The car used a two-stroke engine - you had to mix the oil with your gas every time you filled up. The body was made from a resin of cotton and phenol waste called Duroplast, which is an environmental nightmare; you cant bury it and you cant burn it.
Heres a couple jokes about the the Trabant:
- West German businessman who is driving a Mercedes through East Germany on a rainy night when his windshield wipers stop working. He takes it to an East German mechanic, who tells him there are no Mercedes windshield wiper motors in the GDR, but he will do his best to fix it. When the businessman returns the next day, to his surprise the windshield wipers are working perfectly. "How did you find a Mercedes windshield wiper motor in the East," he asks the mechanic. "We didn't," replies the mechanic, "We used the engine motor of a Trabant."
- How do you double the value of a Trabant? Fill up the tank!
Here a great video on how s***ty they were made (look for the busted tail light while the car rolls off the assembly line):
Listen to that engine roar...
http://www.pbs.org/saf/transcripts/transcript402.htm#4
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