The Tatra 82 was a heavy-duty car model made by Czech manufacturer
Tatra between 1935 and 1938. It was mainly used for military cargo and personnel.
The vehicle had an air-cooled
OHC
An overhead camshaft (OHC) engine is a piston engine in which the camshaft is located in the cylinder head above the combustion chamber. This contrasts with earlier overhead valve engines (OHV), where the camshaft is located below the combustio ...
four-cylinder
boxer engine with 2490 cc and power. The car had 3 axles, of which both back axles were driven. It had 8 forward gears and 1 reverse gear. The maximum attainable speed of the car was . It was based on the Tatra
backbone chassis conception.
In two years, a total of 325 vehicles produced. The last specimens had the
V8 engine
A V8 engine is an eight- cylinder piston engine in which two banks of four cylinders share a common crankshaft and are arranged in a V configuration.
Origins
The first known V8 was the Antoinette, designed by Léon Levavasseur, a ...
of the
Tatra 87 and increased to in total weight.
References
82
Military trucks of Czechoslovakia
Automobiles with backbone chassis
Vehicles introduced in 1935
Cars powered by boxer engines
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