Anyone who remembers Communist automobiles probably heard about the VEB Sachsenring Trabant series. It should not be too hard. Given the lengthy 1957 to 1991 production and many cardboard jokes.

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 East German Trabant car is experiencing a renaissance 35 years after reunification German mechanic Glenn Kuschan counts several Trabi owners among his customers Visitors to the Trabi Museum in ...

Let's paint the scene for you. It's 1991, and you're a former East German peasant factory laborer from one of the cities unfortunate enough to fall on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain. The Berlin ...

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 ...

The day was shaping up perfectly for the annual gathering of the Trabants, those smoke-spewing, clattering Iron Curtain clunkers that are both the worst and most beloved cars Communist East Germany ...

A diesel microcar from Ligier just broke the slowest Nürburgring lap record, and yes, it’s getting a limited edition for that ...

Hot damn, this is a record I can genuinely appreciate: French microcar maker (and, it should be noted, former F1 car builder) Ligier took three of their cars – technically, quadracycles, according to ...

During the 1960s and 1970s, Europeans on the western side of the Iron Curtain flocked to beaches during the summer, and many of them rode around in cut-down beach buggies such as the Fiat Jolly, BMC ...

With its boxy design, cramped interior and notorious clouds of blue smoke billowing from its exhaust, the Trabant is often referred to as the worst car ever made. But somehow the plucky East German ...