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 ...

This video shows a quarter-mile drag race between a tuned Opel Corsa (WALAS Tuning) and a Trabant, ending unexpectedly with ...

Done as an artistic piece, this "trabantimino" extends itself via hydraulics to change from an east german trabant to an american muscle car. Of course, it carries a V8 engine -- no amount of ...

President Ronald Reagan viewed the Berlin Wall while standing on a balcony behind two panes of bullet-poof glass and uttered his famous words: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” On Nov. 9, 1989, ...

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 ...

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.

Every country has its own automotive icon, a singular vehicle that typifies the nation and people that built it. For Americans, this car is undoubtedly the Ford Model T, a product that mobilized ...

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 ...

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 ...

With Lenin, Marx, and Engels literally looking down on us, my fiancée Mindy, a Hungarian taxi driver—whose name I never did catch—and I pushed a dung-brown 1982 Trabant with a dead battery down a hill ...

Yes, ladies and gentlemen of the internet, the subject of the above gallery is a restomodded Trabant. Things may have got out of hand. The Trabant was a stoic symbol of communism in the 20th century.