The Trabant is the little-26 horsepower-car that has become something of a symbol of East Germany`s new freedom. It was the Trabi that carried ecstatic refugees to West Germany. Then it was the Trabi ...

The communist era gave life to numerous cars, but it’s debatable whether they were any good. However, among them, there was the Trabant, which used to be a common sight on Eastern European roads a few ...

This is as revolting a string of words as you're likely to see for quite some time: the Trabant is revving up for a comeback. As an electric car. If that thought doesn't make a cold shudder run up ...

I’m at the depot of Trabi-Safari in a leafy Dresden suburb, preparing to set off around town behind the wheel of a small and shuddering 1950s vehicle once widely considered a symbol of freedom. But ...

It's been quite a while since we last satisfied our quench for answering questions nobody asked and we're back on the topic with a Trabant-related tale, one that also involves the MIG-29 fighter jet.

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 ...

Merely 35,000 Trabis are still registered with the German Federal Office of Motor Vehicles (KBA), a decrease of more than 95 percent from 1993, as far back as the KBA has statistics. Trabis were even ...

The first car rolled off the production line on 7 November 1957 - the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, which the GDR celebrated with its big brother, the Soviet Union. The Trabant's ...

A quick history lesson before we actually get into talking about this awesome creation from the Czech Republic. Tatra is a vehicle manufacturer based out of the Czech Republic and was originally ...