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Originally Posted by jtbo
Tatra were one of the first well streamlined cars I guess, they also had kind of trademark of having air cooled engine at rear, they had even V12 engines put there, also their trucks had air cooled V12 (at front naturally).
Here is bit further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_...y)#Early_years
This was world's first streamlined production car:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatra_T77
Even cars were advanced at the time, sadly war changed much, without it who knows if we would have had different kind of vehicle evolution. |
In an interview with Paul Jaray,he told the reporter that he disapproved of what Hans Ledwinka had done with the Tatra,but had no control over the design even though it was built under Jaray's license.
The car was notorious for oversteer,several German officers will killed driving them,and finally,officers driving conscripted Tatras were forbidden to drive them at speed.
Later wind tunnel tests of the car indicated that the original drag coefficient claims were highly inflated.