That’s about where the praise for the Trabant ends, though, as the rest is all downhill from there. Besides the fact that it was manufactured largely unchanged from 1957 to 1991, the Trabant ...

The Trabant smoked like a flaming oil rig on wheels, ... Booking a tour to ride this oddity is one of those things I’d do just for the sake of it. You know, to say I did it.

A Trabi-Safari in Berlin – click above for high-res image gallery. For all the high tech engineering wizardry that symbolizes the modern German car industry, the Trabant 601 was the absolute ...

Once the much-mocked symbol of drab communist East Germany, Trabant cars are revving up for a dramatic rebirth as electric cars -- 20 years after they drove through the fallen Berlin Wall to freedom.

The giant, revolving ride that moves around, up, and down in a wave-like fashion was originally a German attraction known as the Trabant. American innovators brought a bigger and better version ...

The Trabant was compact (79.5-inch wheelbase), lightweight (1367 pounds), mechanically simple (one gauge: ... "Being able to give people a ride is a major thing to be able to trade," he said.

Ride operators say it’s a happy medium between a high thrill ride and a casual ride. Pandemonium is the third generation of the ride, after "the Trabant" and "the Wipeout". Pandemonium adds new ...

It isn’t every day you see a Trabant 601 for sale in good condition. It’s even more rare to see the long-roofed ‘Universal’ version. Even rarer still to find one with the optional roof top ...

An icon of East Germany, the Trabant 601 is often referred to as the world's worst car, but does it live up to that title 35 years after the Iron Curtain fell?

Today I happened upon one of the coolest displays of automotive history I’ve ever seen: An absolutely tiny Trabant museum sitting on the second floor of a vehicle inspection shop near Prague in ...

TO understand the essence of the Cold War, drive a Trabant: the rattling, belching, East German car that became a laughing stock on this side of the Iron Curtain, but an object of affection and ...