There are people who loved the East German Trabant.
But than again there are also people who loved the Yugo and the Aztec both of which wouldn't even make it on the podium of the world's worst cars ever made.
Why is the Trabant the worst car ever made you might be asking right about now?
With an oil burning (no make that guzzling) 2 stroke engine, a body made of cardboard (the East Germans called it Fiberglass but it was really cardboard) and just about as much power as a used lawnmower, the Trabant stands head and shoulders above both the Yugo and Aztec on the podium of crap cars.
That's why is is so mind numbingly baffling why somebody would want to bring back the Trabbi…and yet according to UPI:
"A team of German companies spearheaded by Indikar is now reinventing
the Trabbi as a sustainable mobility champion. The Trabant NT, a
modernized version, comes with an electric engine and a solar panel
roof, and will be unveiled at the Frankfurt Motor Show next month.
Inside, it won't come with a plastic dashboard but connections for a
satellite navigation system and an iPod, the company said.
The car certainly has selling potential, as it's engraved in the
hearts and minds of Germans. In former East Germany, you had to wait
several years to get one. The companies developing the Trabant NT say
they are currently looking for investors to mass-produce the car by
2012."
But will the new Trabant NT be able to pull a Romanian ARO IMS (crappy copy op Soviet GAZ SUV) as this video demonstrates? Be sure to watch the entire video to see a first hand demonstration of the Trabant's build quality and structural integrity.
