Dokument o vyrobe Trabantu
Go, Trabi, Go East Germany Darling Car Turns 50.
Resembling a cross between a golf cart and car bumper amusement park, the Trabant - a vehicle with two slow rolls of East Germany - was probably the most venerated object the desire behind the iron curtain.
No other car in the world is a powerful symbol of a bygone era.
Trabant or trabis for short, were in production in the German Democratic Republic without significant change for over three decades and although the last new Trabi hit the roads in 1991, the vehicle - which has 50 this year - won Germany cult status.
I love my car, it's like a child to me, said Christian Marotz, member of the Board of Directors Berlin Trabant Club, a group that spends a lot of time and personal finance investment in everything Trabant.
It symbolizes a simpler life from the beginning, in the East Oh, and insurance costs also not expensive, because they aren t stolen very often.
The first Trabant rolled on the floor of the factory in 1957, it was actually never really meant to be a car, but it was designed as a three-wheeled motorcycle and even if the designers anticipate that production takes about 10 years old, he finished 34 sustainable.
The last Trabant left the assembly line April 30, 1991.
The name Trabant means traveling companion or satellite, and was inspired by the Russian Sputnik satellite that went into space this year is for sale.
Television advertising by the manufacturer of the Trabant, the car works Sachsenring in eastern Germany, praised the Trabi to offer plenty of room for your luggage and to be nimble, quick, durable and robust, but in reality the car left much to be desired.
When the Trabant was launched, Western countries already used cars with cleaner engines, more efficient clean engine of the Trabant was a case two time with only two cylinders It delivered all 25 horses, and taken full 21 seconds to get from 0 to 100 km 60 miles per hour His speed was 112 kilometers per hour.
The Trabi a small thing a little less than 360 cm 140 inches long, 150 cm wide and 146 cm high in today's world of Hummers and other SUVs, it is a real shrimp.
Although it had a steel frame, the body was made of what is called Duroplast - a form of plastic hardened cotton waste from Russia and dyes industry resins East Germany .
These are the average car people would have in East Germany, said Johannes Drexler, a tourist guide for Trabi Safari, a company in Berlin that allows people to see the sights of Berlin from the perspective of this micro car.
Everyone is trying to afford a Trabant Germany during the time of the East, you had to put on a list and it was not until the car between 11 and 15 years, said Drexler.
The 11 or 15 years was for those who were lucky enough to live in Berlin, which received benefits compared to other parts of the East German People in other places could wait up to 18 years get their car.
Trabis have never been this color before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Trabant was probably one of the only cars that was more expensive to buy used it was new A new Trabi slow you between 8,500 and 12,500 German marks East For a used car, you could get much more quickly, you can pay up to 4,000 more.
For a car in East Germany was considered pure luxury, Drexler said.
The Trabant factory in the town of Zwickau cook about 3 7 million cars in 34 years, some have been exported to other communist countries today, there are still about 58000 trabis in force in Germany, about 85 percent of them in the former East.
However, when the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, the Trabant was still produced for two years, but many Western Orientals wanted flashier cars at the time, so the market dried Many Trabi jokes, survived until day.
How do you double the value of a Trabant Fill the gas tank Why the Trabi have a heated rear window It keeps your hands warm while you push.
This could finally mark the end of the Trabi - at least on the roads - is not ridiculous or even a lack of spare parts It could be growing concerns about the environment.
The Trabi exhaust can even be purchased in boxes as perfume Trabi.
Trabis are the greenest cars that they weren t built with pollution reducing catalytic converters In one study, they spit about nine times more hydrocarbons and five times more carbon monoxide than most other cars in Western Europe .
In several cities in Germany, restrictions are in place that will ban cars from entering city centers if they don t meet certain environmental standards and standards are tightening.
At present, the German government made an exception for Trabant being on the road, because they aren t being made anymore, but that could end, especially if the EU rules begin to supplant Germans in the coming months, many fans of old cars will be holding protests to defend their cars as cultural objects which are to be given a waiver to stay in the street and not be simply relegated to garages or museums.
Well, you must stay upbeat to get your point, but in reality, it didnt look so good for us Marotz said.
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