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I’m writing this from the passenger seat of Alex Roy’s 2000 BMW M5 after my four-hour stint behind the wheel. Despite the 5er’s luxurious confines, I’m contorted into the front seat, shoehorned between four sat-navs, two night-vision screens and one streaming video camera beaming it to you live. When Roy called last Thursday to offer up one of two co-pilot slots on a cross-country jaunt from New York to Monterey, he didn’t have to lay it on thick to get me on a plane to NYC. There are very few people I’d consider joining on such a journey, and Alex is on the top of that list — his M5 seals the deal.

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