Unfortunately for mankind in general, Kanye West continues to be allowed to annoy us with a relentless stream of pretentious rubbish. You may be aware that he recently debuted a short film on MTV entitled 'Runaway'. If you're so inclined, you can view it here - although there's no reason that you should, it's vapid and tremendously irritating.
So why bring it up? Well, the car he drives in the film has caused much discussion. The badge on the rear reads 'Tatra V8i'. Hang on... Tatra? The old Czech company that used to make rear-engined saloons with air-cooled V8s back in the sixties? Yes indeed, the very same. Kind of.
MTX has long been a builder of obscure performance cars in the Czech Republic (since 1969, in fact), and the car we see before us here is an MTX Tatra V8. So, a collaboration between a now-defunct manufacturer and one that's so small, nobody's heard of it - Kanye's car must be pretty rare, right?
Correct. They only ever built four of them.
If your language skills are up to it, you can learn more about MTX (and see some really weird photos) here.
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