The grounds of the hall are used for concerts and classic car shows, including the Wartburg/Trabant/IFA Club Rally and the annual Stanford Mini Day.
Called VEB Sachsenring until 1990, it was a producer of vehicles in the former German Democratic Republic, its most famous product being the Trabant.
Cohen is most notable for her Bodywork project to transform an East German 1987 Trabant automobile into a 1973 Chevrolet El Camino using gears and hydraulics.
In 1997, the journalist Robert Collin from the motor magazine Teknikens Värld overturned the new Mercedes-Benz A-Class in the moose test, while a Trabant—a much older, and widely mocked car from the former German Democratic Republic—managed it perfectly.
The Lemon draws parallels between collectivized healthcare systems and the East German Trabant, a noisy, inefficient, underpowered automobile that remained a symbol of communist inefficiency and lack of ingenuity, mostly unchanged for nearly thirty years.
Trabant Coffee and Chai is a two-location coffeehouse company based in University District, Seattle with another location Downtown Seattle.