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Trabi Safari ToursThe next time you visit Dresden or Berlin, take an escorted self-drive tour in the German Democratic Republic's two-stroke cult car, the Trabant or Trabi.
ABOVE: A view of Dresden Neustadt from the back seat of a 1980s Trabant. (The red convertible just ahead is also a Trabi Safari car.)
Trabant production ended shortly after the reunification of Germany (or "the change," to use a term popular in the East). Residents of the former GDR rushed to buy Volkswagens, Opels, and other German cars, abandoning their Trabants by the side of the road or selling them to poorer neighbors for nominal sums (in some cases, as little as one Deutschmark, or about 25 U.S. cents). Fortunately, about 100,000 Trabants escaped the scrap heap and have become "cult cars" with collectors and nostalgia buffs. About 60 restored Trabants are in use by Trabi Safari, which offers self-drive escorted tours in Dresden and Berlin. Tour the town in a Trabi
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