Editing Trabant (section)

=== Origins ===
VEB Sachsenring Automobilwerke Zwickau had its origins in the former [[Auto Union]]/[[DKW]] business which had operated out of the site prior to the war, and the company's first products were essentially copies of pre-war DKW designs. Following the partition of Germany, Auto Union re-established itself in [[West Germany]] (ultimately evolving into [[Audi]]), leaving VEB Sachsenring with the two stroke engine inherited from DKW.

The Trabant was the result of a planning process which had been intended to design a three-wheeled motorcycle.<ref name="Go Trabi" /> In German, ''Trabant'' is an astronomical term for a moon (or other natural satellite) of a celestial body.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.interglot.com/dictionary/de/en/translate/Trabant|title=Translate Trabant from German to English|website=www.interglot.com|access-date=9 May 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171007021005/http://www.interglot.com/dictionary/de/en/translate/Trabant|archive-date=7 October 2017}}</ref>