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 ...

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 ...

German engineers can take credit for some of the best cars ever created. I was about to drive one of their worst. In fact, so wretchedly bad is the homely East German-made Trabant that one has to ...

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 ...

The smoky, four-wheel icon of the former GDR might soon rise from the ashes. Two German companies are indeed planning to launch a new generation of the Trabant (a.k.a. Trabi) by 2012. Ironically, ...

When you thought you’ve seen it all, a Trabant stretch limousine comes along to prove you wrong. You might’ve seen the infamous Trabi at the annual Parade commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall, ...

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 ...

Lowriding has become a universal hobby and it's apparent that the community has begun to stretch to the far corners of the globe with car clubs and car shows happening in countries like Brazil, Mexico ...

East Germany's most famous icon doesn't officially turn 50 until the autumn. But this weekend, Trabant fans from all over Europe gathered to pay homage to the beloved automobile. East German flags ...

The limitations of television`s efforts to reach its audience by appealing to cultural assumptions were nowhere more obvious than in the networks` treatment of the abstract ideas and ideals that were ...