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 ...

If variety is the spice of life, then Tatra was the European habanero pepper of the auto industry prior to World War II. Those familiar with the Czech company often point to its luxury sedans of the ...

One of the concepts unveiled at the Los Angeles auto show has classic lines and a luxury feel--but it's not on the show floor. Tucked into a corner hallway, French-based interiors supplier Faurecia is ...

Well, I have to say that it was kind of extraordinary afternoon. A week after picking up my new '68 Coronet in the port of Bremerhaven, Germany, I finally got to the old part of airport, where I have ...

If you have seen a Tatra T-603, you could easily mistake this overgrown uni-body, four-door salon for a chubby Skoda. The T-603 project began in 1953 when the Czechoslovakian government ordered Tatra ...

Q: Greg, I really enjoyed your article on the 1947 Chevy Cadet that never made it to production following World War II. I also remember you wrote of the Tatraplan T-600 many years ago and its unique ...

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 ...

I'm not ashamed to admit that one of the key criteria that determines how excited I become about any particular car is the quality of strangeness. I can't help it; there's just something about that ...

The weird-looking car you’re looking at is a Tatra 603-2 and in just a few days, one will be available through an online auction in the UK. Chances are that unless you live or have previously lived in ...