Featuring a small but pollutant-belching [two stroke]? engine endowing the vehicle with, er, "modest" performance, the Trabant's real flaw was its plastic composite body. Providing virtually no crash protection, the plastic is an environmental disaster, both for the workers who produced the car, and for wreckers who struggle to find an environmentally-acceptable way to dispose of the misbegotten vehicle.
What happened to the Trabant factory post-1989?