ترابانت

Trabant
Trabbi 601-S - Typenschild 1.jpg
Overview
المُصنعVEB Sachsenring
الانتاج1957-1990 (East Germany)
1990-1991 (Germany)
3.7 million produced
الجسم والشاسيه
نمط  الجسم2-door sedan (Limousine, Saloon)
2-door station wagon (Universal)
Doorless jeep (Kübelwagen)
الشكل الخارجيTransverse front-engine, front-wheel-drive
Powertrain
المحرك500cc two-cylinder two-stroke (1957~62)
600cc two-cylinder two-stroke (1963~1989)
1.0L VW Polo I4 four-stroke (1989~1991)
الأبعاد
قاعدة العجلات2,020 mm (79.5 in)[1]
الطول3,360 mm (132.3 in)[1]
العرض1,500 mm (59.06 in)[2]

The Trabant ( /trəˈbɑːnt/; النطق الألماني: [tʀaˈbant]) is an automobile which was produced from 1957 to 1990 by former East German car manufacturer VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau. Although it is often seen as symbolic of the defunct East Germany and the collapse of the Eastern Bloc in general, it was a sought-after car in East Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The Trabant had a hard plastic body mounted on a one-piece steel chassis (a so-called unibody or monocoque), front-wheel drive, a transverse engine, and independent suspension – unusual features at that time.

Called "a spark plug with a roof", 3,096,999 Trabants in a number of models were produced over nearly three decades with few significant changes in their basic design.[3] Older models became popular with collectors in the United States due to their low cost and fewer restrictions on the importation of antique cars. The Trabant also gained a following among car tuning and rally racing enthusiasts.

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Overview

Small white Trabant in a museum
Trabant 601 limousine
White station wagon
Trabant 601 Estate


انظر أيضاً

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References

  1. ^ أ ب Legends of the Open Road. Rizzoli International Publications. ISBN 978-88-6130-066-8.
  2. ^ World Cars 1978. Herald Books. ISBN 0-910714-10-X.
  3. ^ "Trabant Canada". Trabant.ca. Retrieved 2 ديسمبر 2010.

Further reading

  • Berdahl, Daphne. "'Go, Trabi, Go!': Reflections on a Car and Its Symbolization over Time." Anthropology and Humanism 25.2 (2000): 131-141. online
  • Rubin, Eli. "The Trabant: Consumption, Eigen-Sinn, and Movement." History Workshop Journal (2009) 68#1 pp 27–44. online
  • Zatlin, Jonathan R. "The vehicle of desire: The Trabant, the Wartburg, and the end of the GDR." German History 15.3 (1997): 358-380. online
  • Lisse, Jürgen (2010) (in German), Fahrzeuglexikon Trabant (2. erweiterte ed.), Bildverlag Böttger, ISBN 978-3-937496-34-4 
  • Röcke, Matthias (2011) (in German), Die Trabi-Story. Der Dauerbrenner aus Zwickau, Parragon, vormals in zwei Auflagen erschienen im Heel Verlag, ISBN 978-1-4454-6266-0 
  • Stiegler, Theo (2007) (in German), Der Trabant wird 50! In guten wie in schlechten Zeiten, edition Sächsische Zeitung/Saxo’Phon, ISBN 978-3-938325-36-0 

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