Trabant: The East German car remains iconic
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#2Are these still street legal? I've heard conflicting reports about two-stroke cars in the EU.
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#3Are these still street legal? I've heard conflicting reports about two-stroke cars in the EU.
There's usually exemption for historic cars (over 30 years old).
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#4Are these still street legal? I've heard conflicting reports about two-stroke cars in the EU.
Germany: They've got an "H" license plate (historic — older than 30 years), are exempt from emissions laws and often you don't have to pay taxes on them.
Just last week I saw a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartburg_(marque) on the Autobahn and it made me smile.
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#7I had one! https://fb.com/10203599871583608
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#8The photo gallery shows the boring Wartburg 353 with typical East German "non-design", but East German engineers could also build beautiful cars, at least in the early days:
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#9I'm Hungarian, born in '81, so I grew up around Trabis, Wartburgs, Skodas, Moskvitch, Ladas. My mom's first car was a Trabant. At some point in the 80s we moved to W-Germany for a few years and we took the Trabant, it was not a good look (we were living in Boeblingen, near Stuttgart, location of the Porsche HQ).
The magic of social and geographic mobility and the tech boom: today, 30 years later, I live in Dubai, where anything below V8 is boring, and my wife drives a Porsche, but really we should stop driving ICEs altogether.
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#10Are these still street legal? I've heard conflicting reports about two-stroke cars in the EU.
Here’s a Benz Victoria from 1894 in Germany with a legal status