The Trabant 601 was East Germany's answer to the Volkswagen Beetle, and was built without any major changes for nearly 30 years. One of a small number of cars available to Eastern European nations, ...

Sixty years after it first spluttered into life, East Germany's little communist-built Trabbi 601 car, which shot to fame when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, is a sought-after classic. Prices are ...

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 eastern village of ...

"The number of Trabis on the road is constantly going down," says Uwe Tautz, who restores old Trabis at his garage in the eastern Berlin district of Marzahn-Hellersdorf. "It's only a hobby today." ...

Liz Cohen is a photographer and art professor who resides in Detroit, Michigan, so it's no surprise that if anyone could turn a car into a piece of art, it would be her. Liz's first encounter with the ...

Dr. Werner Lang, the man behind the small and popular Trabant 601 two-door vehicle built in East Germany back in the 1960s, died at the age of 91 after suffering a heart attack at his home in Zwickau.

When you thought you’ve seen it all, a Trabant stretch limousine comes along to prove you wrong. You might’ve seen the infamous Trabi at the annual Parade commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall, ...

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 ...