A Day in the Life of a Land Rover Experience Instructor (cont)
November 20, 2007 on 1:08 pm | In Off-road Driving |
Written on behalf of Lead Instructor Will Cox (cont)
Over lunch apart from comparing the morning guests, the talk goes onto Dynamic Response in RR and Sport are we dedicated to Land Rover or not!? Or just sad. Afternoon clients arrive, slight change of scene being a Prospect Guest in the Range Rover Sport, sport clients are always very interesting but you quickly learn that you can’t judge. My client arrives, I go round meet and greet and go over a health and safety brief over a cup of coffee. A good time to establish the guests needs from the vehicle then we head out to the Sport and take him through a six point walkround which covers exterior and interior of the vehicle in good detail.Zac currently owns a BMW X5 so becomes very interested in the Sport and a barrage of questions come out which is great it makes for an even more interesting afternoon. We head off on a 30 minute road drive where the client is blown away with the torque that the V8 diesel Sport produces especially between 40 and 70 mph.With big smiles we return to the centre and take the Sport onto the off road course, I do a really good demo drive (bit of theatre) to show what the vehicle is capable off with out compromising safety. After that the client drives and by the end of the afternoon he is highly delighted with the Sport with both it’s onroad and off road capabilities. He has a quick cup of coffee while he fills in his questionnaire and the usual comments that the instructor was brilliant!After my good byes I go back to see if Rick has washed my car for me (as his client cancelled on him) by any chance errrrrr no! There’s a surprise! Anyway everybody mucks in and all the cars are washed and kit all tided away. We lock up and depart for the day. I jump back into my old disco and trundle my way home, listening to Chris Evans deciding no it’s not time to become a Togmiester, far too young!!
Annette Drummond
http://www.highlandoffroad.com
Loves all types of off-roading, mostly quad biking and Land Rovers
