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. 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. 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. I have NEVER burned out a clutchexcept on a Yugo. Our narrative today is of a modern P.T. I remember seeing new Yugos at the (I think 1990) Chicago Auto Show. I could be wrong there; but a surprising number of parts, including the airbox and cables, the steering column, the drivetrain, are all direct or modified parts from the 128. Make and modelMake and yearYearCategoryImportance/RoleDate added (new ones first)EpisodeAppearance (ep.+time, if avail. couple of months ago when I was in Athens. 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.) Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. But they were cheap! Ive got video somewhere. The civil war in the former Yugoslavia was the finishing blow, but wasnt the reason it wasnt brought over. Also, this post made me curious: how did Subaru make the transition from dangerous sardine can to granola FWD/AWD family compact in the US? When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect. 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. Drowning Mona (2000) is a never remembered black comedy that I absolutely love. Mona, played by Midler, drowns when the brakes in her Yugo fail and she catapults through a guardrail into the lake below. Zastava built some world class arms. 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. In the end, its poor management. Another example of the high cost of low priced objects. Even those of us raised on rusting U.S. cars from the 60s were surprised by how fast the Japaneese stuff vaporized. Well life handed me a whole pile a' shit! Competing econoboxes included the Chevy Chevette,. And often wins. Of course not. Any idea where the Fiat 128 stopped and the 127 started in the Yugo? Youd have to go from fourth to first gear to come down. of record for a Yugo. I bought it in January because I figured it would be fun to see just how bad it could be. It is the cheapest person that spends the most. i live down the block. I was discussing cars with a woman in my office building one day, when she remarked that she had owned a Yugo, and got an incredible number of miles out of it. An accident has happened - the Yugo of one Mona Dearly has careened off the highway and plunged into the Hudson. It wasnt ancient ethnic hatreds, it was more a perfect storm. There was something wrong with every single facet of this car. Dealers there are order-takers. if(document.getElementById("unic-gdpr")) { lol, Yugos were marketed in USA 1985 to 1990 by Malcolm Bricklin's vehicle imports Firm. Likewise the Toyotas and Datsuns. These cars came with an optional AM/FM cassette deck that was very basic, only 5W total if I recall right, or was that 5W per channel? Even here in the Land That Rust Forgot, I rarely see anything from the 70s. Zastava Zastava made Yugos even after they stopped selling in America. The poor gal, if I remember, was named Lelo. 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. Edit: Gah! See production, box office & company info, Siskel & Ebert: Drowning Mona/My Dog Skip/What Planet Are You From?/The Next Best Thing/Miss Julie. You could disassemble the whole car with like 5 Allen keys, three sockets and two Phillips-head screwdrivers, if you were inclined. 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. Bricklin had formed Yugo of America to import the car and as was his custom, financial shenanigans were part of the mix. 1. I remember listening to Car Talk some 5-6 years ago and a caller came on and said that his Yugo (an 87 I think) died at 150,000 miles, not due to mechanical failure, but due to a Deer. I think I remember this! They were not standing still, by any means. 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. Pictures provided by: garco, antp, ahight, Display options: Display as images Display as list She picked them up for virtually nothing and was content with bare-bones transportation. During the time the clutch cable was dying, I broke the shifter mechanism, due to the clutch cable dying. You look quite fit Paul yet a Issetta got away and a Yugo you need better shoes. I knew a guy in the 90s, who was very smart (the grandson of a Nobel Prize winner in fact!) Two cars are in the driveway of a glorious but faded Victorian mansion: The Bertone and a Yugo. I saw it on the Helena streets quite a lot, but it was the only one in the city. The Little SuBARu Wow!, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLPp-NFInXw. 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. "She's dead," he confirms to Chief Rash (Danny DeVito), who nods grimly and begins a murder investigation. Im affiliated with NECC Motorsports, a club that runs time trials at various sports car racing tracks in the eastern half of the USA. Amazingly, someone got in it, started it, and it ran and drove (more or less) away. Soon we would have a whole line of Adams Family cars on the road! The lovable numbskulls of Verplanck, New York, are all beside themselves with shock and quiet joy when town bully Mona Dearly dies in a freak accident involving her Yugo, some cut brake lines, and a plunge into the Hudson. The Yugos are a literal running joke throughout the movie. I guess the major issue in my favor was the relatively inexpensive parts when I did need them, and the fact that Georgia is semi-arid, so no rust issues. There was a guy that was racing a Yugo in SCCA competition, but thats been a long time ago. The seats were quite comfy too- firm enough but still soft- and with a cotton upholstery that was miles away from the nylon stuff put in other cars of the era. 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. Detroit, also, but not so much. View 9 images I actually grabbed a brochure on the convertible as a joke, it was only a single page. 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. Then again, Ive always had a liking for the odd car or two over the years. Other than the time the clutch cable broke, and getting the electrical issues sorted out, the car spent no time in the shop. Hers are always burned down precisely half an inch, and then we see her lighting a new one from the old one, and realize, yeah, she smokes them only for the first two puffs. Of course, as pointed out, it was more probable that hed have put the company out of business, too. Danny DeVito (Chief Wyatt Rash) and Tracey Walter (Clarence) appeared in Matilda (1996). Yugo Cars in Drowning Mona 4,507 views May 7, 2014 19 Dislike Share Save The NZ Yugo 1.65K subscribers Oh such a crack up movie and it involves my favorite thing YUGOS! 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. In a recent episode of Top Gear UK the trio were allegedly asked by an alleged high-ranking member of the alleged Romanian Mafia what would be the best luxury car for one of his stature. I spotted the ones in the picture while out on a bike ride a few years ago. Casey Affleck wore a blonde wig for this film. It would take about eight years from apparent problem to engineered fix to failure of the fix and another engineered solution. There was a dealer in Denver Colorado, called Apple Motors, who used to sell warmed up Yugos. The mechanical bits all seemed OK, and no obvious leaks or other damage. Why did so many Fiat designs get recycled and built behind the Iron Curtain? In the 70s when I lived in Boston, I worked with a guy whose 5-year-old Pinto had big holes in the doors. Even so, Kei cars remain too small to be accepted by American consumers. They would swap in the drivetrain from the Fiat X1/9 and put on the wider wheels tires from the X1/9 also. Source for information on Drowning Mona: VideoHound's Golden Movie . Some dinosaur relic, Id never seen before. Wyatt finds no shortage of suspects. France, to use your example, had a protected market with tariffs on American cars (disguised as a horsepower tax). Of course a $800 car isnt worth shyte to the insurance company, so they gave me a token $1000 for my time and trouble (another story). Now Rash has to decide who killed Mona Dearly. The last Yugo that we would recognize rolled off the assembly line in November 2008. 2) My wife (an engineer like yourself) has been to Dubrovnik and says that the beaches are incredible. Worse, it was not just fenders and rocker panels that looked bad but did not affect the way the car drove. in Pasadena a couple of years ago. 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. 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. He got two large import operations going and he launched the SV-1. 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. He sat in the front seat once and never again! As it turns out, the same rental car place was STILL selling surplus Yugos, and I bought a blue one this time. Id notice the original Civic CVCC, I had one, loved it and sold it much too soon. A quiet little in-joke indeed, but I mention it so the filmmakers will know their work was not in vain. Actually, the GM B body starting in 1977 was very, very resistant to corrosion. You are right.I found it here: Mine was an 86 and a half Yugo. I saw one not long ago on the streets in Eugene, but couldnt catch it., Theres got to be a comeback there! Joe Friday (Dan Aykroyd) had a gold one in the Dragnet movie. Could not resist seeing what a piece of crap would look like with no tin on the top. The real reason why Crvena Zastava went into this adventure was that they were desperate to get some foreign currency to keep assembly lines alive. This was almost $1100 lower than the cheapest Chevy Sprint and lower than even the Hyundai Excel. It was as if the Yugo was being promoted as crap, but SUPERIOR crap. And was thus more expensive. 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. a special for the movie,an extended version,or just my failing memory? As far as ethnicity goes, Im Russian by birth, Belarus to be exact, and have that somewhat stocky build to prove 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. In 1975, Subaru began offering AWD. Yes it was 3990 excluding transmition and tax and delivery charges. 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. Most can be rectified by the shareholders or the Boards of Directors, the shareholders representatives. The process, alone, of a car manufacturer as a unit of government, is suspect. They found problems in the assembly processone described was how the wiring harness to the rear liftgate and wiper, didnt fit the stamped holes allowed it. 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 philosophy behind Drowning Mona is not good clean fun, or even intelligent nasty fun. I blame the cost-cutters, whove put us in this positionspin the dice wrong, youre buying a new engine. 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. Having seen pics of the 127, I can relay that the Yugo body is a complete reskin no lines or panels are the same or interchangeable. There were surely other goofs that were institutionalized. The Yugos bait was a stunningly low MSRP of just $3990. Honestly, I think Zastava should be commended for the amount of engineering they were able to do independently, modifying and developing Fiat cars. But recycled steel, for whatever reason, is overly prone to corrosion. @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. 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. Those brave revolutionaries almost single handedly redefine their market segment and leave an indelible mark on the industry itself. 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! Also in that time, poor workmanship wasnt exclusively Yugos problem. Enterior wall panels were thin cardboard with painted on carpet flecks. I have known folks like that too. The cars in the movie were provided by Apple Motors in Denver, Colorado. 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. Usually, these ultra-cheapo cars suffer from goofy styling touches, but the Yugo comes off as pretty clean, which is all the more astonishing since its an original design where no body parts interchange with the Fiats upon which it was based. 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. (function waitGEO() { 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. 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. 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. LIkewise, Yugo UK supported its dealers well. 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? I recall taking my younger brother out to teach him how to drive. Jamie Lee Curtis and Neve Campbell are both known as "Final Girls" or "Scream Queens", playing recurring heroines in their respective horror franchise films: Curtis in the "Halloween" franchise and Campbell in the "Scream" franchise--which is loosely based on the "Halloween" mythos. My guess is that many of his critics could not have done as much. Amidst mutual finger pointing, the deal collapsed in July 2008 as the erstwhile partners took turns suing one another in federal court. Even in Western Europe, cars arent marketed as they are here. A Rolls-Royce Ghost, a Mercades S-class, and a Bently Mulsane. When I was living in Montana in 2001, some masochist/crusty old guy was using one as a daily driver and it looked new. At our Year 2000 track day at Lime Rock, one of the entries was a race-prepared Yugo. Drowning Mona - An explanation informs viewers that the setting (Verplanck, New York) was a test market for Yugos. Drowning Mona is one of my favorite comedies, and its currently available on YouTube for free. 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. The film also stars Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, William Fichtner, Marcus Thomas, and Peter Dobson. Around the same time we had a similar thing in Australia the FSM Niki, which was a Polish-built Fiat 126, so a ~700cc rear-engined s-box. Lack of an automatic would hamper the car during all but the final year in the states. Based on the slightly larger Fiat 125, it was everything bad about a lada, but somehow worse. 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. Nobody had let management know that the wiring harness as made, wasnt usable in that part of the car. American Brands: AMC, Jeep and All Others, Tractors, Lawn Mowers, Off-Road Equipment, Automotive History The Jokes On U.S.- The Short, Wild Ride Of The Yugo In America, TOAL:1974(?) 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. One of my dads friends had one of these. Let me disillusion youI busted a piston crown and bent a valve badly enough to freeze up the camshaft. Kei cars still exist, but the engine size and dimensional standards have been increased somewhat, and the newer Kei cars tend to be very tall, boxy affairs to create the maximum possible cubic footage of interior room within the package limits. Second factor was, the popularity in the day of recycled steel in car manufacture. Going up hill was a struggle, it tended to roll back in reverse because it didnt have any power to go forward. It failed, of all places, on the Bonneville salt flats area in Utah. Mine was 5 years old and had like 40K miles on it. 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. The 71-76 GM full-sizers were better than average on this count. At first glance, the car looked up to date- Front wheel drive, rack and pinion steering, decent mileage. While poor Yugo certainly was not the best car made, but it was hardly the worst either. I was scarred for her to be driving it. 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. Since Yugo America was basically just a collection of cheap office furniture and unanswered phones, creditors received essentially nothing for their interests in the company. 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. Did it even come close? The interior squeaked everywhere that it didnt rattle. I wonder why they used the Yugos, To show the towns Quirkyness? She claimed that once you knew and understood them, they were not bad cars for what they were. Too many people in this country have this mentality that if its cheap, treat it as such and yes, a fulfilled prophesy. 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