Hungarian Thieves Enjoy Trabant Takeaway

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Top choice with thieves

COLD WAR CAR IS HOT FAVE

East Germany's cult car the Trabant has achieved new popularity in Hungary - with thieves.

The ramshackle trundler topped a list of cars most stolen from Hungarians.


It beat off competition from all the top western makes and a few more besides, with one quarter of the votes.

Trabants have long been lampooned as mistake of motoring history.

Its body was made from Duraplast and composite from resin reinforced with that sturdy material, cotton wool.

And all of this was housed inside a gawky, box body.

But in the face of its seemingly fatal flaws, the car found many homes in Cold War Eastern Europe and a host of new fans after the Iron Curtain came down.

The Sachsenring factory produced millions of the cars and hundreds of thousands are still on the roads, mainly in the former Communist eastern bloc.

Their fame from the 1990s onwards has seen them placed by many alongside car greats such as the Mini and Beetle as icons of the road.