02/05/2025 February 5, 2025 First built as East Germany’s answer to the “People’s Car”, the Trabant gave the country’s people freedom of mobility and a sense of hope. A feeling that ...

Within the Warsaw Pact, socialist vacationers did the same thing, only at beaches on the Baltic and Black Sea and—in at least one case—with beach buggies based on the East German Trabant.

All suggestion slips will be entered into a raffle to win a special model of the historic Trabant 601. From here, we can't but also ask for the cleanest powertrain possible, because there's always ...

The tiny, smoke-belching Trabant, East Germany's answer to the Volkswagen, has become a collectible in the U.S. Video/Photo: Rob Alcaraz/The Wall Street Journal ...