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Looks like good news folks. Hopefully they will be doing some schools in the northeast region of the country. If not, it may be petition time! lol.

Lexus officials tell Inside Line they will likely open a high-performance driving school for owners of such products as the 2007 GS 450h and the 2006 IS 350.

"It's being considered," Lexus spokesman Bill Ussery told IL. "It probably will be held in various spots around the country. It will be very exclusive."


http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do...ticleId=109680

Tony1

Id rather go to the school, that teachs you on a Viper

caymandive

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I'm interested.

bagwell

got $5K I'll hook you up....

I'd be interested in the LEXUS hyper driving school as well.

BMW did a FREE mini performance driving school a couple of years ago in a few cities that was a blast...(I love driving the crap out of someone else's car!)

pocky

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I'm always down for a performance driving event! Or...School, how they like to call it.

PhilipMSPT

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Check out Car Chat. You'll find that this is already being discussed.

I for one would love to go if they had the LF-A ready for racing...

Lexus School

Tony1

There's a place In CT, that only costs $2,000 , some hook up!

Lets Drive

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Ahh, didn't see that, thanks

As for the actual performance driving, it will be interesting to see how they deal with VDIM.

uschardcor

err yea have fun learning how to drive a car with 550 hp or whatever and 0 handeling and have an education that is worthless to the car you actually own. why didn't i think of that. maybe i can goto the richard petty driving experience and then race my 350 saying i learned with nascar. then i'll get the chicks. oh yea

seriously though, the 350 is two different cars so a course on it isn't a bad idea.

the 350 with vdim its living on the edge without actually being there. like "i'm from DC" when you're actually from fairfax. nova != dc. take a corner and you can feel that the car could plow through it faster if the rear end was more responsive. you just don't get any communication from the car as it acts like a luxery car on a course, which is what it is.

the 350 w/o vdim is living on the edge and you only fall off when the driver really screws up. you go around corners thinking 'crap, i'm screwed on this one' and the car rolls and fights but stays gripped to the road and pulls through. understeer occurs only when enterting a turn too fast, but the throttle is responsive enough to feather through it. the rear end is loose enough to where you can feel where you're going but its not all over the place like a *caugh* viper. honestly going from an 8 front to a 8.5 might actually take away from the car's ability to navigate turns it shouldn't with its body roll. but i haven't tried it yet. i'll know by july i guess. and the body roll should be less with a sport package or lowered suspension.

i'd love to go through a class if it was actually geared towards getting the max out of your 350 and now just this is how you take a turn, this is how you follow a line, this is how you manage gears while racing...yadda.

is350WHT

Would love to go (if its free

Been driving like a granny since I sold my 3000GT 2 years ago (too many close calls with
cops. Forgot how to drive 100mph+

newr

Since when a Viper had 550hp???? and had ZERO handling??? Obviously you've never driven one or sat in one.