Tatra, a Czech automotive producer that now not builds automobiles, has a wealthy historical past courting again to the late nineteenth century. Known for its distinctive and unconventional designs, the corporate gained fame for producing strong, rear-engined automobiles that defied conventional automotive norms. The Tatra 613 Mi Long Electronic, a variant of the Tatra 613, emerged as a pinnacle of the corporate’s engineering prowess within the late twentieth century.
The unconventionally formed sedan was launched in 1975 as a luxurious sedan with a modern and aerodynamic design that set it aside from its contemporaries. While based mostly on a mannequin from the mid-Seventies designed by Vignale, the Tatra 613 Mi Long Electronic featured within the video on the prime of this web page had a closely modernized inside in comparison with its predecessors. It was launched to compete with the best German luxurious sedans on the time and got here outfitted from the manufacturing unit with a voice notification system, which reported automobile faults and different vital messages.
One of essentially the most distinctive options of the automotive was its fuel-injected air-cooled V8 sitting on the rear axle. This explicit automobile was assembled in 1993 and includes a 3.5-liter model of the V8 engine with an output of round 200 horsepower. Interestingly, the very same Tatra was listed for sale at $110,000 (2,500,000 Czech Koruna) earlier this yr.
What’s it wish to drive? From the video, you’ll be able to inform the transmission isn’t precisely easy as the driving force struggles to seek out the proper gear, particularly when the engine and gearbox are nonetheless chilly. The sound of the V8 on the again is in contrast to the rest although, creating a really distinctive expertise behind the wheel. The suspension is smooth however the automotive doesn’t bend a lot in corners.
Only 17 models have been ever produced from this explicit model of the automotive. It might be protected to imagine just some of them are nonetheless alive and, because the reviewer mentions, this may very well be one of many final Tatra automobiles ever constructed. Count us enormous followers of air-cooled V8s (pun supposed) to any extent further.