Let's get this straight. A toy carmaker that's never made a real car plans to mass-produce an electric — something no automaker's successfully done — branded as a Trabant, the world-wide symbol of ...

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 ...

MUNICH -- The Trabant -- an icon of communist eastern Germany -- will make a comeback as an electric car concept at the Frankfurt auto show in September. German manufacturer Herpa Miniaturmodelle GmbH ...

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 looks like a clown car ...

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 ...