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While poor Yugo certainly was not the best car made, but it was hardly the worst either. Her brake lines had been cut. Too many people in this country have this mentality that if its cheap, treat it as such and yes, a fulfilled prophesy. 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. The Proton is only a Malaysian Mitsubishi exactly the same awful car Hyundai built as trhe EXCEL. She claimed that once you knew and understood them, they were not bad cars for what they were. couple of months ago when I was in Athens. At first glance, the car looked up to date- Front wheel drive, rack and pinion steering, decent mileage. 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. I recall A caddy dealer in the Cleveland area who gave away a free Yugo with the purchase of a Cadillac! Of course, not wanting to be associated with alleged members of the alleged Romanian Mafia, Bently pulled out. One time the shifter came off in my hand. 5.0 out of 5 stars Drowning Mona music CD. Possibly most accurate and realistic analysis I have heard yet regarding what happened in ex-Yugoslavia. 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 it was reasonably fast for a car with such a small displacement engine. 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. This was enough to keep them afloat (even with such strange offerings as the BRAT and XT) until 1989, when they really hit their stride with the introduction of the Outback and the successful Paul Crocodile Dundee Hogan marketing campaign. if(document.getElementById("unic-gdpr")) { 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. For my family and me back in the eighties, fuel economy was king, so I drove K-Cars and assorted used vehicles that were cheap we never really struggled, but cash and monetary resources were scarce, hence my missing out on the larger, more deluxe offerings of GM, Ford and Chrysler. Its not like Fiat designs were anything special, quite the contrary in many instances. The salesman was vaguely aware that they were built somewhere in Europe,but he was cagey about just where. 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 . 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. 1) Anything assembled at gunpoint tends not to be of high quality. As played in flashbacks by Midler, Mona is a ferocious harridan who may have hacked off her own son's hand just because he was trying to snatch her beer. Of course, as pointed out, it was more probable that hed have put the company out of business, too. Pictures provided by: garco, antp, ahight, Display options: Display as images Display as list The problem is, there's not a single person in town who DIDN'T have a motive. France, to use your example, had a protected market with tariffs on American cars (disguised as a horsepower tax). So, they set about seeing what was what with a road-trip around Romania in three cars they would be testing. 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. They even found dirt and rust that had been painted on in the inside of some cars nearing completion. 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. Having had some up-close contact with a 128, Id say that its more 128 than 127. Even here in the Land That Rust Forgot, I rarely see anything from the 70s. Every vehicle in town that is not a truck is a Yugo, except the police cruisers, which are Plymouth Horizons. To this day I have never felt a more imprecise,balky shifter. Wikipedia says that the Yugo quality was satisfactory at the start but went downhill fast and the factory refused to do anything about it. I cant recall reading anything positive about the vehicle, anywhere. I also have to say that state ownership does not always lead to poor business. But there was one area that, frankly, I was impressed with, and that was the basic two-box design. Damn that X1/9 still looks beautiful just like mine the 81 behind the new Abarth. The thing that I remember most was the shifter and the transmission. A Rolls-Royce Ghost, a Mercades S-class, and a Bently Mulsane. So we come to the end of the Yugo saga in America. \"Drowning Mona\" is bad . They were true babes in the woods, and they lacked the capital to deal with the investment and the costs of distributing cars. finally blown up. He claimed the belt was good for 200,000-plus miles, often outlasting the pulleys. I also bought a new Yugo in 1989, and had to replace brake master cylinder immediately because brakes would fail after about 10 km on the road. 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. As a Japanese kei class car,it was pretty good for crowded streets , expensive gasoline and as a motorcycle (or scooter,which Fuji also built) alternative. As the movie opens, a local woman named Mona Dearly ( Bette Midler) speeds down a country road and directly into the Hudson River when her brakes fail. @Jeff Nelson: I think youre a bit dismissive of Zastava, they have been around for quite some time. I mean, cmon, its an Eastern Bloc car. This article, like many here, evoked some fond memories. Drowning Mona is one of my favorite comedies, and its currently available on YouTube for free. The character name, Wyatt Rash, was intentionally chosen by writer, Peter Steinfeld, to reflect the underlying premise of the movie -- said fast enough, it sounds like yup, White Trash! His routine went something likeThe Yugo, what self respecting country would name a car that sorry after itself? No one in the movie is particularly vicious (well, Jeff's no prize) and the urgency of the case is undermined by the general agreement that Verplanck is calmer and happier now that Mona's gone. 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. 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. Ive got a couple of rusted out British cars one of which I repaired The rust was caused by poor window sealing on both water rusted it way out however the spares one was driven full of rust which spread it all through the unpainted box sections. Its avoidable with regular replacement, true. I remember seeing new Yugos at the (I think 1990) Chicago Auto Show. 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 least a Suzuki Samurai has a separate frame. "Drowning Mona" is a frustrating comedy. The car is the Yugo. How did Danny DeVito die in Drowning Mona? and lso two Horizon ? Very well-maintained. 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. Soon we would have a whole line of Adams Family cars on the road! Bowfinger - The main character produced a documentary called The Yugo Story. 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. 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. Trivia: Also, the GM Colonades from 73-77 were pretty rust resistant as well. Nude beaches usually are deprived of sexual context. In Spain it was called "Todos la queran muerta" (everyone wanted her dead), Too good of a movie not to be on this site in HD. One of a kind, Im sure, There is an article from 2012, quoting the Time magazine Casey Affleck wore a blonde wig for this film. 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. I really dont think that anyone has a competitive advantage in rust resistance any more. var readyGEO; Technically if its going downhill it wasnt moving on its own power. But what about quality disasters in a different scenario? With a State-owned automobile plant, management is there for political reasons which may have nothing to do with competence. . I really believe that the cars were treated as disposable, and in that way expectations were met. The problem here was, first, poor management, as I noted; second, a workplace culture and a national culture that was absolute authoritarianism. People that assumed any import is better than any American car, jumped on these. From the start, Zastava resented the profit dealers made, and thought their expenses exorbitant. Ironically, if he had stuck it out with Subaru for the long haul, he might have done a whole lot better for himself. 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. 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. 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. An accident has happened - the Yugo of one Mona Dearly has careened off the highway and plunged into the Hudson. Perhaps they were sabotaged so the poor workers wouldnt have to slave to make them for america? It helps to understand that everyone in Verplanck is dim to one degree or another, except for the Rash family. Lucinda (Kathleen Wilhoite), the local garage mechanic, checks out the death vehicle and confirms the sheriff's suspicions: The car was rigged. It cut costs, and as was the concern then (as now) it was Green using the parlance of today. 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. Likewise the Toyotas and Datsuns. As my old profesor of economics said: War is the best economic valve Unfortunately, Ive learned that from personal experience. . What do you call a Yugo with twin exhausts? In fact, if anything, Americas foreign policy in the 80s encouraged Yugoslavia to manufacture and export finished goods to pay its debts. Your experience was exactly what my suspicions were about these cars. Destination was Las Vegas; and by the time I got there the only way to get it to move was in First. Actions lie louder than words. by Carolyn Wells. 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. I have often wondered why Bricklin didnt try to make a ploy for the tooling to be set up in a higher quality shop. i doubt they are still there. Yes, even a Saturn will rust in Detroit, but in less harsh climes, Yugos tend to last well. I pampered and took extremely good care of it and maintained it very well, it just couldnt hold up to being pampered either. The last Yugo that we would recognize rolled off the assembly line in November 2008. To keep your hands warm while you pushed. With the pullout of Fiat, Renault and the British makes just a few years before, there was a general sense that room existed in the market for any european nameplate that could build a reasonably priced car that returned good fuel economy and high build quality. But even in those circumstances, the car was not that bad as public opinion in USA about it. Of course not. The Renault Alliance and 18i were still being sold in 1984-85 when the Yugo debuted. There are like 100 YUGOs in the movie, which I think came out around 1998. But they did. 1) Wise observation that Yugoslavia needed hard currency (without which it could not import needed consumer or industrial goods) during those years. Film Focus: Drowning Mona. (As you said JustPassinThru). alignments. 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. 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? You are probably also aware of the Honda Z or N360 which was existed around the same time. 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. other small car offerings back then. About a year or so into owning the blue one, the clutch cable snapped (in traffic, of course). When the coroner first jumps into the water to check Mona's dead body, he is neck-deep in water. If Germany had built it, would it have been called the Germ? I would love to find one of those. My cell phone was apparently assembled at gunpoint by drunk Yugoslavians in the year 1984 . I did appreciate the way Yugo could make one part do what a western car needed three for. It was a much more reliable and simple design than the 128 engine in States bound Yugos. 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. Back in 87, a cheerleader at my high school won one of these in a raffle. Another example of the high cost of low priced objects. He lost his house, his fortuneAnd the dozens of Yugo GVs that he received as part of his settlement with his bankers. Good account. What I know is that people explain such quality failures as Zastavas being due to a different culture in worker managed firms, etc. Ive always had a soft spot for these little cars from Yugoslavia. 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! . 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. As it turns out, the same rental car place was STILL selling surplus Yugos, and I bought a blue one this time. As far as ethnicity goes, Im Russian by birth, Belarus to be exact, and have that somewhat stocky build to prove it! The Tipo 145 was developed in the early 1970s (IIRC), and it showed. 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. She does figure in a quiet little in-joke. or all of the Ladas.As has been mentioned already this kind of cheap car ownership 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. Zastava took over the American company. Found it! A 2000 American crime comedy film directed by Nick Gomez that has a police chief ( Danny DeVito) investigate the death of a woman named Mona ( Bette Midler ), an abusive and spiteful woman who was hated by everyone who knew her. This car didnt want to go into reverse at a standstill. 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. How many remains ??? 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. My guess is that many of his critics could not have done as much. Ford Econoline This Is Not A Taxi. At inopportune times. Worse, it was not just fenders and rocker panels that looked bad but did not affect the way the car drove. Japanese cars generally started out small, usually around 800cc in the mid 1950s and grew with the prosperity of the country and desire to chase export markets. It was only later, when the bean-counters bid out the belts on a cost basis, that they developed a much shorter lifespan. The only car known to have been blown off of the Mackinac Bridge. 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. FWIWYugo wasnt named for Yugoslavia, but its a phonetic of the name Jugo which is what the Mediterranean wind is called in their language. I think that was true of most of the Japanese automakers the early passenger cars evolved from tiny commercial trucks and three-wheelers, sharing engines with motorcycles. Ford was really hit and miss the Granada was horrible, but the Lincoln Town Cars and Mark Vs were pretty good against the tinworm. I cant imagine that anybody that test drove one like mine actually laid down real money for one. After highway driving the gear would refuse to shift, like it overheated being in gear so long, it refused to move. The last Yugo I saw was 12 years ago, parked by a gas station in Truckee oh, and a restored Yugo was for sale on Craigslist a bit ago but I figured that would be a bad idea on the Subaru front: I heard a rumor, years ago, that Fuji bought all the American 360s and had them crushed any truth to that? They pronounce it yugo and Bricklins people realized a car called Jugo would have problems in marketing. Blue in color. 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. The sexy Marsha Brady girl with the bellbottoms in the Subaru commercials is unforgettable. We heard of the Yugo here far away in South Africa, but now I know how it all came about and fell apart. 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. The faded red one in the piece is for sale- $750. 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. In the moviedrowning MonaI remember there was among the many regular Yugos one that had four doors (a black one).Was it 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. I test drove one of these brand new when they hit the market. I saw one parked on Colorado Blvd. Many years later I saw it, and her, driving down a street near my house. My mother drove it to work at the high school one time. Did it even come close? Im pretty sure that she kept her clothes on. Now they are all scared by digital cameras and this are just some memories from the other side of the iron curtain. Actually, the GM B body starting in 1977 was very, very resistant to corrosion. Whats good- quad headlights One time the keys were out and the car was still on and would not turn off. I dont know if I was lucky (twice) or if my mechanical aptitude allowed me to save the cars I owned. He got two large import operations going and he launched the SV-1. Before we wrap, lets sort them out. Youre welcome here anytime ! In 1968, Bricklin thought that what America needed was an air cooled two cylinder car that could make zero to sixty in thirty seven agonizing seconds. And this works both ways after war ended in ex. Thanks for your first hand account ! That's not who I am. Then again, Ive always had a liking for the odd car or two over the years. Actually, Perry did a much better job of it than I could have. The displacement limit for kei cars was increased to 550cc some years ago. Some Japanese automakers seem to have been surprisingly resistant to the latter; that was a major complaint of Yutaka Katayama at Nissan. But like so much of his other stuff, the deal fell through. Big deal, huh? Had Bricklin been a true industrialist instead of a con-man, the winning idea might have been to buy out the Yugo tooling (Zastava was setting up for the Florida at the time, they might have been open to this) and moved the whole plant to a place where workmen were conscientious and quality control accepted. And often wins. Unpaid claims included some warranty work done by dealers on Yugos before sales collapsed. Ladas were, and are, shite. 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. 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