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Old 09-16-2009, 08:25 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Trabant nT- electric?

I just signed up for the newsletter on the new Trabant - Trabi. Questions were made about an electric motor and distance when I signed up. Interesting design- a cross between a Chevrolet Vega station wagon (they were 2-door) and a Mini Cooper. I think it will only be electric!


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By the proportions, size and shape of windows etc, it looks like they took a mini clubman and swapped some body panels. Neat trick.
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Not very aerodynamic but extremely useful in back! I clicked on the photo and it did not enlarge very much. No direct side views were available on the Trabi home page. It seems to have back seat headrests.
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Ah, it's not the classic, two-stroke polluter, plastic soapdish East German Trabant, but a new electric that sort of resembles it. But it should have a smoke generator in the back and speakers that make the 2-stroke noise, THAT is what made the Trabant what is was. Actually, what it still is, as I still see them occasionally on the streets, and I don't mean the late-production ones with a VW Golf engine.

BTW: I read today that nobody has found an ecological way to recycle the plastic body of the old Trabi.
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