The German Communist Inside You Will Love This Trabant
12 Aug 2013, 12:50 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Built between 1957 and 1991, the Trabant was as common in East Germany as bratwurst. Most people in the Eastern Block hate it because they basically weren't allowed to drive anything else. Many...
Father of the Trabant Dies at 91
28 Jun 2013, 13:13 UTC · By: Ciprian Florea / Dr. Werner Lang, the man behind the small and popular Trabant 601 two-door vehicle built in East Germany back in the 1960s, died at the age of 91 after suffering a heart attack at his home in Zwicka...
Lowered Trabant Is a Communist Afterparty
27 Jun 2013, 13:04 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / We’ll take you on a short trip, but, in order to do so, you have to forget everything you know about German cars. Today, we shall talk about... German cars, however, we are referring to the au...
Trabant Revival Project Suffers from Lack of Funding
29 Dec 2010, 15:42 UTC · By: Mihnea Radu / Back in August 2009, German automaker Herpa took everyone by surprise when it announced that it would debut a new Trabant at the Frankfurt Motor Show. The car that was in its concept stages of devel...
Trabant Reaches Record Speed of 146 mph (235 km/h)
7 Oct 2010, 09:39 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / The Trabant is an East German automobile that entered production in the late 50s and used a smoky two-stroke engine. The low-cost vehicle offered poor performance and thus became the subject on an i...
Frankfurt Auto Show: Trabant nT · Live Photos
17 Sep 2009, 07:02 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / One of the most anticipated models set to debut at the 2009 Frankfurt Auto Show is the reborn Trabant, still in a concept stage though. We were reporting some weeks ago that German automaker Herpa r...
Trabant Makes a Comeback, Goes Electric
14 Aug 2009, 10:14 UTC · By: Alina Dumitrache / The rebirth of Trabant will probably make some smile with nostalgia and others to burst into laughter. Well, German automaker Herpa has just announced that the 2012 model is set to debut at the Fran...