The country was communist, but with good relations with the US and a cosmetically overhauled version of socialism, the idea was the Yugoslavia would compete in Western markets and as a result, the country took on a lot of debt throughout the 70s to update its capacity for making consumer goods, among other projects. (At the same dealership on the window sticker above,actually). I shut it down to call a dealerand it wouldnt leave the parking spot under its own power. At the very least, Bricklin didnt end up in a hotel room trying to arrange drug deals. Wikipedia says that the Yugo quality was satisfactory at the start but went downhill fast and the factory refused to do anything about it. The effort collapsed along with Yugo sales in America. It was like, when you get in, what is next to give out or give you trouble. 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. As I said earlier, this car obviously didnt meet the expectations of the majority of the American masses, but I know you werent the only one who found the Yugo a simple and easy-to-work-on car. Yup, Im gonna go for a ride in my Ford Fester., I mentioned Drowning Mona below, before I read this. Here is the text that opens Drowning Mona before we see the first shot: *shakes tiny fist*. Actually, Perry did a much better job of it than I could have. Jamie Lee Curtis and Neve Campbell are both known as "Final Girls" or "Scream Queens", playing recurring heroines in their respective horror franchise films: Curtis in the "Halloween" franchise and Campbell in the "Scream" franchise--which is loosely based on the "Halloween" mythos. Or inherrent underdog status? 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. I know there were folks who collected Yugos for nothing, for running and parts cars. Because he SAYS he has a new belt on there, doesnt mean its so. the building is used several times a month for exclusive private hip-hop dance parties. 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 . Bricklin had formed Yugo of America to import the car and as was his custom, financial shenanigans were part of the mix. Beads of sweat formed on his forehead, it wasnt that he didnt want to learn, it was where he was sitting that had him scarred. I cant recall reading anything positive about the vehicle, anywhere. Unpaid claims included some warranty work done by dealers on Yugos before sales collapsed. If youre familiar with the descent of that once-vaunted company into its current sorry state, appears as if they had too many of this type in management. 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. The Proton is only a Malaysian Mitsubishi exactly the same awful car Hyundai built as trhe EXCEL. 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. They initially started out as an arms manufacturer. Kei cars still exist, but the engine size and dimensional standards have been increased somewhat, and the newer Kei cars tend to be very tall, boxy affairs to create the maximum possible cubic footage of interior room within the package limits. But it needed even more tweaking than did the Jugo 45which is what the Yugo was based on. They would swap in the drivetrain from the Fiat X1/9 and put on the wider wheels tires from the X1/9 also. In fact, it was through the good offices of Lawrence Eagleburger that all of the political red tape was navigated in order to make the project feasible. One day I put the key in and nothing happened, it was dead and wouldnt turn on. The man is Malcom Bricklin. 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. Another movie moment: Nick drives a Yugo in the film _Nick & Norahs Infinite Playlist_. As for the FloridaBricklin was itching to bring it in. I think that its important to remember that Subaru (Fuji Heavy Industries) itself didnt try to push the 360 into the American market-It was Bricklin looking for a lottery win and the little 360 was his ticket. Now they are all scared by digital cameras and this are just some memories from the other side of the iron curtain. Even though the price was a come on (dealers larded as many options onto the car as they could get away with, see below), America was hooked. During WWII, they built a few Jeeps. There are, to be fair, other theories about how Jeff (Marcus Thomas) lost his hand, although in every scenario he was reaching for a beer. A minor investment bank salvaged Bricklins investment in the venture in a complicated deal that settled some of his stale old debts and sent him far away from Yugo America. Say what you will about Bricklin he is a man of action. Reading in Consumer Reports that the tester injured his toe when the front seat came crashing down on it. It would take about eight years from apparent problem to engineered fix to failure of the fix and another engineered solution. If Germany had built it, would it have been called the Germ? 2004-2023 IMCDb.org Managed by Controgest SPRL The worst of the Japaneese cars would rust in structural places that would make the car unsafe. And incompetence does not negate the political reasons, until and unless the failure of management becomes an unavoidable political embarrassment. I saw this movie. 3. There was a movie in 2000 entitled Drowning Mona where most of the people in a . This was not a design fault, but like the Corvair, the company seriously underestimated the ability of the American motorist to neglect even basic maintenence. Here in Greece they are still around and not that rare. (France) Chi ha ucciso la signora Dearly? Needless to say, it wouldve been better if Bently had just gone ahead and let them have the Mulsanne. He sat in the front seat once and never again! The ignition constantly gave out and so did the clutch. Possibly most accurate and realistic analysis I have heard yet regarding what happened in ex-Yugoslavia. But what about quality disasters in a different scenario? Two Yugo episodes: The first while working on a construction crew in the 1987-88 period, at a project west of Rochester, NY one morning a Yugo rolls onto the lot, out pops a nervous, typical pocket-protector young engineering type, tells us he is out of gas, could anyone give him a ride to his job.at Kodak! But before Bricklin made a virtue of safety, he all but made a mockery of same just a half decade before. With no new product in the pipeline, Bricklin would either have to find another car to flog or get an honest job, so there was a mutual meshing of interests when he arranged a visit to the Red Banner Factory in Yugoslavia that turned out the new apple of his eye in 1984. But I was unprepared for the panoply of problems that came abouteverything from a latent short or current leak, that would kill the car and prevent starting without warning (to restart, the only way was to pull the battery terminal to let whatever relay was behind it, reset) to binding heater-control cables. Damn that X1/9 still looks beautiful just like mine the 81 behind the new Abarth. I wonder why they used the Yugos, To show the towns Quirkyness? So there you have it. But there was one area that, frankly, I was impressed with, and that was the basic two-box design. Ive never felt safe in any car that light so would never have considered owning one, no matter how cheap, even if they had been decently made vehicles. Some Japanese automakers seem to have been surprisingly resistant to the latter; that was a major complaint of Yutaka Katayama at Nissan. You are right.I found it here: (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 know of no explanation for the garbage experience my dad had with his Audi, which broke down regularly. It was a nightmare. One of the magazines rolled one on test, and they had a top speed of around 65mph. if(document.getElementById("unic-gdpr")) { I saw it on the Helena streets quite a lot, but it was the only one in the city. Jamie Lee Curtis' character looks like she has some colorful insights to share but isn't given the dialogue to do it--she's more a plot marker than a person. That explains why everyone was driving them then. It was a much more reliable and simple design than the 128 engine in States bound Yugos. There where lots of Yugo's used in the movie, but this was my favorite scene. Destination was Las Vegas; and by the time I got there the only way to get it to move was in First. Do not sell my data Of course, I was charmed by that, as it reminded me very much of the original A1 Golf, and seemed to share the same utility that the original A1 did. It is the cheapest person that spends the most. Usually, these ultra-cheapo cars suffer from goofy styling touches, but the Yugo comes off as pretty clean, which is all the more astonishing since its an original design where no body parts interchange with the Fiats upon which it was based. if(document.getElementById("unic-ccpa")) { The only car known to have been blown off of the Mackinac Bridge. The blue one had seen much more use than the red one, but it was still a good runner. Complete with opera lamps and padded roof. Found it! I think the other reason they were more successful out of the US is that in Europe, people have driven OHC cars since the 60s. 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). But like so much of his other stuff, the deal fell through. 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. Dealers there are order-takers. 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. Or perhaps the murderer was her husband, Phil (William Fichtner), who is having an affair with Rona (Jamie Lee Curtis), a waitress at the local diner (who is also having an affair with Jeff, so maybe she killed Mona just because she was tired of hearing about her from both men). Since my father was born in Vukovar and some of our family still lives in Croatia it was of great interest to me. Once I figured out what was happening to the carb, I developed an oil trap that kept motor oil from getting past the PC valve and being sucked into the carb. Not too long before I sold it, it had started to develop noisy CV joints, but by then the car was 8 years old and 100,000 miles. Honestly, I think Zastava should be commended for the amount of engineering they were able to do independently, modifying and developing Fiat cars. That's not who I am. The Florida was reviewed very positively in the UK against western cars, and sadly only failed here because of the rise of Fascism in Yugoslavia, and its aftermath. At first glance, the car looked up to date- Front wheel drive, rack and pinion steering, decent mileage. 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. At our Year 2000 track day at Lime Rock, one of the entries was a race-prepared Yugo. Zastava Zastava made Yugos even after they stopped selling in America. i doubt they are still there. 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. The car itself staggered on until early 1992, with steadily declining sales and a dealer network that was slowly (and then quickly) going bankrupt. 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. There are lots of related legacies connected with Americas brief, mad affair with the Yugo. But Bricklin assured his erstwhile investors that the car could be made ready for the U.S. market with some minor tweaks. The 71-76 GM full-sizers were better than average on this count. It would be interesting to see how the rear suspension was beefed up. Yugo gave everybody in town one to have. People's spotty memories and clumsy lies complicate the investigation, and the . Around the same time we had a similar thing in Australia the FSM Niki, which was a Polish-built Fiat 126, so a ~700cc rear-engined s-box. Her brake lines had been cut. This doomed script and conventional direction venture for Nick Gomez (" New Jersey Drive "/" Laws of Gravity "), results in a comedy that got by with a few mean-spirited jokes. In fact every single person in town hated her. The lovable numbskulls of Verplanck, New York, are all beside themselves with shock and quiet joy when town bully Mona Dearly dies in a freak accident involving her Yugo, some cut brake lines, and a plunge into the Hudson. I think we need to re-evaluate the Yugo against 1986 standards instead of 2011 standards. readyGEO = true; Sales quickly slowed when word of the myriad problems began to circulate in the media. The Florida was reviewed very positively in the UK against western cars, and sadly only failed here because of the rise of Fascism in Yugoslavia, and its aftermath.. And the gas cap would not come off. Nevermind that their cars are horribly unreliable, people still buy them. Ladas were, and are, shite. They found slipshod handling of stamped body panels, and the assembly lines using dirty, even dented panels; he found painting in dusty areas, not the clean, dust-free booths required for good paint covering and adhesion. France, to use your example, had a protected market with tariffs on American cars (disguised as a horsepower tax). It eventually developed a bad piston ring(s), and the blow by was enough to clog the carburetor so that it would stop running. I remember the lights were tied to the ignition switch so if you left the light switch on, theyd go off when you shut down the car, and back on when you started it back up, and that meant headlights and all, ala SAAB. It was embarrassing, mother never drove it again. First, salt as a melting agent on roads was relatively new. Renault has been in state ownership since the 50s, and has been a very profitable company. You mentioned this before; itd make a great article. Someone wanted her dead. IIRC, they licensed Fiat designs in the mid 50s and in 2008 they signed a Memorandum of Understanding to buy the auto assembly plant from Zastava. @Jeff Nelson: I think youre a bit dismissive of Zastava, they have been around for quite some time. The entire dashboard- I mean the WHOLE thing in RHD versions is a single piece of soft foam. 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. I cant think of another car that disappeared off the roads faster. I saw one on the F4 so they did sell one.Those were a Polish Fiat 500 updated Just rubbish. One of my dads friends had one of these. 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. Joe Friday (Dan Aykroyd) had a gold one in the Dragnet movie. His last notable brush with the automotive world (in 2004) involved a vague alliance with (uh-oh) Chinese auto maker Chery. Every vehicle in town that is not a truck is a Yugo, except the police cruisers, which are Plymouth Horizons. That said, the most maintenance I did on the car(s) were oil changes and other mundane regular maintenance. It was not much bigger than a homeless persons shopping cart and similarly stocked. http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_113306-Plymouth-Horizon-C2-1984.html Now, I live in the UK and have had three ladas, all of which were much better cars than many people give them credit for. It has been a while since I have seen a Yugo on the road, but a local car wash has one with signs mounted on it. He was absolutely correct. I assume some were worse than others, but Ive heard this complaint levied against such a broad range of cars (American, Japanese, Italian, British, even German) of that era that I have to wonder if there was some sort of fire sale on water-soluble steel. Worse, it was not just fenders and rocker panels that looked bad but did not affect the way the car drove. The Italian Government and the Unions forced Fiat to cooperate. Thank you for the interesting history. 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. Diversity was their strength!!!!!!!!!!! Nevermind that their cars are horribly unreliable, people still buy them. Install shift knob on replacement car. its a beautiful nineteenth century townhouse that was redesigned combining the 19th century iron front with a modern glass setback. This, the paring of weight, was even evident in Japanese trucks. after about 30 years of having the car rust off of the frame. He claimed the belt was good for 200,000-plus miles, often outlasting the pulleys. Required fields are marked *. There was a guy that was racing a Yugo in SCCA competition, but thats been a long time ago. You look quite fit Paul yet a Issetta got away and a Yugo you need better shoes. Appologies for not-nice-said, but there is no other way to do it. ), See all comments about this movie and its vehicles. In my Country was make an attempt to import the Yugo Cabrio,rebadged as Innocenti Koral Cabrio,but homologation fiche wasn't approved for Italy,but if car was tested by Italian motor magazines(Italy will import Yugos twice,1986 to 1987 with origin name Zastava Yugo and 1990 to 1992 as Innocenti Koral 45 and 55--that rebadged for our Country), I like this movie. Not sure they sold very many. About two years ago there was a Wall Street Journal article about a guy who drag races a Yugo. As noted, Bricklin first noticed the subcompact Yugo on the streets of London and within a couple of months, he had set up his first meet and greet with the management at Zastava . The 4 door one was a dodge omni, think it was a glh. 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. So it worked pretty well in the domestic market, but USA is another story. Source for information on Drowning Mona: VideoHound's Golden Movie . 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. I have NEVER burned out a clutchexcept on a Yugo. It has interesting characters and situations and I found myself really enjoying the film--only to have it all fizzle at the end. My little red Yugo was dead. Since Yugo America was basically just a collection of cheap office furniture and unanswered phones, creditors received essentially nothing for their interests in the company. In 1969, Subaru started producing a larger, much more traditional (well, mostly) car, the 1000. 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 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. They probably would have found a customer base in the U.S. 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. as long as you didnt try to get away with normal American car owner maintenance. 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. When the nastiest resident (Bette Midler) of a white-trash Westchester suburb is killed in a suspicious accident, everyone 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. And the opening of China and competition from S Korea in a way ate Yugos lunch in the global market. After the wars, Zastava redesigned their cars with help from Fiat and Citroen, and gained new technologies to have them compete with other European cars. who collected Yugos for pennies on the dollar and used the collection as a parts supply to keep ONE of them running. So we come to the end of the Yugo saga in America. depends 100% on very cheap parts and lots of mechanics around that know the car inside out. 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