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A lone black mailbox alongside the Extraterrestrial Highway is stuffed with letters addressed to aliens the American government supposedly keeps captive inside Area 51, the world\u2019s least secret secret military base.Bathed in the summer heat alongside Nevada\u2019s highway 375 \u2013 officially renamed the Extraterrestrial Highway in 1996, because why waste a tourist opportunity? \u2013 you can see why the military would pick this part of the country to build a secret airbase, whether for holding aliens or \u2018just\u2019 to test new jet technology.There is mile upon mile of nothing save for a circle of impenetrable hills made for concealment.In the distance, a vehicle kicks up dust, heading our way. One of the base\u2019s gates, and said to be how most civilian workers arrive for their shifts, bussed in from a town nearby (though distances are relative), is a good 20 minutes\u2019 drive off the highway, along a dirt road.The indistinct cloud of dust becomes a large white SUV as it nears, and eventually arrives at the roadside mailbox. A large sticker on the side reads \u2018Scenic\u00a0Photographic Tours\u2019. A family emerges and starts taking photos.The gate is about eight miles away, along two dirt tracks, the tour guide tells us, and if you want to go for a look, \u201cthey know you\u2019re coming\u201d. \u2018They\u2019 is used in the manner everybody does to describe a faceless, perhaps sinister, bunch of people in authority. Them. They. Not us. Among online Area 51 enthusiasts, base guards are often dubbed \u2018camo dudes\u2019.Anyway, \u2018they\u2019 have got \u201cseismic meters and cameras\u201d, the guide says, which seems like overkill given that a camo dude wouldn\u2019t even have to lift his aviator shades to spot the plume my Hyundai Santa Cruz would kick up. But if we do go to the gate to take some pictures, even simply standing there might leave ourselves open to remote digital interrogation, I\u2019m warned. \u201cI\u2019ve had people who\u2019ve had camera phone pictures automatically deleted,\u201d the guide says.\u201cI had a woman with a digital SLR camera who got back into the car and found all her images of the gate had disappeared.\u201dI suspect this is tour guide shtick, told to a group of people who look like they might spread the word about how exciting it all is when we get home. \u201cWe do get a lot of visitors from the UK,\u201d he admits.I\u2019m here, and in a Santa Cruz, because I\u2019m looking for a better way to end the historic Route 66 driving tour, which runs from Chicago to Los Angeles, loosely following the passage taken by early pioneers travelling in search of a better life.\u00a0I drove it a few years ago and enjoyed it but had wondered if there was a more interesting path from one side of the US to another, particularly as local enthusiasm for Route 66 feels like it wanes the further west you get: there\u2019s a bit more going on than in America\u2019s quiet middle, where the road is often the biggest show in town.I\u2019d been in Santa Fe, New Mexico, to preview the new Hyundai Santa Fe and interview\u00a0its designer. So I picked up the Santa Cruz, and then picked up Route 66, just down the road in Albuquerque.We don\u2019t get the Santa Cruz in the UK, but it\u2019s the car that Hyundai UK most gets asked about importing. I understand the appeal. Based on the Tucson, it\u2019s a good-looking lifestyle pick-up that is a smidge under 5m long, making it a compact truck in the US. It comes with a five-seat double cab and a relatively short, 1.3m load bay.And a reputation for not being a \u2018proper\u2019 truck, at least in the eyes of those who like their pick-ups bigger, burlier and more separate of chassis and body.The unitary-bodied Santa Cruz is a family-friendly alternative to an SUV, then, which would be considered perfectly capable if it ever arrived over here. In this upmarket spec, it has four-wheel drive, and a 2.5-litre turbo four-cylinder petrol engine making 281bhp and 311lb ft, which one American review says is \u201cbetter suited to urban driving\u201d than the non-turbo base model. Different world.Anyway, it definitely feels more car-like than the brasher, more rugged and much, much\u00a0larger trucks with which it shares the highway west out of Albuquerque. In large parts, the road that constituted historic Route 66 has been supplemented by four- or six-lane highway parallel to it, because after all there\u2019s plenty of space to keep both.So if you want to drive the totally authentic original, you can, but it\u2019s no more interesting and most of the time you\u2019d be within sight of it, plus there\u2019s an exit for every town so you can get the full Radiator Springs experience: bypassed ranch towns that, as trains became longer and trucks able to drive faster and further, slowly became forgotten.At this point on the route, the most interesting things to see are off the highway. The Navajo Nation\u2019s Window Rock. The Petrified Forest. The Grand Canyon. Las Vegas?If Vegas isn\u2019t quite your cup of tea, not far before it is the Hoover Dam. What a thing. The numbers are so vast as to be almost incomprehensible. It\u2019s constructed from 3.36 million cubic metres of concrete; the artificial lake behind it stretches for 115 miles; its 17 turbines produce 2.08 megawatts of power; and there are spillways vast enough, with drops tall enough, to make your correspondent feel decidedly queasy. If a train of Santa Cruzes poured one load bay of water into the reservoir every 30 seconds, it\u2019d take 38,860 years to fill it.It is an astonishing piece of engineering, and from its completion the federal highway drove straight across the top of it. Only in 2010 was it finally bypassed. It feels bonkers, driving over its slow single-lane road now, that this was the main highway.I don\u2019t doubt there\u2019s more concrete in Las Vegas \u2013 certainly the city lights use their share of 2.08 megawatts. And there\u2019s a fairly straightforward route to Los Angeles directly from the city, which is packed at weekends, on Fridays with cars heading out of California, with the opposite exodus on Sundays.Our route, though, is the less travelled northern one, towards empty highways, the tiny town of Rachel, its alien-themed cafe (the Little A\u2019Le\u2019Inn) and the myths of Area 51.I\u2019m enjoying the Santa Cruz. It\u2019s got a decent ride that doesn\u2019t have the crashy, basic agricultural vibe of even the best separate-chassis pick-ups we get in Europe. For the most part, you can forget it\u2019s a pick-up at all and think of it like an SUV you can take fishing or hunting or surfing without the cabin smelling\u00a0on the way home.It steers with heft but accuracy, rides with a firm composure, and has digital dials and a big touchscreen. If it weren\u2019t for radio stations featuring adverts for nasal vacuums (\u201cclean nose, healthy life!\u201d) and \u2018prostate secrets\u2019 (.com!), and playing songs like \u2018I\u2019m rednecker than you\u2019, you could almost convince yourself it\u2019s a European experience.The roads, the space and the emptiness are all pure Americana, though. A wide, sweeping set of bends leads downhill towards the Extraterrestrial Highway, whose quirky, digital-font signage is covered in stickers from all parts of the world.For all of the seriousness of there being an actual secret active military airbase nearby, they ham up the alien mythology with a knowing wink. When, in 2019, there was an \u201cArea 51 Raid\u201d organised online on the basis that \u201cthey can\u2019t shoot all of us\u201d, additional policing was drafted in.But ultimately the event had all the threat of a village fete, the most risky activity being selfie-taking in front of the \u2018don\u2019t take photos here\u2019 signs outside the razor-wired gate, to the shrugging permission of by-standing guards.So we go too, off the main highway and onto the dirt track, which you don\u2019t strictly need a pick-up\u2019s 4×4 system to navigate, but which isn\u2019t unhelpful in deeper sand. One suspects this is as hard as most Santa Cruzes will be worked but there\u2019s plenty of terrain like this in the US, and it deals with it nicely, slipping around entertainingly.Do they notice us with their spy drones and seismometers? We\u2019re probably not worth the trouble. On an average day, there must be a dozen cars and tours that turn up to peer over the gate at a remote sentry camera, which is all overlooked by a white pick-up on a low hillside \u2013 \u2018camo dude\u2019 presumably aboard.We stay a few minutes. On the return leg, a white Chevy Suburban with darkened windows passes us but, let\u2019s face it, it\u2019s more likely that a shift manager than Paul the alien is on board.Back on the road, we swing a left towards the restaurant, and then drive on another six hours towards California, through the desolation of Death Valley, past an aircraft graveyard, and eventually out onto the busy highway that runs down into Los Angeles.This is a cooler, more intriguing, end to Route 66. And an interesting car to do it in. I check my phone to see if any pictures have been deleted. No. No, they haven\u2019t been.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n

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