Tatra V 570

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Tatras 570

The Tatra V 570 was a small car prototype made by the Czechoslovak manufacturer Tatra-Werke AG, automobile and wagon construction in Nesselsdorf / Kopřivnice .

history

The vehicle designer was Hans Ledwinka . Two convertibles and a sedan with a streamlined body were built as prototypes in 1931 (?) The car was intended as a possible successor to the Type 12 . However, the small car never went into series production.

The design from 1933 (?) With a central tubular frame and rear-wheel drive was later adopted by Ferdinand Porsche for the VW Beetle , patent infringement . Porsche is said to have later admitted ("Car Wars") that it had copied from Hans Ledwinka during the development of the KdF car. In 1961, Tatra was paid DM 1 million as compensation by Volkswagenwerk AG for patent infringements on the engine and design.

technical features

The V 570 had an overhead , air-cooled two-cylinder boxer engine with 854 cc installed in the rear of the car, which drove the rear wheels via a multi-disc clutch and a four-speed gearbox with center shift. The top speed was 75 km / h. The vehicle had a central tubular frame; the front wheels were suspended from two transverse leaf springs lying one above the other, a pendulum axle with transverse leaf spring was installed at the rear . The mechanical brake worked on all wheels. The two doors of the four-seater car were hinged at the back ( suicide door ). Since the then Czechoslovakia had left-hand traffic until the end of the 1930s , the car was designed as a right-hand drive.

literature

  • Schmarbeck, Wolfgang: Tatra - The history of the Tatra automobiles. Publishing house of the International Auto and Motorcycle Museum Germany, Bad Oeynhausen 1977
  • Jonathan Mantle: Car Wars. Arcade Publishing 1997

Web links

Commons : Tatra V570  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Schmarbeck: Hans Ledwinka: His cars - His life . H. Weishaupt Verlag, Graz 1997, ISBN 3-900310-56-4 , p. 174.