Wednesday, July 27, 2005

Trabant--as powerful as your lawn mower and twice as loud!





The pride of the DDR. These babies came fully loaded with two-cylinder engines, and frames made of pressed particle board (in other words the same stuff used to make cheap bookcases!). Noisy, dangerous, uncomfortable, and highly polluting, Trabies could achieve top speeds of about 50 mph and, at least back in 1992, could be found tooling across the newly reunited Germany in the extreme right-hand lanes of the nation's Autobahnen.

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