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" PM west coast editor Ben Stewart drives a brand-new Corvette Z06 from Los Angeles to New York this week, in search of America&amp;#039;s best driving roads. Downtown Santa Fe is so quiet, clean and peaceful we&amp;#039;re thinking of relocating PM&amp;#039;s West Coast office. Not that there&amp;#039;s anything wrong with Santa Monica, Calif., mind you, but Santa Fe is a really serene and beautiful place. We, of course, completely ruin that serenity by rumbling up the street in our Z06 at 7 am. Despite the commotion, they&amp;#039;re still happy to serve us breakfast at Cafe Pasqual&amp;#039;s, the same place we ate dinner last night. We enjoy the best breakfast we&amp;#039;ve had so far.  But we&amp;#039;re obviously not in this town for the food or the culture; we&amp;#039;re here for the roads. The loop we chose winds up to Taos and has been confirmed by more than a few hot-shoe buddies of ours as one of the best in the country. Highway 503 toward Nambe is simply an amazing piece of road. Its long sweepers and grippy asphalt mix makes it perfect for our Vette. The limits of the Z06 are very high, and we do eventually find them on this road. Luckily, we&amp;#039;re smart enough to leave it in Competition Driving Mode, which keeps the stability control active at the ragged edge. We discover that the brakes on the Z06 have ferocious clamping power as we unexpectedly come upon the town of Cundiyo. Whoops. The place looks abandoned but probably has a slightly larger population than that of Cafe Pasqual&amp;#039;s this morning. We pick up Highway 76 toward Panesco and our co-pilot Ella proclaims this her favorite road of the trip. We sweep through breathtaking pine forests and don&amp;#039;t see another car for maybe 10 minutes at a time. This is the kind of quick and curvy road that passengers enjoy, with long sweeping turns and grand vistas. We fill the Vette&amp;#039;s tank at a place called &amp;quot;Mustang Gas.&amp;quot; This seems only a little sacrilegious to us. We turn onto Highway 518 North toward Taos and the scenery only gets better. The speed limit is 40 mph but we can, well, go a little bit faster than that in the Z06. Ella figures out the gas mileage when we hit Taos. Our last two tanks have delivered an average of 24.8 mpg. That&amp;#039;s a stunning number for a 505-hp supercar. On our way back to Santa Fe we stop to visit Johnnie Meier&amp;#039;s Classical Gas roadside attraction in the town of Embudo. He has one of the largest collections of old gas pumps we&amp;#039;ve ever seen. We spend a few minutes in his museum checking out old roadside signs, oil cans and other automobilia. Cool. It&amp;#039;s early evening by the time we hit Amarillo, Texas, off I-40\u2014perfect timing to eat at The Big Texan Steak Ranch. This is the place where, if you can eat the 72-ouncer, it&amp;#039;s free. We&amp;#039;re tempted, but the 16-ounce strip steak we do eat is enough to put us in a food coma for the next 250 miles to Oklahoma City. We arrive at 1:30 am having covered 703 miles. We&amp;#039;re tired.--Ben Corvette Z06 Coast To Coast: In Search Of America&amp;#039;s Best Driving RoadsDay 1: Los Angeles To PrescottDay 2: Prescott To Santa Fe After we &amp;quot;crinkle the meats&amp;quot; on our Z06, we sample the crinkled meat at The Big Texan ... ... but there&amp;#039;s always more room for road munchies. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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