter driving skills were still there. Everything that I did was very fast and automatic, as fast as I could move and I was very effective. I was afraid that my soft Kansas winters would have created skill losses.
Two gals, one from Texas the other California has zero skills of this nature and they were very intimitated by this and other things. It was really great to see how they progressed, very impressive. They ended up doing most of the training work very agressively by the end of the course, and thats really the whole point!
The instructors are very very good, not just doing a job, but these are searious racers who love to teach and drive. Considering the challenges of herding cats and leading students, they were always posistive and constuctive... simply perfect. And if you get them to demontrate their skills, that is quite the thing to behold too. Great folks!
Yes, you get to have dinner with Saab execs etc. Yadda Yadda. Good stuff, but hard to compare to the other experiences.
Everyone was impressed with what the 9-5 could do and no one had really understood that the 9-5 was able to do when they purchased it.
With the Viggens, around 1/3 of the owners came to the courses. With the 9-5 Aeros the turnout is less. Many of the folks had no idea that this course came with the vehicle until the cert came in the mail. A marketing failure to some extent. Many 9-5's owners are older and perhaps would not take any interest anyways.
At the end of everything everyone was very happy and upbeat. There really were not any complaints from anyone about anything, other than folks stating that they wished that they had more time to refine what they had learned. All smiles and grins.
Summary: a great discovery about what you and the 9-5 are capable doing.
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