| Nick Koan |
2011-08-30 10:51 AM |
Naperville, IL gets it right (Test Track for new car buyers)
http://www.autoblog.com/2011/08/29/i...share_facebook
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If you're shopping for a vehicle near Naperville, Illinois, you may have a chance to put your possible purchases through the gauntlet on at a new facility. The town has joined forces with local dealers to create a driving course that would reduce the number of test drives on public streets and give buyers a better sense of the type of vehicle they were purchasing before they signed on the dotted line. The course features a variety of pavement types, a small parking area and even a sprinkler system to allow for foul-weather evaluations.
While the entire facility is housed in an area roughly the size of a mall parking lot, Cars.com reports that the course gives buyers a safe way to more or less fully evaluate a vehicle. Given that most dealers simply offer up pre-planned routes that give only the faintest impression of what a vehicle will be like to live with, we wish more dealers and buyers had access to similar test track. Head over to Cars.com to check it out in greater detail.
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EDIT: Link to the referenced cars.com article.
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Originally Posted by cars.com
The emergency braking area is one of the most valuable sections of the track. It allows drivers to slam on the brakes without worrying about what’s behind them. We did so with sprinklers spraying water on the braking zone, activating the antilock brakes. When shoppers do this, they’ll get a sense of what the antilock braking system feels like. It’s an odd sensation for anyone who hasn’t experienced the pulsating brake pedal in an emergency stop.
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^^ All drivers should experience this.
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