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Location: Warwick / Leamington
Spa,Warwickshire
Email: hello@drivewithissy.co.uk
Phone: +44 7812390153
Our intensive driving course is a block of automatic lessons booked close together, for learners in Leamington Spa, Warwick and nearby Warwickshire. Issy, our fully qualified approved driving instructor, teaches you one to one in a fully electric Hyundai Kona. Call +44 7812 390153 or email hello@drivewithissy.co.uk to check when we can start.
We’ll be straight with you. Here at Drive With Issy, we don’t offer a ‘crash course’ in learning to drive. It’s understandable that people want to get on the road quickly. We believe this should never come at the cost of training our pupils safely and fully.
We give driving lessons at a pupil’s preferred pace. Even if the preferred pace is ‘lightning’, we’ll still never recommend that a pupil applies for a practical test before we’re sure they’re ready. That doesn’t mean you can’t pass fast. At Drive With Issy we love to see you progress at pace, with confidence, and pass first time. Issy started teaching in 2021 after training with BSM, part of the AA Group, and went independent in 2024. He has taught 500+ learners since then. We are Motability approved and 5-star rated on Google. Read more about Issy on our about us page.
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Booking a block of lessons is the quickest way to learn with us, and it is where you make the biggest savings. A block keeps your lessons close together, so you don’t forget what you did last week. You move through the key driving skills quickly, without cutting corners. We usually suggest a 10 hour bundle to start, taken as 2 hour lessons. Each lesson picks up where the last one stopped. Issy builds it around your own weak points, not a fixed plan. You can track your progress, book lessons and find learning resources in our learner app. Evening and weekend lessons are available, which helps if you work or study in the day. We pick you up from home, school or work. See the current block prices on our price list, or choose a slot on the Book Lesson page.
An intensive driving course is a set of lessons packed into a short time, for people who want their licence as quickly as possible. Elsewhere these can be daily lessons of two to five hours, often over two weeks. If going from total beginner to qualified driver in two weeks rings alarm bells, you’re not alone. With us, intensive means more lessons each week, paced to you. Your first lesson starts with an assessment of what you can already do. From there Issy covers control, observation, junctions, roundabouts, manoeuvres (set moves such as reversing into a bay), hazard awareness and independent driving. All lessons are automatic, so there is no clutch or gear stick to learn. That frees you to focus on the road. When you drive safely on your own without prompting, we talk about your test.
Yes, some people take a 2 week course and pass their test. We are sceptical that this gives a full foundation for being a safe, competent driver for life, though. Passing on the day is one thing. Driving alone at night, in the rain or on a busy road you have never seen is another. That is why our intensive lessons still cover every skill in order, and why we only put you forward when you are ready. Our learners tell us the patience matters most. Adina Joita wrote in her Google review: “Issy is a great instructor. He explained everything very patiently and learning with him was very easy.” Nervous learners, adults learning later in life and people who have failed before all get the same calm approach. Our automatic driving lessons page explains how we teach.
You can apply for your practical test as soon as you have passed your theory test. There is no minimum number of hours or lessons. You need a provisional licence (the licence you hold while learning) and proof of your theory test pass. That makes an intensive driving course sound easy, but practice is what makes a safe driver. DVSA guidance points to around 45 hours of professional lessons plus about 20 hours of private practice as a general guide. Some learners need more and some need less. Private practice with a suitable accompanying driver helps a lot between lessons. We also cover the Show Me Tell Me questions (the car safety questions the examiner asks) as part of test preparation. Our Show Me Tell Me page lists them, and our FAQs answer licence questions.
Once you are ready, the wait for a test slot decides how soon you get your licence. Test centres are often booked well in advance, sometimes for months. So even on intensive driving lessons, there’s no guarantee you can book a test straight away, and it is worth planning for that. The answer is to plan your lessons around the test date you can get. If your test is months away, we can space your lessons out and build up near the date. That keeps your driving fresh for the day itself. Close to test standard already? Our test preparation lessons focus on the manoeuvres and independent driving the examiner will ask for. Tell us your test date when you call +44 7812 390153, and we will plan your lessons around it. After you pass, Pass Plus helps you build experience.
Crash course driving and intensive driving courses are the same thing elsewhere. Crash course comes with its own unfortunate meaning, but in practice they’re one and the same. It is like doing all your revision the night before a big exam. You hope you remember enough to get through, without really understanding it. We don’t run our intensive lessons that way. Each lesson builds on the one before, and Issy goes back over anything that is not yet safe. If you already drive, you may not need an intensive course at all. Our refresher lessons suit people coming back after a long break. They also suit drivers with an international or European licence who need to learn UK roads, rules and test expectations. Complete beginners can start with our learn to drive programme.
Treat any claim of a guaranteed pass with a pinch of salt. We don’t offer one, because no instructor controls what happens on test day. Just like other learners, people who take intensive lessons have to pass the same practical test. The examiner will fail anybody who builds up too many faults, and a major or dangerous fault means an immediate fail. So a pass or fail comes down to how you drive on the day. A “guarantee” elsewhere often just means a refund or part refund if you fail. What we offer instead is an honest view of your driving. Issy recommends you for the test only when you drive consistently, safely and independently without constant prompting. Readiness decides the timing, not a set number of hours. That gives you the best chance on the day.
The quickest safe route is a 10 hour lesson bundle, taken as 2 hour lessons. After that, we chat about how many more you need. Everyone is different. Some people pick driving up very quickly, and others take a little longer. It could be that 10 hours is all it takes. DVSA guidance points to around 45 hours of professional lessons as a general guide, though some need more and some need less. You learn in our fully electric automatic Hyundai Kona, which we keep clean and maintained. We are Motability approved, and we cover Leamington Spa, Warwick and nearby Warwickshire, subject to your postcode. To start, enter your postcode on our Book Lesson page. You can also call +44 7812 390153 or email hello@drivewithissy.co.uk. We look forward to hearing from you. The team at Drive With Issy
