Lancaster Driving School         

Chris's Diving School

The areas leading driving school, offering top quality tuition, in a relaxed, friendly environment at affordable prices.

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Tuition for new learners, learners approaching test standard, pass plus, motorway lessons, advanced driving lessons, refresher courses.

Problem Solving:

Problems reversing, don't understand roundabouts,  flustered in congested traffic, hill start nightmares and many others

Making learning to drive affordable for everyone.:

Covering Garstang, Galgate, Lancaster University, Lancaster, Heysham, Morecambe, Hest Bank, Bolton-le-Sands, Carnforth and outlying areas..

The Home of the Leading Lancaster Driving School

The Driving School Car

The Call Chris Driving School car is the very latest Mitsubishi Colt (pictured).

The Mitsubishi Colt is fitted with dual controls for safety during driving lessons. It is a manual car (with gears and clutch) and registered in 2005. The car is always well maintained and fully serviced to ensure safety and reliability at all times.

The car is perfect for learning to drive in around the Lancaster area!

"The Mitsubishi Colt is probably a better car than most buyers realise. Now that it has the personality and styling to go with its mechanical integrity, it becomes one of the best used supermini buys around. The diesel models are well worth tracking down but there's not a bad car in the entire line up. The only sticking point may be persuading an owner to part with one first.

You used to know where you stood with a Mitsubishi Colt. It would be reliable, fairly spacious and utterly boring. In 2004, Mitsubishi broke that particular mould and introduced a Colt with far more widespread appeal. Suddenly, here was a car that put the frighteners on the established supermini class leaders. Although the Colt has become a whole lot more interesting, the reliability factor remains, making the Mitsubishi one of the best used supermini choices around.

The previous generation Colt had been on sale from 1996 through to 2004 and seemed to have established a durable template for boring but reliable hatches that could safely be overlooked by the British buying public. The 2004 Colt was an entirely different kettle of fish. Its profile was raised by the fact that it shared its chassis with the Smart forfour and many UK buyers recognised that the Colt, in fact, offered superior value for money. When the forfour was discontinued in 2006, the Colt carried on alone.A neat piece of styling, the Colt was launched with three and five door body styles, the first five door cars landing in dealerships in September 2004 and the three door models following soon after in December. Trim levels were typically confusing, a Mitsubishi trait that sadly didn't get erased, but good news followed in early 2005 with the launch of the Colt CZT, a three door pocket rocket that's never attracted the following it deserves.

The Colt feels a good deal more assured on the road than that high rise styling might suggest. The suspension is fairly firm but on rutted city streets, only the worst that local government negligence can throw at it will upset its uncanny composure. The flipside of this is that the Colt offers a surprisingly generous dose of entertainment with decently weighted steering and better than adequate body control. The brakes are discs up front and drums at the back, except for the range-topping 1.5-litre petrol model which gets discs all round. Anti-lock and electronic brakeforce distribution are standard on all models, as is electrically assisted power steering.The 1.3-litre engine is presently the best compromise between economy and performance, the 1.5-litre unit being a little sibilant in the upper reaches of the rev range. If you want real performance, it has to be the CZT, Mitsubishi's three-door hot hatchback, which is based on a turbocharged version of the 1.5-litre engine good for 150bhp. A baby Evo? That could be about the size of it, especially if it could be breathed upon to liberate a few extra horsepower."