Tatra

Yes, yeah.

Sort of like a Camaz truck or like a Tatra or...

So, I was on a ferry recently.

Not that recently.

Although it was a Czech train, Slovenská strela, or Slovak Arrow, was given its name because it was designed to provide a fast connection between Prague and Bratislava in what was then Czechoslovakia.

The streamlined bright red Tatra train entered service on the 13th of July 1936.

Although it stopped operating regular services in 1953 and has run only on rare occasions since, it remains a symbol of technical innovation and industrial pride.

Much later, on the 3rd of May 2024, journalist and author Michaela Witeskova was among a small group of people who traveled aboard the legendary train on a special journey from Koprivnice to Vsetín.

Jan de Roo won the truck category of the 1987 Paris Dakar by 14 hours and 25 minutes.

Second place was Karel Loprais in a Tatra.

On the overall classification, cars and trucks together, De Roo was 11th.

10 vehicles finished in front of him.

Ari Vatanen was leading when his Peugeot was reportedly stolen in Bamako, with a ransom demanded for its return.

By the time his car turned up, his rally was over.

Juha Kankkunen won it instead, and Karel Loprais took the trucks for Tatra.

For 1989, there was no truck category at all.