The first year all those repairs were paid for, so it wasnt as miserable then. Barnum, Theres a sucker born every minute con-artist. This car didnt want to go into reverse at a standstill. Ford was really hit and miss the Granada was horrible, but the Lincoln Town Cars and Mark Vs were pretty good against the tinworm. The interior squeaked everywhere that it didnt rattle. 3. if(document.getElementById("unic-gdpr")) {
First, salt as a melting agent on roads was relatively new. that stated this town was used as a consumer testing site for the cars. Well life handed me a whole pile a' shit! *cough cough*, Malcolm is now wanting to import Chinese cars. During lunch the high schoolers came out and lifted it up so the front tires were up on the sidewalk. She put about 50,000 miles on it without a problem-it was scrapped when she got rear-ended by a Camry. Even on foot. 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. An automatic wouldnt fit in the Yugo engine bay, so the only thing shiftless about the Yugo would be the Zastava workers that routinely drank on the job. The story involves a local police chief from New York state who is charged with . The process, alone, of a car manufacturer as a unit of government, is suspect. The 360 was a Kei car, which took advantage of reduced taxes and insurance rates in Japan for cars less than three meters long with engines no more than 360cc in displacement. Dan beat me to it. Sales quickly slowed when word of the myriad problems began to circulate in the media. She picked them up for virtually nothing and was content with bare-bones transportation. Or wasting half a grand. Unfortunately, Bricklin was smitten by the cars simple mediocrity and, just like a cartoon character with outsized dollar signs for eyes, he began the process for bringing the homely little car to the states. But for all that, and with weight today an even greater issueour Asian friends seem to have licked the corrosion problem. Two cars are in the driveway of a glorious but faded Victorian mansion: The Bertone and a Yugo. She wrote something like, How cute, Ill be Lelo in her Yugo.. The problem is, there's not a single person in town who DIDN'T have a motive. I think it's worth keeping them separate because it's a in-joke of the film that almost everyone has a Yugo. Im trying to remember, she actually, may have owned two of them. Make and modelMake and yearYearCategoryImportance/RoleDate added (new ones first)EpisodeAppearance (ep.+time, if avail. Comments are property of their authors. 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. how did Subaru make the transition from dangerous sardine can to granola FWD/AWD family compact in the US?. Most can be rectified by the shareholders or the Boards of Directors, the shareholders representatives. To be sure, the car was primitive, even by 1980s standards. Install shift knob on replacement car. The entire dashboard- I mean the WHOLE thing in RHD versions is a single piece of soft foam. I paid a lot of attention to new cars back then, and even then I dont know if I ever saw one. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. 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. About two years ago there was a Wall Street Journal article about a guy who drag races a Yugo. The characters this time could be lightened up and dumbed-down versions of the confused drunks in "Laws of Gravity," their social lives centered on bars, their center of gravity the bartender. (* 5-20 for older cars, up to 200 if they have to change water-pump and rollers, new models are more expensive, but 500 maybe for new BMW). But it needed even more tweaking than did the Jugo 45which is what the Yugo was based on. Nobody had let management know that the wiring harness as made, wasnt usable in that part of the car. 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. His shaky little import business was marketing Bertone X/19s after Fiat said arrivederci in 1982, but the end of that venture was in sight. There was something wrong with every single facet of this car. The steel is much thicker than Fiat used, and although fit and finish wasnt great, it was no worse than on a Fiat. Ironically, if he had stuck it out with Subaru for the long haul, he might have done a whole lot better for himself. His routine went something likeThe Yugo, what self respecting country would name a car that sorry after itself? But recycled steel, for whatever reason, is overly prone to corrosion. Drowning Mona is basically a comic murder-mystery. And management, often put there through politics, has little interest in learning of customer dissatisfaction. 1987 brought about several other trims, the GVL, GVS, GVC,which were very similar other than the door panels and seat upholstery. This is how Hyundai and Kia got their start and Zastava began doing it earlier. of record for a Yugo. Theyre really a mishmash of the two; with their own unique body. console.log(window['UnicI'].geo);
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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. I was only ten, but knew they were junk. ), it was quite good. He sat in the front seat once and never again! Re: Malcolm Bricklin I do not see him as a crook. Hers are always burned down precisely half an inch, and then we see her lighting a new one from the old one, and realize, yeah, she smokes them only for the first two puffs. Rather, I see him as an irrepressible optimist who went into his various ventures believing everything would turn out well and he was blind to the shortcomings of the cars he imported. 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. They even found dirt and rust that had been painted on in the inside of some cars nearing completion. Required fields are marked *. There was nothing inherently wrong with the 360, and all the other Japanese manufacturers had a car at the time with more or less similar features. Just finished Drowning Mona and came here for background. Agree with this last. American Brands: AMC, Jeep and All Others, Tractors, Lawn Mowers, Off-Road Equipment, Automotive History The Jokes On U.S.- The Short, Wild Ride Of The Yugo In America, TOAL:1974(?) No argument with the political details of your well made point. Source for information on Drowning Mona: VideoHound's Golden Movie . They were an object lesson in the old adage that you get what you pay for. These cars came with an optional AM/FM cassette deck that was very basic, only 5W total if I recall right, or was that 5W per channel? What do you call a Yugo with twin exhausts? NO. 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 guess I should note that I owned the cars 20+ years ago, I was a lot more enthusiastic about getting underneath the car for just about any reason. They took in much more foreign revenue and as the economy began to fail more and more fundamentally, the leaders of those republics decided theyd be better off independent of Yugo. @ahight: I think there is no need to put the location square in every screenshot, only the ones with more than a single car visible. 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. Say what you will about Bricklin he is a man of action. So, with connections, he was brought to Japan for a series of lectures; and if America wasnt interested, Japan was very much so. Jeff might have wanted to kill her. (not that I cared that much about it I was in my mid-twenties and during summer season beaches were full of naked girls.) I didnt mind helping friends and neighbor with problems they had with their cars. 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. 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. setTimeout(waitGEO, 200);
I pampered and took extremely good care of it and maintained it very well, it just couldnt hold up to being pampered either. Substandard seatbelt anchors, collapsing seats, hard starting, no starting, the list was endless. Critically, one of her co-workers loved Fiats, and he taught her their quirks-most of which the Yugo shared. If possible, the FSO 125p was even worse. Yes they were cheap, but it was a proper car, built properly. Audis have been headaches to owners at various times. There was a dealer in Denver Colorado, called Apple Motors, who used to sell warmed up Yugos. ), See all comments about this movie and its vehicles. Sorry, Jeff, but I dare to notice that you dont know so much about Zastava (factory and cars, their projects and people, its country and history) and dare to write about. I bought it in January because I figured it would be fun to see just how bad it could be. But before Bricklin made a virtue of safety, he all but made a mockery of same just a half decade before. A revised constitution in the mid 70s turned the country into a loose confederation and as Croatia/Slovenia were more developed due to being part of Austria Hungary, there was only so much that approx thirty years of prosperity after WWII could reverse. @EdDan: How do you double the value of your Yugo? Of course not. 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. W. Edwards Deming was key in Japans metamorphosis from a backwards exporter of trinkets and junk to a source for amazingly-high-quality automobiles and electronics. Cool Cruise CAR SHOW Cruisin' Brea CAR SHOW Cruisin' La Verne CAR SHOW Brea Holiday CAR SHOW Project Home America Flying Deuces is a production, marketing, booking and advertising company. It is difficult to overstate how rustprone 1970s Japaneese cars were. A magazine road test came up with the amusing summary: I think I remember this! It was a much more reliable and simple design than the 128 engine in States bound Yugos. Bricklin had formed Yugo of America to import the car and as was his custom, financial shenanigans were part of the mix. Hell, he only paid something like $500 for a beater commuter car and this was in the late 1990s. Lack of an automatic would hamper the car during all but the final year in the states. (As you said JustPassinThru). These rear engined devices were a blast to drive, with tail-out shenanigans a-la Porsche 911 being easy to emulate. Since my father was born in Vukovar and some of our family still lives in Croatia it was of great interest to me. 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. There was a cheap-o daily rental car company that had a fleet of them, and they were in the process of changing out the Yugos for Hyundai Precis. He was absolutely correct. Neve Campbell was also working on Party of Five (1994) and Scream 3 (2000) while shooting this film. One of the sight gags is that everyone in town drives a Yugo, thereby using personalized license plates as a necessity more than anything else.) It was owned by a gentleman named Dave Benton who claimed to be the former engineering manager for Yugo North America. The engine in mine was the old fiat 903 engine that dated back to the Fiat 600 of the 50s. 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. Secondly, I would be one of those people who had a good experience with a Yugo. At least until the inevitable head gasket problems caused by an Iron head and alloy block. Mona Dearly: Yeah? You know, we have a joke here in ex-Yugoslavia about Yugo: Witness the fact that everyone's car of choice is a Yugo; each Verplanck citizen drives one ever since the company conducted a cheap sales test of the vehicle there some 10 years ago. Back in another shop (an independent who specialized in Fiats) there was some general loose talk about popping a 128 engine in there; but given a verbal estimate, I cut it off. But theres a difference between an easily-repaired car, and one that needs frequent repairs. After we meet the local residents, we understand why they're driving them now: They can't afford to replace them. I drove the blue one about three more years, but it did have some issues. Also, I think that first step after buying any used car in general should be changing of belt. I have NEVER burned out a clutchexcept on a Yugo. European manufactures give guarantee for lets say 50k-250k km (~30k-150k mi) and 5-10 years, whatever come first (in practice mileage is more important), but previous owner could use some product with shorter life thats why this saving of couple* Euros isnt worth a risk. She noted that while it wasnt much good past 65MPH (no overdrive), it never got less than 30MPG, and it handled beautifully. Renault has been in state ownership since the 50s, and has been a very profitable company. There was a movie in 2000 entitled Drowning Mona where most of the people in a . Early oil changes, followed maintenance schedule. The faded red one in the piece is for sale- $750. You could disassemble the whole car with like 5 Allen keys, three sockets and two Phillips-head screwdrivers, if you were inclined. It was mainly low used values (the proton badge had no snob appeal) and apathy that saw them scrapped rather than any major fault of the car. Danny DeVito (Chief Wyatt Rash) and Tracey Walter (Clarence) appeared in Matilda (1996). He later served briefly as acting Secretary of State during the last months of the first Bush presidency). 1) Anything assembled at gunpoint tends not to be of high quality. That said, the most maintenance I did on the car(s) were oil changes and other mundane regular maintenance. I probably still have it somewhere. 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! Although it shares some similarities with the Fiat 127, it is actually based on the much more advanced Autobianchi. Sure some of the plastic trim was suspect, but dont forget that GM was still doing rubbermaid doors then, and the Japanese were still stapling vinyl over cardboard for door trims. One of my dads friends had one of these. But is an Audi as bad as a Yugo? 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. Someone wanted her dead. Drowning Mona - An explanation informs viewers that the setting (Verplanck, New York) was a test market for Yugos. As far as ethnicity goes, Im Russian by birth, Belarus to be exact, and have that somewhat stocky build to prove it! And often wins. Let me disillusion youI busted a piston crown and bent a valve badly enough to freeze up the camshaft. Much embarrassment was caused to Toyota when it was found domestic panels had been mistakenly exported to NZ for local assembly we keep cars forever and these rusted out under a year on local limestone based and cowshit covered roads. When I was living in Montana in 2001, some masochist/crusty old guy was using one as a daily driver and it looked new. Doug DeMuro joyfully reviewed one a couple of years ago. Danny DeVito and Bette Midler appeared in Ruthless People (1986). His last notable brush with the automotive world (in 2004) involved a vague alliance with (uh-oh) Chinese auto maker Chery. As my old profesor of economics said: War is the best economic valve Unfortunately, Ive learned that from personal experience. I dont know if I was lucky (twice) or if my mechanical aptitude allowed me to save the cars I owned. What I know is that people explain such quality failures as Zastavas being due to a different culture in worker managed firms, etc. FWIWYugo wasnt named for Yugoslavia, but its a phonetic of the name Jugo which is what the Mediterranean wind is called in their language. 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. NEVER Give Up - NEVER Back Down I sold the car to a coworker of my BILs, who drove the car another three years before he totaled it. What am I supposed to make outta that? if (window['UnicI'].geo === 'EU') {
. Kind of reminds me of a first generation Rabbit/Golf, which Ive always considered the gold-standard for the best styled small car. I have often wondered why Bricklin didnt try to make a ploy for the tooling to be set up in a higher quality shop. There are lots of related legacies connected with Americas brief, mad affair with the Yugo. I saw one parked on Colorado Blvd. To this day I have never felt a more imprecise,balky shifter. They did not have such a bad reputation,at least not as bad as the rear engined Skodas after about 30 years of having the car rust off of the frame. So there you have it. 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. And it tanked with the critics. 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. 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 . And this works both ways after war ended in ex. I put about 20K miles on it per year. Money was a problem; but not the root problem. During WWII, they built a few Jeeps. In a totalitarian state, such as was Yugoslavia, there is no political embarrassment because criticism is a criminal offense. And the A/C system on the Yugo was an add on! I've owned so many other cars so why not? At least a Suzuki Samurai has a separate frame. Ive been around big rigs all of my life, but they never looked bigger than when I was next to them on the freeway. If Italy had built it, would it be known as the It??? They are also heavily used rather than background or minor action vehicles. Japanese rust problems are designed in the cars are only meant to last 6-7 years and were poorly protected in the factory. The Proton is only a Malaysian Mitsubishi exactly the same awful car Hyundai built as trhe EXCEL. Do not sell my data
But the Japanese companies focused; and today its almost unheard of to find a Toyota or Honda ruined from corrosion. Enterior wall panels were thin cardboard with painted on carpet flecks. Nuff said? Kathleen Wilhoite (Lucinda) and Melissa McCarthy (Shirley) appeared on Gilmore Girls (2000). This, the paring of weight, was even evident in Japanese trucks. Now they are all scared by digital cameras and this are just some memories from the other side of the iron curtain. And if it WAS done, thats $500 WASTED. With Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, Peter Dobson, Will Ferrell, William Fichtner, Raymond O'Connor, Marcus Thomas and . . After the 1973 oil shock and protracted period of economic stagnation globally, Western markets had less incentive to buy anything from Yugoslavia. Id actually like to have another one, but beef it up with Fiat parts. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. That's not who I am. I cant recall reading anything positive about the vehicle, anywhere. At first glance, the car looked up to date- Front wheel drive, rack and pinion steering, decent mileage. Knobs came off in your hand, the sliding radio marker on a string would get stuck and not move off of from where it landed. The biggest thing Ive heard was the timing belts were supposedly good for 30K miles and many owners were caught off guard, mostly due to not reading and/or heeding the maintenance intervals and boom, they croaked as they were not non interference motors like most OHC motors arent. Had Bricklin given the tooling to the Koreans, and had it built to their standards under contracthed have had what he wanted. The U.S. stuff was bad enough in that era, but the European cars were (by and large) even worse and the Japaneese were worse by orders of magnatude. Nevermind that their cars are horribly unreliable, people still buy them. Why did Yugos have standard rear defrost? The problems experienced with Yugos, were unknown to new-car buyers in that era; were entirely avoidable with better assembly and simple correction of design and process mistakes; and were connected to durability related to poor design or engineering. Worse, it was not just fenders and rocker panels that looked bad but did not affect the way the car drove. But they didnt have a CLUE. They probably would have found a customer base in the U.S. View 9 images She is a bit of a contrarian anyhow, and has a mechanic-relative. 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. I think that for a 1992 car (perhaps it should be a Serb-o? An older Yugo, since the car hasn't been manufactured since its country went out of business. No tinted glass or glove compartment. Or maybe not. They were incredibly simple mechanically. 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. I also have to say that state ownership does not always lead to poor business. (A former test site for the Yugo car company, we're told. 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. At first glance, the car looked up to date- Front wheel drive, rack and pinion steering, decent mileage. My BIL and I popped out the axles, but that was more of a preventative move, rather than a necessity. (Fiat DID design the chassis, after all.). Damn that X1/9 still looks beautiful just like mine the 81 behind the new Abarth. Zastava Zastava made Yugos even after they stopped selling in America. "She's dead," he confirms to Chief Rash (Danny DeVito), who nods grimly and begins a murder investigation. }
And, with such an unsatisfying ending and its inability to capitalize on a potentially funny situation, it's a film that you probably shouldn't rush to see on DVD. The Yugos bait was a stunningly low MSRP of just $3990. Visit Dealer Website. Thanks for telling it. But, its a tough sell to have someone take a car thats running fine, and pay $500 for a maintenance replacement and maybe screw something up in the process. 1) Wise observation that Yugoslavia needed hard currency (without which it could not import needed consumer or industrial goods) during those years. 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. Ive been toying with seeing if I can find one thats been stored in a garage somewhere and buying it to replace my aging truck that leaks oil and coolant and tide the time before I can buy the new Fiat 500. I would venture to guess that there are fewer than 500 running condition Yugos still on the road in the U.S. (most of which need a little TLC) Anybody that ever owned one of these little mobile gulags will tell you that there was nothing loveable, cute or endearing about them. It was 10 years old in Japan at the time. Reviewed in . The Kei cars, like European microcars in the 1950s and early 60s, made car ownership possible for the masses. Also, the factory refused to make design changes that were obviously needed and would have been simple to implement. I remember listening to Car Talk some 5-6 years ago and a caller came on and said that his Yugo (an 87 I think) died at 150,000 miles, not due to mechanical failure, but due to a Deer. The battery required water to be poured into it. In the end, its poor management. 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. But after a slow start because of supply problems, the car began selling in volume during year two. if (window['UnicI'] && window['UnicI'].geo && window['UnicI'].geo !== '-' ) {
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