Tatra 80

The Tatra 80 is a Czechoslovak luxury full-size car that Tatra built between 1931 and 1935, and it was the most luxurious and expensive car the company made, priced at 195,000 to 200,000 crowns. Hans Ledwinka designed it in 1930, and it shared its backbone chassis and swing axle suspension with the Tatra 70, differing in its wire wheels and in its engine: where the Tatra 70 had a 3,406 cc six, the Tatra 80 had a 5,990 cc 65-degree V12 giving 120 hp and a top speed of 130 km/h. Tatra supplied the bare chassis, engine and transmission, and customers chose the body and coachbuilder, so four-door sedans, cabriolets and six-seat limousines were built, several with bodies by Sodomka of Vysoke Myto. Only 22 were made. A unique landaulet of 1935 served as the state car of President Masaryk and is now in the National Technical Museum in Prague, part of a set of historic cars declared a national cultural monument in 2005.