Potential Revival
The Trabant may be making a modern comeback. The Herpa company, a miniature vehicles manufacturer in Bavaria, bought the rights to the name and showed a scale model of a concept "New Trabi" at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show. Plans for production included a limited run, possibly with a BMW engine. A new Trabant nT model was unveiled at the 2009 Frankfurt Motor Show.
The Trabant nT consortium includes Herpa, German specialized auto parts manufacturer IndiKar, and German automobile engineering company IAV. The group is looking for investment, design, production in the Trabant's original home town of Zwickau and sales "in 2012". Even though Trabant doesn't have much of a history of being green, the Trabant nT electric car will be equipped with a 45 kW asynchronous motor powered with a lithium-ion battery. The nT will have a 100-mile (160-km) range on a full charge, a top speed of 80 mph (128 km/h), and a cost of US$29,000 or about €19,600.
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