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Cars and Transportation

Vintage! Trabant P601S

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July 16, 2014

When the first Trabant was launched in 1957, it could hold its own against West German models. Its 18 horsepower may not have been a threat to the Goggomobil or the VW Bug, but the latter certainly didn't leave its Eastern cousins in the dust. Drive It! takes a trip back in time with the Trabant 601, the third and most widely-produced model in the Trabant series.

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