VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau built cars on the site of the former Auto Union/DKW works, inheriting DKW’s two-stroke engine after Auto Union re-established itself in the West as what became Audi.[1] It made essentially one car (the Trabant, in a handful of names) for the whole of East Germany’s existence as a separate state, and stopped within a year of reunification once government subsidy for its labour-intensive production line disappeared.
Brand
Trabant
VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau
- Founded
- 1957
- Origin
- East Germany
- Nameplates
- 1
Identity
- Country of origin
- East Germany
- Founded
- 1957
- Dissolved
- 1991
Nameplates (1)
Computed from every entry that names this brand, never a hand-maintained list. Each nameplate is a hub over its own generations.
Cars (2)
Every generation and halo trim from this brand, with the figures each one carries. Sort by any column; a car we have not sourced a figure for sorts last rather than as a zero.
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Body style
Era
| Trabant 601 P601 | 1964–1991 | 33 kW | 21.0 s | 100 km/h | — |
| Trabant P50 (500/600) P50 | 1957–1964 | 17 kW | — | — | — |
Sources & attribution
- Last verified
- 2026-09-24
- Origin axis
- East Germany
Logo: File:IFA Trabant Logo.svg · Unknown. Displayed unmodified to identify this manufacturer's cars, editorially and without any suggestion of endorsement or affiliation. Commons records the file as public domain for copyright purposes with an explicit 'trademarked' restriction; the basis for display here is trademark nominative use, not a copyright licence.
Accent colour: The badge's own SVG source specifies no fill colour on its single path, which therefore renders at the SVG default of black (#000000). No separate brand-colour specification was published for VEB Sachsenring; the artwork itself is monochrome.
References
Every sourced figure and every cited claim on this page, numbered. Wikipedia articles record the revision they were read at, because the article will have changed by the time you check it.
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Trabant. Wikipedia · revision 1362557633 · read 2026-09-24
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Single article covering the P50/500, 600, 601 and 1.1 models by section.