Santa Ana, Calif. — It’s been said that beauty is skin deep, but ugly is to the bone. The late and clearly not lamented communist-era East German Trabant was not only ugly but plug-ugly. To say it ...

There are few cars in the world where the difference between driving them and watching them being driven is greater than with the Trabant. It’s a cute little car. Its two big, round headlights look ...

If there's one car that epitomizes everything that's great about rally, it is the Trabant. I say this not in spite of the fact that East Germany's pinko commie plastic prank upon the automotive world ...

Berlin is one of the world’s trendiest cities, blossoming in recent years under the creative gumption of hipsters, artists, musicians, and entrepreneurs. A young, increasingly international population ...

One of the most ridiculed communist byproducts was, without a doubt, the East German Trabant, a car so puny and unimpressive that it earned, in time, the title of World’s crappiest car. British ...

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 ...

I know that in most of the automotive world, the East German Trabant is considered something of a joke. The smoky little two-stroke scheiße-box made from old Soviet underpants and resin hardly enjoys ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. a procession of vintage east German Trabant cars making their way past a segment of the Berlin wall Let’s start with the ...

That horrid rumor we heard in August is hideously true -- there is a new Trabant on the way, it is an electric car and it could be on the road by 2012 if the company finds some investors willing to ...