Another movie moment: Nick drives a Yugo in the film _Nick & Norahs Infinite Playlist_. The blue one had seen much more use than the red one, but it was still a good runner. So it worked pretty well in the domestic market, but USA is another story. It was only later, when the bean-counters bid out the belts on a cost basis, that they developed a much shorter lifespan. 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. The Tipo 145 was developed in the early 1970s (IIRC), and it showed. Jason Torchinsky of Jalopnik had an interesting take on it lately; Drowning Mona - An explanation informs viewers that the setting (Verplanck, New York) was a test market for Yugos. 2) My wife (an engineer like yourself) has been to Dubrovnik and says that the beaches are incredible. Secondly, I would be one of those people who had a good experience with a Yugo. An accident has happened - the Yugo of one Mona Dearly has careened off the highway and plunged into the Hudson. 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. Yes you read that right. . State-owned auto companies or assembly plants, tend to have little to no feedback from end-user to management. There was a movie in 2000 entitled Drowning Mona where most of the people in a . During lunch the high schoolers came out and lifted it up so the front tires were up on the sidewalk. I cant think of another car that disappeared off the roads faster. It couldnt be trusted just sitting in the parking lot. I also have to say that state ownership does not always lead to poor business. In fact every single person in town hated her. 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. Retrospective - 2000's "Drowning Mona". To see mine riding on a tow truck was so humiliating. The New Brunswick government pulled the plug in September of 1975 and the Bricklin was finished. 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. Parts are no problem, because it is basically a FIAT. 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. Even on foot. The sexy Marsha Brady girl with the bellbottoms in the Subaru commercials is unforgettable. Ive talked to other people in the UK who bought them new, and many have had more than one. Id notice the original Civic CVCC, I had one, loved it and sold it much too soon. if (window['UnicI'].geo === 'CA') { The first Mazda was also a kei-car, the R-360. The engine in mine was the old fiat 903 engine that dated back to the Fiat 600 of the 50s. 5 Yugo i know its a rare thing but should we park them together ? When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect.When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect.When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect. Handling is sharp and the engine loves to rev. Sloppy or ignorant engineering plays a part most times; but its MANAGEMENT thats supposed to identify problems and stop them as soon as possible. document.getElementById("unic-ccpa").style.display = 'inline'; 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. Kathleen Wilhoite (Lucinda) and Melissa McCarthy (Shirley) appeared on Gilmore Girls (2000). Im guessing the sport badging is why the decimal point is so far to the right? LOL The old fashioned radio was a piece of crap, and the speakers cracked and gave out after very little use. Here is the text that opens Drowning Mona before we see the first shot: Ive always had a soft spot for these little cars from Yugoslavia. I was enrolled in a community class marketing course and the teacher brought up the Yugo, and was joking about it. 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. who collected Yugos for pennies on the dollar and used the collection as a parts supply to keep ONE of them running. Drowning Mona is one of my favorite comedies, and its currently available on YouTube for free. The one thing that the Yugo shared with its Fiat ancestry, was the fact that these things were biodegradable in the midwest. Install shift knob on replacement car. It was as if the Yugo was being promoted as crap, but SUPERIOR crap. And was thus more expensive. The only car known to have been blown off of the Mackinac Bridge. The Yugo? 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. I think youre a bit dismissive of Zastava. It was owned by a gentleman named Dave Benton who claimed to be the former engineering manager for Yugo North America. But before Bricklin made a virtue of safety, he all but made a mockery of same just a half decade before. if (window['UnicI'].geo === 'EU') { Its a Plymouth Horizon which,I guess,is the same as a Talbot Horizon. They were not standing still, by any means. It was so bad we couldnt even get it to start, so we took a few parts off it and then the scrap yard came and took it away. Thank you for the history, it complements the story of the car well. 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. This is all fictional of course. 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. i live down the block. Even here in the Land That Rust Forgot, I rarely see anything from the 70s. in Pasadena a couple of years ago. Its unfortunate that the vast majority of Yugo owners didnt even get that. Neve Campbell was also working on Party of Five (1994) and Scream 3 (2000) while shooting this film. 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. Some Japanese automakers seem to have been surprisingly resistant to the latter; that was a major complaint of Yutaka Katayama at Nissan. 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. Of course, I was charmed by that, as it reminded me very much of the original A1 Golf, and seemed to share the same utility that the original A1 did. Anyway, the employee joked that it even had the rear window warmer to keep your hands warm when pushing it. As it turns out, the same rental car place was STILL selling surplus Yugos, and I bought a blue one this time. Or maybe not. To keep your hands warm while you pushed. He later served briefly as acting Secretary of State during the last months of the first Bush presidency). Source for information on Drowning Mona: VideoHound's Golden Movie . An older Yugo, since the car hasn't been manufactured since its country went out of business. 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. If I remember correctly, the car was equipped with all the usual goodies a Fiat engine with dual Webers, full roll cage, sticky racing tires, etc. As my old profesor of economics said: War is the best economic valve Unfortunately, Ive learned that from personal experience. Not a bit ! The Yugo became the default entry level car for people that knew the price of everything but the value of nothing. So, with connections, he was brought to Japan for a series of lectures; and if America wasnt interested, Japan was very much so. 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. In The Film, for some inexplicable reason, everyone who lives in the Catskill area towns seems to drive a YUGO. But what about quality disasters in a different scenario?. My guess is that many of his critics could not have done as much. Film Focus: Drowning Mona. But back to the subject, shortage of all kind of raw material was the main reason for poor quality, not drunken workers. I owned two. So there you have it. Copyright 2011 - 2023 Curbside Classics. I pampered and took extremely good care of it and maintained it very well, it just couldnt hold up to being pampered either. In the end, its poor management. 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. You had to know FIATS and and what Yugo klooged up to meet EPA regs and how to unklooge it. One time the shifter came off in my hand. I went to an auto place for a part, and was so embarassed to even say Yugo to the clerk, that my voice stuttered and I replied Yugee. Having had some up-close contact with a 128, Id say that its more 128 than 127. But they did. 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. But they didnt have a CLUE. Yes they were cheap, but it was a proper car, built properly. We had these in the U.K, I dont remember them being particularly bad, the main criticism was that it was seen as too expensive for what was clearly an Eastern European rehash of a cast off western design. At least a Suzuki Samurai has a separate frame. Last Update: . Or maybe Bobby (Casey Affleck), Jeff's landscaping partner, killed her to save the embarrassment of having her create a scene at his wedding to Ellen (Neve Campbell), Chief Rash's daughter. If Germany had built it, would it have been called the Germ? That explains why everyone was driving them then. Before we wrap, lets sort them out. This car had one genuine asset: ride quality. UK Yugo dealers were often small garages in small towns, who really tried to do the prep work to get the cars out well. Yes, a Deer. Danny DeVito and Neve Campbell appeared together again six years after the release of this film in another comedy "Relative Strangers "(2006). The Renault Alliance and 18i were still being sold in 1984-85 when the Yugo debuted. Whats good- quad headlights Why did Yugos have standard rear defrost? It wasnt four door Yugo, that was Chevy Citation, if I remember correctly. They dumped em, too, as soon as they could afford something, anything, better. 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. 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. He sat in the front seat once and never again! after about 30 years of having the car rust off of the frame. While poor Yugo certainly was not the best car made, but it was hardly the worst either. Zastava took over the American company. Other than the time the clutch cable broke, and getting the electrical issues sorted out, the car spent no time in the shop. Ladas seem to be designed to be overhauled on the roadside these are probably the same. 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. A magazine road test came up with the amusing summary: Zastava built some world class arms. Frequently, that new model sets the status quo on its ear and forever changes the way we think about (and react to) our transportation needs. He was scarred sh*tless and begging me to not make him drive it. I was sure youd have had one. Just started slipping, on a highway as flat as a calm oceanand over the next five hours I had to shift into lower and lower gears just to minimize slippage. Sales quickly slowed when word of the myriad problems began to circulate in the media. Generally what kills them is the cost of major systems repairs, to where its not economically justifiable. Now Rash has to decide who killed Mona Dearly. Amazingly, someone got in it, started it, and it ran and drove (more or less) away. Actually, the GM B body starting in 1977 was very, very resistant to corrosion. Yupand does anyone think Fiat or Yugo engineers thought to make the engine a clearance design? Id actually like to have another one, but beef it up with Fiat parts. 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. 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.. I guess this is so the company could find out how the car is before releasing it to the general public. But of course, a parking lot fender bender would be enough to total these cars. 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. Also in Drowning Mona's favor, at the heart of the movie, is a genuinely positive character, Verplanck Police Chief Wyatt Rash (Danny DeVito).He's possibly the only principled citizen in town. First, salt as a melting agent on roads was relatively new. My mother drove it to work at the high school one time. But there was one area that, frankly, I was impressed with, and that was the basic two-box design. AMC, in its last years, went so far as to have Ziebart license its procedure for use in the factory. If Italy had built it, would it be known as the It??? It began the use of the FWD, horizontal boxer engine which carries on in Subarus to this day (albeit in a modern form). everything behind them. GM had tried to buy Zastava in 2007, but the deal fell through. It WAS a simple-to-work-on car; and in that regard I appreciated it. First of all, thanks to Perry Shoar for a very well written explanation of the events of the 70s and 80s that led to the meltdown of Yugoslavia. 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. The poor gal, if I remember, was named Lelo. Say what you will about Bricklin he is a man of action. Did it even come close? See production, box office & company info, Siskel & Ebert: Drowning Mona/My Dog Skip/What Planet Are You From?/The Next Best Thing/Miss Julie. It had nervousness built into it, it made people nervous and it was nervous. He got two large import operations going and he launched the SV-1. Drowning Mona 2000 (PG-13)Strident comedy about the low-IQ denizens of small town Verplanck, New York, where everybody still drives a Yugo (the town was a test market). (Fiat DID design the chassis, after all.). Im pretty sure that she kept her clothes on. Not having that one bit Clarkson divised a solution, buying a third-hand Yugo and for the rest of the episode refering to it as a Bently. You are my inhalation, I own few blogs and infrequently run out from brand :). 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. 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! I must admit that I own a Yugo. (https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/jan/14/cover/#) Audis have been headaches to owners at various times. Holy mackerel, Goe, what a story and experience! Any idea where the Fiat 128 stopped and the 127 started in the Yugo? Had Bricklin given the tooling to the Koreans, and had it built to their standards under contracthed have had what he wanted. I also started using Restore engine treatment, and that took care of that issue. (not that I cared that much about it I was in my mid-twenties and during summer season beaches were full of naked girls.) 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. Yup, Im gonna go for a ride in my Ford Fester., I mentioned Drowning Mona below, before I read this. Except that the belt managed to get into the TIMING BELT caseand pop THAT off. 1) Wise observation that Yugoslavia needed hard currency (without which it could not import needed consumer or industrial goods) during those years. The gravity powered it! What kind of car is in the movie Drowning Mona? Very well-maintained. I havent seen one on the road in at least 15 years. So on the line, a worker would have to cut and install and tape it, with about a 25 percent failure rateincorrectly re-connected. During WWII, they built a few Jeeps. It had become commonplace in the 1950s; and manufacturers first tried ignoring the problem; then dealing with it with superficial fixes like Zincrometal body panels. I had two of them. 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. 459 tweaks (and 18 months) later, the Yugo was almost ready for launch. One of a kind, Im sure, There is an article from 2012, quoting the Time magazine 2. Purchased one year old cars for less than $1500 while attending college. In addition, many cars have changed hands by that timeand who knows what the previous owner may have had done? There are heaps of suspects ranging from her husband, her son, her son's friend, her son's friend's fiance and so on. Some dinosaur relic, Id never seen before. I saw one not long ago on the streets in Eugene, but couldnt catch it., Theres got to be a comeback there! Pictures provided by: garco, antp, ahight, Display options: Display as images Display as list i doubt they are still there. But theres a difference between an easily-repaired car, and one that needs frequent repairs. Chief Wyatt Rash: My mother always used to say, "When life hands you potatoes, make potato salad!". Like you can buy a car without a transmition. 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. Make and modelMake and yearYearCategoryImportance/RoleDate added (new ones first)EpisodeAppearance (ep.+time, if avail. There were surely other goofs that were institutionalized. 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. Every vehicle in town that is not a truck is a Yugo, except the police cruisers, which are Plymouth Horizons. I saw one not long ago on the streets in Eugene, but couldnt catch it. 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. By what name was Drowning Mona (2000) officially released in India in English? I knew I wasnt buying a Lexus. His last notable brush with the automotive world (in 2004) involved a vague alliance with (uh-oh) Chinese auto maker Chery. . 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. I recall taking my younger brother out to teach him how to drive. Subaru was just a little behind the curve in terms of design and safetyas befits a smaller company. Just as quickly as the Yugo ascended to number two in european import sales, the car plummeted back to earth and never rose again. [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 . The early Japanese cars were not that different from the 360: Junk. depends 100% on very cheap parts and lots of mechanics around that know the car inside out. Perhaps they were sabotaged so the poor workers wouldnt have to slave to make them for america? Thanks for your first hand account ! The story involves a local police chief from New York state who is charged with . i cant imagine where bricklin would get the approximately $35k/mo rent. (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 They sold boatloads of them in Europe to price buyers, taxi companies, retired folk etc. So we come to the end of the Yugo saga in America. 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. 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. Also spare parts were inexpensive and any mechanic and his nephew would fix it. It is the cheapest person that spends the most. Unfortunately, Bricklin was smitten by the cars simple mediocrity and, just like a cartoon character with outsized dollar signs for eyes, he began the process for bringing the homely little car to the states. 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. . Wikipedia says that the Yugo quality was satisfactory at the start but went downhill fast and the factory refused to do anything about it. 5.0 out of 5 stars Drowning Mona music CD. This, the paring of weight, was even evident in Japanese trucks. 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. Mine was 5 years old and had like 40K miles on it. Dealers there are order-takers. He claimed the belt was good for 200,000-plus miles, often outlasting the pulleys. 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. R/S AUTOLINE INC. (1.3 miles away) 1215 W IMPERIAL HWY, Suite 213, BREA, CA 92821. 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. Sure some of the plastic trim was suspect, but dont forget that GM was still doing rubbermaid doors then, and the Japanese were still stapling vinyl over cardboard for door trims. Kind of reminds me of a first generation Rabbit/Golf, which Ive always considered the gold-standard for the best styled small car. The mechanical bits all seemed OK, and no obvious leaks or other damage. Two YUGO watches, new. Almost everyone in town is a suspect. The Yugos bait was a stunningly low MSRP of just $3990. 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! IIRC, when hers finally died, she said that she tried to find another but couldnt. Comments are property of their authors. What am I supposed to make outta that? Now that its privatized, products have risen in quality to what the buyer expects for his money. 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. Contact us They did not have such a bad reputation,at least not as bad as the rear engined Skodas Those Protons were actually a decent car. Its the manifestation of the postwar Japanese industrial culturepredicated on continuous quality improvement; and with the use of statistical controls to produce ever-higher quality items with fewer deviations from specification. I dont buy junk to begin with, maintain them, and only have minimal issues with them. Yes it was 3990 excluding transmition and tax and delivery charges. A girl I hung out with in college had a Yugo. They initially started out as an arms manufacturer. Which, actually, was a very good little car . Its not like Fiat designs were anything special, quite the contrary in many instances. 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. Early oil changes, followed maintenance schedule. (We also wanted to stick a finger in the eye of the USSR, which was at odds with Yugoslavia anyway). My dad is a bit of a FIAT nut so he would wrench on it from time to time. One of my dads friends had one of these. 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. 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. Here, it is well known that you change the timing belt every 40K miles. Modern kei cars are dimensionally similar to the old sidevalve english Fords tall and narrow hopefully they dont fall over as easily I see lots of elderly people driving used import keis here. But then thats not what most folks are exactly looking for. 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. 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. 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? Bricklin wisely took the first offer and netted about $20 million for his trouble. 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. 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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