Trabant Commercials with english subs (part 1)

Wikipedia:

The Trabant (/trəˈbɑːnt/; German pronunciation: [tʀaˈbant]) is an automobile produced from 1957 to 1990 by former East German auto maker VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau in Zwickau, Saxony.

It is often regarded as a symbol of the defunct East Germany and of the collapse of the Eastern Bloc in general. The car had a reputation for being uncomfortable, slow, noisy, and dirty. Nevertheless, it was very sought after in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall. It had a hard plastic body mounted to a single-piece steel chassis (a so-called unibody or monocoque), front-wheel drive, a transversely-mounted engine, and independent suspension -- all features that were unusual for the era in which it was manufactured.

Dubbed a "spark plug with a roof", 3,096,999 examples of various models of the Trabant were produced over nearly 30 years with few significant changes to its basic design.[3] Older models of the car later became popular among collectors in the United States due to their low cost and fewer restrictions on importing antique cars. The Trabant also gained a following among car tuning enthusiasts and for use in rally racing and other motorsports.

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