Trabants

Experts will discuss Trabants, communism and the fall of the Berlin Wall, and a raffle will be held for a ride in one of the cars.

Going Out Guide for Washington, D.C., Nov. 4-10 Post 2010

The seeming swansong, though, was a song of the sirens, luring Trabants to cross the iron curtain.

Obama is a girly man 2010

And Vienna was full of people with no money but a boundless joy in at last being able to catch a train, or drive their noisy little Trabants and Ladas, to visit their neighbour.

Velvet revolution Glenda Larke 2009

And Vienna was full of people with no money but a boundless joy in at last being able to catch a train, or drive their noisy little Trabants and Ladas, to visit their neighbour.

Archive 2009-11-01 Glenda Larke 2009

And I can tell you that there are actually still a lot of Trabants on the road.

CNN Transcript Nov 2, 2009 2009

Things were, it would seem, even worse than the silly smoking Trabants and wistful would-be defectors in each Western tour group would suggest.

The Volokh Conspiracy » When the Berlin Wall Came Down, Twenty Years Ago 2009

Germany's junkyards are now piled high with Trabants, which cannot be recycled because burning their plastic-covered cardboard bodies would release poisonous dioxins.

What I Learned as a Car Czar Ion Mihai Pacepa 2009

And getting public funds to keep turning them out makes no more sense than it would to prop up the making of Trabants.

Federal government, Ontario agree on $3.3B auto bailout package « Stephen Rees's blog 2008

And getting public funds to keep turning them out makes no more sense than it would to prop up the making of Trabants.

13 « December « 2008 « Stephen Rees's blog 2008

His gig is taking tourists and locals alike for spins around town in a smoke-belching "Trabi," as the old Trabants are fondly called.

Hello, Lenin! 2007