The All New Electric Powered Trabant

Among all of the glamorous cars at the Frankfurt motor show, the car that attracted the most attention was the electric-powered Trabant nT, with its solar panel on the roof

The makers say that this may be the only view of the new Trabby you will get, as it zooms past you on the open highway.

On the other hand, they do say that the only reason they have a heated rear window, is because you need to keep your hands warm when pushing it. Time, like your neighbours, will tell all!

Is the Trabi, East Germany's Clunker, On the Comeback?

East Germany's Clunker, the Trabi is on a Comeback?

The global rush into green technology could be setting the stage for a most unusual comeback: the foul-smelling Trabant, the oft-ridiculed symbol of communist East Germany, all but disappeared from German roadways after the Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago. But now its makers are planning to introduce a climate-saving electric version of the Trabi, as it was affectionately known.