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 ...

“Twenty-five years after the fall of the wall, it’s very symbolic to cross the Bornholmer Brücke in a ‘Trabi’,” reports euronews correspondent Olaf Bruns. The reason, he says, is that the bridge is ...

Built between 1957 and 1991, the Trabant was as common in East Germany as bratwurst. Most people in the Eastern Block hate it because they basically weren't allowed to drive anything else. Many were ...

CULT CAR: Fifty years after the first Trabant rolled off an assembly line, the smelly two-cylinder symbol of communist East Germany has become the focus of a cheap-chic hot rod culture. . Photo: ...