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 ...

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 ...

"Stastnou cestu," the Czech equivalent of bon voyage in French (and, incidentally, English), is the title of this feature-length Tatra 603 commercial. With a running time of 12 minutes and 28 seconds, ...

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 ...

Well, if you never thought you needed a Tatra, this video will set you straight. Big time. Circa 1962, this 12-minute promo reel follows two well-dressed gents and an Eastern-Bloc Audrey Hepburn ...

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 ...

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 enjoy your column and want to know about a vehicle called the Tatraplan T-600. My friend once had one, and it would be interesting to see what info you have on this company. My friend told ...