I understand the interest in characterful cars like this, but the first thing that comes to mind when I hear about Trabants is car crash videos on YouTube where

I understand the interest in characterful cars like this, but the first thing that comes to mind when I hear about Trabants is car crash videos on YouTube where they're utterly obliterated by even a pretty minor crash with a modern car. Driving one of these outside of an area with low speed limits would give me the heebie jeebies.