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This is the coolest way to finesse your driving skills

This is the coolest way to finesse your driving skills

It pays to be gentle when throwing around a $350,000 Mercedes-AMG in sub-zero conditions.

Mercedes-AMG's Winter Sporting Performance Training program is the sure way to find out if you've got the right stuff on the white stuff. 

What’s the best Father’s Day gift for the man who has everything? How about a lesson in humility, cleverly disguised as a fun day out on the snow?

We recently went off to experience just that with the AMG Winter Sporting Performance Training program in New Zealand. It was something of a catch-up lesson; I’d been booked in a similar course at Arjeplog, Sweden, a couple of years back and it was cancelled because the ice wasn’t thick enough. Considering we were at the rim of the Arctic Circle in winter, this was a worry for the future of this type of driving (and, to a slightly greater degree, the planet).

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Tony Davis
Tony DavisMotoring writerTony Davis writes on lifestyle specialising in cars. Email Tony at tony.davis@afr.com.au

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