Driving the Tatra T700 was heartbreaking. Not the act of driving it. Despite being the inverse of every large luxury sedan in North America—rear-engine, air-cooled, manual transmission—from the driver ...

Until recently, Tatra, at least in the eyes of most western collectors, was one of those weird brands from behind the Iron Curtain. Most early Tatras could easily be mistaken for a prop from ...

You want weird and obscure? Try this 1989 Tatra 613 on for size. Not only was the Tatra 613 not sold in the U.S.A, but it was only sold in very, very limited numbers to the public, primarily used only ...

The Lane Motor Museum in Nashville has built a reputation on the wide variety of cars it houses. Among the Peels, Panhards and Martins are the more prosaic Fiats, Citroëns and Hondas (usually Euro- or ...

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 ...

Here are a few words to swirl around in your head: rear-engined, V-8, Czech, luxury, Zeppelin, Nazi officer-slaying, Porsche-inspiring, air-cooled, sedan. These are all terms that can be used in some ...

As soon as the markets become a little calmer, Tatra wants to launch a car based on the model that was used on Jiří Hanzelka and Miroslav Zikmund’s famous trip in the late 1940s. The new model would ...

The 1934 Type 77 Tatra had a 3.0-litre, air-cooled, overhead-valve, alloy V-8 engine behind the rear axle. The Tatra car’s roots go back to 1850 and the Austro-Hungarian Empire, when Ignatz Schustala ...

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 ...

Hyundai has established a major presence in the Czech Republic, with its plant in Nosovice in the east of the nation producing 300,000 cars per year. Five body styles are produced there, including the ...