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 ...

Father and son in Apex restored a rare East German Trabant into driving condition. Only two Trabants are registered in North Carolina, highlighting their rarity. The Trabant draws attention at local ...

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 ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, scores of East German families in search of a new life flooded across the border in their tiny, rattly Trabants — ...

While every journalist on the planet came to DC to sit in front of American landmarks and talk crap about Donald Trump, Doug DeMuro was there to check out a Trabant, the most famous crappy communist ...

I know that in most of the automotive world, the East German Trabant is considered something of a joke. The smoky little two-stroke scheiße-box made from old Soviet underpants and resin hardly enjoys ...

A quick history lesson before we actually get into talking about this awesome creation from the Czech Republic. Tatra is a vehicle manufacturer based out of the Czech Republic and was originally ...

The Trabant 601 was East Germany's answer to the Volkswagen Beetle, and was built without any major changes for nearly 30 years. One of a small number of cars available to Eastern European nations, ...

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 ...

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 ...