From the late '50s a vehicle, a personal carrier emerged from the Eastern part of Germany which became the symbol of Eastern transportation. That's the Trabant.

Home Private My Trabi History Press Winkler . . . . With the start of my studies in 1990 I decided to sell my motor-bike ETZ 150 (Motorradwerke Zschopau) and to buy a 'car' instead. At this time the prices for a Trabant had dropped so much, that a small motor-bike could easily be converted into it. So I sold my 2 years / 35 Tkm(*) old bike for 1100 DM and bought a 9 months / 15 Tkm old Trabant ...

Sachsenring Trabant Like the Beetle, and the Mini, Trabants have become a motoring legend. The Beetle is often discussed without mentioning its manufacturer VolksWagen, similarly the Trabant without mentioning Sachsenring. The Sachsenring factory made 3 million Trabants making it a very successful little car, to put this in perspective there were only 1.2 million Morris Minors made. To ...

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