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- Old Socal-NorCal car guy and member of the fourth estate.
![Image: MAD In the ensuing forty or more years since MAD published this send-up of scientifically classified irritating and ineffective drivers, I’d say that very little has changed. That is […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/MAD-wildlife-1.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Humor: A MAD Look At Wild Life On Our Highways")
![Image: MAD Magazine In the middle part of the 20th century, the venerated MAD magazine got loads of mileage out of Americans’ angst about their less-than-reliable cars of the time. Today we get a look […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/MAD-repair-1.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Humor: Do Maintenance Headaches Drive You MAD?")
![Image: NASA/JPL – CalTech Launched on November 6, 2011, and alighting on Mars’ surface on August 6 of the following year, the most recent US rover to reach the fourth planet was the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/supersonic-parachute.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Craterside Classic: Off-Roading on Mars, 20th Anniversary Edition (Part 3 of 3)")
![Image: NASA/JPL; Spirit Launched in June and July, respectively, of 2003, the twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity became the second successful mission(s) to land mobile planetary probes on the surface […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Mars-Spirit.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Craterside Classics: Off-Roading on Mars, 20th Anniversary Edition (Part 2 of 3)")
![Image: NASA To date, NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in California, have launched three successful mobile exploratory missions to the surface of Mars. A total of four wheeled […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Mars-pathfinder-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Craterside Classic: Off-Roading on Mars, 20th Anniversary Edition (Part 1 of 3)")
![Image: MAD Once again, we reach back into the MAD archives to find the “humorists” there taking another swipe at the auto industry during an era when it was cranking out […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/CC-MAD-Mfg-1.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Humor: MAD Gives it to the Automakers")
![Photo: Toyota Toyota may soon be positioned to make two leaps in a single bound. In rolling out its hydrogen-fueled “Project Portal” tractor unit, the company expands beyond the size of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Toyota_Project_Portal_highway.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Future Semi-Classic? Toyota Rolls Out Hydrogen-Powered Tractor Unit")
![MAD about other drivers’ poor behavior? Here are ten problem-types and ten MAD solutions for setting each of them straight. Recognize any of these scourges today? (I love how Tommy […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/MAD-safety-1.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Humor: MAD About Safety")
![I’ve finally seen enough of these uncamouflaged in the wild to know that they are real. As hydrogen fuel cell-powered cars, they certainly are unique. So are they a preview of […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Toyota_Mirai_system_w_descriptions_29DA5176CD782AB1AA48C1087F22C55B21AC4437.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Future Hydro-Classic? 2017 Toyota Mirai – Toyota’s Big Bet On Hydrogen Going Poof?")
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