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Re: Malcolm Bricklin I do not see him as a crook. 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. That said, the most maintenance I did on the car(s) were oil changes and other mundane regular maintenance. 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. (function waitGEO() {
He was a statistician in the War Department who became interested in using statistical controls to produce higher-quality manufactured goods. Having had some up-close contact with a 128, Id say that its more 128 than 127. R/S AUTOLINE INC. (1.3 miles away) 1215 W IMPERIAL HWY, Suite 213, BREA, CA 92821. The other being Yugo / Zastava missing out on producing a smaller model based on the Autobianchi A112 as a replacement for the Zastava 750, initially carrying over the existing Fiat 100 Series engines prior to using the Fiat FIRE engines. Had Bricklin given the tooling to the Koreans, and had it built to their standards under contracthed have had what he wanted. Handling is sharp and the engine loves to rev. 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. 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. There are, to be fair, other theories about how Jeff (Marcus Thomas) lost his hand, although in every scenario he was reaching for a beer. 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 cars in the movie were provided by Apple Motors in Denver, Colorado. But what about quality disasters in a different scenario?. I dont buy junk to begin with, maintain them, and only have minimal issues with them. Its a tough call on the Yugo. Many wars (holocausts, massacres) are blamed on religion, I can understand why some people no longer believe. A lot of Wehrmacht occupation troops went home in tiny little pieces because Zastava knew what they were doing. Now that its privatized, products have risen in quality to what the buyer expects for his money. Mine was an 86 and a half Yugo. Nevermind that their cars are horribly unreliable, people still buy them. Ive never felt safe in any car that light so would never have considered owning one, no matter how cheap, even if they had been decently made vehicles. IIRC, David E Davis even tried to help move these things by stating in Automobile that he was going to send his daughter off to college in one. 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. The film also stars Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, William Fichtner, Marcus Thomas, and Peter Dobson. How did Danny DeVito die in Drowning Mona? Do not sell my data
In the 70s when I lived in Boston, I worked with a guy whose 5-year-old Pinto had big holes in the doors. Competing econoboxes included the Chevy Chevette,. Childrens toys are more dependable. People who took care of some basic maintenance and corrosion protection could see 10 to 15 years of service without too much trouble. What am I supposed to make outta that? There was a movie in 2000 entitled Drowning Mona where most of the people in a . Even though the price was a come on (dealers larded as many options onto the car as they could get away with, see below), America was hooked. Unpaid claims included some warranty work done by dealers on Yugos before sales collapsed. One day I put the key in and nothing happened, it was dead and wouldnt turn on. Yugoslavia was in the state of bankruptcy at that time, import of all goods and raw materials was practically halted. @Jeff Nelson: I think youre a bit dismissive of Zastava, they have been around for quite some time. Why are there so many Yugo in this movie? It was embarrassing, mother never drove it again. It was like, when you get in, what is next to give out or give you trouble. But back to the subject, shortage of all kind of raw material was the main reason for poor quality, not drunken workers. 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. Likewise the Toyotas and Datsuns. Very easy installation 15 t0 20 minutes. 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(?) Thank you for the interesting history. document.getElementById("unic-gdpr").style.display = 'inline';
The salesman was vaguely aware that they were built somewhere in Europe,but he was cagey about just where. Some Japanese automakers seem to have been surprisingly resistant to the latter; that was a major complaint of Yutaka Katayama at Nissan. Various ancillaries like alternators were replaced with real FIAT parts. 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. That means that all Yugos in this movie are from 1986. Last Update: . But there was one area that, frankly, I was impressed with, and that was the basic two-box design. . Ladas were, and are, shite. Since mine had been in a rental fleet, it was actually pretty well taken care of, it had an OK aftermarket radio and A/C. I know another-a lifelong car nut, married to another can nut. The sexy Marsha Brady girl with the bellbottoms in the Subaru commercials is unforgettable. Why Fiat? document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. I cant think of another car that disappeared off the roads faster. couple of months ago when I was in Athens. The brakes appear to have been tampered with, making it murder. 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. Warranty claims were dreadful. But like so much of his other stuff, the deal fell through. 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. But with enough TLC (something the average American consumer wasnt high on), maybe they werent so bad (at least a few of them, anyway). Of course, not wanting to be associated with alleged members of the alleged Romanian Mafia, Bently pulled out. It eventually developed a bad piston ring(s), and the blow by was enough to clog the carburetor so that it would stop running. 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? https://chrisoncars.com/yugo-victim-or-victimizer/: (Time Magazine said it best: The Yugo has the distinct feeling of something assembled at gunpoint), I found quite a few articles from later years, quoting the same sentence over and over again (https://www.carkeys.co.uk/news/the-story-of-the-yugo-the-worst-car-in-the-world, https://www.ocregister.com/2017/01/03/the-best-worst-cars-ever/ , https://blastmagazine.com/2014/05/13/truth-10-cars-never-hit-road/), And there you have it: everybody knows for fact that Yugo was actually assembled at gunpoint. It was not much bigger than a homeless persons shopping cart and similarly stocked. And a failed clutchI have driven manual transmission cars my whole life. In the small, white-trash town of Verplanck, N.Y., a loathsome woman named Mona Dearly (a dour and ugly Bette Midler) drives her car over a cliff and into the river. The story involves a local police chief from New York state who is charged with . Our Mr. Bricklin also had an idea to start up another company fed by Zastava, this time to be called ZMW. 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. Trivia: During lunch the high schoolers came out and lifted it up so the front tires were up on the sidewalk. I remember, as a teenJapanese cars had fit-and-finish second to none; they started and ran smoothly with the primitive emissions controls of the time; but boy, did they rust. ), it was quite good. To keep your hands warm while you pushed. (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 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. It is a measure of the local intelligence that when the car and driver are dragged to shore some hours later, the doctor checks her pulse. View Cars. (Eagleburger had been U.S. ambassador to Yugoslvia and had spent almost all of his foreign service career in southeast europe. The entire dashboard- I mean the WHOLE thing in RHD versions is a single piece of soft foam. There was a dealer in Denver Colorado, called Apple Motors, who used to sell warmed up Yugos. Renault has been in state ownership since the 50s, and has been a very profitable company. Director Nick Gomez Writer Peter Steinfeld Stars Danny DeVito Bette Midler Neve Campbell So there you have it. I remember seeing new Yugos at the (I think 1990) Chicago Auto Show. My little red Yugo was dead. Why did Yugos have standard rear defrost? Going up hill was a struggle, it tended to roll back in reverse because it didnt have any power to go forward. You mentioned this before; itd make a great article. I cant imagine that anybody that test drove one like mine actually laid down real money for one. (A former test site for the Yugo car company, we're told. I actually grabbed a brochure on the convertible as a joke, it was only a single page. I was amazed when I rode in one, expecting a bouncy distaster but encountering a surprisingly supple feel of the suspension. Even so, Kei cars remain too small to be accepted by American consumers. A girl I hung out with in college had a Yugo. FSO 125P: The process, alone, of a car manufacturer as a unit of government, is suspect. Yes it was 3990 excluding transmition and tax and delivery charges. Bette Midler chops off son's hand. Finallywith a new clutch 400 miles oldit tossed the alternator belt. When the coroner first jumps into the water to check Mona's dead body, he is neck-deep in water. I had very good support for the Yugo as Atlanta is the home of Bayless, which is a big Fiat parts house. Possibly most accurate and realistic analysis I have heard yet regarding what happened in ex-Yugoslavia. Drowning Mona - An explanation informs viewers that the setting (Verplanck, New York) was a test market for Yugos. So we come to the end of the Yugo saga in America. When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect. 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. I wonder why they used the Yugos, To show the towns Quirkyness? Although it shares some similarities with the Fiat 127, it is actually based on the much more advanced Autobianchi. I also have to say that state ownership does not always lead to poor business. 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. Like all good European cars used to do, it came with its own tool kit and (owner) service manual. How many remains ??? The engine in mine was the old fiat 903 engine that dated back to the Fiat 600 of the 50s. What kind of sicko lives there? The ignition constantly gave out and so did the clutch. This car didnt want to go into reverse at a standstill. A quiet little in-joke indeed, but I mention it so the filmmakers will know their work was not in vain. I must admit that I own a Yugo. Actually, the GM B body starting in 1977 was very, very resistant to corrosion. I owned two. This article, like many here, evoked some fond memories. After highway driving the gear would refuse to shift, like it overheated being in gear so long, it refused to move. 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. Todays story, though, has nothing to do with anybody like that. I saw one parked on Colorado Blvd. 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. Enterior wall panels were thin cardboard with painted on carpet flecks. Barnum, Theres a sucker born every minute con-artist. And management, often put there through politics, has little interest in learning of customer dissatisfaction. }
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I think as I said above in an earlier comment that I suspect a lot of these cars got treated badly due to owners assuming that because it was priced so low, its gotta be a POS and treated them as such so no wonder they didnt last and Ive had suspicions that they werent all bad as people tended to assume even if they were a bit crude in the refinement category. A magazine road test came up with the amusing summary: Zastava Zastava made Yugos even after they stopped selling in America. And this works both ways after war ended in ex. 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. As the pride of Serbo-Croatia hit the streets of America, reports of slipshod assembly began flooding back to the companys Upper Saddle River , New Jersey headquarters. (As you said JustPassinThru). Me and my friend Jerry (from Sam Bonds) drove a Yugo at a wrecker yard in Coburg some years back. The collapse of Communism removed any perceived legitimacy left in the public who thought their future under capitalism would reflect a standard of living like W Germanys. But who? Drowning Mona (2000) Trivia Showing all 16 items The first thing to appear onscreen is a little blurb about the Yugo car company using the town of Verplanck as a test area for their new model years ago. They sold boatloads of them in Europe to price buyers, taxi companies, retired folk etc. Initially, I had my eyes set on a mid 80s Toyota Celica as the cheapest car I could find. 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. Sales ended in the U.S. that year when a recall was ordered by the feds over emissions issues related to faulty carburetors. (At the same dealership on the window sticker above,actually). 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. Yep, the N and Z360 from Honda, but when they made them for export, they dropped in a 600cc motor into what was essentially the same car so what we got as did Europe was the N and Z600 with a 600cc motor instead of the 360cc motor, which was the utmost limit in displacement for a Kei car then, and I think now. 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). They are also heavily used rather than background or minor action vehicles. Kind of reminds me of a first generation Rabbit/Golf, which Ive always considered the gold-standard for the best styled small car. It cut costs, and as was the concern then (as now) it was Green using the parlance of today. Nevermind that their cars are horribly unreliable, people still buy them. And often wins. At least a Suzuki Samurai has a separate frame. 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. Our narrative today is of a modern P.T. Maybe Bricklin had caught lightning in a bottle. An automatic wouldnt fit in the Yugo engine bay, so the only thing shiftless about the Yugo would be the Zastava workers that routinely drank on the job. But they did. Gearboxes on the other hand well, its a Fiat after all, and it teaches you how to double clutch. I really dont think that anyone has a competitive advantage in rust resistance any more. They even found dirt and rust that had been painted on in the inside of some cars nearing completion. The blue one had seen much more use than the red one, but it was still a good runner. It wasnt four door Yugo, that was Chevy Citation, if I remember correctly. a special for the movie,an extended version,or just my failing memory? At first glance, the car looked up to date- Front wheel drive, rack and pinion steering, decent mileage. Just finished Drowning Mona and came here for background. The cars WERE crap, you concede; and uncompetitive in a world market. It would take about eight years from apparent problem to engineered fix to failure of the fix and another engineered solution. 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. if(document.getElementById("unic-ccpa")) {
I recall taking my younger brother out to teach him how to drive. My guess is that many of his critics could not have done as much. The writer of Drowning Mona thought it would be hilarious to fill a 2000 crime caper with Yugo vehicles. But recycled steel, for whatever reason, is overly prone to corrosion. Someone wanted her dead. Only the Italians could design a car to be so much fun to drive so slowly. The Birdcage - Features a yellow Yugo Cabrio in Miami. You had to know FIATS and and what Yugo klooged up to meet EPA regs and how to unklooge it. Its not unlike the relationship I have with my cockroaches of the road (TM). It really has all of the benefits of an Italian car with none of the drawbacks. My dad is a bit of a FIAT nut so he would wrench on it from time to time. 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. @Zackman: No the real experience was driving that thing in Atlanta rush hour traffic at 80+ MPH. Saw a lot of Datsuns with the box off, and the tiny size of the frame on those thingsthey were half-ton trucks only by extreme optimism. FWIWYugo wasnt named for Yugoslavia, but its a phonetic of the name Jugo which is what the Mediterranean wind is called in their language. 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. It is my understanding the latter Yugos were much better than their earlier counterparts, but still not up to snuff with the worst(?) State-owned auto companies or assembly plants, tend to have little to no feedback from end-user to management. 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. There was a cheap-o daily rental car company that had a fleet of them, and they were in the process of changing out the Yugos for Hyundai Precis. Another example of the high cost of low priced objects. But of course, a parking lot fender bender would be enough to total these cars. Danny DeVito (Chief Wyatt Rash) and Tracey Walter (Clarence) appeared in Matilda (1996). Actually, from my experience with Yugo monocoque, four doors would have crushing effect on rigidity:). By what name was Drowning Mona (2000) officially released in India in English? And the gas cap would not come off. The problems with Audisare RELATIVE to other brands; and RELATIVE to past experiences. Which, actually, was a very good little car . Learn how your comment data is processed. Rona Mace (Jamie Lee Curtis) is an anagram for "a romance". I think that for a 1992 car (perhaps it should be a Serb-o? Parts are no problem, because it is basically a FIAT. Yes you read that right. [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 . 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. That's not who I am. I presume the folding roof is there just in case the doors jam shut because of a sagging body! I remember the shifter being very vague and rubbery but it did the job and the car wasnt too bad on other respects and I rather liked its styling. What a story! Youre welcome here anytime ! Those methods have contributed to rust resistance that we have come to expect from modern cars. The early Japanese cars were not that different from the 360: Junk. 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. These rear engined devices were a blast to drive, with tail-out shenanigans a-la Porsche 911 being easy to emulate. They were incredibly simple mechanically. But these Yugos aren't just a frivolous component of the storythey're essential to establishing the wacky tone of the film. She noted that while it wasnt much good past 65MPH (no overdrive), it never got less than 30MPG, and it handled beautifully. Introduced at an offer price of just under $1300 , the little Subaru made much of its over 60 MPG fuel economy and low cost of ownership. Disc #1 -- Drowning Mona Play Feature Chapters Setup 5.1 Surround Stereo English SDH Subtitles: On Subtitles: Off Extras - Trailers Drowning Mona Eye Of The Beholder . 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. 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), . Ive got video somewhere. I want to say she drove it, but I dont think she actually put many miles on it. 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. Almost everyone in town is a suspect. We learn that Verplanck was selected as a test market when the Yugo was being introduced to the United States. They didnt always start, and they DID always rust away. Saying that, it doesnt mean that people were particularly promiscuitive or anything like that. I've owned so many other cars so why not? Actually, Perry did a much better job of it than I could have. I started to work in 1985 as a young engineer in the factory producing electrical equipment for the industry, and was very aware about problems we faced at the time. One time the shifter came off in my hand. Bowfinger - The main character produced a documentary called The Yugo Story. Had a Datsun King Cab twenty-odd years agoand I went parts-shopping in boneyards. 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. 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Re: Malcolm Bricklin I do not see him as a crook. 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. That said, the most maintenance I did on the car(s) were oil changes and other mundane regular maintenance. 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. (function waitGEO() { He was a statistician in the War Department who became interested in using statistical controls to produce higher-quality manufactured goods. Having had some up-close contact with a 128, Id say that its more 128 than 127. R/S AUTOLINE INC. (1.3 miles away) 1215 W IMPERIAL HWY, Suite 213, BREA, CA 92821. The other being Yugo / Zastava missing out on producing a smaller model based on the Autobianchi A112 as a replacement for the Zastava 750, initially carrying over the existing Fiat 100 Series engines prior to using the Fiat FIRE engines. Had Bricklin given the tooling to the Koreans, and had it built to their standards under contracthed have had what he wanted. Handling is sharp and the engine loves to rev. 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. 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. There are, to be fair, other theories about how Jeff (Marcus Thomas) lost his hand, although in every scenario he was reaching for a beer. 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 cars in the movie were provided by Apple Motors in Denver, Colorado. But what about quality disasters in a different scenario?. I dont buy junk to begin with, maintain them, and only have minimal issues with them. Its a tough call on the Yugo. Many wars (holocausts, massacres) are blamed on religion, I can understand why some people no longer believe. A lot of Wehrmacht occupation troops went home in tiny little pieces because Zastava knew what they were doing. Now that its privatized, products have risen in quality to what the buyer expects for his money. Mine was an 86 and a half Yugo. Nevermind that their cars are horribly unreliable, people still buy them. Ive never felt safe in any car that light so would never have considered owning one, no matter how cheap, even if they had been decently made vehicles. IIRC, David E Davis even tried to help move these things by stating in Automobile that he was going to send his daughter off to college in one. 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. The film also stars Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, William Fichtner, Marcus Thomas, and Peter Dobson. How did Danny DeVito die in Drowning Mona? Do not sell my data In the 70s when I lived in Boston, I worked with a guy whose 5-year-old Pinto had big holes in the doors. Competing econoboxes included the Chevy Chevette,. Childrens toys are more dependable. People who took care of some basic maintenance and corrosion protection could see 10 to 15 years of service without too much trouble. What am I supposed to make outta that? There was a movie in 2000 entitled Drowning Mona where most of the people in a . Even though the price was a come on (dealers larded as many options onto the car as they could get away with, see below), America was hooked. Unpaid claims included some warranty work done by dealers on Yugos before sales collapsed. One day I put the key in and nothing happened, it was dead and wouldnt turn on. Yugoslavia was in the state of bankruptcy at that time, import of all goods and raw materials was practically halted. @Jeff Nelson: I think youre a bit dismissive of Zastava, they have been around for quite some time. Why are there so many Yugo in this movie? It was embarrassing, mother never drove it again. It was like, when you get in, what is next to give out or give you trouble. But back to the subject, shortage of all kind of raw material was the main reason for poor quality, not drunken workers. 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. Likewise the Toyotas and Datsuns. Very easy installation 15 t0 20 minutes. 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(?) Thank you for the interesting history. document.getElementById("unic-gdpr").style.display = 'inline'; The salesman was vaguely aware that they were built somewhere in Europe,but he was cagey about just where. Some Japanese automakers seem to have been surprisingly resistant to the latter; that was a major complaint of Yutaka Katayama at Nissan. Various ancillaries like alternators were replaced with real FIAT parts. 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. That means that all Yugos in this movie are from 1986. Last Update: . But there was one area that, frankly, I was impressed with, and that was the basic two-box design. . Ladas were, and are, shite. Since mine had been in a rental fleet, it was actually pretty well taken care of, it had an OK aftermarket radio and A/C. I know another-a lifelong car nut, married to another can nut. The sexy Marsha Brady girl with the bellbottoms in the Subaru commercials is unforgettable. Why Fiat? document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. I cant think of another car that disappeared off the roads faster. couple of months ago when I was in Athens. The brakes appear to have been tampered with, making it murder. 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. Warranty claims were dreadful. But like so much of his other stuff, the deal fell through. 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. But with enough TLC (something the average American consumer wasnt high on), maybe they werent so bad (at least a few of them, anyway). Of course, not wanting to be associated with alleged members of the alleged Romanian Mafia, Bently pulled out. It eventually developed a bad piston ring(s), and the blow by was enough to clog the carburetor so that it would stop running. 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? https://chrisoncars.com/yugo-victim-or-victimizer/: (Time Magazine said it best: The Yugo has the distinct feeling of something assembled at gunpoint), I found quite a few articles from later years, quoting the same sentence over and over again (https://www.carkeys.co.uk/news/the-story-of-the-yugo-the-worst-car-in-the-world, https://www.ocregister.com/2017/01/03/the-best-worst-cars-ever/ , https://blastmagazine.com/2014/05/13/truth-10-cars-never-hit-road/), And there you have it: everybody knows for fact that Yugo was actually assembled at gunpoint. It was not much bigger than a homeless persons shopping cart and similarly stocked. And a failed clutchI have driven manual transmission cars my whole life. In the small, white-trash town of Verplanck, N.Y., a loathsome woman named Mona Dearly (a dour and ugly Bette Midler) drives her car over a cliff and into the river. The story involves a local police chief from New York state who is charged with . Our Mr. Bricklin also had an idea to start up another company fed by Zastava, this time to be called ZMW. 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. Trivia: During lunch the high schoolers came out and lifted it up so the front tires were up on the sidewalk. I remember, as a teenJapanese cars had fit-and-finish second to none; they started and ran smoothly with the primitive emissions controls of the time; but boy, did they rust. ), it was quite good. To keep your hands warm while you pushed. (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 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. It is a measure of the local intelligence that when the car and driver are dragged to shore some hours later, the doctor checks her pulse. View Cars. (Eagleburger had been U.S. ambassador to Yugoslvia and had spent almost all of his foreign service career in southeast europe. The entire dashboard- I mean the WHOLE thing in RHD versions is a single piece of soft foam. There was a dealer in Denver Colorado, called Apple Motors, who used to sell warmed up Yugos. Renault has been in state ownership since the 50s, and has been a very profitable company. Director Nick Gomez Writer Peter Steinfeld Stars Danny DeVito Bette Midler Neve Campbell So there you have it. I remember seeing new Yugos at the (I think 1990) Chicago Auto Show. My little red Yugo was dead. Why did Yugos have standard rear defrost? Going up hill was a struggle, it tended to roll back in reverse because it didnt have any power to go forward. You mentioned this before; itd make a great article. I cant imagine that anybody that test drove one like mine actually laid down real money for one. (A former test site for the Yugo car company, we're told. I actually grabbed a brochure on the convertible as a joke, it was only a single page. I was amazed when I rode in one, expecting a bouncy distaster but encountering a surprisingly supple feel of the suspension. Even so, Kei cars remain too small to be accepted by American consumers. A girl I hung out with in college had a Yugo. FSO 125P: The process, alone, of a car manufacturer as a unit of government, is suspect. Yes it was 3990 excluding transmition and tax and delivery charges. Bette Midler chops off son's hand. Finallywith a new clutch 400 miles oldit tossed the alternator belt. When the coroner first jumps into the water to check Mona's dead body, he is neck-deep in water. I had very good support for the Yugo as Atlanta is the home of Bayless, which is a big Fiat parts house. Possibly most accurate and realistic analysis I have heard yet regarding what happened in ex-Yugoslavia. Drowning Mona - An explanation informs viewers that the setting (Verplanck, New York) was a test market for Yugos. So we come to the end of the Yugo saga in America. When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect. 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. I wonder why they used the Yugos, To show the towns Quirkyness? Although it shares some similarities with the Fiat 127, it is actually based on the much more advanced Autobianchi. I also have to say that state ownership does not always lead to poor business. 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. Like all good European cars used to do, it came with its own tool kit and (owner) service manual. How many remains ??? The engine in mine was the old fiat 903 engine that dated back to the Fiat 600 of the 50s. What kind of sicko lives there? The ignition constantly gave out and so did the clutch. This car didnt want to go into reverse at a standstill. A quiet little in-joke indeed, but I mention it so the filmmakers will know their work was not in vain. I must admit that I own a Yugo. Actually, the GM B body starting in 1977 was very, very resistant to corrosion. I owned two. This article, like many here, evoked some fond memories. After highway driving the gear would refuse to shift, like it overheated being in gear so long, it refused to move. 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. Todays story, though, has nothing to do with anybody like that. I saw one parked on Colorado Blvd. 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. Enterior wall panels were thin cardboard with painted on carpet flecks. Barnum, Theres a sucker born every minute con-artist. And management, often put there through politics, has little interest in learning of customer dissatisfaction. } Change Ad Consent I think as I said above in an earlier comment that I suspect a lot of these cars got treated badly due to owners assuming that because it was priced so low, its gotta be a POS and treated them as such so no wonder they didnt last and Ive had suspicions that they werent all bad as people tended to assume even if they were a bit crude in the refinement category. A magazine road test came up with the amusing summary: Zastava Zastava made Yugos even after they stopped selling in America. And this works both ways after war ended in ex. 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. As the pride of Serbo-Croatia hit the streets of America, reports of slipshod assembly began flooding back to the companys Upper Saddle River , New Jersey headquarters. (As you said JustPassinThru). Me and my friend Jerry (from Sam Bonds) drove a Yugo at a wrecker yard in Coburg some years back. The collapse of Communism removed any perceived legitimacy left in the public who thought their future under capitalism would reflect a standard of living like W Germanys. But who? Drowning Mona (2000) Trivia Showing all 16 items The first thing to appear onscreen is a little blurb about the Yugo car company using the town of Verplanck as a test area for their new model years ago. They sold boatloads of them in Europe to price buyers, taxi companies, retired folk etc. Initially, I had my eyes set on a mid 80s Toyota Celica as the cheapest car I could find. 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. Sales ended in the U.S. that year when a recall was ordered by the feds over emissions issues related to faulty carburetors. (At the same dealership on the window sticker above,actually). 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. Yep, the N and Z360 from Honda, but when they made them for export, they dropped in a 600cc motor into what was essentially the same car so what we got as did Europe was the N and Z600 with a 600cc motor instead of the 360cc motor, which was the utmost limit in displacement for a Kei car then, and I think now. 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). They are also heavily used rather than background or minor action vehicles. Kind of reminds me of a first generation Rabbit/Golf, which Ive always considered the gold-standard for the best styled small car. It cut costs, and as was the concern then (as now) it was Green using the parlance of today. Nevermind that their cars are horribly unreliable, people still buy them. And often wins. At least a Suzuki Samurai has a separate frame. 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. Our narrative today is of a modern P.T. Maybe Bricklin had caught lightning in a bottle. An automatic wouldnt fit in the Yugo engine bay, so the only thing shiftless about the Yugo would be the Zastava workers that routinely drank on the job. But they did. Gearboxes on the other hand well, its a Fiat after all, and it teaches you how to double clutch. I really dont think that anyone has a competitive advantage in rust resistance any more. They even found dirt and rust that had been painted on in the inside of some cars nearing completion. The blue one had seen much more use than the red one, but it was still a good runner. It wasnt four door Yugo, that was Chevy Citation, if I remember correctly. a special for the movie,an extended version,or just my failing memory? At first glance, the car looked up to date- Front wheel drive, rack and pinion steering, decent mileage. Just finished Drowning Mona and came here for background. The cars WERE crap, you concede; and uncompetitive in a world market. It would take about eight years from apparent problem to engineered fix to failure of the fix and another engineered solution. 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. if(document.getElementById("unic-ccpa")) { I recall taking my younger brother out to teach him how to drive. My guess is that many of his critics could not have done as much. The writer of Drowning Mona thought it would be hilarious to fill a 2000 crime caper with Yugo vehicles. But recycled steel, for whatever reason, is overly prone to corrosion. Someone wanted her dead. Only the Italians could design a car to be so much fun to drive so slowly. The Birdcage - Features a yellow Yugo Cabrio in Miami. You had to know FIATS and and what Yugo klooged up to meet EPA regs and how to unklooge it. Its not unlike the relationship I have with my cockroaches of the road (TM). It really has all of the benefits of an Italian car with none of the drawbacks. My dad is a bit of a FIAT nut so he would wrench on it from time to time. 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. @Zackman: No the real experience was driving that thing in Atlanta rush hour traffic at 80+ MPH. Saw a lot of Datsuns with the box off, and the tiny size of the frame on those thingsthey were half-ton trucks only by extreme optimism. FWIWYugo wasnt named for Yugoslavia, but its a phonetic of the name Jugo which is what the Mediterranean wind is called in their language. 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. It is my understanding the latter Yugos were much better than their earlier counterparts, but still not up to snuff with the worst(?) State-owned auto companies or assembly plants, tend to have little to no feedback from end-user to management. 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. There was a cheap-o daily rental car company that had a fleet of them, and they were in the process of changing out the Yugos for Hyundai Precis. Another example of the high cost of low priced objects. But of course, a parking lot fender bender would be enough to total these cars. Danny DeVito (Chief Wyatt Rash) and Tracey Walter (Clarence) appeared in Matilda (1996). Actually, from my experience with Yugo monocoque, four doors would have crushing effect on rigidity:). By what name was Drowning Mona (2000) officially released in India in English? And the gas cap would not come off. The problems with Audisare RELATIVE to other brands; and RELATIVE to past experiences. Which, actually, was a very good little car . Learn how your comment data is processed. Rona Mace (Jamie Lee Curtis) is an anagram for "a romance". I think that for a 1992 car (perhaps it should be a Serb-o? Parts are no problem, because it is basically a FIAT. Yes you read that right. [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 . 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. That's not who I am. I presume the folding roof is there just in case the doors jam shut because of a sagging body! I remember the shifter being very vague and rubbery but it did the job and the car wasnt too bad on other respects and I rather liked its styling. What a story! Youre welcome here anytime ! Those methods have contributed to rust resistance that we have come to expect from modern cars. The early Japanese cars were not that different from the 360: Junk. 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. These rear engined devices were a blast to drive, with tail-out shenanigans a-la Porsche 911 being easy to emulate. They were incredibly simple mechanically. But these Yugos aren't just a frivolous component of the storythey're essential to establishing the wacky tone of the film. She noted that while it wasnt much good past 65MPH (no overdrive), it never got less than 30MPG, and it handled beautifully. Introduced at an offer price of just under $1300 , the little Subaru made much of its over 60 MPG fuel economy and low cost of ownership. Disc #1 -- Drowning Mona Play Feature Chapters Setup 5.1 Surround Stereo English SDH Subtitles: On Subtitles: Off Extras - Trailers Drowning Mona Eye Of The Beholder . 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. 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), . Ive got video somewhere. I want to say she drove it, but I dont think she actually put many miles on it. 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. Almost everyone in town is a suspect. We learn that Verplanck was selected as a test market when the Yugo was being introduced to the United States. They didnt always start, and they DID always rust away. Saying that, it doesnt mean that people were particularly promiscuitive or anything like that. I've owned so many other cars so why not? Actually, Perry did a much better job of it than I could have. I started to work in 1985 as a young engineer in the factory producing electrical equipment for the industry, and was very aware about problems we faced at the time. One time the shifter came off in my hand. Bowfinger - The main character produced a documentary called The Yugo Story. Had a Datsun King Cab twenty-odd years agoand I went parts-shopping in boneyards. 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. 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