We shouldn’t be surprised at this – we laughed at the East German car the Trabant in 1989 when it became clear that this was the best a well-organised planned economy could do by way of car ...

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 ...

The Trabant is regarded with somewhat more complex feelings in ex-Warsaw Pact nations like Bulgaria, where it was an affordable machine for the masses. These days, the only Soviet-era cars you're ...

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 ...