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The article stresses the importance for companies to provide positive experiences to customers, citing the case of Trabant, an East German-made car with a cramped and uncomfortable exterior produced between 1957-1991, which failed to provide any semblance of acceptable customer experience.

Features the East German-made car Trabant.

Examines a Trabant, a front-wheel drive, 3-door wagon that has been in production in East Germany for 26 years. Specifications; Handling; Equipment; US restrictions. INSET: Save the Trabant!, by W. Jeanes..

Describes the East German Trabant, a 31-year-old car that has changed little over the years. It's a front-engine, front-wheel-drive, four-passenger, two-door sedan that costs about $780, has few options, and little performance, but goes nearly anywhere and lasts for years.

The article offers information on the launch of the Revs 2.0 initiative by Revs Institute founder Miles Collier aimed to safeguard the future of traditional cars in Florida in 2019. Revs 2.0 will function as a network for resources and people, potentially the same to Wikipedia in the scale of what it covers. The Miles Collier Collections has cars as culturally significant and mundane as a 1989 Trabant, while it contains examples of some of the most desirable vehicles of the world.

The article focuses on the Trabant, a boxy automobile made in East Germany from 1957-1991. An electric-powered remake of the car was shown at the Frankfurt Auto Show in 2009. Ronald Gerschewski, managing director of Wilkau-Hasslau IndiKar, mentions how the car is historic. His company and co-developer Herpa are searching for investors to bring the car to market.

Presents excerpts of entries from `Car and Driver' magazine's `Save the Trabant' contest. Readers submitted reasons for not demolishing the magazine's Trabant 601 car. First place winner is Ed Hawk of Shelby, Ohio.

The article reviews the Trabant automobile from VEB sachsenring.

Reports on East Berlin residents' disposal of their Trabant automobiles after the 1990 unification of East and West Germany. Purchase of West German cars; Increased business for Berlin's Steptoes; Rise in the rate of road accidents; Increasing popularity of the Trabant automobiles as collectors' items.

Discusses the Trabant, a 26-horsepower, smoke belching automobile made by East Germany's largest automaker, which is one in a long list of inferior East German goods that will not stand up to a free market system. Volkswagen AG has joined up withTrabant's manufacturer in a rush to invest in the East German auto industry; Plans of the Volkswagen company; Slow production; Trouble ahead for East German manufacturers.

Comments on the contribution to free economy in East Germany. Discussion on the love for barbecues among Western families; Information on two-cylinder East German Trabant auto; Observation on emigration; Description of the Trabant auto as a symbol of freedom; Symbols of oppression's contribution to free economy.

The article details art professor Liz Cohen's project of transforming her 1987 Trabant 601 DeLuxe automobile into a lowrider car.

Discusses East Germany's contribution to automobiles, the Trabant. Cult society based around the Trabant (Trabi) after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and continuing today; Abandonment of Trabis due to a market flooded with western cars after the fall of the Berlin Wall; Plans of Sachsenring, a German business group, to sell a Trabant-like car to third-world countries in Africa and Latin America.

The article reports that German automobile racing driver Michael Kahlfuss will compete at the 2015 Safari Classic in his Trabant P601 automobile.

Reports on the Budapest city council's urge to the owners of Trabant to turn the seriously polluting cars to be recycled. Pollution in Budapest; Trabant as the worst contributor of air pollution; Budapest's Clean Air Action Group's offer among Trabant owners.

Focuses on the German motion picture "Go Trabi Go." Film's homage to the East German automobile the Trabant; Characters and plot of the film; Commentary on the cultural differences between East and West Germany; Film's writers Peter Timm and Reinhard Kloos; Divided public reaction to the film in Germany.

The article reports that a group of Czech men led by journalist Dan Přibáň will start their epic adventure in South America using the Soviet-era Trabant automobile.

The article presents the 33 steps undertaken to transform the Trabant into a 1973 Chevrolet El Camino which includes measuring the length and wheelbase of both cars, fabricating expandable chassis for wheelbases of both cars, and adding rear extension rails to achieve the length of the Camino.

The article presents information related to the speed at which different automobiles move. The 1984 288 GTO automobile is the world's first 300km/hour production car and the Bugatti, which can be driven at a speed of 408.47km per hour is the world's third-fastest car. The performance of the Trabant P50 car is compared with the performance of athlete Michael Johnson's while setting the 400-meters world record.

The article presents information on the emergence and disappearance of Trabant automobiles in Eastern Germany. 30,000 P70 automobiles were produced by Automobil Werke Zwickau before the launch of the first real Trabant, the P50. It used a 500 cubic centimeter engine. The production of the P601 continued until the late nineteen eighties when the Berlin Wall fell.

Features a photograph of a dressed-up Trabant automobile. Description; Engine; Weight.

The article relates the author's experience in visiting Germany. He relates that Trabant automobiles have been consigned to museums, and hotels have been brought up to western standards. He narrates that the country's ownership disputes on farms have been resolved and several farmers who fled to the west came back on land that had been in their families for generations. He cites that German farmers are processing and using home-produced energy.