Bloomberg reported today that German Trabant cars may become obsolete in the near future due to new environmental standards being placed upon the citizens of the European Union.

Apparently the cars, which were famously used as lighting props on the U2 Zoo TV tour, are awful tools of pollution, emitting several times the amount of carbon dioxide as other vehicles of comparable size.

Truthfully, the Trabant has had a turbulent existence since it’s birth in 1949. You can read all about its history here, on this ‘fan’ page I found.

Perhaps instead of having the engines rebuilt, or fighting the new standards with lawsuits that would undoubtedly waste a lot of time (and paper), the owners of these relics should just throw in the towel, paint their Trabbis up and make their money back on eBay.

I’m sure a slew of U2 fans would bid on them.