These early advertisements show a lot of idealism, real life under communist rule was a bit different
In the years Trabants were produced after the Berlin Wall came down Trabants were very hard to sell. This lot of both 2-stroke 601's and VW Polo engined 4-stroke 1.1's shows that. The 1.1's below were delivered to dealerships only to be returned.
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"Men of Steel drive cars of cardboard" (Based on the myth that Trabants are made of carboard) |
In the years after the fall of the Berlin Wall Trabants became completely worthless, and many Trabants received the undeserving treatment of the car above