to the 50th anniversary of the car! Bashny.Net

November 7 marks the 50th anniversary since the beginning of the well-known issue of the East German People's mini-car Trabant.
In early November 1957 in the small town of Zwickau, in the former factory Audi, which was nationalized and named VEB Sachsenring Kraftfahrzeug- und Motorenwerk Zwickau launched a new brand "Trabant" (popularly simply "Truby"). Mark nazvali in the chest zapuschennogo tom in the Soviet Union kosmicheskogo godu spytnika (Po-nemetski «Trabant» - spytnik). The car weighed just 620 kg.

The body design and the method of production for the whole period of its existence hardly changed. After the unification of East and West Germany in 1989, the production of "satellites" stopped, and the factory acquired company Volkswagen.

via Etoday.ru





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