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 ...

Let's get this straight. A toy carmaker that's never made a real car plans to mass-produce an electric — something no automaker's successfully done — branded as a Trabant, the world-wide symbol of ...

Berlin is one of the world’s trendiest cities, blossoming in recent years under the creative gumption of hipsters, artists, musicians, and entrepreneurs. A young, increasingly international population ...

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, ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, scores of ...

One of the most ridiculed communist byproducts was, without a doubt, the East German Trabant, a car so puny and unimpressive that it earned, in time, the title of World’s crappiest car. British ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Once the much-mocked symbol of drab communist East Germany, Trabant cars are revving up for a dramatic rebirth as electric cars -- 20 ...

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 ...