My Mustang Unleashed experience

[jbrnigan]

We just recently returned from Charlotte, where we enjoyed the Mustang Unleashed experience. We chose the Mustang Immersion from the three choices. Over the years I had taken a few performance classes - Barber, Fellows, Petty - So, the Immersion experience was the best choice for my 65 year old wife. It included a street drive, heritage drive, emergency accident avoidance and Auto cross sessions in both Ecoboosts and GT's. I especially enjoyed the heritage drive (once in a lifetime), and as the oldest driver in the class, I finished 4th out of 39 drivers in the timed auto cross event. (my wife went "off course" - no time)

The folks at Wheelhouse do an extraordinary job of making your experience memorable - my wife, who drives a Lexus and has never been a "car" person, was slightly overwhelmed by it all. (she continues to throw out "racing" jargon at me - oversteer, contact patch, turn apex, understeer, etc - Ugh! LOL) If you bought a new Mustang and didn't take advantage of the Unleashed offer, you missed an opportunity to have a little performance "fun" at Ford's expense.....

Our trip was 1635 miles spread over 6 days - from S. Indiana, to Charlotte, Birmingham, and home. Only 322 miles of our "road trip" were driven on interstate highways. Driving was concentrated on "backroads" and about 350 miles a day at speeds that were "leisurely".

Anyway, it confirmed for me that our choice of an Ecoboost convertible, was the best compromise of style, ride comfort and performance. We got an average of 32 mpg (hand calculated) for the trip.

This was a "shakedown" cruise for the trip we have planned in June to Glacier Nat. park - Boise, Bonniville salt flats, Bryce/Zion, Denver ...... After this trip, we're pretty sure that the convertible Mustang was the right choice for our "enjoy the journey" as well as the destination travels.

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[Paul's stable]

We just recently returned from Charlotte, where we enjoyed the Mustang Unleashed experience. We chose the Mustang Immersion from the three choices. Over the years I had taken a few performance classes - Barber, Fellows, Petty - So, the Immersion experience was the best choice for my 65 year old wife. It included a street drive, heritage drive, emergency accident avoidance and Auto cross sessions in both Ecoboosts and GT's. I especially enjoyed the heritage drive (once in a lifetime), and as the oldest driver in the class, I finished 4th out of 39 drivers in the timed auto cross event. (my wife went "off course" - no time)

The folks at Wheelhouse do an extraordinary job of making your experience memorable - my wife, who drives a Lexus and has never been a "car" person, was slightly overwhelmed by it all. (she continues to throw out "racing" jargon at me - oversteer, contact patch, turn apex, understeer, etc - Ugh! LOL) If you bought a new Mustang and didn't take advantage of the Unleashed offer, you missed an opportunity to have a little performance "fun" at Ford's expense.....

Our trip was 1635 miles spread over 6 days - from S. Indiana, to Charlotte, Birmingham, and home. Only 322 miles of our "road trip" were driven on interstate highways. Driving was concentrated on "backroads" and about 350 miles a day at speeds that were "leisurely".

Anyway, it confirmed for me that our choice of an Ecoboost convertible, was the best compromise of style, ride comfort and performance. We got an average of 32 mpg (hand calculated) for the trip.

This was a "shakedown" cruise for the trip we have planned in June to Glacier Nat. park - Boise, Bonniville salt flats, Bryce/Zion, Denver ...... After this trip, we're pretty sure that the convertible Mustang was the right choice for our "enjoy the journey" as well as the destination travels.

I live on the west coast of Canada and we don't get any of those events.

 

[Cipis]

I live on the west coast of Canada and we don't get any of those events.

Same for us in EU… Sad

 

[LouG]

Same for us in EU… Sad

No track days at local tracks? I'd kill to drive on Mugello.

 

[Will2]

Wish we had something like this for West Coasters.

Glacier National Park is awesome in the summer, if you aren't inundated by the crowds. Drove out there from California a few years ago in a rental V8. You might want to consider rentals to avoid the miles, rock chips, and abuse on your own car.

 

[Sofa King]

Wish we had something like this for West Coasters...

The track attack is available to all in the US... you just have to travel to the east coast...

 

[MidwayJ]

If you bought a new Mustang and didn't take advantage of the Unleashed offer

I bought a new GT in December. I know Dark Horse buyers get the track attack but I don't recall anything about this.

 

[TMR]

I bought a new GT in December. I know Dark Horse buyers get the track attack but I don't recall anything about this.

Here is the link to register. It is available to all Mustang buyers.

https://track.mustangunleashed.com/

 

[TMR]

I did the Road Course option last week. Wheelhouse Racing (Ford contracts them to run the experience at the Charlotte Motor Speedway) did a great job. All the instructors were top notch.
AM was rallycross and evasive maneuver exercises. PM was track time on the CMS road course. It was very cool to drive a manual Dark Horse track car on the oval and through the twisties.
I am definitely hooked on building a track car now!

If you can swing the trip to Charlotte, I would recommend this to anyone. I've done the BMW experiences in SC several times. They are great and professional as well, but the Wheelhouse program edged it a little for me.

 

[MidwayJ]

Here is the link to register. It is available to all Mustang buyers.

https://track.mustangunleashed.com/

Thanks! I googled it after posting that comment. I just need to decide on a time to go.

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