And the opening of China and competition from S Korea in a way ate Yugos lunch in the global market. 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. No tinted glass or glove compartment. Before I moved to Atlanta in the early 90s, we sold off our other cars before moving. 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. They had other third-world markets in mind. GM had tried to buy Zastava in 2007, but the deal fell through. couple of months ago when I was in Athens. 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. Yugoslavia, markets in new states opened for foreign cars and some of my friends bought American cars lured by size and luxury, but this love affairs usually ended quickly and costly. Too many people in this country have this mentality that if its cheap, treat it as such and yes, a fulfilled prophesy. Perhaps they were sabotaged so the poor workers wouldnt have to slave to make them for america? 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. 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. I think that its important to remember that Subaru (Fuji Heavy Industries) itself didnt try to push the 360 into the American market-It was Bricklin looking for a lottery win and the little 360 was his ticket. Thanks for your first hand account ! Ford Econoline This Is Not A Taxi. One of a kind, Im sure, There is an article from 2012, quoting the Time magazine Drowning Mona 2000 PG-13 1 h 36 m IMDb RATING 5.7 /10 15K YOUR RATING Rate Play trailer 2:23 1 Video 67 Photos Comedy Crime Mystery When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect. But who? *cough cough*, Malcolm is now wanting to import Chinese cars. And the gas cap would not come off. There are lots of related legacies connected with Americas brief, mad affair with the Yugo. What kind of sicko lives there? Id notice the original Civic CVCC, I had one, loved it and sold it much too soon. I also have to say that state ownership does not always lead to poor business. He lost his house, his fortuneAnd the dozens of Yugo GVs that he received as part of his settlement with his bankers. Thank you for the interesting history. 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 . if (!readyGEO) {
Whats bad. 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. That said, the most maintenance I did on the car(s) were oil changes and other mundane regular maintenance. 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? The carpet was very loose fitting and curled up in spots along the edges. if (window['UnicI'] && window['UnicI'].geo && window['UnicI'].geo !== '-' ) {
Show more Yugo America. But for all that, and with weight today an even greater issueour Asian friends seem to have licked the corrosion problem. TRUCKEE, Calif. Your experience was exactly what my suspicions were about these cars. 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.) Mona Dearly: Yeah? In 1975, Subaru began offering AWD. But before Bricklin made a virtue of safety, he all but made a mockery of same just a half decade before. 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. Re: Malcolm Bricklin I do not see him as a crook. Just finished Drowning Mona and came here for background. Bricklin often says that the first model year or so of production the cars were well assembled and then once Zastava saw the money they let things slip. I knew a guy in the 90s, who was very smart (the grandson of a Nobel Prize winner in fact!) Ironically, if he had stuck it out with Subaru for the long haul, he might have done a whole lot better for himself. (As you said JustPassinThru). 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), . I mean, cmon, its an Eastern Bloc car. (rolls eyes). It is the cheapest person that spends the most. Thank you for the history, it complements the story of the car well. Maybe Bricklin had caught lightning in a bottle. View 9 images The class all came out to look at it in the parking lot, Yugo was an exercise in marketing magic, and an exercise in embarrassment. 2004-2023 IMCDb.org Managed by Controgest SPRL
Like all good European cars used to do, it came with its own tool kit and (owner) service manual. I attach a picture of a 1100,the previous model,(5 door too! Other folks I know routinely neglect maintenance on some very well regarded cars and wonder why they have such bad luck! The gravity powered it! Though set in Verplanck, "Drowning Mona" was shot entirely within an hour's commute of Los Angeles. The film also stars Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, William Fichtner, Marcus Thomas, and Peter Dobson. . I dont know if I was lucky (twice) or if my mechanical aptitude allowed me to save the cars I owned. There was something wrong with every single facet of this car. But what about quality disasters in a different scenario? But then thats not what most folks are exactly looking for. 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. Malcom Bricklin The twice bankrupt Bricklin has resurfaced periodically over the years, always pushing the latest crack brained scheme to sell a car that would occupy the place that his Yugo once did- the bottom rung of the American market. The movie was directed by Nick Gomez, who, in "Laws of Gravity" and "New Jersey Drive," brought a John Cassavetes touch to working-class crime and confusion. An older Yugo, since the car hasn't been manufactured since its country went out of business. lol, Yugos were marketed in USA 1985 to 1990 by Malcolm Bricklin's vehicle imports Firm. everything behind them. Those Protons were actually a decent car. I remember that time very well, it was impossible to find coffee or bananas or laundry detergent etc in the stores, and the industry was struggling to get raw materials. The entire dashboard- I mean the WHOLE thing in RHD versions is a single piece of soft foam. It failed, of all places, on the Bonneville salt flats area in Utah. Bricklin wisely took the first offer and netted about $20 million for his trouble. But I was unprepared for the panoply of problems that came abouteverything from a latent short or current leak, that would kill the car and prevent starting without warning (to restart, the only way was to pull the battery terminal to let whatever relay was behind it, reset) to binding heater-control cables. Only other thing it needed to be roadworthy was front tires. He sat in the front seat once and never again! But is an Audi as bad as a Yugo? I put about 20K miles on it per year. 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. Which together would have theoretically allowed the Yugo to be more successful. (A former test site for the Yugo car company, we're told. I shut it down to call a dealerand it wouldnt leave the parking spot under its own power. It turns out to be murder and Chief Wyatt Rash (DeVito) must investigate. 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.. We heard of the Yugo here far away in South Africa, but now I know how it all came about and fell apart. Well, as they say, two out of three aint bad. Appologies for not-nice-said, but there is no other way to do it. Mine was still only about a year old, so I was in denial about its performance. Only the Italians could design a car to be so much fun to drive so slowly. Jason Vuic details this in his book The Yugo of how management refused plans for premiums for top-grade work or extra effort; of how primitive and shoddy were the paint booths, of how design goofs went uncorrected for years. 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. 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. But the acquisition by Fiat in 2010 renders all of that as ancient history. That means that all Yugos in this movie are from 1986. 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. 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. Saying that, it doesnt mean that people were particularly promiscuitive or anything like that. Another movie moment: Nick drives a Yugo in the film _Nick & Norahs Infinite Playlist_. [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 . i cant imagine where bricklin would get the approximately $35k/mo rent. 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. Hell, he only paid something like $500 for a beater commuter car and this was in the late 1990s. 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! 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. FSO 125P: Early oil changes, followed maintenance schedule. Of course, being that these cars were manual transmissioned cars, Im sure they didnt rented out nearly as much as the Ford Escorts and Hyundais that had automatics. I would be *shocked* to see a single one moving under its own power in 2011. . 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. Bricklin had formed Yugo of America to import the car and as was his custom, financial shenanigans were part of the mix. I think I remember this! Personally I would have gone for the Skoda. It's got an absolute star studded cast including Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Casey Affleck, William Fitchner, Neve Campbell, Jaime Lee Curtis, with a cameo, and even . They were an object lesson in the old adage that you get what you pay for. When the Yugo GV was finally offered for sale in September 1985, (as an 86 model) , initial orders looked promising. 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. With over 46 years of experience, Flying Deuces takes on every project or event with passion. Drowning Mona is a 2000 U.S. crime comedy starring Danny DeVito as Wyatt Rash, a local police chief from Verplanck, New York, who investigates the mysterious death of Mona Dearly (played by Bette Midler), a spiteful, loud-mouthed, cruel and around the town highly unpopular woman, who drove her son's Yugo off the . Having had some up-close contact with a 128, Id say that its more 128 than 127. I had two of them. how did Subaru make the transition from dangerous sardine can to granola FWD/AWD family compact in the US?. The problems with Audisare RELATIVE to other brands; and RELATIVE to past experiences. Rated PG-13 Tye Mobile Homes in Tye, Texas using the incentive of Buy a mobile home at Tye Mobile Homes, get a new Yugo for $1. No joke. At our Year 2000 track day at Lime Rock, one of the entries was a race-prepared Yugo. Trivia: These are the kinds of people who don't like to be thrown out of bars because it's a loss of valuable drinking time. A Rolls-Royce Ghost, a Mercades S-class, and a Bently Mulsane. Drowning Mona is basically a comic murder-mystery. Also spare parts were inexpensive and any mechanic and his nephew would fix it. At least in the old days I could see why the industry that does not want a cheap car to succeed, but whats the point now? I was amazed when I rode in one, expecting a bouncy distaster but encountering a surprisingly supple feel of the suspension. Thanks for telling it. 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. As a rule, Chrysler got worse as the 70s progressed where Ford and particularly GM got better. Yugo America The importer of the eponymous car that had been the talk of the industry just a few years earlier filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation in 1991. . The interior was fading right from day one. 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. In a totalitarian state, such as was Yugoslavia, there is no political embarrassment because criticism is a criminal offense. Our Mr. Bricklin also had an idea to start up another company fed by Zastava, this time to be called ZMW. At my brothers wedding this weekend, what did I see right across the street from the Germanic-American Institute on Summit Avenue in St. Paul, Minnesota? "She's dead," he confirms to Chief Rash (Danny DeVito), who nods grimly and begins a murder investigation. after about 30 years of having the car rust off of the frame. The car itself rattled and shook upon starting. At the very least, Bricklin didnt end up in a hotel room trying to arrange drug deals. The Yugo? I want to say she drove it, but I dont think she actually put many miles on it. Later I also replaced steering rack under warranty because of some slack inside. Ive always had a soft spot for these little cars from Yugoslavia. Actually, Yugos timing belt is ~10$, and pretty easy to change. Hell, I was 20 years younger, A lot can change in that time. I would suggest you read Jason Vuics book on the Yugowhat he described the Yugo America advance men as finding, had little to do with shortages of raw materials. Those brave revolutionaries almost single handedly redefine their market segment and leave an indelible mark on the industry itself. 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. My guess is that many of his critics could not have done as much. @Zackman: No the real experience was driving that thing in Atlanta rush hour traffic at 80+ MPH. The 71-76 GM full-sizers were better than average on this count. To this day I have never felt a more imprecise,balky shifter. 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. Yes, a Deer. The Birdcage - Features a yellow Yugo Cabrio in Miami. who collected Yugos for pennies on the dollar and used the collection as a parts supply to keep ONE of them running. Well life handed me a whole pile a' shit! After the 1973 oil shock and protracted period of economic stagnation globally, Western markets had less incentive to buy anything from Yugoslavia. In fact, if anything, Americas foreign policy in the 80s encouraged Yugoslavia to manufacture and export finished goods to pay its debts. Retrospective - 2000's "Drowning Mona". Critically, one of her co-workers loved Fiats, and he taught her their quirks-most of which the Yugo shared. 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. She is a bit of a contrarian anyhow, and has a mechanic-relative. It's a movie that has an attitude problem it couldn't resolve as easily as it did the mystery to Mona's death. 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. That's not what I'm about." How many remains ??? LOL The old fashioned radio was a piece of crap, and the speakers cracked and gave out after very little use. He got two large import operations going and he launched the SV-1. I really dont think that anyone has a competitive advantage in rust resistance any more. At that time, Bricklin was probably best known for the eponymous car that he launched amidst much fanfare in 1974. I wonder why they used the Yugos, To show the towns Quirkyness? To be said, Jasons book is 90% about Bricklin. It eventually developed a bad piston ring(s), and the blow by was enough to clog the carburetor so that it would stop running. And this works both ways after war ended in ex. What do you call a Yugo with twin exhausts? }
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It seems a good use of them. Some Japanese automakers seem to have been surprisingly resistant to the latter; that was a major complaint of Yutaka Katayama at Nissan. The worst of the Japaneese cars would rust in structural places that would make the car unsafe. And incompetence does not negate the political reasons, until and unless the failure of management becomes an unavoidable political embarrassment. The displacement limit for kei cars was increased to 550cc some years ago. If Italy had built it, would it be known as the It??? They were true babes in the woods, and they lacked the capital to deal with the investment and the costs of distributing cars. This was not a design fault, but like the Corvair, the company seriously underestimated the ability of the American motorist to neglect even basic maintenence. It has interesting characters and situations and I found myself really enjoying the film--only to have it all fizzle at the end. Anyway, the employee joked that it even had the rear window warmer to keep your hands warm when pushing it. Ah, the quintessential crap car. 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). Even so, Kei cars remain too small to be accepted by American consumers. And that, sadly, is the point and the problem. It was amazing (to me) how they found a solution so quickly. Big deal, huh? It really has all of the benefits of an Italian car with none of the drawbacks. 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. R/S AUTOLINE INC. (1.3 miles away) 1215 W IMPERIAL HWY, Suite 213, BREA, CA 92821. The Bricklin SV-1 was remembered for several interesting features: lurid (safety) colors , no cigarette lighter (Bricklin was a rabid non-smoker) , and most importantly, the ability to vacuum piles of money from the gullible government of New Brunswick, Canada. 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