The Tatra 30 is a 2+2 (car body style) / 2+2 / Roadster (automobile) / Roadster / Town car / Touring car / Touring / Pickup truck / Pickup from Tatra, built from 1926 to 1931, the vintage years, when coachbuilders still shaped most of what was sold. Under the bonnet: 1.7L (1679 cc) Tatra 30 Flat-four engine.
The story
The Tatra 30 is an automobile formerly made by the Czech manufacturer Tatra. It was manufactured between 1926 and 1928. From 1928 to 1931 the car was fitted with a newer engine and is therefore called the Tatra 30/52.
What is underneath
Power comes from 1.7L (1679 cc) Tatra 30 Flat-four engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. It weighs 1000 kg. It shifts through a 4-speed manual. The wheelbase is 2770 mm / 3170 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Its place in the line
Its family tree is legible: it took over from the Tatra 11; its successor was the Tatra 52 / Tatra 54; assembly was at Kopřivnice, Czech Republic (formerly Czechoslovakia). Its contemporaries in the catalogue — the Mercedes-Benz W02, the Pontiac Pontiac, the Bentley Speed Six — show what else the money bought that year. Nearby in the Tatra catalogue sit the Tatra 10 and the Tatra 600 kabriolet.
What it costs now
MotorJury scores cars on the United States complaint and recall record, and the Tatra 30 has none: too old, too rare, or never sold there. Its value today is a collector's question, decided by provenance and condition rather than by a class average.