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 ...
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A bumpy ride down East Germany’s memory laneOnce mocked, East German Trabant and Wartburg classic cars are now registered in record numbers in Germany’s eastern states. Vita Cola, the GDR’s version of Coca-Cola, is the best-selling soda ...
Introduced in 1957 as a counterpart to the West German VW Beetle, the East German Trabant was powered by a 600cc 2-cylinder air-cooled 2-stroke engine. While it only had 18 horsepower and produced ...
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.
That's why I'm here in Berlin, on my 30th birthday. Tomorrow, we'll visit the Stasi museum. But today, I'm winding down the ...
The Zwickau factory in Saxony, where the iconic East German Trabant car was once produced, is currently manufacturing the Golf hatchback and the Passat saloon models, as well as bodies for the ...
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