TRABANT 601 Police Car COBI 24541 - Youngtimer

You know that:

• Trabant cars were produced by the Sachsenring car factory in Zwickau, Saxony.
• The name Trabant comes from the word dráb (soldier) and entered German with the Hussite armies as ,,drabant", but it also means pioneer.
• In 1977 the price of the car was 36,500 CZK which was about 15 times the salary.
• The waiting period for a new Trabant was up to 10 years.
• This is the same car company that initially produced the P240 luxury cars for German socialites.
• The first 50 prototype Trabant cars rolled off the production line on November 7, 1957, the 40th anniversary of the Great October Socialist Republic.
• Trabant cars may be mocked, vilified or made fun of, but perhaps no other European car has become such a famous legend.
• In 1957, the car's designers came up with the revolutionary Duroplast body material, beating developments by a full 50 years.
• Even today, cars with all-composite bodywork are not mass-produced, although lamination technology is far more affordable than in the 1960s.
• The 601 series cars were produced until 1990.
• A total of 3,100,000 units were produced in various versions.
• The cars were nicknamed the Blue Beetle, the Grumpy Beetle, or the Falling Grumpy Beetle.
• The limits of the socialist economy did not allow for the continuous modernisation of the cars and production techniques, and so, for example, the quality control of a new engine was carried out by listening to the "experienced" ear of the engine plant foreman.

Technical parameters:

• dimensions: length 3.36 m, width 1.50 m, height 1.46 m
• weight 610 kg
• bodywork Duroplast 2 door sedan
• power unit air-cooled 2-cylinder 594 cm³ engine with 19 kW
• number of gears 4 forward + 1 reverse
• maximum speed 100 km/h
• seating capacity 4