By the rest of the world's standards, this was by no means a supercar, just a strange, one-off Beetle-based kit. But I think by 1970s East German standards, we can safely call this bold experiment ...

In 1950 the East German government claimed the Americans were dropping potato beetles out of planes over GDR fields in an attempt to sabotage their crops. Was it true, or an example of Cold War ...

Inevitably, the East German car industry could not keep up with ... Google Doodle for German Unity Day in 2017: A VW Beetle and a TrabantImage: Google Inc. In 1991, the production was therefore ...

like the famous Volkswagen Beetle and its sleeker, faster, sexier spawn, the Porsche 356. Meanwhile, in the East, things weren't going quite as well. The repressive East German government ...

Check them out below. Participants dressed in East German garb and showed off the rare cars, which were manufactured from 1957 until 1990. The automobiles, East Germany’s answer to the Volkswagen ...

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Volkswagen is halting production of the last version of its Beetle model this week ... who was hired to fulfill German dictator Adolf Hitler’s project for a ...