I know Chrysler's Space Division built the Saturn V but I don't think anyone ever called it a Chrysler Saturn V
I’m not sure if you know this about me, but I tend to have a number of slow-simmering automotive research projects…
Today’s Hungarian Grand Prix wasn’t all that exciting, but the same can’t be said for 1995's race. It’s not every day that a Formula One driver meets the business end of a Tatra medical car, but that’s exactly what happened to Taki Inoue.
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Not many people got to have Tatra 603s. They were usually reserved for people who had status on the other side of…
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This weekend, Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen and the rest of their pals will battle it out on the Hungaroring in the …
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A perfect 1937 Tatra T87 sits in Munich’s Pinakothek der Moderne art museum. As my coworker Jason has made abundantly clear, this Czech-built car should be revered for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the ~85 HP air cooled engine that was way ahead of its time mounted in the back, and the three…
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I’m not ashamed to admit that one of the key criteria that determines how excited I become about any particular car…
About a month ago, I went on vacation in Prague and paid a visit to the very lovely National Technical Museum. It’s…
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Our own Kristen Lee took a trip to Prague earlier this year, where she presumably danced around on cobblestone…
The Tatra T87 was one of the great streamliners, built to cruise Europe’s first highways, a smooth, high-speed…
Oh, you have a Ford Raptor? A murdered-out Chevrolet SS? One of the last Dodge Vipers? Congratulations. Your car…
Tatra is one of my all-time favorite carmakers, and any day I learn about a Tatra I wasn’t aware of is a grand day…
Tatras are some of my absolute favorite cars. Tatra tended to make high-end, large(ish), four-door, V8, rear engine…
[Scanned from a period postcard, here’s the air-cooled V8-powered Tatra 603 and the MiG-15 jet fighter which was also license-built in Czechoslovakia (S-102 and S-103), standing in a field of excellence. Photo credit: Technické Muzeum Tatra.]
If you want to see real monster trucks, you've got to to to Central Europe.
Sedans: they're for carting nuclear families around. It makes sense to stick the engine right up at the front of the…
I've seen a lot of unexpected cars doing burnouts in my time at Los Jalops, and I think this Tatra 613 might be the…
I'm sure you're seeing that '99' up there and are a little incredulous. How can an archaic, bizarre car like this…
I always loved Tatra's T87 because it seemed like a refugee from an alternate world that never was — a world of…