Trabant is an automobile brand manufactured in East Germany at the car factory VEB Sachsenring Zwickau Automobilwerke in Zwickau, Saxony. This car is a common car in East Germany. Between November 1957 until April 1991, a total of 3,051,385 cars Trabant made by this factory. But in Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (German vehicles federal agency) on January 1, 2007 only 52,400 vehicles registered. Besides being used for local consumption in East Germany, this vehicle also ancient exported to the Eastern Bloc like Czechoslovakia, Poland and especially Hungary. Today Trabant car is a car Kult union favored by some fans.In the Western world has become famous car in the collapse of the German Democratic Republic when many of its citizens fled to West Germany, namely in 1989.
Produced since the beginning, Trabant has a two-stroke engine, new in 1989 Trabant engine version 1.1 was given VW Polo which has four-stroke cycle.
Trabant words taken from Latin and means "traveling companion" or "satellite. The name is inspired by the Soviet Sputnik satellite. Often shortened to Trabant Trabi or Trabbi.
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