Try as we may, we just can't get enough of those Trabbis.

Witness first hand the story of the little-engine-that-couldn't in this hilarious video of a Trabant's failures as a tow truck.

What's the best tool for shaping the Trabant's Duroplast body? A swift kick with a stiff boot, of course, as you'll see in these videos from an East German factory, taken from the aptly titled "The Making of the World's Crappiest Car." (Style note: Evidently, even workers in a communist utpopia find it hard to resist the appeal of a well-cropped mullet.)

Trabbi-minded folks share their pics with the BBC. A graffiti Trabbi breaks through the Berlin wall (as two heavyweights, Brezhnev and Honecker, make out in the background). A Trabbi is transformed into a sunflower field with wheels. There's nothing, it seems, that a Trabbi can't (or won't) get involved in.

What's worse than actually owning a Trabant? Waiting six years for your government to finally issue you one. Take a cheery little tour through the process and find out what happened to all those cars after the wall came down.

Marvels of efficiency, yes, but that doesn't mean Trabbis don't know how to party. See before-and-after shots of the show-stealing Trabants that rocked the stage during U2's Zootopia Tour:

-- WILL REITER