“Mercedes-Benz Driving Events 2019”, an Advanced Safety Driving Course featuring 20 Models at Chang International Circuit

Mercedes-Benz (Thailand) Limited reaffirms its image as a leader in safety innovations for passenger cars with an advanced safety driving course for customers and press titled “Mercedes-Benz Driving Events 2019” under close supervision of certified driving instructors. The course at Chang International Circuit, Buriram features more than 20 luxury models. Vehicles available for participants of this unique driving course also include latest models: the new Mercedes-Benz A-Class, the new Mercedes-Benz GLE, the new Mercedes-Benz GLC LOCAL PRODUCTION and Mercedes-Benz GLC Coupé LOCAL PRODUCTION.

Mr. Roland Folger, President and CEO of Mercedes-Benz (Thailand) Limited, began “Mercedes-Benz always works at full capacity to develop and implement cutting-edge safety systems to achieve ‘Accident-Free Driving’ vision. This demonstrates our longstanding vision to prioritise the safety of every Mercedes-Benz car owner. Moreover, we believe ‘driving skills development’ also plays a crucial role in road safety as drivers should be able to thoroughly understand the many safety features on board every Mercedes-Benz passenger car and use them during critical scenarios to protect themselves and other road users to avoid or mitigate road accidents or incidents.”

Mr. Bjoern Gustrau, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Mercedes-Benz (Thailand) Limited, continued “Taking place from 17 to 20 October, our ‘Mercedes-Benz Driving Events 2019’ aims to enhance safety driving skills of our customers and media guests. It allows participants to predict critical scenarios on the road and efficiently avoid road accidents or incidents. Participants will learn our ‘Advance Course’ driving programme alongside basics of our latest safety systems available on Mercedes-Benz passenger cars. We accommodate participants with 20 models of Mercedes-Benz cars. Highlight models are five recently-released vehicles namely ‘Mercedes-Benz A 200 AMG Dynamic’, the 4th generation of our intelligent compact car, ‘Mercedes-Benz GLE 300 d 4MATIC AMG Dynamic’, our resolute 7-seater diesel SUV, the new locally-produced sport SUV “Mercedes-Benz GLC 220 d”, “Mercedes-Benz GLC 220 d AMG Dynamic” and “Mercedes-Benz GLC 220 d 4MATIC Coupé AMG Dynamic”. The course is supervised by certified driving instructors of Mercedes-Benz led by Mr. Peter Hackett who has been in the field of safety driving instruction for more than two decades. Upon completion, participants should understand and, if critical scenarios arise, be able to benefit from the safety systems and technologies preinstalled as standard vehicle features. They will receive a completion certificate to guarantee their skills as well.”

In addition to the road safety driving programme, participants can experience performance, agility, and responsiveness known as characteristics of passenger cars made by Mercedes-Benz to answer all driving styles of today’s customers.      20 models prepared by Mercedes-Benz to accommodate participants include   models in Compact Car category, namely A 200 AMG Dynamic and A 200 Progressive; and SUV, namely GLE 300 d 4MATIC AMG Dynamic, GLC 220 d 4MATIC, GLC 220 d, GLC 220 d AMG Dynamic and GLC 220 d 4MATIC Coupé AMG Dynamic. In addition, participants experience sportiness of the high-performance premium vehicles from Mercedes-AMG, namely Mercedes-AMG GT 53 4MATIC+ 4-Door Coupé, Mercedes-AMG E 63 S 4MATIC+, Mercedes-AMG C 63 S Coupé, Mercedes-AMG A 45 4MATIC, Mercedes-AMG GLA 45 4MATIC, Mercedes-AMG CLA 45 4MATIC, Mercedes-AMG C 43 4MATIC Coupé, Mercedes-AMG C 43 4MATIC, Mercedes-AMG GLC 43 4MATIC Coupé, Mercedes-AMG GLE 43 4MATIC Coupé, Mercedes-AMG E 53 4MATIC+ Coupé, Mercedes-AMG E 53 4MATIC+, Mercedes-AMG SLC 43 and Mercedes-AMG CLS 53 4MATIC+.

Details about each station

Station 1: Brake & Lane Change

This station is set up to test the emergency brake control and for the driver’s responding speed to stimulus. Here, drivers will get to test the ABS® and Brake Assist safety system and see from the outside as others activate the Adaptive brake light. Driving out from the starting point at a speed of about 100 km/ h., they must brake and swerve into the left or the right lane following the direction of the instructors. This exercise is designed to help the driver coordinate emergency braking and steering under pressure.