Trabants - an east German car they made during the cold war for next to nothing. Equivalent to a Lada/pre-VAG Skoda but lower rent... Basically the cheapest car they could make so every Commie could have one!

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C96703?pt=pf - bargain!

That 6-series is win. But is being immediately followed by fail..

Trabants - an east German car they made during the cold war for next to nothing. Equivalent to a Lada/pre-VAG Skoda but lower rent... Basically the cheapest car they could make so every Commie could have one!

isnt the trabant polish??

am i ill for liking the orion!

am i ill for liking the orion!

I've had a couple of 80s Onions - not great cars,i figured they were not worth putting the effort in. Squat-handling meets immediately rusty rear arches and contrary to being more refined they somehow managed to sound even more like they were dragging their 'just married' collection of bean cans behind them.

A cheap answer for the Ford veterans who couldn't stomach the invention of the hatchback,the link between the hatch door lines and Cortina-derived tail lamps suggest the stylist was on maternity leave in 1982.

Could be worse - could be a Trabant. I know of no other car on the planet more cheaply made.

Its lawnmower engine was the inspiration behind the conception for The Crazy Frog sketch - the guy who created it had a mate with a Trabant and when it started up it sounded like this.. Ahh, DING, didding, ding, diddiing, ding, dinn, phut chut, dar, daddar, darr..

nice one

I've been searching for decent crazy frog lyrics for ages...

Nope, the Trabant isn't that bad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant

Actually, it says on Wiki that some Trabants came with a 1.1 Polo engine!

Actually, it says on Wiki that some Trabants came with a 1.1 Polo engine!

Haha shows that wiki is full of sh*t! It has a 600cc 2-stroke engine that develops about as much horsepower as a ride on lawnmower.

Nope, the Trabant isn't that bad

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant

And yes, it really is one of the worst cars in history. I still love it though! haha

Edited 24 December, 200916 yr by Iscariot

RWD Fiberglass box :) amazing :)

Edited 24 December, 200916 yr by piotrekhc

Actually, it says on Wiki that some Trabants came with a 1.1 Polo engine!

Haha shows that wiki is full of sh*t! It has a 600cc 2-stroke engine that develops about as much horsepower as a ride on lawnmower.

They came with polo 1.1 engine so get your facts straight.

Been bored surffing the net for some pics this what i found and like!!!

my mates old pug:

Actually, it says on Wiki that some Trabants came with a 1.1 Polo engine!

Haha shows that wiki is full of sh*t! It has a 600cc 2-stroke engine that develops about as much horsepower as a ride on lawnmower.

They came with polo 1.1 engine so get your facts straight.

A tip for you mate, do a bit of research before you make yourself look like a idiot. The 601s came with a 600cc 2-stoke engine, and the car in question if you didn't read before is a 601s, or 'deluxe'.

The later Trabant 1.1s came with a VW engine, and they were produced for less than a year, and look very different to the 600s and 601s I posted before.

Oh yeah an sorry to piss on your bonfire a bit more, but they weren't RWD or fibreglass either! Made from FRP.

Edited 24 December, 200916 yr by Iscariot

Actually, it says on Wiki that some Trabants came with a 1.1 Polo engine!

Haha shows that wiki is full of sh*t! It has a 600cc 2-stroke engine that develops about as much horsepower as a ride on lawnmower.

They came with polo 1.1 engine so get your facts straight.

A tip for you mate, do a bit of research before you make yourself look like a idiot. The 601s came with a 600cc 2-stoke engine, and the car in question if you didn't read before is a 601s, or 'deluxe'.

The later Trabant 1.1s came with a VW engine, and they were produced for less than a year, and look very different to the 600s and 601s I posted before.

Oh yeah an sorry to piss on your bonfire a bit more, but they weren't RWD or fibreglass either! Made from FRP.

Well i dont want to argue with u but tbh u know f**k all about them, talkin about research ??, change youre source... , website isint a god place in this case. Dont know how the came to UK but i know how they where in Poland. And one more thing they where, are rwd. Ill reapeat myself but get you are facts straight.

Hm.. where`s the big difference betwen them ?

1.1l engine

ps. fiberglass or FRP they still are just catroon boxes

ps1. Just double checked it is made from some kinde of german special fiberglass.

Alleluja and Merry Xmass

Edited 24 December, 200916 yr by piotrekhc

I love it when pub talkers pick on the wrong bloke, it seems to be all the rage recently.

Nice one Piotrek.

Edited 24 December, 200916 yr by Tommo32

That's good as I'm not using a website as a resource, I'm using a book my dad has on old east german cars!

Yes, correct the one you pictured was the one of the later models I was talking about!

But, the car I posted earlier is a 601s. Which does not have a VW engine!

I'll show you the differences if you'd like!

601:

This is the 600cc block!

1.1:

Vw 1.05 engine.

So you can see the two are very different, yes?

And the "special german fibreglass" youre talking about is actually Duroplast, which IS an FRP.

Oh well i can`t see them big diffrences u were talkin about...

Coming back to topic

Another Esatern Europe Jewel

Edited 25 December, 200916 yr by piotrekhc

Vw 1.05 engine.

So you can see the two are very different, yes?

And the "special german fibreglass" youre talking about is actually Duroplast, which IS an FRP.

Anyone else thinking G40??

Oh well i can`t see them big diffrences u were talkin about...

Words fail me...

This is perfection!

Anyone else thinking G40??

It's been done, a few times :)

Oh well i can`t see them big diffrences u were talkin about...

Words fail me...

We do not talkin about engine diffrences bcoz thats pretty obvious, u can`t define what engine is in trabi from 1st pic u have posted, so stop behaving like an total ass only bcoz you are dad got a book about german cars...

Actually some peoples grown up around them.

trabi 500

Mate I can't even be bothered to argue anymore! You're trying to say I've got my facts wrong when they're written down in front of me in black and white... Just re-read my posts. An yes you can tell which one is which, just look at the grills for a start! 601s were NOT fitted with VW engines. End of!

Mate I can't even be bothered to argue anymore! You're trying to say I've got my facts wrong when they're written down in front of me in black and white... Just re-read my posts. An yes you can tell which one is which, just look at the grills for a start! 601s were NOT fitted with VW engines. End of!

601 ofcourse the were !!

Here we go I've even found a webpage with the specs: http://www.trabant.ca/specs.htm

Sorry but you can't refute that!