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OK, so talk about your favorite driving roads - where they are and what makes them so great.

Glendora Mountain Road is right in my backyard. Edmunds.com calls it the best driving road in the world (Clarkson would disagree...) and they do a lot of their "real world" testing of performance and sporty cars on it. It has everything: hairpins, high speed sweepers, hard right angle turns, straights, mid corner elevation changes, you name it and it is there. It can get pretty scary as it is pretty narrow and most of the turns are pretty blind. Glendora Mountain Road itself is really a driving workout - frantic, tight, you'll hardly spend a moment without taking some steering, acceleration, braking, or shifting action. You can turn it into a bit of a loop by turning on to E Fork Road and from there on to San Gabriel Canyon road, taking that back into town. Those two roads are much more relaxed than GMR. Still fun and twisty, but less challenging and slower paced.