The Tatra 87 (T87) is a car built by Czechoslovak manufacturer Tatra from 1936 to 1950. It was powered by a rear-mounted 2.9-litre air-cooled 90-degree overhead cam V8 engine that produced 85 horsepower and could drive the car at nearly 100 mph (160 km/h).

2020年7月27日 · A light and sleek car on a unique Y-frame, the Tatra 87 is the ultimate in pre-war European design. Until 1950, the Czech built 3,056 units.

The Tatra 87, with its groundbreaking design, stellar performance, and a cast of illustrious owners, stands as a symbol of automotive excellence, leaving an indelible mark on the annals of motoring history.

Historians found that more Nazi officers died driving Tatras than in combat and eventually Hitler forbade officers from driving the cars. Czechoslovak travelers Miroslav Zikmund and Jiří Hanzelka drove the T-87 around 44 African countries, covering 100K km, …

2018年9月23日 · To get a better appreciation of the T87, you instead have to look at it as its creator intended: As a premium car that provided the best combination of ride, comfort, performance, reliability and economy that could be had in its day.

2014年4月3日 · Being around a T87 makes you feel like you live in a world that split off from ours somewhere in the early 30s, and continued on to this utopia of gleaming, benevolent, elegant machines and...

The Tatra 87 is a car built by Czechoslovak manufacturer Tatra. It was praised by German officers in World War II for the superior speed and handling it offered for use on the Autobahn. It was powered by a rear-mounted 2.9-litre air-cooled 90-degree overhead cam V8 …

2018年8月9日 · That large, six-passenger car used a streamlined monocoque-construction body that was designed in collaboration with famed aerodynamicist Paul Jaray, and it was powered by a rear-mounted, air-cooled V-8 engine. A contemporary of Chrysler’s envelope-pushing Airflow, this model weighed almost 2 tons and could achieve nearly 90 mph.

The avant-garde, streamlined design of the Tatra 87 looks rather like a fish, not least because of the large rear fin. The three headlights are also typical of the Tatra design. The low drag coefficient (Cd) of 0.36 enabled the car with its air-cooled 3.0-litre V8 engine to attain a …

View complete technical specifications for 1948 Tatra 87. Includes performance data, fuel economy, dimensions, engine details, and more.