There are few cars in the world where the difference between driving them and watching them being driven is greater than with the Trabant. It’s a cute little car. Its two big, round headlights look ...

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 ...

Santa Ana, Calif. — It’s been said that beauty is skin deep, but ugly is to the bone. The late and clearly not lamented communist-era East German Trabant was not only ugly but plug-ugly. To say it ...

Berlin is one of the world’s trendiest cities, blossoming in recent years under the creative gumption of hipsters, artists, musicians, and entrepreneurs. A young, increasingly international population ...

With Lenin, Marx, and Engels literally looking down on us, my fiancée Mindy, a Hungarian taxi driver—whose name I never did catch—and I pushed a dung-brown 1982 Trabant with a dead battery down a hill ...

Every country has its own automotive icon, a singular vehicle that typifies the nation and people that built it. For Americans, this car is undoubtedly the Ford Model T, a product that mobilized ...

Renate and Peter Benkner, native Bavarians living in Munich, met by chance at a Trabant club gathering eight years ago. Since then, they have taken their Trabant to Italy and Morocco. Renate and Peter ...

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 ...

It’s been said that beauty is skin deep, but ugly is to the bone. The late and clearly not lamented communist-era East German Trabant was not only ugly but plug ugly. To say it looks like a clown car ...