In 2007, the Trabant celebrates its 50th anniversary, so Herpa, a model car company has decided to launch a prototype which not only tries to catch up some of the nostalgia (à la Fiat 500 or Mini ...
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.
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 ...