Let's get this straight. A toy carmaker that's never made a real car plans to mass-produce an electric — something no automaker's successfully done — branded as a Trabant, the world-wide symbol of ...

Sixty years after the first "Trabi" rolled off the assembly line in a cloud of blue smoke, we look at the little plastic car that innovated, stagnated, and was finally rejuvenated. 1 East Germany had ...

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 ...

Back in August 2009, German automaker Herpa took everyone by surprise when it announced that it would debut a new Trabant at the Frankfurt Motor Show. The car that was in its concept stages of ...

The communist era gave life to numerous cars, but it’s debatable whether they were any good. However, among them, there was the Trabant, which used to be a common sight on Eastern European roads a few ...

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, ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

Liz Cohen is a photographer and art professor who resides in Detroit, Michigan, so it's no surprise that if anyone could turn a car into a piece of art, it would be her. Liz's first encounter with the ...