5 Minutes With Jim, Episode 95

In the beginning the automobile was literally a horseless carriage. Then it morphed into a box on wheels. But Walter Chrysler and Hans Ledwinka had a streamlined vision of the future, and the auto industry was forever changed.

Even though the Airflow was deemed radical in its engineering and even bizarre in its styling, it paled in comparison to the new Ledwinka designed Tatra’s. The large Tatra 77 was introduced mere weeks before the Airflow and as a result claimed the title of being the world’s first production aerodynamic car.