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 ...

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, ...

As the owner of a Trabant 601, I am writing in defense of the maligned East German car mentioned in "Berlin's new path" (Nov. 11). Pete Bigelow's quip suggesting the car would "fall to shambles at a ...

Lowriding has become a universal hobby and it's apparent that the community has begun to stretch to the far corners of the globe with car clubs and car shows happening in countries like Brazil, Mexico ...

Dr. Werner Lang, the man behind the small and popular Trabant 601 two-door vehicle built in East Germany back in the 1960s, died at the age of 91 after suffering a heart attack at his home in Zwickau.

The rattling of two-stroke engines characterized the road in communist East Germany. When the first Trabant was launched in 1957, it could hold its own against West German models. Its 18 horsepower ...

Only a 2-hour ferry from the US coast, explore crystal clear waters, conch salad and snorkel a shipwreck ...

Foreign visitors to communist East Berlin used to smile at the smelly little Trabant motor cars that later came to symbolise the fall of the Berlin Wall. But enthusiasts are now paying out large sums ...

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 ...

When the first Trabant was launched in 1957, it could hold its own against West German models. Its 18 horsepower may not have been a threat to the Goggomobil or the VW Bug, but the latter certainly ...