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The Tatra V570...
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...015/07/516.jpg
...and the Tatra T97.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...015/07/517.jpg
Adolf Hitler rode in these cars, and said, "These are the cars for my roads."
Ferdinand Porsche admitted to looking over Hans Ledwinska's shoulder when designing the Beetle.
As a result of having their designs copied by Volkswagen, they sued for damages by the Germans, however when Czechoslovakia was invaded by the Germans, the lawsuit was funnily enough dropped.
It was then reopened later, and the result was Volkswagen having to pay 3 000 000 Deutschmarks to Tatra in 1967.
They did a lot of extremely innovative things between the wars - including the T87, which had a rear mounted 3 litre air cooled V8, which had a Cd of 0.36 - in 1936.
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/im...015/07/518.jpg
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The bloke with the funny mo may have ridden in them, but he apparently banned his officers from doing so because of their propensity to suddenly have the back overtake the front. It has been said that Tatras killed more senior officers than the Allied Forces. Could that be considered Czech karma?
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So they also copied the handling into the Porsche,,:p
