Archive for 2015

Tatra and Nexter present their Titus

May 22nd, 2015
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Tatra Kopřivnice at IDET 2015, the selected representative’s current production and is mainly the result of cooperation with the company Nexter Systems.
Tatra Kopřivnice at IDET 2015, the selected representative’s current production and is mainly the result of cooperation with the company Nexter Systems.
International Fair of defense technologies IDET this year take place from May 19 [...]

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October 2015: Tatra/ Fiat 130 rally at the isle of Elba (I)

May 20th, 2015
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INTERNATIONAL MEETING
TATRA – FIAT 130
ISOLA D’ELBA
Thusday 8 October 2015
During the afternoon arrival with full of gasoline to the “GRAND HOTEL ELBA INTERNATIONAL”
of CAPOLIVERI (LI) Loc. Fontanella – tel. 0565/946111 – www.elbainternational.it
Free afternoon, relaxing by the pool or the beach 19.30 dinner at the hotel restaurant.
Friday 9 October 2015
Breakfast at hotel. At 10.00 departure to the [...]

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Tatras at Militracks

May 19th, 2015
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Militracks in Overloon, NL showed tracked and half tracked German WWII vehicles as well as WWII cars and motorcycles. Your editor Kees Smit showed his 1943 T 57K while a Norwegian collector showed his extremely rare 1939 T 92, a 6×4 light truck originally built for the Czechoslovak forces, but eventually used by the Germans [...]

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Tatras on show at several Dutch meetings last weekend

May 19th, 2015
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Peter Visser’s T 87 at oldtimer event in Hoorsterzwaag

The Van Groning family’s T 57a competed in the Frisian 11 Cities Rally. This is a large event with 400 cars and twenty motorcycles competing. Watch this viedo with the Tatra appearing at 4′50″
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VocDgb5QVhA&feature=youtu.be
Other videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9LSb9we6lY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljekTMBwo4M

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Tatra T90 spends 2015 in Tatra Museum Bitov

May 19th, 2015
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Tatras at Essen 2015

April 22nd, 2015
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Around 190.00 visitors attended the Techno Classica in Essen this year. With several Tatras shown, the Tatra community could not complain and will welcome the growing international attention for the brand.
Autostadt, the Wolfsburg VW museum, showed some of their latest acquisitions: A Borgward Isaballa, a Lincoln Zephyr, a Chevrolet Corvair and a 1945? T 87. [...]

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TRN 2015 Spring meeting

April 20th, 2015
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The Dutch Tatra season opened up with is first meeting in the van Gogh town of Zundert. Eight Tatra’s showed up and some other classics of Tatra owners.  Photo report by Bert Barents: https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=52a884b5a1274d8c!24524&authkey=!AA1dAHzntHe6DRw&ithint=folder%2cJPE

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Tatra V855 in action

April 8th, 2015
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https://www.behance.net/gallery/25085113/The-Great-Escape-with-Tatra-V855

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Ales Loprais joins De Rooij/ Iveco Team for the 2016 Dakar

April 1st, 2015
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Dutch news sites reports that Ales Loprais will join the De Rooij’s Iveco team to fight the mighty KAMAZ team in next year’s Dakar
https://www.facebook.com/dakartrucks.nl/posts/349002198626440?notif_t=notify_me
http://www.motorpasionf1.com/dakar/ales-loprais-la-alternativa-a-kamaz-e-iveco

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Low attention for Tatra reason that Clarkson was fired by the BBC

March 26th, 2015
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According to motoring journalists in very close contacts to James May, Jeremy Clarkson was fired because he had paid not enough attention to Tatra, the BBC’s direction favourite brand.  After the BBC ordered Clarkson to pay more attention to the Czech brand, Clarkson got furious, and shouted at a colleague and gave him a few [...]

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