Jim Motavalli is an auto writer and author (nine books) who contributes to Autoweek and Barron’s Penta. He has written two books on electric cars, Forward Drive (2000) and High Voltage (2010), and hosts the Plugging In podcast.
Slovakia’s Museum of Transport is appropriately located in Bratislava’s old steam railway station, and celebrates planes, trains and automobiles—quite a few of the latter, actually. Visitors can go back to a period between the world wars when three Czech manufacturers, Tatra, Praga, and Škoda, all making small and affordable cars, were battling it out in the marketplace.
It was a cheap and cheerful car, launched in 1932 and available as two- and four-door sedans, roadsters, ambulances and vans. The Popular used a backbone tube chassis with independent suspension that, interestingly, derived from the design of Hans Ledwinka’s groundbreaking Tatras . The Popular was indeed popular, and catapulted Škoda from third to first place in the Czech marketplace by 1936 , with a 39 percent market share.
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