Once the much-mocked symbol of drab communist East Germany, Trabant cars are revving up for a dramatic rebirth as electric cars -- 20 years after they drove through the fallen Berlin Wall to freedom.

I've always wanted to drive a Trabant. When I tell this to people who know Trabants well, they give me the same sort of look as if I'd said "I've always wanted to know what shit from a mule tastes ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

German-based coachbuilder IndiKar has been chosen to develop the rebirth of the mythic GDR Trabant economy car as part of the latest initiative of another company, scale carmaker Herpa. A full-scale ...

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 ...