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, ...

Sixty years after it first spluttered into life, East Germany's little communist-built Trabbi 601 car, which shot to fame when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, is a sought-after classic. Prices are ...

As the owner of a Trabant 601, I am writing in defense of the maligned East German car mentioned in "Berlin's new path" (Nov. 11). Pete Bigelow's quip suggesting the car would "fall to shambles at a ...

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 ...

Dr. Werner Lang, the man behind the small and popular Trabant 601 two-door vehicle built in East Germany back in the 1960s, died at the age of 91 after suffering a heart attack at his home in Zwickau.

Werner Lang, who has died aged 91, was the mechanical engineer behind the design of the Trabant - the rattle-trap car that became a potent symbol of the failings of communist government. Yet the story ...

Only a 2-hour ferry from the US coast, explore crystal clear waters, conch salad and snorkel a shipwreck ...

Semi-automatic assembly line production and testing of the Trabant 601 at VEB Sachsenring - Automobilwerke Zwickau.

Foreign visitors to communist East Berlin used to smile at the smelly little Trabant motor cars that later came to symbolise the fall of the Berlin Wall. But enthusiasts are now paying out large sums ...