as long as you didnt try to get away with normal American car owner maintenance. Thanks for telling it. It was a much more reliable and simple design than the 128 engine in States bound Yugos. Could you imagine if another country decided to do that? Here, it is well known that you change the timing belt every 40K miles. The mechanical bits all seemed OK, and no obvious leaks or other damage. Childrens toys are more dependable. Actually, Yugos timing belt is ~10$, and pretty easy to change. Trivia: But theres a difference between an easily-repaired car, and one that needs frequent repairs. Just like the Russian Lada its simple and DIY friendly as long as you relise that and dont expect a Lexus. The Yugo got its biggest role in 2000, in Drowning Mona, starring Casey Affleck, Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Danny DeVito, and Bette Midler, with Will Farrell making a delightful cameo. She was given a Yugo that wouldnt runthe fix was nine dollars. But what about quality disasters in a different scenario? I was worried that shed make it. I have only seen one Yugo in my life. But the proof of the pudding is the tasting; and I have YET to see a government-built car, or other product or service, which could stand head to heat with private competionstand on MERIT. 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. (rolls eyes). 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. What do you call a Yugo with twin exhausts? This is the real reason that Yugo failed in the US- a poor dealer network. It was owned by a gentleman named Dave Benton who claimed to be the former engineering manager for Yugo North America. He was a statistician in the War Department who became interested in using statistical controls to produce higher-quality manufactured goods. Purchased one year old cars for less than $1500 while attending college. Bricklin is still nominally involved with a venture called Visionary Vehicles and appears on its website today.The end of his Yugo adventure left him short of funds to repay an impressive list of creditors, investors and employees and even the IRS took its pound of flesh later on. Just as quickly as the Yugo ascended to number two in european import sales, the car plummeted back to earth and never rose again. 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. Maybe Bricklin had caught lightning in a bottle. I guess Ive been mispronouncing subaru all these years. But, I decided that going back into the printing business made more sense to me, so I left the car lot and headed back to what I call work. (At the same dealership on the window sticker above,actually). depends 100% on very cheap parts and lots of mechanics around that know the car inside out. I think we need to re-evaluate the Yugo against 1986 standards instead of 2011 standards. (Cracked distributor cap, IIRC.) . 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. The New Brunswick government pulled the plug in September of 1975 and the Bricklin was finished. Bette Midler chops off son's hand. readyGEO = true; The interior squeaked everywhere that it didnt rattle. Had Bricklin given the tooling to the Koreans, and had it built to their standards under contracthed have had what he wanted. Serendipity! See production, box office & company info, Siskel & Ebert: Drowning Mona/My Dog Skip/What Planet Are You From?/The Next Best Thing/Miss Julie. One of a kind, Im sure, There is an article from 2012, quoting the Time magazine Finallywith a new clutch 400 miles oldit tossed the alternator belt. There where lots of Yugo's used in the movie, but this was my favorite scene. One of the magazines rolled one on test, and they had a top speed of around 65mph. One time the shifter came off in my hand. Seem like this article is just a mishmash of old articles written by people who never owned a Yugo, dont know anything about yugos, or who designed its engine. Even getting touring car legend Peter Brock to put his name to a Deluxe Limited Edition wasnt enough to help sales. How many remains ??? With Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, Peter Dobson, Will Ferrell, William Fichtner, Raymond O'Connor, Marcus Thomas and . Even so, Kei cars remain too small to be accepted by American consumers. I took all of the fun stuff off of the red one (Italian Cromodora wheels and the AM/FM Cassette) and put it on the blue one. Any idea where the Fiat 128 stopped and the 127 started in the Yugo? "Drowning Mona" is a frustrating comedy. State-owned auto companies or assembly plants, tend to have little to no feedback from end-user to management. Dispose of the rest of the car. Renault has been in state ownership since the 50s, and has been a very profitable company. 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. 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. People's spotty memories and clumsy lies complicate the investigation, and the . 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. 2) My wife (an engineer like yourself) has been to Dubrovnik and says that the beaches are incredible. It helps to understand that everyone in Verplanck is dim to one degree or another, except for the Rash family. His last notable brush with the automotive world (in 2004) involved a vague alliance with (uh-oh) Chinese auto maker Chery. Everyone in Verplanck, N.Y., drives a Yugo. 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. Even in Western Europe, cars arent marketed as they are here. Rona Mace (Jamie Lee Curtis) is an anagram for "a romance". DROWNING MONA 1/2 Tasteless but sporadically uproarious black comedy. Wyatt finds no shortage of suspects. Assuming the gentleman was telling the truth, this has to be some kind -You know why Yugo drivers go to heaven? 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. I knew I wasnt buying a Lexus. The salesman was vaguely aware that they were built somewhere in Europe,but he was cagey about just where. I ask because I wanted to make a comment in the article about the C3 Audi 100/Audi 5000 about how much of a disaster my fathers ownership experience turned out to be, but I figured itd make an interesting point of comparison. 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. But the acquisition by Fiat in 2010 renders all of that as ancient history. Just finished Drowning Mona and came here for background. When they all disappeared, I surmised it was because he had been caught by the police for driving unregistered vehiclesmore likely they all just died from their terminal junkiness. Big deal, huh? Agree with this last. 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.) Show more Yugo America. Someone wanted her dead. To keep your hands warm while you pushed. 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. I think youre a bit dismissive of Zastava. Nude beaches usually are deprived of sexual context. Lack of an automatic would hamper the car during all but the final year in the states. The last Yugo that we would recognize rolled off the assembly line in November 2008. So, with connections, he was brought to Japan for a series of lectures; and if America wasnt interested, Japan was very much so. I really believe that the cars were treated as disposable, and in that way expectations were met. They did not have such a bad reputation,at least not as bad as the rear engined Skodas Saying that, it doesnt mean that people were particularly promiscuitive or anything like that. There are heaps of suspects ranging from her husband, her son, her son's friend, her son's friend's fiance and so on. I drove the blue one about three more years, but it did have some issues. there used to be a sign on the front that said visionary vehicles but that came down at least two years ago. This is all fictional of course. Neve Campbell was also working on Party of Five (1994) and Scream 3 (2000) while shooting this film. The steel is much thicker than Fiat used, and although fit and finish wasnt great, it was no worse than on a Fiat. I remember the shifter being very vague and rubbery but it did the job and the car wasnt too bad on other respects and I rather liked its styling. With an estimated cost of $16,000 each to build against a selling price of around $5K, Bricklins SV-1 was a blast furnace that no amount of subsidy could fully quench.The maritime province had sunk over four and a half million taxpayer dollars into the scheme since its beginning, and slow sales (along with numerous engineering problems) cost no small number of politicians their jobs. A quiet little in-joke indeed, but I mention it so the filmmakers will know their work was not in vain. 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. The Yugo was not always viewed so favorably, although its $3,990 price ($9,900 in today's dollars) grabbed headlines on its introduction in 1985. We heard of the Yugo here far away in South Africa, but now I know how it all came about and fell apart. You could disassemble the whole car with like 5 Allen keys, three sockets and two Phillips-head screwdrivers, if you were inclined. This may seem shocking, but Yugos really dont rust badly. Yes they were cheap, but it was a proper car, built properly. They initially started out as an arms manufacturer. Which, actually, was a very good little car . These rear engined devices were a blast to drive, with tail-out shenanigans a-la Porsche 911 being easy to emulate. Tracey Walter appeared in the original Tim Burton Batman, Danny DeVito appeared as The Penguin in Batman Returns and William Fichtner appeared in The Dark Knight. Pictures provided by: garco, antp, ahight, Display options: Display as images Display as list Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. It eventually developed a bad piston ring(s), and the blow by was enough to clog the carburetor so that it would stop running. All in all, Monas jaunt into the river could have been described as a pretty fortuitous accident for everyones lives she touched, or in Monas case, bludgeoned. if (window['UnicI'] && window['UnicI'].geo && window['UnicI'].geo !== '-' ) { 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. There was a short in the headlights, and the switch for the engine cooling fan was broken both of which were easily fixed. everything behind them. its a beautiful nineteenth century townhouse that was redesigned combining the 19th century iron front with a modern glass setback. I probably still have it somewhere. It would take about eight years from apparent problem to engineered fix to failure of the fix and another engineered solution. Whats good- quad headlights They start, get you to your destination in the dry, and thats about all you can saytheres no enjoyment in operating it and build quality was a joke. It was amazing (to me) how they found a solution so quickly. Joe Friday (Dan Aykroyd) had a gold one in the Dragnet movie. 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. Perhaps they were sabotaged so the poor workers wouldnt have to slave to make them for america? I know of no explanation for the garbage experience my dad had with his Audi, which broke down regularly. France, to use your example, had a protected market with tariffs on American cars (disguised as a horsepower tax). During WWII, they built a few Jeeps. So, they set about seeing what was what with a road-trip around Romania in three cars they would be testing. UK Yugo dealers were often small garages in small towns, who really tried to do the prep work to get the cars out well. 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. Nevermind that their cars are horribly unreliable, people still buy them. (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 Last Update: . 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. Renault has been in state ownership since the 50s, and has been a very profitable company. https://jalopnik.com/the-yugo-is-not-the-worst-car-ever-and-anyone-who-says-1830229976, The Yugo Is Not the Worst Car Ever and Anyone Who Says That Is a Lazy Hack So Lets Prove It, Your email address will not be published. Sales quickly slowed when word of the myriad problems began to circulate in the media. The best part was they all had the same license plates on them to just have a semblance of legality! IIRC, David E Davis even tried to help move these things by stating in Automobile that he was going to send his daughter off to college in one. (Fiat DID design the chassis, after all.). Amazingly, someone got in it, started it, and it ran and drove (more or less) away. Drowning Mona (2000) Trivia Showing all 16 items 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. @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. Wikipedia says that the Yugo quality was satisfactory at the start but went downhill fast and the factory refused to do anything about it. 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. I havent seen one on the road in at least 15 years. 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. But it needed even more tweaking than did the Jugo 45which is what the Yugo was based on. Ford uses a similar shade on their Mustangs of recent vintage and still love it even now. if(document.getElementById("unic-gdpr")) { While poor Yugo certainly was not the best car made, but it was hardly the worst either. Thanks for your first hand account ! The Birdcage - Features a yellow Yugo Cabrio in Miami. She put about 50,000 miles on it without a problem-it was scrapped when she got rear-ended by a Camry. . Drowning Mona (2000) is a never remembered black comedy that I absolutely love. I was amazed when I rode in one, expecting a bouncy distaster but encountering a surprisingly supple feel of the suspension. Appologies for not-nice-said, but there is no other way to do it. I attach a picture of a 1100,the previous model,(5 door too! 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. Yup, Im gonna go for a ride in my Ford Fester., I mentioned Drowning Mona below, before I read this. To be sure, the car was primitive, even by 1980s standards. I think that for a 1992 car (perhaps it should be a Serb-o? From the start, Zastava resented the profit dealers made, and thought their expenses exorbitant. With the pullout of Fiat, Renault and the British makes just a few years before,. No tinted glass or glove compartment. Those brave revolutionaries almost single handedly redefine their market segment and leave an indelible mark on the industry itself. Those methods have contributed to rust resistance that we have come to expect from modern cars. 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. 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. At only 20,000 miles it was worn out, fading, under powered, rusting, it wanted to die and be buried, it certainly didnt want to be a car! "She's dead," he confirms to Chief Rash (Danny DeVito), who nods grimly and begins a murder investigation. Todays story, though, has nothing to do with anybody like that. Actually, Perry did a much better job of it than I could have. 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. @Zackman: No the real experience was driving that thing in Atlanta rush hour traffic at 80+ MPH. (France) Chi ha ucciso la signora Dearly? He claimed the belt was good for 200,000-plus miles, often outlasting the pulleys. Yes you read that right. Retrospective - 2000's "Drowning Mona". The problem here was, first, poor management, as I noted; second, a workplace culture and a national culture that was absolute authoritarianism. 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. Also, the GM Colonades from 73-77 were pretty rust resistant as well. Further, it was the only small car of the era that could be genuinely fun to drive. In 1969, Subaru started producing a larger, much more traditional (well, mostly) car, the 1000. Had a Datsun King Cab twenty-odd years agoand I went parts-shopping in boneyards. FWIWYugo wasnt named for Yugoslavia, but its a phonetic of the name Jugo which is what the Mediterranean wind is called in their language. 1) Anything assembled at gunpoint tends not to be of high quality. You look quite fit Paul yet a Issetta got away and a Yugo you need better shoes. Ive heard that by 1989, Malcolm Bricklin was kicked out and Zastava took over importing the cars to the US and made a substantial series of changes/improvements and the cars then came with fuel injection, the GV, GVL, GVC, and GVS and the sportier GVX were combined into one car, the GV Plus fitted with better seats (the fold and slide seats from the GVX), the larger 1.3L 4, the 5spd in a more basic interior and exterior trim package, adding the AC etc and Bosh fuel injection and I hear from Chris Vitale who runs Fiat 500 USA blog who owned a 1991 Yugo with FI until a couple of years or so ago that by then, their warranty claims were very good, but the war took its toll as did the emissions debacle in 1992 brought the cars run in the US to an end. What is the purpose of door release handles if they break right away (they appeared to be bendable plastic molded around a paper clip), and how did they ever get installed in the first place if they didnt work to begin with? I also started using Restore engine treatment, and that took care of that issue. It WAS a simple-to-work-on car; and in that regard I appreciated it. The problem is, there's not a single person in town who DIDN'T have a motive. Danny DeVito (Chief Wyatt Rash) and Tracey Walter (Clarence) appeared in Matilda (1996). 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. Yeah, theres no question on really poor build quality. 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). They would swap in the drivetrain from the Fiat X1/9 and put on the wider wheels tires from the X1/9 also. But the reason it hit the Japanese cars harderwas that while many American cars were still frame-on-platform, and had some beef in the underbellyand even the unibody models were over-engineered for rigiditythe Japanese models had pared weight and beef to a minimum. At first glance, the car looked up to date- Front wheel drive, rack and pinion steering, decent mileage. Zastava built some world class arms. It broke down like a Yugo. 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. I saw it on the Helena streets quite a lot, but it was the only one in the city. He was absolutely correct. To see mine riding on a tow truck was so humiliating. 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. 2) At the 2014 Route 66 Mother Road Festival in Springfield, Illinois there was a Yugo with a Chrysler 426 Hemi (with blower) in the rear of the car (Hemi under glass). They are also heavily used rather than background or minor action vehicles. And the opening of China and competition from S Korea in a way ate Yugos lunch in the global market. The sexy Marsha Brady girl with the bellbottoms in the Subaru commercials is unforgettable. 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. Or wasting half a grand. Your email address will not be published. The effort collapsed along with Yugo sales in America. Jeff might have wanted to kill her. 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. Amidst mutual finger pointing, the deal collapsed in July 2008 as the erstwhile partners took turns suing one another in federal court. I was scarred for her to be driving it. Down shifting was scary, sometimes you just had to bypass second, sometimes it refused to even go into gear or it would get stuck in gear. They dumped em, too, as soon as they could afford something, anything, better. He soon discovers that her death was no accident. The ignition constantly gave out and so did the clutch. Honestly, I think Zastava should be commended for the amount of engineering they were able to do independently, modifying and developing Fiat cars. Im guessing the sport badging is why the decimal point is so far to the right? I also have to say that state ownership does not always lead to poor business. 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. But outside of regular tourist routes and specially on the outer islands, unofficial nude beaches were everywhere. 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 had been driving a Datsun 200 SX and the 5 speed was like silk. Change Ad Consent 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. It cut costs, and as was the concern then (as now) it was Green using the parlance of today. Before we wrap, lets sort them out. Membership also saw a similarly sharp increase, with over 1,800,000 in the same year (300,000 more than in 1970). The thing that I remember most was the shifter and the transmission. Before I moved to Atlanta in the early 90s, we sold off our other cars before moving. Based on the slightly larger Fiat 125, it was everything bad about a lada, but somehow worse. Drowning Mona Trailer - Yugo Cars 7,448 views May 7, 2014 The NZ Yugo 1.66K subscribers 26 Dislike Share In Drowning Mona everyone drives Yugo Cars and one day Mona borrows her sons. of record for a Yugo. I presume the folding roof is there just in case the doors jam shut because of a sagging body! The next Yugo we were to get in the US, the Sana/Florida, showed even more independent development of a Fiat design by the Yugoslavs. I would like to add that once money was in short supply, it was easy to lay a blame on the other side, to stir old misunderstandings and conflicts, send kids to London or USA and start profiting from the war. But then thats not what most folks are exactly looking for. 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. 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. Of course not. They were true babes in the woods, and they lacked the capital to deal with the investment and the costs of distributing cars. ), See all comments about this movie and its vehicles. When I got there, my promised job had fallen through and my wife and child still needed a car, and I needed one for working. and lso two Horizon ? What am I supposed to make outta that? R/S AUTOLINE INC. (1.3 miles away) 1215 W IMPERIAL HWY, Suite 213, BREA, CA 92821. I know of a 1979 Datsun pickup that completly rusted out in 6 years. Thanks for your detailed experience. It was only later, when the bean-counters bid out the belts on a cost basis, that they developed a much shorter lifespan. Since mine had been in a rental fleet, it was actually pretty well taken care of, it had an OK aftermarket radio and A/C. And management, often put there through politics, has little interest in learning of customer dissatisfaction. Say what you will about Bricklin he is a man of action. Nevermind that their cars are horribly unreliable, people still buy them. He regaled us with stories of his work at Yugo and claimed that the factory started to develop (or adapt) an automatic transmission for the market in the USA. There are many causes for poor management. 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. } It was like, when you get in, what is next to give out or give you trouble. The story involves a local police chief from New York state who is charged with . It is difficult to overstate how rustprone 1970s Japaneese cars were. 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. Having had some up-close contact with a 128, Id say that its more 128 than 127. The first Mazda was also a kei-car, the R-360. Well life handed me a whole pile a' shit! 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