A day. At Land Rover Experience Driving School, Biltmore Estate, Asheville NC. $250 for one hour. $400 for 2 hours. $1200 a day. $2400 2 days. I thought they might sell T shirts or such, but just the full bore training. Perhaps this would be a new ROI for some enterprising owners (Redneck Opportunity for Income), say in a garden spot like Whitefish.... The longer times include recovery training. But there are only four schools in the US.

 

Are you saying someone start up their own offroading school?

 

This is just a training course on how to drive off road in a Land Rover, in this case at a very posh estate. Posh = 8,000 acres, 175,000 SF house, 250+ rooms, 1800 staff. 1.5 million visitors a year.

IMHO the $2400 would make quite a dent in the roof rack fund... so if some one wanted to offer to show newbies how to get stuck / un-stuck, for $1000 a day....

 

I got to drive a large portion of the course in my own personal DII through a deal with LR of Greensboro. $50 got us a 3 hour ride in our own cars. Got a certificate at the end and a couple freebies to go along. My avy was actually taken at the estate. It was a great time.

I'm from Asheville, and if anyone is actually willing to shell out that kind of cash, I highly recommend waiting til fall time because the leaves are AMAZING. There are some really great views out there.

 

You do get alot of freebies from the guys for going that long. Plus they give you one on one schooling. Trust me its a lot of training to learn how to properly offroad. Plus for 1200 depending on the school they will take you to other places then their school to test out your skills.

and if its winter time in Vermont and the snow actually stays and accumulates then you can go anywhere in vermont and have fun. But in Vermont there is an old air field that isnt really used any more but it closed in the winter time and with a few feet of snow its alot of fun to drive on. Imagine crossing four feet of snow in a full size Range Rover and barely giving it enough gas but crossing an entire airfield as if it was nothing. That is how good the vehicles are.

 

Hell I'll take people out for 2 days for $500.

 

For $2400 you can buy a Rover T shirt, and a dip stick to wipe the shirt on, to take home. And the dip stick will come with a D1 attached!

But at the school you get to drive these rides...

 

Well, we could start our own chain of RedNeck In A Rover Personal Experience Schools but we would have a hard time matching their accomodations I am afraid.

But if we could find a nice spot where we could have a houseboat to operate from we could have The Redneck Rover Yacht Club and offer off-roading combined with fishing and even throw in some RedNeck Skeet Shooting. That's where you toss your empty beer cans in the air and see how many times you can shoot them before they sink in the lake.

 

But the real question is, will you bring them back?

 

I wonder for $2400 if they would let me operate the shovel. Nothing like digging yourself out to enforce a lesson. I know that Spike would make me use the shovel...

But people pay for hang gliding, sport fishing, sky diving, cooking lessons, etc. So to each his own. I couldn't afford the T Shirt. That's four radiators for D1, or a good roof rack and other goodies.