The Czech-made Tatra 600 was a huge inspiration for VW's Beetle (Credit: Alamy) Following the war Tatra was nationalised and began producing a new rear–engined family car called the Tatra 600, ...

Tatra took legal action, but Hitler invaded Austria, seized its factory and banned Ledwinka’s VW-like prototypes from public show. In 1961, however, VW made a substantial payment to Tatra ...

Volkswagen has built two generations of the Kübelwagen, ... Opel, and Tatra. Wolfsburg designed the friendlier Type 181 for the West German military and built it from 1968 to 1983.

Sure, Tatra wasn't the only company to use gasoline-fired car heaters—VW used them for years in the Type 2 buses and the Type 4—but they never put them right under your ass.

Foster writes: “Tatra sued Porsche, through the VW enterprise, for infringement of patents, eventually receiving one million Deutsche Marks in an out-of-court settlement in 1965.

A 1939 Volkswagen Type 1 convertible, ... and several models from the Czechoslovakia automaker Tatra. In May, Hitler laid the cornerstone of the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany.

In 1965, Volkswagen paid Tatra a huge sum to settle a patent infringement suit out-of-court. The suit, filed before the start of World War II, was held up when Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, ...

Nearly everyone can immediately call to mind the shape of one of the best-selling cars ever -- the Volkswagen Type 1 Beetle.Originally designed under Ferdinand Porsche’s leadership, the Beetle ...

It looks like a hearse and drives like a motorboat, but the Czech-made Tatra T87 was a cruiser ahead of its time. Jay Leno describes what it's like to drive one, and why it's like no other car he ...

Tatras are some of my absolute favorite cars. Tatra tended to make high-end, large(ish), four-door, V8, rear engine cars, and as such they’re one of the few examples of the 30s-era streamlined ...

Known to many Tatra enthusiasts as T3-603s, the factory continued to refer to these third-generation models as T2-603s. ... Hint No. 1, which owners of classic Porsche 911s or VW Beetles know: ...