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Spotted in Berlin: It's a Trabi-Safari, tour the old east side in a Trabant

For all the high tech engineering wizardry that symbolizes the modern German car industry, the Trabant 601 was the absolute antithesis of it all. The slow, smoky Trabi was a perfect icon for the failure of the ironically named German Democratic Republic. Once the Berlin Wall fell (twenty years ago next month), many of these little machines trundled across from East to West, as people suppressed for 40 years tried to escape. Today, the number of surviving Trabis has dwindled, but as we made our way from Wolfsburg to Berlin via Dresden ... Read more →

Electric Trabant revival slated to debut at Frankfurt Jeremy Korzeniewski

Anyone who's spent any time in East Germany is likely very familiar with the original Trabant, a diminutive automobile that was built and sold in the communist bloc. While the Trabant wasn't a ...

Finally, a Trabant that's worth something Dan Roth

Herpa toys with idea of Trabant revival Noah Joseph

Click to view in our high-resolution image gallery If you were born on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, the Trabant should need no introduction. Ditto if you're a U2 fan. The notorious little ...

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Spotted in Berlin: It's a Trabi-Safari, tour the old east side in a Trabant 2 months ago on Autoblog

Electric Trabant revival slated to debut at Frankfurt 4 months ago on Autoblog

Anyone who's spent any time in East Germany is likely very familiar with the original Trabant, a diminutive automobile that was built and sold in the communist bloc. While the Trabant wasn't a particularly good car, it enjoys something of a cult following and is apparently ripe for a remake. ...

Finally, a Trabant that's worth something 1 year ago on Autoblog

Ah, the Trabant 601; endowed with a smoketacular two-stroke engine until its very last years and a body made of a toxic recycled plastic that's similar to what toilet seats are made of, though it's strangely edible. There's a lot of fondness surrounding East Germany's automotive leftovers, though ...

Herpa toys with idea of Trabant revival 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click to view in our high-resolution image gallery If you were born on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, the Trabant should need no introduction. Ditto if you're a U2 fan. The notorious little sedan, nicknamed "Trabi", was made in East Germany and exported around the world, mostly inside the ...

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