Every character's automobile has personalized plates. And the opening of China and competition from S Korea in a way ate Yugos lunch in the global market. Witness the fact that everyone's car of choice is a Yugo; each Verplanck citizen drives one ever since the company conducted a cheap sales test of the vehicle there some 10 years ago. Yugoslavia The Land Of The Southern Slavs went to war with itself in late 1991 and essentially spent the next 17 years shooting, ethnically cleansing and generally behaving like it had before World War I. But what about quality disasters in a different scenario?. After the wars, Zastava redesigned their cars with help from Fiat and Citroen, and gained new technologies to have them compete with other European cars. They did not have such a bad reputation,at least not as bad as the rear engined Skodas Damn that X1/9 still looks beautiful just like mine the 81 behind the new Abarth. 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. 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. The problem is, there's not a single person in town who DIDN'T have a motive. The film also stars Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, William Fichtner, Marcus Thomas, and Peter Dobson. I probably still have it somewhere. The last Yugo that we would recognize rolled off the assembly line in November 2008. Why are there so many Yugo in this movie? NEVER Give Up - NEVER Back Down Trouble for him was, the rest of America wasnt interested in postwar America. 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 . The Yugo, new clutch, new exhaust, patched wiring and all, went into the trash. Everyone in Verplanck, N.Y., drives a Yugo. 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. 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 . The ignition constantly gave out and so did the clutch. The one thing that the Yugo shared with its Fiat ancestry, was the fact that these things were biodegradable in the midwest. Director Nick Gomez Writer Peter Steinfeld Stars Danny DeVito Bette Midler Neve Campbell It had a three way folding back seat back that could make multiple level shelves out of itself, you could haul a lot of stuff in that car. I recall seeing the garage full of yugos being worked on when Id take mine in and I recall seeing them dead on the side of the road everywhere. I think we need to re-evaluate the Yugo against 1986 standards instead of 2011 standards. As far as ethnicity goes, Im Russian by birth, Belarus to be exact, and have that somewhat stocky build to prove it! She wrote something like, How cute, Ill be Lelo in her Yugo.. 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. I have NEVER burned out a clutchexcept on a Yugo. Another example of the high cost of low priced objects. One time the keys were out and the car was still on and would not turn off. My guess is that many of his critics could not have done as much. Americans are a funny lot.I am not sure what $4000 in 2016 money equates to but you can these days get plenty on the used car lot if you look carefully for roughly the same money as anything in the light car class or it can be can be a car you dreamed about when it was new but couldnt afford at the time.We Australians never saw the Yugo but $12,000 before you factor in things like automatics and on roads plus good condition gets you better than most of these cars from foreign lands and brands which dont exist anymore.I suppose the modern day equivalent of this would be something like a Suzuki Celerio or a Mitsubishi Mirage in my part of the world new,used equivalent buying gets you a three year old Corolla or Pulsar or one size smaller a well kept Yaris or Mazda 2. He drove them all fast and hard which no doubt shortened their operational life. console.log(window['UnicI'].geo); "She's dead," he confirms to Chief Rash (Danny DeVito), who nods grimly and begins a murder investigation. At first glance, the car looked up to date- Front wheel drive, rack and pinion steering, decent mileage. i doubt they are still there. But of course, a parking lot fender bender would be enough to total these cars. If Germany had built it, would it have been called the Germ? The 71-76 GM full-sizers were better than average on this count. My mother drove it to work at the high school one time. Regarding the rust: It was a myriad of factors. 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? Jason Torchinsky of Jalopnik had an interesting take on it lately; I didnt mind helping friends and neighbor with problems they had with their cars. In the moviedrowning MonaI remember there was among the many regular Yugos one that had four doors (a black one).Was it Ive been toying with seeing if I can find one thats been stored in a garage somewhere and buying it to replace my aging truck that leaks oil and coolant and tide the time before I can buy the new Fiat 500. 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? 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. Although I tested it in the summer, the car sputtered and hesitated like it was cold. 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. He claimed the belt was good for 200,000-plus miles, often outlasting the pulleys. He was a priest for several small parishes in the mountains of a N. Eastern state, I forget which and came around a bend to get from one parish to another when he hit the poor animal and it was enough to total that car out but he got that many miles out of it. She does figure in a quiet little in-joke. Bricklin used franchise fees to run the company (a major accounting no-no) while the car was being modified for safety and emissions certification in the U.S. and dealerships were sold, territories assigned. 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.. Theyre really a mishmash of the two; with their own unique body. The possibility upsets Ellen, who explains in some of the movie's best dialogue: "I can't marry a murderer. Another factor was that Subaru managed to kick Bricklin out on the street and take over distribution and marketing before he ran it into the ground. When the nastiest resident (Bette Midler) of a white-trash Westchester suburb is killed in a suspicious accident, everyone Now, I live in the UK and have had three ladas, all of which were much better cars than many people give them credit for. Thank you for the history, it complements the story of the car well. 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. State ownership is generally coupled to some sort of coersion, such as a penalty tax on other makes. } 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. All four brake drums were tampered with, the brake fluid was drained, and the perp also drained some other fluids just to be on the safe side. I saw this movie. 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. \"Drowning Mona\" is bad . Like you can buy a car without a transmition. Subaru was just a little behind the curve in terms of design and safetyas befits a smaller company. I havent seen one on the road in at least 15 years. But there was one area that, frankly, I was impressed with, and that was the basic two-box design. Jeff might have wanted to kill her. The effort collapsed along with Yugo sales in America. YUGO caps and shirts and other fun car show displays. 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. The place where I used to work was given a Yugo 45. However, these engines have been known to go 200K with little bearing wear if maintained appropriately. @Zackman: No the real experience was driving that thing in Atlanta rush hour traffic at 80+ MPH. There were surely other goofs that were institutionalized. These rear engined devices were a blast to drive, with tail-out shenanigans a-la Porsche 911 being easy to emulate. When the coroner first jumps into the water to check Mona's dead body, he is neck-deep in water. The characters this time could be lightened up and dumbed-down versions of the confused drunks in "Laws of Gravity," their social lives centered on bars, their center of gravity the bartender. Its like almost any car; get to know its issues, and if you have the mechanical inclinations to deal with them, theyre pretty simple cars otherwise. 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. 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. 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 the acquisition by Fiat in 2010 renders all of that as ancient history. Danny DeVito (Chief Wyatt Rash) and Tracey Walter (Clarence) appeared in Matilda (1996). 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. I think the other reason they were more successful out of the US is that in Europe, people have driven OHC cars since the 60s. Nevermind that their cars are horribly unreliable, people still buy them. Its not unlike the relationship I have with my cockroaches of the road (TM). Mine was 5 years old and had like 40K miles on it. In fact, it was through the good offices of Lawrence Eagleburger that all of the political red tape was navigated in order to make the project feasible. 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. 1987 brought about several other trims, the GVL, GVS, GVC,which were very similar other than the door panels and seat upholstery. One reason is that lots of people own and drive them and parts are a breeze. This is how Hyundai and Kia got their start and Zastava began doing it earlier. For the rest of the scene, he is dry from the waist up. 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. They initially started out as an arms manufacturer. 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. Dispose of the rest of the car. It just flat refused. Serendipity! 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. I was unaware of the Bricklin connection at the time, and in fact learned about it here on CC, but I remember seeing some Bricklins as a kid, thinking that they were cool looking cars, and wondering why there werent more of them. 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. This car didnt want to go into reverse at a standstill. 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. Your experience was exactly what my suspicions were about these cars. This is all fictional of course. I had very good support for the Yugo as Atlanta is the home of Bayless, which is a big Fiat parts house. The first Mazda was also a kei-car, the R-360. In the 1970s the PCI (Italian Communist Party) reached its all-time maximum electorally: 34.4% in the 1976 general election (12,600,000 votes, 3 million more than in the previous election in 1972). There are lots of related legacies connected with Americas brief, mad affair with the Yugo. This doomed script and conventional direction venture for Nick Gomez (" New Jersey Drive "/" Laws of Gravity "), results in a comedy that got by with a few mean-spirited jokes. I know of a 1979 Datsun pickup that completly rusted out in 6 years. 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. Yugoslavia was in the state of bankruptcy at that time, import of all goods and raw materials was practically halted. 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. 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. 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 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 70s Fiats look hand built. 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. Personally I would have gone for the Skoda. On the side fixed windows was lettered YuGo BIG or YuGo HOME. The salesman was vaguely aware that they were built somewhere in Europe,but he was cagey about just where. 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 for the first gen Civics and to a lesser extent, the second gen Civics, I would guess where we dont have rust to deal with, it was 30+ years and many accrued miles that ultimately were their demise, ie, 200K-300K+ and a head gasket finally blows are what killed them off eventually if not an accident or some other mechanical failure due to age/mileage. 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. The philosophy behind Drowning Mona is not good clean fun, or even intelligent nasty fun. AMC, in its last years, went so far as to have Ziebart license its procedure for use in the factory. But that's a whole other story.") Let me disillusion youI busted a piston crown and bent a valve badly enough to freeze up the camshaft. He was a statistician in the War Department who became interested in using statistical controls to produce higher-quality manufactured goods. Ford Econoline This Is Not A Taxi. I had the car 18 months or so, when in traffic one day a DUI driver rammed his Ford Fiesta (of all things) into the back of my Yugo and pushed me into a Nissan Maxima. It broke down like a Yugo. The worst of the Japaneese cars would rust in structural places that would make the car unsafe. In fact, if anything, Americas foreign policy in the 80s encouraged Yugoslavia to manufacture and export finished goods to pay its debts. So whats my point? I bought it in January because I figured it would be fun to see just how bad it could be. Then again, Ive always had a liking for the odd car or two over the years. 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. in Pasadena a couple of years ago. 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 saw one on the F4 so they did sell one.Those were a Polish Fiat 500 updated Just rubbish. This was before the deal with Chery. As my old profesor of economics said: War is the best economic valve Unfortunately, Ive learned that from personal experience. A "Fetzer valve" is a fictional part of an engine, introduced in the movie Fletch (1985). That's not who I am. 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. I was worried that shed make it. Ever notice how a lot of movie smokers seem to have just lighted their cigarettes? if(document.getElementById("unic-ccpa")) { Could you imagine if another country decided to do that? Only with the threat of armed intervention by Nato and the UN is an uneasy peace maintained. 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. Me and my friend Jerry (from Sam Bonds) drove a Yugo at a wrecker yard in Coburg some years back. I drove the blue one about three more years, but it did have some issues. Motor Trend reported that their hand picked press ringer broke down during testing. In The Film, for some inexplicable reason, everyone who lives in the Catskill area towns seems to drive a YUGO. Hell, he only paid something like $500 for a beater commuter car and this was in the late 1990s. They were an object lesson in the old adage that you get what you pay for. Very entertaining. Someone steeped in the maintenace required to keep something like a Trabant running would probably be right at home with a Yugo. Second factor was, the popularity in the day of recycled steel in car manufacture. He was scarred sh*tless and begging me to not make him drive it. Because he SAYS he has a new belt on there, doesnt mean its so. Even in Western Europe, cars arent marketed as they are here. But the Japanese companies focused; and today its almost unheard of to find a Toyota or Honda ruined from corrosion. I did appreciate the way Yugo could make one part do what a western car needed three for. It was a nightmare. Hell, I was 20 years younger, A lot can change in that time. as long as you didnt try to get away with normal American car owner maintenance. Dealers there are order-takers. I think it's worth keeping them separate because it's a in-joke of the film that almost everyone has a Yugo. R/S AUTOLINE INC. (1.3 miles away) 1215 W IMPERIAL HWY, Suite 213, BREA, CA 92821. Any idea where the Fiat 128 stopped and the 127 started in the Yugo? He lost his house, his fortuneAnd the dozens of Yugo GVs that he received as part of his settlement with his bankers. 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. Theres a fellow in the NorCal chapter of The Fiat Club first names Dan, I think who owns a pristine Yugo in a burnt orange color. Install shift knob on replacement car. First, salt as a melting agent on roads was relatively new. Did it even come close? It was mainly low used values (the proton badge had no snob appeal) and apathy that saw them scrapped rather than any major fault of the car. 5.0 out of 5 stars Drowning Mona music CD. But after that i didnt have much trouble with it, ride wasnt too bad for such small car, power was adequate for normal driving (in fact, compared to my fathers beetle with 1200 cc and 34 HP, Yugo with 55 HP and such goodies like 5-speed gearbox and brake booster feels pretty quick). I remember seeing new Yugos at the (I think 1990) Chicago Auto Show. We learn that Verplanck was selected as a test market when the Yugo was being introduced to the United States. 5 Yugo i know its a rare thing but should we park them together ? Casey Affleck has gone on record saying that both this film and Soul Survivors (2001) were his two least favorite films that he has worked on. So, with connections, he was brought to Japan for a series of lectures; and if America wasnt interested, Japan was very much so. What he saw was an operation that turned out a car designed (and abandoned) by Fiat years before. Yes you read that right. But with enough TLC (something the average American consumer wasnt high on), maybe they werent so bad (at least a few of them, anyway). Audis have been headaches to owners at various times. 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. . Wyatt finds no shortage of suspects. So, they set about seeing what was what with a road-trip around Romania in three cars they would be testing. (rolls eyes). I really dont think that anyone has a competitive advantage in rust resistance any more. Someone around my area with a perverse sense of humor drove a Yugo stretch limo for a few years, those being about 20 years ago. Ah yes, I can see it now. The writer of Drowning Mona thought it would be hilarious to fill a 2000 crime caper with Yugo vehicles. It was amazing (to me) how they found a solution so quickly. (Eagleburger had been U.S. ambassador to Yugoslvia and had spent almost all of his foreign service career in southeast europe. depends 100% on very cheap parts and lots of mechanics around that know the car inside out. During lunch the high schoolers came out and lifted it up so the front tires were up on the sidewalk. Secondly, I would be one of those people who had a good experience with a Yugo. 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. Thanks for your detailed experience. And a failed clutchI have driven manual transmission cars my whole life. Not sure they sold very many. Appologies for not-nice-said, but there is no other way to do it. She claimed that once you knew and understood them, they were not bad cars for what they were. Yugo-mania also swept through Hollywood for a time and was the star car in movies such as The Birdcage, Drowning Mona, Die Hard 3, The Crow, Inspector Gadget and 101 Dalmatians. http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_113306-Plymouth-Horizon-C2-1984.html As I understand it, Zastiva had the Yugo designed that way as its plan was, from the beginning, to export the car. Found it! i found this article about the space: You are my inhalation, I own few blogs and infrequently run out from brand :). I was listening one Saturday to Car Talk and one of the callers that day to the show was a Catholic priest who drove a Yugo and commented on all the flak he received for his choice of automotive transportation. 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. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . They probably would have found a customer base in the U.S. The gravity powered it! The process, alone, of a car manufacturer as a unit of government, is suspect. The car is the Yugo. That salty New England slush had its way with everything. The Yugo was a far superior car compared against a Chevette, or first generation Hyundai. It was embarrassing, mother never drove it again. It WAS a simple-to-work-on car; and in that regard I appreciated it. Its unfortunate that the vast majority of Yugo owners didnt even get that. No parts fell off of it, the car generally was in good condition (other than some stains on the seats that I didnt care to speculate about). I was sure youd have had one. 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 actually checked out a Yugo about the same time I was looking at Sundances, Colts and similar vehicles and decided: No, I didnt have the time for the do-it-yourself maintenance it mightve required my current cars took care of that at the time! Fuji was pretty well aware that the car wasnt suitable for America circa 1969. There are many causes for poor management. Reviewed in . Comments are property of their authors. Joe Friday (Dan Aykroyd) had a gold one in the Dragnet movie. TRUCKEE, Calif. The battery required water to be poured into it. Also, the factory refused to make design changes that were obviously needed and would have been simple to implement. War is the best economic valve Unfortunately, Ive learned that from personal experience odd car or two the. 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