AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Father and son in Apex restored a rare East German Trabant into driving condition. Only two Trabants are registered in North Carolina ...
The small, smoke-belching Trabant is remembered as the model that put East Germany on wheels. Most Trabants disappeared when motorists discovered more modern economy cars from West Germany and France ...
If you happened to live in or pass through East Germany during the Cold War, you undoubtedly saw more than a few little Trabants running around. Production of the car ended in 1991, but we've learned ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"Trabi Duft", a tin of exhaust fumes from the ubiquitous East German car, is the latest in a seemingly unending line of "Ostalgie" products marketed since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Although many ...