Trabant owners gather at different fan meetings ... Even Google has celebrated the East German car's iconic legacy. In its Google Doodle for the 2017 Day of German Unity, the tech giant created ...

German filmmaker Maximilian Spohr spent four years making a documentary about the Trabant. He became fascinated about the car's origins as a child growing up in the East where residents faced up ...

The original Trabant was the communist answer to the Volkswagen Beetle. Built by VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau in East Germany ... auto lingers in the German psyche.

He claims to have the world’s largest private collection of the distinctive East German car that once symbolized ... president of the Friends of the Trabant UK Club, is refusing to oblige ...

The Boston Cup auto show on Boston Common last Sunday featured 100 cars worth millions. It also featured a 1981 East German Trabant that was bought on eBay for $3,500 (including shipping from ...

It was the East German answer to the West German Volkswagen ... "In 1989 she got a nice postcard, 'Your car is ready.' " The Trabant was more than transportation; it was a clandestine source ...

On Saturday, the International Spy Museum hosted its annual Parade of Trabants, a procession featuring the East German automotive exports. Despite their reputation for being, well, bad cars, Trabants ...

Go Trabi Go! I keep thinking of that iconic 1991 film which so brilliantly portrayed an East German family in the first throes of freedom following the fall of the Berlin Wall jumping into their ...

It's 1991, and you're a former East German peasant factory laborer ... but the populace still longed for old-fashioned commie cars, the Trabant 1.1 sold far better than it did back home.

"It will be an electric car with a solar panel roof, designed for the city and small trips," said Ronald Gerschewski, head of IndiKar, the East German auto firm that originally made the Trabant ...

Most of Melkus’ cars were assembled using engines from other East German manufacturers, such as Wartburg and Trabant; they enjoyed a good degree of success on the racetrack, earning Heinz Melkus ...