What exactly is a pure driving experience? Well, Dunlop Tyres is keen to explore the idea - keen enough that it's sponsoring a new section of articles and videos here on PistonHeads with the aim to inspire us all to go out and discover one for ourselves.
It's all part of the firm's 125-year anniversary and for the first instalment Autocar's Steve Sutcliffe takes a Mercedes C63 AMG Black Series for a run up the infamous Hardknott Pass - the menacingly titled stretch of road in the Lake District that's done for many a wheezing clutch and challenged the quivering legs of countless walkers and cyclists over the years. As you'd expect, the Black doesn't struggle with the one in three incline. And along the way Steve discovers some interesting facts about one of Britain's most historically significant roads.