Back in the mid-1930s, this forgotten gem used to be one of the fastest-production cars in the world, achieving this feat thanks to innovative aerodynamics rather than raw power. Originally founded in ...

Despite the now countless articles on them being just a search away, Tatras remain on the mysterious side. Most people never get to see one in the metal, and without careful examination, who could ...

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Tatra ranks among the world's oldest automobile manufacturers. It began producing motor cars as early as 1897 in Kopřivnice in what is now the Czech Republic. Drive It! checks out a pioneer in ...

7 Reasons Why the Tatra 87 Is an Early Automotive Icon While Americans might not think of the Czech Republic as an automotive powerhouse, in the 1930s it produced the most luxurious, fastest European ...

Based in what’s now the Czech Republic, Tatra ranks among the world’s oldest automakers. Launched in 1936, the Tatra 87 was one of the fastest series-production vehicles of its day. And when it comes ...

Our story last week about the history of aerodynamics and how it has evolved over the decades in the sphere of automotive, drew more than a few comments about the glaring omission of the car that ...

In April 1947, two wild and crazy Czechs set off from Prague in a Tatra 87 and drove 40,000 miles across Africa and South America. Přes Kordillery ("Across the Cordilleras") is their book about the ...

Prices shown are the prices you can expect to pay for a 1940 Tatra T-87 4 Door Sedan across different levels of condition. Edit options.

28 Apr 2025, 12:33 UTC · By: Vlad Radu // One of the most advanced production cars introduced during the 1930s, the Tatra 87 took aerodynamic efficiency to a whole new level ...

Known by the Allied forces as their "secret weapon", the Czechoslovakian-manufactured Tatra 77a and 87 automobiles inadvertently became Nazi-killing machines. In fact, more high-ranking Nazi officers ...

What, I pondered on the morrow of Europe's expansion into the ancient peripheral territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, should be nominated as the greatest Bohemian or Moravian classic car - and ...