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 ...

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 ...

This video shows a quarter-mile drag race between a tuned Opel Corsa (WALAS Tuning) and a Trabant, ending unexpectedly with ...

With its boxy design, cramped interior and notorious clouds of blue smoke billowing from its exhaust, the Trabant is often referred to as the worst car ever made. But somehow the plucky East German ...

The day was shaping up perfectly for the annual gathering of the Trabants, those smoke-spewing, clattering Iron Curtain clunkers that are both the worst and most beloved cars Communist East Germany ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Marking the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall and defying the scorn of vehicle snobs around the world, hundreds of Germans on Saturday marked the historic event with a ...

Classic car specialist and Trabant mechanic Glenn Kuschan, who owns 24 historic Trabant cars, sits in a Trabant 600 car in his workshop in Borkheide, eastern Germany, on September 30, 2025. Photo by ...

During the 1960s and 1970s, Europeans on the western side of the Iron Curtain flocked to beaches during the summer, and many of them rode around in cut-down beach buggies such as the Fiat Jolly, BMC ...