Tatra 87: Pioneer of aerodynamics | Vintage 

Still F. Porsche was a great auto constructor and did wonders at Mercedes. And another amazing man very few know who also influenced the beatle was Béla Barényi.

@@anotherbody2 Mr. Porsche was born in Czech town anyway...:-)))

Thanks for the info.

nice, do you know what his family name means?

he was insanely good engineer, his designs are timeless...

@@jaroslavklima4591 small kidney i think when translated to czech

Yes.And germans stole the patent from him and make a vw beetle and porsche did the same thing lat er!

Marketing xd

@Arjen Zwamborn Got this sort of highway here now: the Pacific Hwy 1 from Brisbane to Gold Coast City in Australia is mostly concrete panels and goes thump thump for miles. Very tedious to drive on, and I do most days.

@ It was not marketing, the car was capable of these speeds - if the road allowed them. It had the typical tatra´s chassis, which allowed every wheel to spring individualy, thus giving it great stability on uneven, bumpy roads. It had big flaws connected to engine placement - no back view, and center of gravity in the back, which made it bad in turning, you had to really slow down. That was unknown at the time, all nowadays cars have engines in front.

@@Pyrochemik007 The rear engine was an effort to increase space inside the vehicle and reduce weight. Engine in front, and drive on the rear axle means you have a transmission tunnel through the passenger cabin and a live axle below the rear passenger seats, which reduces the space inside. The Tatra is huge inside compared to most larger British cars of the period. Front engine and front wheel drive is universal today but it means that you have to have flexible drive shafts to allow the front wheels to steer. Citroen did it in the 1930s with the Light 15 but the drive shafts weren't particularly long-lived.

I believe it helped win the war because of it's terrible cornering.

Yes, they were very desirable among the SS and accumulated a high mortality rate among them; don't get out of the throttle during spirited cornering..lol.

Thanks for the info!

You're thinking of Tata.

@@robert3302 no, Tata use to make trucks using licenced MERCEDES technology until 1970 and they started building SUVS and cars in early 1990s. The first Tartra truck I saw was on 1998 republic day parade in Delhi, later on I came to know that these trucks were imported in limited numbers from Czezh republic for Army, and later on BEML started building these trucks under license from Tatra in 8x8, 6x6 configurations.

@@robert3302 and these is the loveliest car I ever saw in RU-vid, god bless Tatra, Long live Tatra

@@MOTOFLIXGARAGE Sorry. I didn't realize Tatra exported to India. You are correct, they are primarily a truck manufacturer. The cars were a side line.

No, they made luxury cars in small series after WW2. Tatra 603, Tatra 613 and Tatra 700. They were used mostly by those who were more equal than others, like politicians and chairmans of large state companies. Tatra 603 is really beautiful car from 50s, they stopped producing cars in 80s I think.

They truly are in every sense of the word. But this ain't no VW, thankfully.

ř is a tongue twister even for some Czechs. Former president Vaclav Havel couldn't pronounce it properly.

Look it up its documented and fact!

It would be nice to think that except for wouldn't anyone nazi or not have had problems driving at speed? They would and did as the 87 revised the suspension. This fits nicely in the nice story file not so much the proven fact. Ironically considering the subject matter it comes off more like propaganda. Every article sounds like it had the same source and none quote numbers.

Documented by one british writer. No official material support this. Propably only 7 german officers (any rank, not only members of SS) were killed in car accident.

Quite the opposite. Copyright infringement only refers to publishing, that is documents, fotos, sketches, cartoons and the like. Plagiarism applies to any kind of intellectual property theft.

Also, copyright can only be infringed when there is copyright. You could not infringe of Beethoven's works because there is no copyright on music that far back in history. But you can nevertheless plagiarise Beethoven's music. Plagiarism is any kind of taking somebody else's work and passing it off as your own. Even when there is no copyright on the work.

Jaroslav Klíma German Native speaker, born in Austria. Slavic name does not make one a Slav, in Germany many people have slavic Names. He was imprisoned and expelled during the Benes era. Do Tschechs have no own history that they have to steal others?

he was imprisoned , as well as a lot of our soliders that fought against your country in war (where you got rekt)... mind your own business .. and study your own history, there is plenty to study i must say...

When Germans have the same opportunities as Slavs, they are enough to make a Trabant quality product.

@@@lenaschumann1373 , Google yourself "Tatra 603" and stay shut up please!

@@lenaschumann1373 Ledviny = kidneys ------ ledvina = kidney ------ ledvinka = little kidney ............. Many famous czech people have a strange name. Exmpl.:Bedřich Smetana, author of the Vltava Symphony --- smetana = sour cream

Stan Chase More correctly, a 2 door Beetle looks like a 4 door Tatra.

Somiglianza impressionante

Lol, taking my words back, Chrysler Airflow is more ugly than Tatra and Multipla :D

yes, but not at that time

Porsche SC has 0.3, as does Citroen GS for example and they were worse streamlined than Tatra

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Lol, nope :D

You'd have to see it in person to appreciate its curves.

I love this car, and i think this car look better than most of cars made after 2000s

Im czech but for me, Multipla is way nicer :D

the founder and owner of the company was ethnic Czech(Ignác Šustala), the area of Koprivnice was multiethnic:Czech,Germans,Jews,Poles and this was reflected in the workforce which includes engineers. The company was indeed 'Czech' in the territorial sense, and was not 'ethnically' defined.

Oh look, a pro nazi trying to make a cezch company appear German. Didn't you lose two wars and the ability to bullshit us ?

Listen, Sturmbannführer Schumann! Tatra is Czech company based in Koprivnice. You know nothing about our industry! So, halt die klappe!