What is Trabbi?
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German slang for a Trabant, just about the crappiest automobile that has ever been built (our Edsel running a close second), with some parts made out of cardboard, yes, CARDBOARD, an engine that seems like there's a mouse running around on a rubber band, and thick noxious black smoke constantly spewng from the exhaust. Once junkheaped, this car is a recycler's nightmare: along German roads and in junkyards, you'll see thousands of them in various stages of decay, littering those places.
Fritz had a car that suggests his name: a Trabbi, always on the fritz.
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