The history of the Wartburg cars goes back a long way, right back as far as 1898 when the first cars were produced in Eisenach in Germany. Before the hostilities of World War II broke out Eisenach ...

A Daily Telegraph correspondent in East Germany reported bitter comments “that my Mercedes car was several hundred pounds cheaper than their own shabbily finished and much smaller Wartburg”.

She began her career with Ford in 1983 and joined Jaguar Cars North America in 2001. Also at the event, Kent Hawley, a former Wartburg administrator, and Jay and Patricia Tomson, longtime ...

On 29 July 1974, John Langley reported for this newspaper: “East German Wartburg cars produced after 17 September will be banned from sale in Britain and other Common Market countries because ...

The Wartburg’s looks may have dated from the previous decade, but it lived up to the importer Industria’s promise of “the big family saloon at small-car cost”, with an 80mph top speed.