02/05/2025 February 5, 2025 First built as East Germany’s answer to the “People’s Car”, the Trabant gave the country’s people freedom of mobility and a sense of hope. A feeling that ...

Most of Melkus cars were assembled using engines from other East German manufacturers, such as Wartburg and Trabant; they ...

the East German Trabant was powered by a 600cc 2-cylinder air-cooled 2-stroke engine. While it only had 18 horsepower and produced a significant amount of pollution compared to today's cars ...

Within the Warsaw Pact, socialist vacationers did the same thing, only at beaches on the Baltic and Black Sea and—in at least one case—with beach buggies based on the East German Trabant.