When the centralized planned economy in the Czech Republic appointed Tatra to be the manufacturer for big automobiles, work started on the T-603.

The T602 Tatraplán Sport was created by Tatra for the 1949 Czechoslovak Grand Prix. It was based on the T600 Tatraplán, which was a continuation of the pre-WWII T77 and T87 models designed by the legendary engineer Hans Ledwinka. 

In 1996, Tatra introduced the new T-700. It had the same layout and general body lines as the T-613. The T-700 originated one year earlier when British designer Geoff Wardle was asked by Tatra to update the original body structure.

The Tatra T 815- series of heavy trucks, now known as Tatra TERR No.1, are the bread-and-butter model of Tatra. Almost infinitely configurable from 4x4 to 12x12, with either air- or water-cooled engines by six manufacturers, 3 types of manual, automatic, or electronic transmissions by three manufacturers, 2 passenger, 2+ sleeper, or 8 passenger cabs, with a tipper bed, dump bed, fifth wheel, crane, fire equipment, armored, weaponized, NBC-capable – you get the idea – it’s a remarkably capable truck, and may be outfitted for almost any scenario.

Design of the T-97 was finalized by Erich Ledwinka, one of Hans Ledwinka’s sons, and was developed alongside the T-87. It was in effect a slightly scaled down version of the
T-87 and was almost identical in style.

When Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in 1939, the German military dictated the output of Tatra factories.  Before you is an interesting project that was designed for war use only.  The German military wanted Tatra to develop a vehicle that could move people across the vast snowy plains of Russia.

The first vehicles produced by Vidal under the Tempo name were 3-wheeled delivery vans, starting in 1926. By 1933, the company was producing a 2-seater passenger model powered by a 200cc single-cylinder engine.