If you live in US, you probably don’t know about this car and the history behind it. In a few words, Trabant was a car produced back in the late 50’s till 1991 in the former East Germany. It rapidly became one of the symbols in the East Germany as well as in other communist countries. For advocates of capitalism it is often cited as an example of the disadvantages of centralized planning as even refueling the car required lifting the hood, filling the tank with gasoline (only 6.5 gallons), then adding two-stroke oil and shaking it back and forth to mix. It was in production without any significant changes for nearly 30 years with 3,096,099 Trabants produced in total.