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 ...

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 ...

Lowriding has become a universal hobby and it's apparent that the community has begun to stretch to the far corners of the globe with car clubs and car shows happening in countries like Brazil, Mexico ...

Anyone who remembers Communist automobiles probably heard about the VEB Sachsenring Trabant series. It should not be too hard. Given the lengthy 1957 to 1991 production and many cardboard jokes.

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 East German Trabant car is experiencing a renaissance 35 years after reunification German mechanic Glenn Kuschan counts several Trabi owners among his customers Visitors to the Trabi Museum in ...

German engineers can take credit for some of the best cars ever created. I was about to drive one of their worst. In fact, so wretchedly bad is the homely East German-made Trabant that one has to ...

Wie spiegelte die Entwicklung des Trabant die technischen Bedingungen der DDR wider? Der Trabant entstand unter Materialknappheit und politischem Druck, was seine Konstruktion und Symbolkraft ...

BERLIN (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 ...

German-based coachbuilder IndiKar has been chosen to develop the rebirth of the mythic GDR Trabant economy car as part of the latest initiative of another company, scale carmaker Herpa. A full-scale ...

With its boxy design, cramped interior and notorious clouds of blue smoke billowing from its exhaust, the Trabant is often referred to as the worst car ever made. But somehow the plucky East German ...