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What is a Trabant?
* A car made from 1957 - 1991
* Built in Communist Zwichau, East Germany
* The most common vehicle in East Germany before the fall of Communism
* Made of cotton/resin fiber called Duroplast because of a shortage of steel
* Powered by a 500 or 600 cc 2 cylinder, 2 stroke engine
* Top speed approximately 60 mph
* The car's smoky exhaust produced pollution with nine times the hydrocarbons and five times the carbon monoxides of the average 2007 European car
* Now a symbol of East Germany and the fall of Communism |