Yes it was 3990 excluding transmition and tax and delivery charges. 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. Finallywith a new clutch 400 miles oldit tossed the alternator belt. In 1975, Subaru began offering AWD. It had nervousness built into it, it made people nervous and it was nervous. I probably still have it somewhere. Enterior wall panels were thin cardboard with painted on carpet flecks. 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 mean, cmon, its an Eastern Bloc car. Too many people in this country have this mentality that if its cheap, treat it as such and yes, a fulfilled prophesy. And that, sadly, is the point and the problem. I want to say she drove it, but I dont think she actually put many miles on it. 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. Serendipity! You are my inhalation, I own few blogs and infrequently run out from brand :). Even those of us raised on rusting U.S. cars from the 60s were surprised by how fast the Japaneese stuff vaporized. But even before then, Subarus had features that endeared them to snow-belt climates, like dual radiators that got the car to warm up quickly. It was a nightmare. What am I supposed to make outta that? I bought a used, year-old Yugo. 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. 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. Id notice the original Civic CVCC, I had one, loved it and sold it much too soon. What a story! That's not what I'm about." In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. I test drove one of these brand new when they hit the market. They were true babes in the woods, and they lacked the capital to deal with the investment and the costs of distributing cars. Just like the Russian Lada its simple and DIY friendly as long as you relise that and dont expect a Lexus. Holy mackerel, Goe, what a story and experience! 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. But that's a whole other story.") Or maybe not. (Cracked distributor cap, IIRC.) It just flat refused. (* 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). She does figure in a quiet little in-joke. Once the carb was replaced with a Weber instead of the Zastava kinda sorta copy with 3 miles of vacuum hose it ran and started a lot better. If possible, the FSO 125p was even worse. 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. Vehicle used a lot by a main character or for a long time, Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase, Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene. 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. 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. It really has all of the benefits of an Italian car with none of the drawbacks. But the little Yugo turned out to be a lot less than the sum of its parts. Competing econoboxes included the Chevy Chevette,. 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). Someone wanted her dead. 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. Bracket racing, of course. Further, it was the only small car of the era that could be genuinely fun to drive. Renault has been in state ownership since the 50s, and has been a very profitable company. However, the 67 cu inch motor had plenty of power if you kept it revved, and I never really had a problem keeping up with traffic. I knew I wasnt buying a Lexus. In addition, many cars have changed hands by that timeand who knows what the previous owner may have had done? [SOUNDBITE - clip from Drowning Mona trailer, 2000] Every car in the movie, save for the police vehicle and a main character's landscaping pickup, is a . . One time the keys were out and the car was still on and would not turn off. Before I moved to Atlanta in the early 90s, we sold off our other cars before moving. Our Mr. Bricklin also had an idea to start up another company fed by Zastava, this time to be called ZMW. Agree with this last. I heard a version on Car Talk of a deer that a priest hit and it had 150K on the clock when he hit it in his Yugo. 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. (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 Copyright 2011 - 2023 Curbside Classics. 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. Only with the threat of armed intervention by Nato and the UN is an uneasy peace maintained. 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. Jason Torchinsky of Jalopnik had an interesting take on it lately; 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 . Yeah, theres no question on really poor build quality. Now that its privatized, products have risen in quality to what the buyer expects for his money. I know this is hardly the point of your blog entry, but as someone with a passionate interest in the region, Im compelled to mention that Yugoslavia broke apart mainly due to its heavy debt burden. As a result, in mid-1986, Yugo America began selling cars at a starting price of $3,990 (equivalent to $9,863.56 in 2021) for the entry-level GV ("Good Value") hatchback equipped with the 1,100 cc overhead-cam five-main-bearing engine and four-speed manual transmission. LIkewise, Yugo UK supported its dealers well. The Little SuBARu Wow!, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLPp-NFInXw. And management, often put there through politics, has little interest in learning of customer dissatisfaction. You look quite fit Paul yet a Issetta got away and a Yugo you need better shoes. The battery required water to be poured into it. Paid less than a thousand for it, thought at the time it was a good buy. As I understand it, Zastiva had the Yugo designed that way as its plan was, from the beginning, to export the car. She picked them up for virtually nothing and was content with bare-bones transportation. But what about quality disasters in a different scenario?. Wheel barrow. I sold the car to a coworker of my BILs, who drove the car another three years before he totaled it. He lost his house, his fortuneAnd the dozens of Yugo GVs that he received as part of his settlement with his bankers. Possibly most accurate and realistic analysis I have heard yet regarding what happened in ex-Yugoslavia. Detroit, also, but not so much. No argument with the political details of your well made point. Had a Datsun King Cab twenty-odd years agoand I went parts-shopping in boneyards. Yes they were cheap, but it was a proper car, built properly. its a beautiful nineteenth century townhouse that was redesigned combining the 19th century iron front with a modern glass setback. I had always known these to be license-built versions of the 128. Learn how your comment data is processed. Nevermind that their cars are horribly unreliable, people still buy them. With just 25 horsepower (at a cacophonous 5500 RPM), the elfin 360 was the type of cynical exercise that would define Bricklins career in the car business. The poor gal, if I remember, was named Lelo. Hell, he only paid something like $500 for a beater commuter car and this was in the late 1990s. (first posted 10/10/2011) Every once in a while, a visionary, iconoclastic automotive pioneer bursts on the scene and, bucking the long odds and naysaying conventional wisdom, delivers a disruptive new line of cars. 459 tweaks (and 18 months) later, the Yugo was almost ready for launch. In fact, if anything, Americas foreign policy in the 80s encouraged Yugoslavia to manufacture and export finished goods to pay its debts. Not sure they sold very many. During WWII, they built a few Jeeps. As for the FloridaBricklin was itching to bring it in. In the 70s when I lived in Boston, I worked with a guy whose 5-year-old Pinto had big holes in the doors. 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. And it was reasonably fast for a car with such a small displacement engine. After the death of Marshal Tito in 1980, long simmering Balkan feuds became a way of life and continue there to this day. 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. Well, as they say, two out of three aint bad. At first glance, the car looked up to date- Front wheel drive, rack and pinion steering, decent mileage. 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. Drowning Mona - An explanation informs viewers that the setting (Verplanck, New York) was a test market for Yugos. Change Ad Consent But outside of regular tourist routes and specially on the outer islands, unofficial nude beaches were everywhere. 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. Since it had the potential to continue the well-regarded reputation of the Autobianchi A112 base car as a small model in markets like the US compared to the SWB Fiat 127 derived car that become the infamous half-baked small 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. 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. @EdDan: How do you double the value of your Yugo? and lso two Horizon ? Another example of the high cost of low priced objects. It is my understanding the latter Yugos were much better than their earlier counterparts, but still not up to snuff with the worst(?) There was a short in the headlights, and the switch for the engine cooling fan was broken both of which were easily fixed. The 4 door one was a dodge omni, think it was a glh. I was discussing cars with a woman in my office building one day, when she remarked that she had owned a Yugo, and got an incredible number of miles out of it. It would be interesting to see how the rear suspension was beefed up. The Yugo was a far superior car compared against a Chevette, or first generation Hyundai. So whats my point? This has been true of: Renault in its government-ownership days; And, now, Government Motors, which is thumbing its nose at old GM customers who have warranty claims. 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. The other Eastern European lemon sold in Australia at the same time as the Niki was the Lada Samara. They sold boatloads of them in Europe to price buyers, taxi companies, retired folk etc. The Yugo, new clutch, new exhaust, patched wiring and all, went into the trash. Ive been around big rigs all of my life, but they never looked bigger than when I was next to them on the freeway. 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. Amazingly, someone got in it, started it, and it ran and drove (more or less) away. (not that I cared that much about it I was in my mid-twenties and during summer season beaches were full of naked girls.) 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. Critically, one of her co-workers loved Fiats, and he taught her their quirks-most of which the Yugo shared. I put about 20K miles on it per year. 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. Since the film is set in modern, post y2k times, it may be the last one in running condition in the U.S. No, I dont know if they used an actual Yugo or just a skinned over FIAT prop, & if they did utilize a Yugo, how many production assistants were tasked with keeping it working ;-D. Also used for laughs in the Ackroyd/Hanks Dragnet movie. Going up hill was a struggle, it tended to roll back in reverse because it didnt have any power to go forward. After 330,000km with two Yugos, I must be destined to eternal vacation on BOra-Bora . But with enough TLC (something the average American consumer wasnt high on), maybe they werent so bad (at least a few of them, anyway). The philosophy behind Drowning Mona is not good clean fun, or even intelligent nasty fun. As it turns out, the same rental car place was STILL selling surplus Yugos, and I bought a blue one this time. All Rights Reserved. Actually, the GM B body starting in 1977 was very, very resistant to corrosion. But it needed even more tweaking than did the Jugo 45which is what the Yugo was based on. The sexy Marsha Brady girl with the bellbottoms in the Subaru commercials is unforgettable. My dad is a bit of a FIAT nut so he would wrench on it from time to time. 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. 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. It turns out to be murder and Chief Wyatt Rash (DeVito) must investigate. 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. var readyGEO; 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. He was a priest for several small parishes in the mountains of a N. Eastern state, I forget which and came around a bend to get from one parish to another when he hit the poor animal and it was enough to total that car out but he got that many miles out of it. Nevermind that their cars are horribly unreliable, people still buy them. But then my wife (of all people) found a Yugo for $800. Having had some up-close contact with a 128, Id say that its more 128 than 127. 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. How did Danny DeVito die in Drowning Mona? lol, Yugos were marketed in USA 1985 to 1990 by Malcolm Bricklin's vehicle imports Firm. Show more Yugo America. 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. The Mopar fuselage cars were not too bad, but the 71 on up B bodies were not so good. 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! Sloppy or ignorant engineering plays a part most times; but its MANAGEMENT thats supposed to identify problems and stop them as soon as possible. It seems a good use of them. 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 amazed when I rode in one, expecting a bouncy distaster but encountering a surprisingly supple feel of the suspension. 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. as long as you didnt try to get away with normal American car owner maintenance. 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. YUGO caps and shirts and other fun car show displays. Subaru was just a little behind the curve in terms of design and safetyas befits a smaller company. He was a statistician in the War Department who became interested in using statistical controls to produce higher-quality manufactured goods. Mona, played by Midler, drowns when the brakes in her Yugo fail and she catapults through a guardrail into the lake below. At our Year 2000 track day at Lime Rock, one of the entries was a race-prepared Yugo. The New Brunswick government pulled the plug in September of 1975 and the Bricklin was finished. Honestly, I think Zastava should be commended for the amount of engineering they were able to do independently, modifying and developing Fiat cars. (France) Chi ha ucciso la signora Dearly? And often wins. 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. You know, we have a joke here in ex-Yugoslavia about Yugo: And when longtime resident Mona Dearly (BETTE MIDLER) drove her Yugo into the river to her death, no one really seemed to care. 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(?) According to IMDBThe first thing to appear on screen is a little blurb about the Yugo car company using the town of Verplanck as a test area for their new model years ago. 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. if (window['UnicI'].geo === 'CA') { Privacy policy But like so much of his other stuff, the deal fell through. 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. Actions lie louder than words. by Carolyn Wells. 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. To be sure, the car was primitive, even by 1980s standards. 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. 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. Needless to say, it wouldve been better if Bently had just gone ahead and let them have the Mulsanne. Director Nick Gomez Writer Peter Steinfeld Stars Danny DeVito Bette Midler Neve Campbell 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. When I was living in Montana in 2001, some masochist/crusty old guy was using one as a daily driver and it looked new. I think youre a bit dismissive of Zastava. It would take about eight years from apparent problem to engineered fix to failure of the fix and another engineered solution. That means that all Yugos in this movie are from 1986. Its not unlike the relationship I have with my cockroaches of the road (TM). My favorite memory was the NYC art exhibit where every sculpture was created from the remains of an old Yugo. 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. A quiet little in-joke indeed, but I mention it so the filmmakers will know their work was not in vain. When they came unglued from rot, there was no there there to support the structure. Theyre really a mishmash of the two; with their own unique body. So, they set about seeing what was what with a road-trip around Romania in three cars they would be testing. The interior squeaked everywhere that it didnt rattle. I saw it on the Helena streets quite a lot, but it was the only one in the city. See production, box office & company info, Siskel & Ebert: Drowning Mona/My Dog Skip/What Planet Are You From?/The Next Best Thing/Miss Julie. (We also wanted to stick a finger in the eye of the USSR, which was at odds with Yugoslavia anyway). Its a tough call on the Yugo. Substandard seatbelt anchors, collapsing seats, hard starting, no starting, the list was endless. 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. After the 1973 oil shock and protracted period of economic stagnation globally, Western markets had less incentive to buy anything from Yugoslavia. The interior was fading right from day one. I pampered and took extremely good care of it and maintained it very well, it just couldnt hold up to being pampered either. At that time, Bricklin was probably best known for the eponymous car that he launched amidst much fanfare in 1974. But Bricklin assured his erstwhile investors that the car could be made ready for the U.S. market with some minor tweaks. 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), . Yes you read that right. Other than the time the clutch cable broke, and getting the electrical issues sorted out, the car spent no time in the shop. 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. And the A/C system on the Yugo was an add on! At first glance, the car looked up to date- Front wheel drive, rack and pinion steering, decent mileage. I saw one parked on Colorado Blvd. Some dinosaur relic, Id never seen before. How quickly they developed larger cars was a product of how well capitalized each company was and how much their senior management (some of which was deeply conservative, even by Detroit standards) was willing to make the investment in export-specific products. I recall seeing the garage full of yugos being worked on when Id take mine in and I recall seeing them dead on the side of the road everywhere. The displacement limit for kei cars was increased to 550cc some years ago. The car was a modest success with just under 8000 sold in the first year, but when the 360 was pilloried by Consumer Reports as being unacceptable because of its numerous safety issues, the bottom dropped out of the venture and the last few cars sat on dealers lots for years before they were practically given away. But the Japanese companies focused; and today its almost unheard of to find a Toyota or Honda ruined from corrosion. Even in Western Europe, cars arent marketed as they are here. The body and car belonging to Kiely Rodni, a missing 16-year-old girl, may have been found in a Califronia lake on Sunday, according to a search and rescue group. 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. Re: Malcolm Bricklin I do not see him as a crook. They had other third-world markets in mind. The engine in mine was the old fiat 903 engine that dated back to the Fiat 600 of the 50s. One day I put the key in and nothing happened, it was dead and wouldnt turn on. . You mentioned this before; itd make a great article. Comments are property of their authors. Bette Midler chops off son's hand. other small car offerings back then. 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. She is a bit of a contrarian anyhow, and has a mechanic-relative. So we come to the end of the Yugo saga 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. However, these engines have been known to go 200K with little bearing wear if maintained appropriately. 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. Lack of an automatic would hamper the car during all but the final year in the states. . I bought it in January because I figured it would be fun to see just how bad it could be. 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 problems with Audisare RELATIVE to other brands; and RELATIVE to past experiences. Todays story, though, has nothing to do with anybody like that. DROWNING MONA 1/2 Tasteless but sporadically uproarious black comedy. 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? Im guessing the sport badging is why the decimal point is so far to the right? What kind of car is in the movie Drowning Mona? During lunch the high schoolers came out and lifted it up so the front tires were up on the sidewalk. I saw one not long ago on the streets in Eugene, but couldnt catch it. Two cars are in the driveway of a glorious but faded Victorian mansion: The Bertone and a Yugo. Our narrative today is of a modern P.T. 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? My little red Yugo was dead. An accident has happened - the Yugo of one Mona Dearly has careened off the highway and plunged into the Hudson. A Mitsubishi in all but name, Proton wisely didnt fiddle around with it much meaning you got a reliable Pseudo-Japanese car for your money, not a cobbled together lash up like the yugo was. Parts were cheap due to the exchange rate, so there was not the pressure on dealers to deny problems and warranty claims, like Ford and Vauxhall put on their dealers. 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