They initially started out as an arms manufacturer. The brakes appear to have been tampered with, making it murder. I put about 20K miles on it per year. Nude beaches usually are deprived of sexual context. The cars were not labor or maintenance intensive at all, and in fact some things worked better on that car than did my dear old Lancer, like the A/C system. depends 100% on very cheap parts and lots of mechanics around that know the car inside out. Thank you for the interesting history. There are heaps of suspects ranging from her husband, her son, her son's friend, her son's friend's fiance and so on. Especially on economy cars- Yugos often sold to High School girls, who would just turn up the stereo when their failure to add oil led to rod knocking. . Youd have to go from fourth to first gear to come down. Dispose of the rest of the car. The collapse of Communism removed any perceived legitimacy left in the public who thought their future under capitalism would reflect a standard of living like W Germanys. But after a slow start because of supply problems, the car began selling in volume during year two. in Pasadena a couple of years ago. ), See all comments about this movie and its vehicles. As to Bricklin, Ive always liked of liked the SV-1 and wish Id picked one up when they were really cheap, with the AMC 360 they could be made to really move! The Yugo was not always viewed so favorably, although its $3,990 price ($9,900 in today's dollars) grabbed headlines on its introduction in 1985. }
(https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/jan/14/cover/#) The base GV had a 1.1L, SOHC motor that originated in the Fiat 128 and the GVX had the 1.3L\, SOHC, motor, also from the Fiat 128 and I think it had the 5spd manual in it but the base GV got the 4spd manual. At least until the inevitable head gasket problems caused by an Iron head and alloy block. Drowning Mona is one of my favorite comedies, and its currently available on YouTube for free. who collected Yugos for pennies on the dollar and used the collection as a parts supply to keep ONE of them running. Well, when someone drowns Mona (Bette Midler), it's almost a cause for celebration in the quiet, upstate New York town of Verplanck, whose one claim to fame - except Mona Dearly - is that it's a hotbed of Yugos. One day a red one, next day yellow, the day after white, he was gathering up the by then give-away bombs that still ran. Subaru was just a little behind the curve in terms of design and safetyas befits a smaller company. (France) Chi ha ucciso la signora Dearly? Its like almost any car; get to know its issues, and if you have the mechanical inclinations to deal with them, theyre pretty simple cars otherwise. Too many people in this country have this mentality that if its cheap, treat it as such and yes, a fulfilled prophesy. They found problems in the assembly processone described was how the wiring harness to the rear liftgate and wiper, didnt fit the stamped holes allowed it. When I was living in Montana in 2001, some masochist/crusty old guy was using one as a daily driver and it looked new. Comments are property of their authors. One of the magazines rolled one on test, and they had a top speed of around 65mph. It couldnt be trusted just sitting in the parking lot. However, these engines have been known to go 200K with little bearing wear if maintained appropriately. Re: Malcolm Bricklin I do not see him as a crook. And management, often put there through politics, has little interest in learning of customer dissatisfaction. So, they set about seeing what was what with a road-trip around Romania in three cars they would be testing. A Rolls-Royce Ghost, a Mercades S-class, and a Bently Mulsane. Kind of reminds me of a first generation Rabbit/Golf, which Ive always considered the gold-standard for the best styled small car. My point is more that while suited for its home market, the Yugo was a cynical attempt by its promoter to make a quick buck by appealing to the most fickle, least loyal of all purchasers-the price shopper.It is only coincidental that the car was built in Yugoslavia. My guess is that many of his critics could not have done as much. 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. He was rather sad that after 170,000 miles it had They had other third-world markets in mind. I cant imagine that anybody that test drove one like mine actually laid down real money for one. The Yugo was based on a mash up of models 127 and 128 built under license by a wildly unproductive workforce in an obsolete factory with assembly quality that made real mid 70s Fiats look hand built. Generally what kills them is the cost of major systems repairs, to where its not economically justifiable. He got two large import operations going and he launched the SV-1. Someone wanted her dead. Also in Drowning Mona's favor, at the heart of the movie, is a genuinely positive character, Verplanck Police Chief Wyatt Rash (Danny DeVito).He's possibly the only principled citizen in town. There are like 100 YUGOs in the movie, which I think came out around 1998. But with enough TLC (something the average American consumer wasnt high on), maybe they werent so bad (at least a few of them, anyway). First of all, thanks to Perry Shoar for a very well written explanation of the events of the 70s and 80s that led to the meltdown of Yugoslavia. But Bricklin assured his erstwhile investors that the car could be made ready for the U.S. market with some minor tweaks. Bricklins old nemesis Consumer Reports weighed in on the cars many shortcomings in its February 1986 issue and refused to recommend it at any price. Yes you read that right. Ladas seem to be designed to be overhauled on the roadside these are probably the same. Visit Dealer Website. Every vehicle in town that is not a truck is a Yugo, except the police cruisers, which are Plymouth Horizons., And lastly, I recall seeing a comedian on TV talking about Yugos. Drowning Mona is a 2000 American 'comedy' film starring Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, Melissa McCarthy, Brian Doyle-Murray and box-office superstar Will Ferrell . The poor gal, if I remember, was named Lelo. Warranty claims were dreadful. 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. Kathleen Wilhoite (Lucinda) and Melissa McCarthy (Shirley) appeared on Gilmore Girls (2000). The first thing to appear onscreen is a little blurb about the Yugo car company using the town of Verplanck as a test area for their new model years ago. When the coroner first jumps into the water to check Mona's dead body, he is neck-deep in water. To be said, Jasons book is 90% about Bricklin. What am I supposed to make outta that? Another example of the high cost of low priced objects. (rolls eyes). there used to be a sign on the front that said visionary vehicles but that came down at least two years ago. "Drowning Mona" is a frustrating comedy. 2. if (window['UnicI'].geo === 'EU') {
Todays story, though, has nothing to do with anybody like that. Drowning Mona is a 2000 American crime comedy film starring Danny DeVito as Wyatt Rash, a local police chief from Verplanck, New York, who investigates the mysterious death of Mona Dearly ( Bette Midler ), a spiteful, hard-drinking, loud-mouthed, abusive woman, hated by all who knew her, who drove her son's car off a cliff and drowned in a river. Actually, from my experience with Yugo monocoque, four doors would have crushing effect on rigidity:). Detroit, also, but not so much. Could not resist seeing what a piece of crap would look like with no tin on the top. But the little Yugo turned out to be a lot less than the sum of its parts. In fact, if anything, Americas foreign policy in the 80s encouraged Yugoslavia to manufacture and export finished goods to pay its debts. Seem like this article is just a mishmash of old articles written by people who never owned a Yugo, dont know anything about yugos, or who designed its engine. (not the 1st time Ive done this,haha). In addition, many cars have changed hands by that timeand who knows what the previous owner may have had done? It was a nightmare. It would take about eight years from apparent problem to engineered fix to failure of the fix and another engineered solution. Well life handed me a whole pile a' shit! I was amazed when I rode in one, expecting a bouncy distaster but encountering a surprisingly supple feel of the suspension. My dad is a bit of a FIAT nut so he would wrench on it from time to time. As a rule, Chrysler got worse as the 70s progressed where Ford and particularly GM got better. An older Yugo, since the car hasn't been manufactured since its country went out of business. Other than the time the clutch cable broke, and getting the electrical issues sorted out, the car spent no time in the shop. All in all, Monas jaunt into the river could have been described as a pretty fortuitous accident for everyones lives she touched, or in Monas case, bludgeoned. While poor Yugo certainly was not the best car made, but it was hardly the worst either. Also i believe that the whole project couldnt last very long because Crvena Zastava never had economic strength to satisfy such demanding market, which requires first class quality, excellent dealer network and a newer and bigger model every year, just to stay in business. And the gas cap would not come off. The first year all those repairs were paid for, so it wasnt as miserable then. Second occurred during 1994-95, having changed employment by then, while driving the 50+ miles each morning, Id notice Yugos of different colors pass me on the four lane driven by the same fellow. (Fiat DID design the chassis, after all.). As it turns out, the same rental car place was STILL selling surplus Yugos, and I bought a blue one this time. After the 1973 oil shock and protracted period of economic stagnation globally, Western markets had less incentive to buy anything from Yugoslavia. Someone steeped in the maintenace required to keep something like a Trabant running would probably be right at home with a Yugo. R/S AUTOLINE INC. (1.3 miles away) 1215 W IMPERIAL HWY, Suite 213, BREA, CA 92821. Its a tough call on the Yugo. Also, familiarity is important in servicing a car.Lots of American mechanics wouldnt bother to learn the finer points of working on Yugos because there were so few of them and parts were slow to arrive when needed. Ive been around big rigs all of my life, but they never looked bigger than when I was next to them on the freeway. I had two of them. The effort collapsed along with Yugo sales in America. The real reason why Crvena Zastava went into this adventure was that they were desperate to get some foreign currency to keep assembly lines alive. \"Drowning Mona\" is bad . Its not too late! As far as ethnicity goes, Im Russian by birth, Belarus to be exact, and have that somewhat stocky build to prove it! Drowning Mona 2000 (PG-13)Strident comedy about the low-IQ denizens of small town Verplanck, New York, where everybody still drives a Yugo (the town was a test market). Barnum and the circus freak show that he brought to America in the twilight of the Reagan years. In this black comedy, everyone in a small town becomes a suspect when a much-despised woman not-so-accidentally drives her Yugo off a cliff. }
Because he SAYS he has a new belt on there, doesnt mean its so. The philosophy behind Drowning Mona is not good clean fun, or even intelligent nasty fun. My BIL and I popped out the axles, but that was more of a preventative move, rather than a necessity. Every vehicle in town that is not a truck is a Yugo, except the police cruisers, which are Plymouth Horizons. The Yugo was based on a mash up of models 127 and 128 built under license by a wildly unproductive workforce in an obsolete factory with assembly quality that made real mid 70's Fiats look hand built. His last notable brush with the automotive world (in 2004) involved a vague alliance with (uh-oh) Chinese auto maker Chery. (function waitGEO() {
It began the use of the FWD, horizontal boxer engine which carries on in Subarus to this day (albeit in a modern form). How do explanations of Zastavas lack of quality control compare to, say, one which could be made to illustrate the reasons of Audis numerous failures? Zastava only collapsed in 2008, and its decline was NOT due to mismanagement, but the trade embargo on Serbia, which starved them of devlopment funds. (We also wanted to stick a finger in the eye of the USSR, which was at odds with Yugoslavia anyway). In the small, white-trash town of Verplanck, N.Y., a loathsome woman named Mona Dearly (a dour and ugly Bette Midler) drives her car over a cliff and into the river. The thing that I remember most was the shifter and the transmission. Bette Midler chops off son's hand. Casey Affleck has gone on record saying that both this film and Soul Survivors (2001) were his two least favorite films that he has worked on. In regard to that old devil corrosion, an honest question: were there any cars of the seventies that DIDNT rust like mad? She had a habit of parking illegally, and, faced with a ticket and impound bill that exceeded her estimate of the value of the car, donated it to the towing company. It was owned by a gentleman named Dave Benton who claimed to be the former engineering manager for Yugo North America. And as any living myth, this one spreads into other areas as well: FSO 125P: 1987 brought about several other trims, the GVL, GVS, GVC,which were very similar other than the door panels and seat upholstery. I saw one not long ago on the streets in Eugene, but couldnt catch it. What a story! Destination was Las Vegas; and by the time I got there the only way to get it to move was in First. Drowning Mona is basically a comic murder-mystery. Both were good strong running vehicles and the only thing I remember having trouble with was remedied by tightening up the battery to starter connection on one of the cars. The last ones left in my hometown got a stay of execution when the city received a good number of Bosnian refugees in the 90s; many of them bought Yugos and got mobile for next to nothing since they knew how to keep them running. I was worried that shed make it. But outside of regular tourist routes and specially on the outer islands, unofficial nude beaches were everywhere. In fact, as it became evident that the Yugo was heading toward failure, Bricklin tried to modify and import the Proton from Malaysia to take advantage of low wage rates and favorable exchange valuations that would have made that car an asian version of the Yugo. 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. You had to know FIATS and and what Yugo klooged up to meet EPA regs and how to unklooge it. if (window['UnicI'].geo === 'CA') {
Yugo gave everybody in town one to have. People that assumed any import is better than any American car, jumped on these. But for all that, and with weight today an even greater issueour Asian friends seem to have licked the corrosion problem. Thanks for your first hand account ! Whats terrifying is that a convertible version of this thing the flimsiest vehicle imaginable was sold in the U.S. No flimsier than the Toyota Paseo or Geo Metro convertible. The last Yugo that we would recognize rolled off the assembly line in November 2008. It is a measure of the local intelligence that when the car and driver are dragged to shore some hours later, the doctor checks her pulse. Diversity was their strength!!!!!!!!!!! They dumped em, too, as soon as they could afford something, anything, better. Of course, as pointed out, it was more probable that hed have put the company out of business, too. Bricklin often says that the first model year or so of production the cars were well assembled and then once Zastava saw the money they let things slip. This is all fictional of course. In 1969, Subaru started producing a larger, much more traditional (well, mostly) car, the 1000. To see mine riding on a tow truck was so humiliating. The problems with Audisare RELATIVE to other brands; and RELATIVE to past experiences. Yeah, theres no question on really poor build quality. Blue in color. )that I spotted a There was a dealer in Denver Colorado, called Apple Motors, who used to sell warmed up Yugos. Its so interesting to think of how things couldve been different if the country survived Communisms collapse in one peace. It is difficult to overstate how rustprone 1970s Japaneese cars were. Nevermind that their cars are horribly unreliable, people still buy them. Do not sell my data
Its well nigh impossible to understand the Yugo episode without understanding the guiding hand behind what is generally considered to be the worst car ever offered for sale in the U.S. Malcom Bricklin had been knocking around the car industry for over a quarter century when he spotted a Yugo 45 on a London street in 1984. Technically if its going downhill it wasnt moving on its own power. A girl I hung out with in college had a Yugo. 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 may know the only satisfied Yugo owner in the U.S. UK Yugo dealers were often small garages in small towns, who really tried to do the prep work to get the cars out well. Barnum, Theres a sucker born every minute con-artist. His routine went something likeThe Yugo, what self respecting country would name a car that sorry after itself? Notify me of follow-up comments by email. It was as if the Yugo was being promoted as crap, but SUPERIOR crap. And was thus more expensive. We had these in the U.K, I dont remember them being particularly bad, the main criticism was that it was seen as too expensive for what was clearly an Eastern European rehash of a cast off western design. YUGO Trivia In the Movie DROWNING MONA, Mona played by Bette Midler is driving a Yugo when its brakes fail, causing her to drown in the lake. document.getElementById("unic-ccpa").style.display = 'inline';
I was unaware of the Bricklin connection at the time, and in fact learned about it here on CC, but I remember seeing some Bricklins as a kid, thinking that they were cool looking cars, and wondering why there werent more of them. I drove it in Atlanta rush hour traffic, it got about 40MPG and I grew to really like the little beast. Substandard seatbelt anchors, collapsing seats, hard starting, no starting, the list was endless. Old joke. Only with the threat of armed intervention by Nato and the UN is an uneasy peace maintained. (Cracked distributor cap, IIRC.) Drowning Mona | 2000 | PG-13 | - 5.5.5. Or maybe not. What do you call a Yugo with twin exhausts? Possibly most accurate and realistic analysis I have heard yet regarding what happened in ex-Yugoslavia. The Yugo was a far superior car compared against a Chevette, or first generation Hyundai. Here in Greece they are still around and not that rare. But these Yugos aren't just a frivolous component of the storythey're essential to establishing the wacky tone of the film. (Eagleburger had been U.S. ambassador to Yugoslvia and had spent almost all of his foreign service career in southeast europe. I remember checking them out back in I think 1986 at a local dealer and loved that bright blue they were offering at the time, called Adriatic Blue. Hell, he only paid something like $500 for a beater commuter car and this was in the late 1990s. 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), . Americans are a funny lot.I am not sure what $4000 in 2016 money equates to but you can these days get plenty on the used car lot if you look carefully for roughly the same money as anything in the light car class or it can be can be a car you dreamed about when it was new but couldnt afford at the time.We Australians never saw the Yugo but $12,000 before you factor in things like automatics and on roads plus good condition gets you better than most of these cars from foreign lands and brands which dont exist anymore.I suppose the modern day equivalent of this would be something like a Suzuki Celerio or a Mitsubishi Mirage in my part of the world new,used equivalent buying gets you a three year old Corolla or Pulsar or one size smaller a well kept Yaris or Mazda 2. 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. It wasnt my intention to advocate poor workmanship on the Yugo, it was all too obvious but i wanted to show that there were also other circumstances involved. everything behind them. }
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Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro wagamichi wo yuku, Otoko wa tsurai yo: Naniwa no koi no Torajir, http://www.highwayone.com/Classifieds/Yugo/GreenYugoCab.html, I'd like to own a yugo some day. Drowning Mona - An explanation informs viewers that the setting (Verplanck, New York) was a test market for Yugos. As for the FloridaBricklin was itching to bring it in. English tongues tended to read it JUG-oh not a saleable name. My best friend had for a brief time, a rusted 1980 Civic DX hatchback that ultimately blew out its 2 upper gears in the 5spd manual tranny that did it in even though his mechanic could not get the bolts out to replace the clutch due to rust. Everyone in Verplanck, N.Y., drives a Yugo. Some dinosaur relic, Id never seen before. 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). . That explains why everyone was driving them then. Initially, I had my eyes set on a mid 80s Toyota Celica as the cheapest car I could find. It's got an absolute star studded cast including Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Casey Affleck, William Fitchner, Neve Campbell, Jaime Lee Curtis, with a cameo, and even . A few things come to mind regarding the Yugo / Zastava Koral (and larger Yugo / Zastava Skala), mainly that it is a pity it never received similar developments such as 5-door hatchback, 2/4-door saloon and 3/5-door estate bodystyles as found on other Fiat 127-based variants like the SEAT 127 / SEAT Frua and Fiat 147 / Fiat Oggi / Fiat Panorama, along with larger 1372-1596cc+ versions of the Fiat SOHC engine. Just finished Drowning Mona and came here for background. She claimed that once you knew and understood them, they were not bad cars for what they were. 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. That salty New England slush had its way with everything. It eventually developed a bad piston ring(s), and the blow by was enough to clog the carburetor so that it would stop running. Except that the belt managed to get into the TIMING BELT caseand pop THAT off. During WWII, they built a few Jeeps. Her brake lines had been cut. 1) Anything assembled at gunpoint tends not to be of high quality. Before we wrap, lets sort them out. She is a bit of a contrarian anyhow, and has a mechanic-relative. Even here in the Land That Rust Forgot, I rarely see anything from the 70s. (At the same dealership on the window sticker above,actually). I knew a guy in the 90s, who was very smart (the grandson of a Nobel Prize winner in fact!) 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. Its a Plymouth Horizon which,I guess,is the same as a Talbot Horizon. If I remember correctly, the car was equipped with all the usual goodies a Fiat engine with dual Webers, full roll cage, sticky racing tires, etc. I would be *shocked* to see a single one moving under its own power in 2011. Found it! In the moviedrowning MonaI remember there was among the many regular Yugos one that had four doors (a black one).Was it Or maybe Bobby (Casey Affleck), Jeff's landscaping partner, killed her to save the embarrassment of having her create a scene at his wedding to Ellen (Neve Campbell), Chief Rash's daughter. of record for a Yugo. 5 Yugo i know its a rare thing but should we park them together ? The seats were quite comfy too- firm enough but still soft- and with a cotton upholstery that was miles away from the nylon stuff put in other cars of the era. DROWNING MONA 1/2 Tasteless but sporadically uproarious black comedy. The chief is not rash, but fairly level-headed as he patiently sorts his way through a case that seems to reduce itself to a series of bar fights dimly remembered by drunks. But after that i didnt have much trouble with it, ride wasnt too bad for such small car, power was adequate for normal driving (in fact, compared to my fathers beetle with 1200 cc and 34 HP, Yugo with 55 HP and such goodies like 5-speed gearbox and brake booster feels pretty quick). Only other thing it needed to be roadworthy was front tires. Early oil changes, followed maintenance schedule. i cant imagine where bricklin would get the approximately $35k/mo rent. Not a bit ! I was listening one Saturday to Car Talk and one of the callers that day to the show was a Catholic priest who drove a Yugo and commented on all the flak he received for his choice of automotive transportation. It is my understanding the latter Yugos were much better than their earlier counterparts, but still not up to snuff with the worst(?) It had nervousness built into it, it made people nervous and it was nervous. Appologies for not-nice-said, but there is no other way to do it. GM had tried to buy Zastava in 2007, but the deal fell through. Yes it was 3990 excluding transmition and tax and delivery charges. as long as you didnt try to get away with normal American car owner maintenance. FWIWYugo wasnt named for Yugoslavia, but its a phonetic of the name Jugo which is what the Mediterranean wind is called in their language. They obviously do not run. But the proof of the pudding is the tasting; and I have YET to see a government-built car, or other product or service, which could stand head to heat with private competionstand on MERIT. She noted that while it wasnt much good past 65MPH (no overdrive), it never got less than 30MPG, and it handled beautifully. how did Subaru make the transition from dangerous sardine can to granola FWD/AWD family compact in the US?. 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. It was 10 years old in Japan at the time. That means that all Yugos in this movie are from 1986. (Italy) 1989 Chrysler TC 1983 Dodge Omni 1991 Dodge Ram 1980 Ford F - 350 Ford Ranger 1993 Ford Ranger GMC C / K - Series 1992 Honda Civic I was enrolled in a community class marketing course and the teacher brought up the Yugo, and was joking about it. With the pullout of Fiat, Renault and the British makes just a few years before,. I know of no explanation for the garbage experience my dad had with his Audi, which broke down regularly. That's not what I'm about." But recycled steel, for whatever reason, is overly prone to corrosion. The local news interveiwed some and they were going for $4000 Id end up with used junk, but now I got a new import!. 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. Whats good- quad headlights The Italian Government and the Unions forced Fiat to cooperate. 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