(not the 1st time Ive done this,haha). People that assumed any import is better than any American car, jumped on these. Yes you read that right. As for the FloridaBricklin was itching to bring it in. Second factor was, the popularity in the day of recycled steel in car manufacture. The possibility upsets Ellen, who explains in some of the movie's best dialogue: "I can't marry a murderer. https://chrisoncars.com/yugo-victim-or-victimizer/: (Time Magazine said it best: The Yugo has the distinct feeling of something assembled at gunpoint), I found quite a few articles from later years, quoting the same sentence over and over again (https://www.carkeys.co.uk/news/the-story-of-the-yugo-the-worst-car-in-the-world, https://www.ocregister.com/2017/01/03/the-best-worst-cars-ever/ , https://blastmagazine.com/2014/05/13/truth-10-cars-never-hit-road/), And there you have it: everybody knows for fact that Yugo was actually assembled at gunpoint. @EdDan: How do you double the value of your Yugo? Also in that time, poor workmanship wasnt exclusively Yugos problem. Ford 2000 Diesel Cold-Blooded and Worn Out, http://www.observer.com/2010/culture/wannabe-warhol?page=0, http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_113306-Plymouth-Horizon-C2-1984.html, https://chrisoncars.com/yugo-victim-or-victimizer/, https://www.carkeys.co.uk/news/the-story-of-the-yugo-the-worst-car-in-the-world, https://www.ocregister.com/2017/01/03/the-best-worst-cars-ever/, https://blastmagazine.com/2014/05/13/truth-10-cars-never-hit-road/, https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/jan/14/cover/#, https://jalopnik.com/the-yugo-is-not-the-worst-car-ever-and-anyone-who-says-1830229976, 1987-91 Ford F-Series Bustruck Monster Mashup, COAL 2010 Subaru Forester Green, Its What Makes A Subaru, A $ubaru, Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: 1963(?) All four brake drums were tampered with, the brake fluid was drained, and the perp also drained some other fluids just to be on the safe side. And incompetence does not negate the political reasons, until and unless the failure of management becomes an unavoidable political embarrassment. But even in those circumstances, the car was not that bad as public opinion in USA about it. In the beginning they had some brief text ( "Years ago, the Yugo Car Company chose Verplanck, New York, to test market its new breed of vehicle. New York (where "years ago," according to an opening caption, "the Yugo Car Company chose to test market its new breed of vehicle.") Directed by Nick Gomez (Laws of Gravity), . Yupand does anyone think Fiat or Yugo engineers thought to make the engine a clearance design? At my brothers wedding this weekend, what did I see right across the street from the Germanic-American Institute on Summit Avenue in St. Paul, Minnesota? FSO 125P: I had the car 18 months or so, when in traffic one day a DUI driver rammed his Ford Fiesta (of all things) into the back of my Yugo and pushed me into a Nissan Maxima. I think as I said above in an earlier comment that I suspect a lot of these cars got treated badly due to owners assuming that because it was priced so low, its gotta be a POS and treated them as such so no wonder they didnt last and Ive had suspicions that they werent all bad as people tended to assume even if they were a bit crude in the refinement category. VW, in its first days, had all the same problems as Zastavabut with a product that was continually improved, they overcame it inside of five years. They initially started out as an arms manufacturer. })(); Pictures are property of movie companies owner of the respective movies. I could be wrong there; but a surprising number of parts, including the airbox and cables, the steering column, the drivetrain, are all direct or modified parts from the 128. *shakes tiny fist*. A girl I hung out with in college had a Yugo. And that, sadly, is the point and the problem. I started to work in 1985 as a young engineer in the factory producing electrical equipment for the industry, and was very aware about problems we faced at the time. Just as quickly as the Yugo ascended to number two in european import sales, the car plummeted back to earth and never rose again. I bought it in January because I figured it would be fun to see just how bad it could be. But is an Audi as bad as a Yugo? If Italy had built it, would it be known as the It??? So whats my point? That's not who I am. It had become commonplace in the 1950s; and manufacturers first tried ignoring the problem; then dealing with it with superficial fixes like Zincrometal body panels. I would suggest you read Jason Vuics book on the Yugowhat he described the Yugo America advance men as finding, had little to do with shortages of raw materials. . Ford Econoline This Is Not A Taxi. Why did Yugos have standard rear defrost? Thus American drivers were introduced to the second worst car ever sold- the tiny, dangerously underpowered 360 from Subaru. By the 90s Japan had it totally nailed. She does figure in a quiet little in-joke. When they came unglued from rot, there was no there there to support the structure. Mine was an 86 and a half Yugo. Any idea where the Fiat 128 stopped and the 127 started in the Yugo? It took time, development, persuading of management that there WAS a problem (not an easy task in the Japanese culture) but bit by bit, the problems were resolved. The 360 fit in with the type of Japanese car that was (or would become) the Kei car class, which continues to this day within tightly-defined parameters. Me and my friend Jerry (from Sam Bonds) drove a Yugo at a wrecker yard in Coburg some years back. I really dont think that anyone has a competitive advantage in rust resistance any more. I presume the folding roof is there just in case the doors jam shut because of a sagging body! Even in Western Europe, cars arent marketed as they are here. as long as you didnt try to get away with normal American car owner maintenance. One of my dads friends had one of these. With the pullout of Fiat, Renault and the British makes just a few years before,. I see one maybe twice a year. There are many causes for poor management. I probably still have it somewhere. And when longtime resident Mona Dearly (BETTE MIDLER) drove her Yugo into the river to her death, no one really seemed to care. I remember, as a teenJapanese cars had fit-and-finish second to none; they started and ran smoothly with the primitive emissions controls of the time; but boy, did they rust. Neve Campbell was also working on Party of Five (1994) and Scream 3 (2000) while shooting this film. Had the car been screwed together properly, and had there been an engineering department to iron out the bugs, it could have had a long run. No argument with the political details of your well made point. Many wars (holocausts, massacres) are blamed on religion, I can understand why some people no longer believe. Anyway, you got 2 I think 6.5 door speakers standard and an option for 2 46 oval speakers, mounted in the rear cargo covers side panels for a total of 4 speakers and an optional AC unit that replaced the console stack, just below the heater and the floor and it I think augmented the weak heater in these things. Then again, Ive always had a liking for the odd car or two over the years. The carpet was very loose fitting and curled up in spots along the edges. I dont know if I was lucky (twice) or if my mechanical aptitude allowed me to save the cars I owned. Someone wanted her dead. Every vehicle in town that is not a truck is a Yugo, except the police cruisers, which are Plymouth Horizons. Audis have been headaches to owners at various times. GM had tried to buy Zastava in 2007, but the deal fell through. From the start, Zastava resented the profit dealers made, and thought their expenses exorbitant. The problems with Audisare RELATIVE to other brands; and RELATIVE to past experiences. Old joke. After Mona Dearly (Bette Milder) dies in the movie's opening moments when her Yugo plows through a guardrail and into the Hudson River far below, Wyatt begins investigating her death. Ive been around big rigs all of my life, but they never looked bigger than when I was next to them on the freeway. Dont forget, we had the Czech Skoda Estelle, the Russian Lada and the Polish FSO 125p all competing at the bottom of the market. A girl I knew in high school had one of these, it got rustier seemingly by the day, and this was in 1991-2 so it wasnt by any means an old car. Drowning Mona 2000 PG-13 1 h 36 m IMDb RATING 5.7 /10 15K YOUR RATING Rate Play trailer 2:23 1 Video 67 Photos Comedy Crime Mystery When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect. When I got there, my promised job had fallen through and my wife and child still needed a car, and I needed one for working. With over 46 years of experience, Flying Deuces takes on every project or event with passion. Even on foot. In fact every single person in town hated her. They start, get you to your destination in the dry, and thats about all you can saytheres no enjoyment in operating it and build quality was a joke. View Cars. Let me disillusion youI busted a piston crown and bent a valve badly enough to freeze up the camshaft. The salesman was vaguely aware that they were built somewhere in Europe,but he was cagey about just where. You know, we have a joke here in ex-Yugoslavia about Yugo: That explains why everyone was driving them then. The sexy Marsha Brady girl with the bellbottoms in the Subaru commercials is unforgettable. The accident I referenced in my earlier post has adversely affected my overall health (lumbar damage), and Im nowhere near as ready to slide under a car as I used to be. Now they are all scared by digital cameras and this are just some memories from the other side of the iron curtain. But then thats not what most folks are exactly looking for. Japanese rust problems are designed in the cars are only meant to last 6-7 years and were poorly protected in the factory. Even getting touring car legend Peter Brock to put his name to a Deluxe Limited Edition wasnt enough to help sales. In the 1970s the PCI (Italian Communist Party) reached its all-time maximum electorally: 34.4% in the 1976 general election (12,600,000 votes, 3 million more than in the previous election in 1972). It had a three way folding back seat back that could make multiple level shelves out of itself, you could haul a lot of stuff in that car. As the movie opens, a local woman named Mona Dearly ( Bette Midler) speeds down a country road and directly into the Hudson River when her brakes fail. Which, actually, was a very good little car . Well life handed me a whole pile a' shit! Because he SAYS he has a new belt on there, doesnt mean its so. It began the use of the FWD, horizontal boxer engine which carries on in Subarus to this day (albeit in a modern form). My problem was that I didn't care who killed Mona Dearly, or why, and didn't want to know anyone in town except for Chief Rash and his daughter. Soon we would have a whole line of Adams Family cars on the road! After the 1973 oil shock and protracted period of economic stagnation globally, Western markets had less incentive to buy anything from Yugoslavia. Anyway, the employee joked that it even had the rear window warmer to keep your hands warm when pushing it. Drowning Mona - An explanation informs viewers that the setting (Verplanck, New York) was a test market for Yugos. Some dinosaur relic, Id never seen before. I know there were folks who collected Yugos for nothing, for running and parts cars. Youre welcome here anytime ! There was a movie in 2000 entitled Drowning Mona where most of the people in a . I frankly dont know how anything this poor could ever be made. The 71-76 GM full-sizers were better than average on this count. Ah, the quintessential crap car. No parts fell off of it, the car generally was in good condition (other than some stains on the seats that I didnt care to speculate about). document.getElementById("unic-gdpr").style.display = 'inline'; Its hard to pinpoint a weak spot on a Yugo because every system in the car was so badly designed and assembled that the whole car was a no contact accident. Secondly, I would be one of those people who had a good experience with a Yugo. The interior squeaked everywhere that it didnt rattle. The result is that the UK Yugo was a far superior car to the US one, with its dealership network out to make a quick buck. From the Subaru 360, to the SV1, to the Yugo, up to Chery, he followed the time-honored scammers credo of taking as much money as he could through charm and charisma, and when the going got tough and his shell-game started coming unraveled, he bailed with his loot and moved on to his next scam. Very well-maintained. It has interesting characters and situations and I found myself really enjoying the film--only to have it all fizzle at the end. So there you have it. An older Yugo, since the car hasn't been manufactured since its country went out of business. The process, alone, of a car manufacturer as a unit of government, is suspect. Nevermind that their cars are horribly unreliable, people still buy them. Make the engine a clearance design: how do you double the value your. 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