Back in time with the Trabant 601 | Drive it!

The rattling of two-stroke engines characterized the road in communist East Germany. When the first Trabant was launched in 1957, it could hold its own against West German models. Its 18 horsepower may not have been a threat to the Goggomobil or the VW Bug, but the latter certainly didn't leave their Eastern cousins far behind.
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