During the 1960s and 1970s, Europeans on the western side of the Iron Curtain flocked to beaches during the summer, and many of them rode around in cut-down beach buggies such as the Fiat Jolly, BMC ...

With its boxy design, cramped interior and notorious clouds of blue smoke billowing from its exhaust, the Trabant is often referred to as the worst car ever made. But somehow the plucky East German ...