Tatra 600

The Tatra 600, named the Tatraplan, was a rear engined large family car made from 1948 to 1952 by the Czech manufacturer Tatra, with the prototype finished in 1946. It was designed in 1946 and 1947 by Josef Chalupa, Vladimír Popelář, František Kardaus and Hans Ledwinka, and began life as the Tatra 107 before Tatra switched to a new numbering system after the war. The name celebrated the planned economy and also hinted at aeroplane inspiration. It had a monocoque, streamlined ponton styled six seat fastback saloon body with front suicide doors and a drag coefficient of 0.32, powered by a rear mounted air-cooled flat four of 1,952 cc. In total 6,342 were made, 2,100 of them at Škoda in Mladá Boleslav, and in 2010 it won the Classic Car of the Year award in the 1940s category in the United Kingdom.