Santa Ana, Calif. — It’s been said that beauty is skin deep, but ugly is to the bone. The late and clearly not lamented communist-era East German Trabant was not only ugly but plug-ugly. To say it ...

The Trabant is a common sight in Germany even in this day and age. Over 3.7 million were produced from 1957 to 1991, but this isn’t your typical Trabi. The Western world laughed about the shortcomings ...

That horrid rumor we heard in August is hideously true -- there is a new Trabant on the way, it is an electric car and it could be on the road by 2012 if the company finds some investors willing to ...

Sixty years after the first "Trabi" rolled off the assembly line in a cloud of blue smoke, we look at the little plastic car that innovated, stagnated, and was finally rejuvenated. 1 East Germany had ...

Er ist ein Kultklassiker wie kein anderer. Während seiner 36-jährigen Produktionszeit – 1955 debütierte der Wegbereiter P 70, 1991 rollte der letzte Trabant vom Band – wurde das kleine Volksauto der ...

I've always wanted to drive a Trabant. When I tell this to people who know Trabants well, they give me the same sort of look as if I'd said "I've always wanted to know what shit from a mule tastes ...

Every country has its own automotive icon, a singular vehicle that typifies the nation and people that built it. For Americans, this car is undoubtedly the Ford Model T, a product that mobilized ...

Vor 35 Jahren lief der letzte Trabant vom Band. Bis zu 15 Jahre mussten die Menschen in der DDR auf ihre „Rennpappe“ warten.

BERLIN, Nov 5 (Reuters) - When windmill repairman Martin Teucher drives to work before dawn, it's the thumping bass in his Trabant's backseat that keeps him awake, not coffee. The 24-year-old from the ...

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