Anyone who remembers Communist automobiles probably heard about the VEB Sachsenring Trabant series. It should not be too hard. Given the lengthy 1957 to 1991 production and many cardboard jokes.

Ludvik Petrik was working a plastics engineer in Czechoslovakia when he piled his family into their Trabant station wagon and drove them across Hungary, Yugoslavia, and into Austria. Their ...

This Kombi (wagon) version represents a transition year for Trabant. In 1965, the two-door "limousine" (sedan) models had advanced to the boxier P601 styling that persisted until the Sachsenring ...