Tatra 17

The Tatra 17 is an automobile that the Czech manufacturer Tatra produced between 1925 and 1929. It was the top-end model of the range, sold alongside the Tatra 12 economy car and the Tatra 30 executive car. It was the first luxury Tatra to use the backbone tube chassis already proven in the low cost Tatra 11, with the driveshaft inside the tube, the gearbox and engine at the front and the differential at the rear, and unlike the Tatra 11 it had independent suspension at the front as well as the rear. The original engine was a liquid-cooled 1,930 cc six-cylinder overhead camshaft inline unit of 35 hp with a silumin block, and some cars received the larger 2,310 cc engine of the Tatra 31 as the Tatra 17/31. Bodies included a two-seat roadster and a six-seat limousine, and a few cars were built as fire engines.