Each of the three models has an air-cooled rear engine and share similar aerodynamic fastback four-door sedan bodies.
The Type 97's flat-four engine displaces 1,759 cc and produces 40 horsepower (30 kW),[4] giving it top speed of 130 km/h (81 mph).
Kopřivnice is in a part of northern Moravia that Nazi Germany annexed after the Munich Agreement in September 1938.
[5] However Tatra 97 itself does not appear original, as it has resemblance to sketches[6] by Hungarian engineer Bela Barenyi, conceived in the 1920s and published in 1934.
[1] Soon after Germany occupied the Sudetenland, Tatra stopped production of the Type 97 and the lawsuit was discontinued.