What’s the deal?

Choose from one of our various driving courses to enhance your driving skills and learn new ones in order to make the roads a safer place for everyone. Learn to recognise danger, make judgement calls and react correctly to ensure that you and your passengers stay safe.

Where is it?

These dynamic driving courses from Mercedes are available in Johannesburg ONLY.

Courses on offer:

Full Dynamic Driving Course:

The full dynamic driving course from Mercedes Benz is specifically intended to increase the driver’s awareness while driving a vehicle, use defensive driving skills to cultivate a positive driving attitude and avoid accidents. The course incorporates skid control, collision avoidance, advanced driving elements and high performance driving skills. All of these are neatly packed into an adrenaline filled day at the track.

This Mercedes Benz full dynamic driving course aids in developing driver confidence by enhancing your driving abilities. You will gain a greater understanding of the vehicles you drive of the cutting edge technology that makes them tick.

Your experience takes place in a Mercedes Benz E63 AMG which expertly demonstrates how the newer cutting edge technology makes a huge difference. Professional instructors will offer their assistance throughout the day, helping you improve your driving skills in all sorts of situations on the road.

This course is made up of the following:

Skidpan Session:

Before you take to the track to learn mad skid control skills a practical demonstration is presented by our team of expert instructors. Demonstrations include effectively and successfully controlling skids and avoiding collisions. Following the instructor demonstrations, students will try their hand at controlling their vehicles under the same trying circumstances.

After completion of this course, participants will be able to identify skid and collision situations and safely navigate them.

Race Track Session:

The impressive Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG and our expert instructors will take you on the ride of your life in this session. This one will improve your dynamic driving skills As you learn to corner, steer, brake, and accelerate to perfection. During this session each student will have the opportunity to put these newly acquired skills into practice.

The day wraps up with feedback for each student and a person appraisal. You will also receive an attendance certificate for completing the course.

Dynamic Skid Course:

This course will equip you, the driver, with the skills and experience needed to safely and effectively with unexpected skid and collision situations. Vehicular exercises include:

• Traction control systems on and off
• Emergency lane changing
• Over steering
• Under steering
• Perfecting seating and steering positions

You will experience the difference between older and new vehicle technology systems. This course is ideal for anyone, no matter what make or model car you drive as the principles of the course remain the same and are applicable to any vehicle.

When faced with a possible collision the instinctive reaction is to panic, stomp on the brakes and jerk the steering wheel to swerve. Losing control of your vehicle is not only scary; it is also potentially very dangerous for anyone in the surrounding vicinity. Learn to achieve expertly controlled skids and manoeuvres to help you prevent accidents on the road in the Mercedes-Benz E63 AMG for a safer trip, every time.

Dynamic Track Course:

The dynamic track course sees you getting in behind the wheel of a Mercedes Benz E63 AMG which is the new E-Class range’s flagship vehicle. You will work through each high performance module with the assistance of our experienced instructors. This course will help students achieve the highest possible level of vehicular control while driving in any situation.

If you think that the Mercedes Benz courses are only for the guys, think again. They are also ideal for the ladies; everyone can learn a thing or two from our driving courses.

Dynamic 4 X 4:

Enjoy a full day of mastering the art of 4 wheel driving. This particular 4x4 dynamic driving course from Mercedes Benz comprises of 2 hours of theory work and a further 5 hours of practical application of what you learnt in the theory session.

During this course each student is given the opportunity to put their skills to the test on various types of terrain from climbing hills and mastering both steep descents and scents to crossing water and driving on sand. You will learn and apply various techniques such as drifting, emergency collision avoidance and under steering. You will gain a greater understanding of a 4x4 vehicle and how it handles different terrain. The aim of this 4 wheel drive course from Mercedes is to give you the confidence and skills to handle your vehicle safely both on and off the road.

This course has an instructor to student ratio of 1:4 and a maximum capacity of 12 participants, ensuring personal attention for all. You are also welcome to make use of your own 4x4 vehicle for training or one of the top of the mine Mercedes Benz 4x4s.

Dynamic Defensive:

This defensive driving course is all about your own safety. It will teach you to recognise the situations that cause accidents as they occur and how to make the right decisions and use skill to avoid accidents and protect yourself. You will gain higher levels of understanding, knowledge, foresight and awareness.

Dynamic Trucking:

This dynamic driving course from Mercedes is specifically designed for and geared towards individual drivers who are experienced or who had undergone previous driver training. In general, the training on this course covers topics of truck driving that were taken previously but offers increased training intensity and more specificity.

This trucking course will polish up and enhance your current truck driving skills and will refresh the basics and fundamentals so that complacency is kicked to the curb. When you are so used to driving a truck that complacency sets in, it is time to take our course because complacency on the road in a huge vehicle like a truck can lead to loss of life and property.

Some of the refreshed topics include:

• The braking system
• Braking procedures
• Vehicular inspection
• Coupling up and uncoupling the truck trailer
• Emergency truck driving manoeuvres
• Cornering a truck
• Vehicle dynamics
• Parking
• How cargo affects your vehicle
• Transportation procedures
• Transportation laws

Attending this truck driving course from Mercedes offers drivers credible certification and invaluable skills, making you an asset to any company.

Dynamic Hijack Prevention – Available for group bookings only:

All the different anti-theft devices available on the market today make life difficult fro a car thief. This has lead to a huge increase in the hijackings taking place on our roads today. Are you savvy in the roads or do you unknowingly put yourself in danger every time you get in behind the wheel? Find out and learn how to avoid potentially dangerous situations with this 1 day dynamic driving course that lasts for approximately 3 hours.

Itineraries:

Guideline itineraries provided for select dynamic driving courses from Mercedes Benz:

Full Dynamic Driving Course:

• 07h30 – Arrival
• Driver Registration
• Drivers Welcomed
• Theoretical Briefing
• Dynamic Skid
• Lunch
• Dynamic Track
• 17h00 - Final Briefing

Dynamic 4 X 4 Driving Course:

• 07h30 – Arrival
• Driver Registration
• Drivers Welcomed
• Theoretical Briefing
• Dynamic Skid
• Lunch
• Dynamic 4x4
• 17h00 - Final Briefing

Dynamic Defensive Driving Course:

• 08h00 - 08h30 – Arrival
• Driver Registration
• Drivers Welcomed
• 08h30 - 09h00 - Theoretical Briefing
• 09h00 - 12h00 - On-road evaluation / commentary driving
• 12h00 - Final Briefing