Dirty Driving

By Rob

More mud.

What we testing here is more than just traction, although that is certainly important. We drive the car into and out of various mud and gravel pits at our Desert Proving Ground in Arizona. These are really severe “events.”

The key in this sort of testing is to ensure the many, many subsystems within the car can: 1.) survive and 2.) perform as intended.

Off-Roading?!

By Rob

A luxury sport sedan off-roading? Yeah, sort of.

While in Arizona, we took the opportunity to do many different sorts of testing and driving. Do we really need bona fide off-road capabilities? Maybe not. But we do want the car to be prepared, in the unlikely event that a real customer encounters an extreme situation like this bog of deep mud.