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car of that time. It has a Tatra 3.9 litre V8 with a rated power of at 6500 rpm, it has

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s opening vertically and

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. Acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h (0-62 mph) is given as 5.6 seconds and the maximum speed is 265 km/h (165 mph). After it passed driving tests at the Tatra polygon races at

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, at the

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in Mošnov and at the autodrom in

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, it was finally introduced to the public in October 1991 at the

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. After that, MTX received almost 200 orders for the car, so the company started production of a limited series of 100 units. When the project was sold to a new owner during the early stages of production, the factory suffered a fire that forever terminated volume manufacturing of the car. Only four Tatra MTX V8s were ever built; a red and a white one that have Czech private owners, a black one that is exhibited in the Sports Car Museum in Lány, and a fourth was reportedly delivered as a kit to the United States. In 2010 the car appeared in the

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film ''Runaway'', which was recorded in Prague, Czech Republic.

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* wheelbase: * length: * weight: * tyre sizes: wheels ''OZ Racing'', tyres

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P Zero 245/40 ZR-17 front, 335/35 ZR-17 back * motor:

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, air-cooled V8 32v DOHC * displacement: 3,919 cc (3.9L) * max. power : at 6,000 rpm, at 6,500 rpm (injection version) * top speed: 246 km/h, 265 km/h (injection version) * 0–100 km/h (0-62 mph): 6.2 s, 5.6 s (injection version)

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MTX Tatra V8 on youtube.com

{{Tatra models Sports cars Tatra vehicles

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