President Ronald Reagan viewed the Berlin Wall while standing on a balcony behind two panes of bullet-poof glass and uttered his famous words: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” On Nov. 9, 1989, ...

The Trabant was just 140 inches long and weighed about 1,400 pounds. Early models were powered by a 506 cc, inline, two-stroke, two-cylinder air-cooled engine. This is a 1969 model. BILL VANCE When ...

Dr. Werner Lang, the man behind the small and popular Trabant 601 two-door vehicle built in East Germany back in the 1960s, died at the age of 91 after suffering a heart attack at his home in Zwickau.

The Trabant a cult object and symbol of a whole generation On November 7 1957 the pilot production of the Trabant P50 left the workshops The stateowned enterprise Sachsenring automobile works in ...

Werner Lang, who has died aged 91, was the mechanical engineer behind the design of the Trabant - the rattle-trap car that became a potent symbol of the failings of communist government. Yet the story ...