Good read: Trabant and the fall of socialism

"The Trabant, the Wartburg and the fall of the GDR" is an interesting article by Jonathan Zatlin, that you can read here: http://kinoplus.eu (PDF file).

In it, Zatlin studies the relation between the unsatisfied demand for cars in the GDR, and the demise of its regime. By the way, I saw this Wartburg myself in Budapest!