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| manufacturer = [[Tatra (company)|Tatra, a. s.]]
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==History==
After [[World War II]], Tatra continued its pre-war business of building passenger cars in addition to commercial (and military) vehicles. The factory was nationalised in 1946 two years before the [[Communist]] takeover. Although production of pre-war models continued, a new model, the Tatra 600 Tatraplan was designed in 1946-47 by Josef Chalupa, Vladimír Popelář, [[František Kardaus]] and [[Hans Ledwinka]]. The name of the car celebrated the new Communist [[planned economy]] but also referred to aeroplane inspiration ('éroplan' means aeroplane in colloquial Czech).
[[File:Tatraplan mfd 1949 1950cc the engine.JPG|thumb|right|Tatra 600 engine-bay]]
[[File:Tatra T600 Tatraplan.jpg|thumb|left|Tatra 600 Tatraplan in an exhibition]]
[[File:AutomobileTatra T-600 Tatraplan.JPG|thumb|left|Tatra 600]]
[[File:Tatraplan.jpg|thumb|left|Tatra 600 at the [[Tampa Bay Automobile Museum]]]]
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After two prototypes "Ambrož" (December 1946) and "Josef" (March 1947), the 600 went into mass production in 1948. In 1951, the state planning department decided that the Tatraplan should henceforth be built at the [[Skoda Auto]] plant in [[Mladá Boleslav]], leaving Tatra to concentrate on truck assembly. This was quite unpopular with the workforce at both plants: as a result Skoda built Tatraplans for one year only before the model was discontinued in 1952.<ref name="tatraplan.co.uk">http://www.tatraplan.co.uk</ref>▼
The Tatraplan had a [[monocoque]] streamlined six-seater saloon body with a [[Automobile drag coefficients|drag coefficient]] (Cd) of just 0.32.<ref name="tatraplan.co.uk"/><ref>Karel Rosenkranz, ''Tatra'', Autoalbum, 2002, page 107</ref><ref>Martin Janik, ''Tatra'', Computer Press, Brno 2005, page 76</ref> It was powered by an [[air-cooled]] flat-4-cylinder 1,952 cc rear-mounted engine. 6,342 were made, 2,100 of them in Mladá Boleslav. In 2010, in the UK, Tatraplan had been selected by public vote in the 'Classic Car of the Year' competition as the winner of the 1940s category.▼
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<div style="border: 1px solid #999999; background: #ffffff; text-align: left; padding: 1em 1em; text-align: left;">[[File:Tatra 87-old.jpg|200px|center]]<br>'''Streamlined Tatras'''
*'''[[Tatra V570]]''' <small>''1931, 1933''</small>
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*'''[[Tatra 603]]''' <small>''1956-1975''</small>
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▲After two prototypes "Ambrož" (December 1946) and "Josef" (March 1947), the 600 went into mass production in 1948. In 1951, the state planning department decided that the Tatraplan should henceforth be built at the [[Skoda Auto]] plant in [[Mladá Boleslav]], leaving Tatra to concentrate on truck assembly. This was quite unpopular with the workforce at both plants: as a result Skoda built Tatraplans for one year only before the model was discontinued in 1952.<ref name="tatraplan.co.uk">http://www.tatraplan.co.uk</ref>
▲The Tatraplan had a [[monocoque]] streamlined six-seater saloon body with a [[Automobile drag coefficients|drag coefficient]] (Cd) of just 0.32.<ref name="tatraplan.co.uk"/><ref>Karel Rosenkranz, ''Tatra'', Autoalbum, 2002, page 107</ref><ref>Martin Janik, ''Tatra'', Computer Press, Brno 2005, page 76</ref> It was powered by an [[air-cooled]] flat-4-cylinder 1,952 cc rear-mounted engine. 6,342 were made, 2,100 of them in Mladá Boleslav. In 2010, in the UK, Tatraplan had been selected by public vote in the 'Classic Car of the Year' competition as the winner of the 1940s category.
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