All kind of Tatras gathered at Wemding, Bavaria, for the annual TRD event. Spotted were a T57, T57sport, T57a, T57a Sport, T57b, T75, T87-2, T87-3, T602-2, T603-3, T613s and a T700, quite a good variety. For a photoreport, have a look at Davydutchy’s Flickr photostream website

http://www.flickr.com/photos/davydutchy/

IN retrospect, perhaps, it should have seemed inevitable: the Tatra won the 2010 Collectible Car of the Year Contest on nytimes.com.

Yes, the Tatra. Of course.

The what? Read more here……….

Czech car production up by 18% in H1
ČTK 22 July 2010
Prague, July 21 (CTK) – Czech car makers produced 559,000 cars in the Czech Republic in H1 2010, an increase of 18 percent on the year, the Automotive Industry Association (SAP) said.
Passenger cars contributed nearly 557,000 units to the total figure, the SAP said. All passenger car manufacturers registered an increase in production, the association said.
Car maker Skoda Auto raised production of passenger cars and small utility vehicles by 17 percent to 287,000 units. TPCA’s production grew by 1.8 percent to 178,000 units and Hyundai’s by 84 percent to nearly 92,000 units. Kaipan produced six cars, 50 percent more on the year.
Production of lorries fell by 7.4 percent on the year to 579 units and bus production dropped by a fifth to 1,228 units in H1.
Avia raised production by 53 percent to 174 lorries this year, while Tatra reported a drop of 20 percent to 405 units.
As for buses, SOR Libchavy registered an increase, while other bus producers saw a drop in their output.
Motorcycle production went down by nearly 40 percent to 229 units.
Czech producers of motor vehicles exported 618,000 units in Jan-June of the year and domestic sales reached 33,500 units, a yr/yr growth of 16-17 percent for both items.
Czech car makers’ production in H1 2009 and 2010
type of vehicle production 2010 production 2009
passenger cars and small utility vehicles 556,706 470,667
lorries 579 625
buses 1,228 1,555
motorcycles 229 372
Source: SAP

The Tatra Veteran Club Koprivnice invites you at their annual rally in the first weekend of September.

The TVCC rally is the mother of all Tatra rallies and is organised for the 41st time!  Quite an achievement. Many Czechs and Slovaks usually present their freshly restored Tatras to the broad Tatra public for the first time and it is about the only Tatra rally that is attended by veteran Tatra trucks as well.

Program: Beskydy_program

Subscription form: Beskydy_subscription

Navistar and Tatra have published a new ATX6 and ATX8 military vehicle brochure: http://www.tatra.cz/web_cz/brozury/prospekt

Other Tatra military vehicles on-line brochures:

http://www.tatra.cz/web_cz/broz_voj_cz.asp

Posted: 9  7th  2010 15:34, author: CT24 (Automatic translation from http://www.ct24.cz/ekonomika/95364-tatra-planuje-triumfalni-navrat-na-rusky-trh/
  
Kopřivnice – Kopřivnice car Tatra slowly begin to recover from the crisis, during which the whole company had to stop the banks and big plans to expand abroad.  Particularly keen to return to Russia, which previously had been her biggest commercial market.  In order to avoid high import duties that its products more expensive for Russian consumers, wants its Tatra trucks mounted directly in one of the former Soviet Union. 
“To avoid pětadvacetiprocentnímu duty, which led Prime Minister Putin, and we once again managed to gain Russian market, we will conduct negotiations with potential partners in order to carry out assembly of Tatra cars in Russia or in another region of the Commonwealth of Independent States,” presented in the report to shareholders plan for its Tatra CEO Ronald Adams.
Rallying Tatra has bold plans on other continents.  In Southeast Asia it with potential partners in marketing and assembly in Malaysia.  The aim of cooperation is to be a quality supply to all countries in Southeast Asia.

Tatra escaped from the gravedigger shovel
Tatra last year due to the crisis ended in a loss of more than sedmsetmilionové, which was still 140 million more than in 2008.  But now the company begins to recover from the crisis.  “We can say that we managed to reduce costs and expenses, and that we are beginning to be successful in increasing our market share and sales. This is the winning combination necessary to enable the Tatra get back on top where they belong,” said Adams.

In South America, completed the car in-depth analysis and assumes that the countries that it opens the door to South American markets will be Brazil.  “We believe that this is a market for 400 to 1 000 trucks, plus military vehicles, which will be developed in the near future,” said Adams.
Currently, according to him represents the Tatra of the further development of a key role Saudi Arabia.  Its ground forces will buy the 3000 cars, 4×4, after which it will be during the five years following the contract for another 4000 military 6×6 and 8×8 vehicles. 

Tatra engineers also collaborate with Navistar and develop their first joint vehicle for the Canadian armed forces.  Stable market for Tatra also remains India.  Wants to enforce but also in Australia.

See also http://world-news.dxinginfo.com/2010/07/news-7102010.html

The well-known Louwman collection, a collection created by the Louwman family, a Dutch vehicle importer since the beginning of last century and nowadays Toyota importer, have built a new home for its collection in The Hague.  After the location found a home in Leidschendam in 1969, in Raamdonksveer in 1989, the collection has now found a new home in a superb, purposely built, 10.000 m three store building. It was openened by H.M. Queen Beatrix last Friday, July 2nd.

The Louwman family started to collect historical automobiles while importing  Dodge and Chrysler in the Netherlands. In 1934 they bought their first collectable car, a 1914 Dodge Type 30, one of the oldest surviving Dodges today.  The collection steadily grew and now counts over 230 automobiles. Two of them are Ledwinka designed: a 1948 Tatra T87 and a Spatz Victoria bubble car with central tube chassis, designed by Hans Ledwinka in the autumn of his career.

The T 87 is positioned close to the entrance in a hall housing highlight designs of several countries, the T 87, representing Czechoslovakia, accompanied by a Citroen DS, a Volvo 444, a DAF 600, a Toyota 2000GT etc.

Video of HM Queen Beatrix opening the new museum as well as a museumimpression: http://nos.nl/

Louwman Museum:  www.louwmanmuseum.nl

Tatra T 87:  louwmanmuseum.nl/

earlier article:  tatraworld.nl

We know that the author of this sentence has some credits in the automotive world, but I don’t expect we will ever see this phrase in a Tatra museum.

(Seen in the new Louwman Automuseum, The Hague Netherlands)

T 815 Facelift: http://www.tatra.cz/web_cz/brozury/Facelift_CZ.pdf

T815: http://www.tatra.cz/web_cz/brozury/terrno_cz.pdf

CAS 30: http://www.tatra.cz/web_cz/brozury/CAS30_CZ.pdf

T 810: http://www.tatra.cz/web_cz/brozury/T810C_CZ.pdf

Jamal: http://www.tatra.cz/web_cz/brozury/Jamal_CZ.pdf

Customizing cars has become quite popular in both Czech Republic and Slovakia. Marek Adamčík sent TatraWorld these photos of this photo from the Trencin Tuning & Speed Show. More pix at  http://www.autofun.cz/tuning-speed-show-trencin-5101/