My favorite memory was the NYC art exhibit where every sculpture was created from the remains of an old Yugo. 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. Did it even come close? Dealers there are order-takers. I recall taking my younger brother out to teach him how to drive. I pampered and took extremely good care of it and maintained it very well, it just couldnt hold up to being pampered either. Quality (or a lack of same) would ensure that the car could not survive in a competitive marketplace. This is the same scenario as Chrysler- My parents always said that if you get a Dodge in town itll be a lemon, but in the country, itll be a good car because the smaller country dealer relies on repeat business and does a better PDI, ensuring bolts arent missing, and both sides identify the car correctly. Although I tested it in the summer, the car sputtered and hesitated like it was cold. Yes you read that right. (As you said JustPassinThru). It would be interesting to see how the rear suspension was beefed up. Even so, Kei cars remain too small to be accepted by American consumers. But the acquisition by Fiat in 2010 renders all of that as ancient history. Japanese cars generally started out small, usually around 800cc in the mid 1950s and grew with the prosperity of the country and desire to chase export markets. I dont buy junk to begin with, maintain them, and only have minimal issues with them. I saw it on the Helena streets quite a lot, but it was the only one in the city. . Yugos are cars. 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. Zastava took over the American 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. Damn that X1/9 still looks beautiful just like mine the 81 behind the new Abarth. Substandard seatbelt anchors, collapsing seats, hard starting, no starting, the list was endless. couple of months ago when I was in Athens. 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. 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. Both were good strong running vehicles and the only thing I remember having trouble with was remedied by tightening up the battery to starter connection on one of the cars. But youre right that would mean being a business man and not a con-artist. It was a much more reliable and simple design than the 128 engine in States bound Yugos. @Jeff Nelson: I think youre a bit dismissive of Zastava, they have been around for quite some time. Her brake lines had been cut. I want to say she drove it, but I dont think she actually put many miles on it. 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. Not a bit ! I saw one not long ago on the streets in Eugene, but couldnt catch it., Theres got to be a comeback there! This car had one genuine asset: ride quality. Not sure they sold very many. On the side fixed windows was lettered YuGo BIG or YuGo HOME. This was almost $1100 lower than the cheapest Chevy Sprint and lower than even the Hyundai Excel. 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. You are right.I found it here: I also have to say that state ownership does not always lead to poor business. Its not like Fiat designs were anything special, quite the contrary in many instances. Ive got a couple of rusted out British cars one of which I repaired The rust was caused by poor window sealing on both water rusted it way out however the spares one was driven full of rust which spread it all through the unpainted box sections. Had a Datsun King Cab twenty-odd years agoand I went parts-shopping in boneyards. Thank you for the interesting history. Purchased one year old cars for less than $1500 while attending college. Those brave revolutionaries almost single handedly redefine their market segment and leave an indelible mark on the industry itself. When the nastiest resident (Bette Midler) of a white-trash Westchester suburb is killed in a suspicious accident, everyone Much embarrassment was caused to Toyota when it was found domestic panels had been mistakenly exported to NZ for local assembly we keep cars forever and these rusted out under a year on local limestone based and cowshit covered roads. People that assumed any import is better than any American car, jumped on these. Competing econoboxes included the Chevy Chevette,. They found slipshod handling of stamped body panels, and the assembly lines using dirty, even dented panels; he found painting in dusty areas, not the clean, dust-free booths required for good paint covering and adhesion. Doug DeMuro joyfully reviewed one a couple of years ago. It eventually developed a bad piston ring(s), and the blow by was enough to clog the carburetor so that it would stop running. They did not have such a bad reputation,at least not as bad as the rear engined Skodas The problem here was, first, poor management, as I noted; second, a workplace culture and a national culture that was absolute authoritarianism. But the reason it hit the Japanese cars harderwas that while many American cars were still frame-on-platform, and had some beef in the underbellyand even the unibody models were over-engineered for rigiditythe Japanese models had pared weight and beef to a minimum. YUGO caps and shirts and other fun car show displays. NEVER Give Up - NEVER Back Down Notify me of follow-up comments by email. My best friend had for a brief time, a rusted 1980 Civic DX hatchback that ultimately blew out its 2 upper gears in the 5spd manual tranny that did it in even though his mechanic could not get the bolts out to replace the clutch due to rust. Dispose of the rest of the car. We had these in the U.K, I dont remember them being particularly bad, the main criticism was that it was seen as too expensive for what was clearly an Eastern European rehash of a cast off western design. During WWII, they built a few Jeeps. We learn that Verplanck was selected as a test market when the Yugo was being introduced to the United States. What kind of car is in the movie Drowning Mona? 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. Handling is sharp and the engine loves to rev. She was given a Yugo that wouldnt runthe fix was nine dollars. To see mine riding on a tow truck was so humiliating. Youd have to go from fourth to first gear to come down. Even in Western Europe, cars arent marketed as they are here. FSO 125P: Also spare parts were inexpensive and any mechanic and his nephew would fix it. The possibility upsets Ellen, who explains in some of the movie's best dialogue: "I can't marry a murderer. Having had some up-close contact with a 128, Id say that its more 128 than 127. Critically, one of her co-workers loved Fiats, and he taught her their quirks-most of which the Yugo shared. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. I had always known these to be license-built versions of the 128. 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. In this black comedy, everyone in a small town becomes a suspect when a much-despised woman not-so-accidentally drives her Yugo off a cliff. The last ones left in my hometown got a stay of execution when the city received a good number of Bosnian refugees in the 90s; many of them bought Yugos and got mobile for next to nothing since they knew how to keep them running. Even those of us raised on rusting U.S. cars from the 60s were surprised by how fast the Japaneese stuff vaporized. 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. It WAS a simple-to-work-on car; and in that regard I appreciated it. Technically if its going downhill it wasnt moving on its own power. Change Ad Consent She picked them up for virtually nothing and was content with bare-bones transportation. The brakes appear to have been tampered with, making it murder. When they all disappeared, I surmised it was because he had been caught by the police for driving unregistered vehiclesmore likely they all just died from their terminal junkiness. At that time, Bricklin was probably best known for the eponymous car that he launched amidst much fanfare in 1974. No tinted glass or glove compartment. They were not standing still, by any means. 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. Jason Torchinsky of Jalopnik had an interesting take on it lately; After the death of Marshal Tito in 1980, long simmering Balkan feuds became a way of life and continue there to this day. First of all, thanks to Perry Shoar for a very well written explanation of the events of the 70s and 80s that led to the meltdown of Yugoslavia. Why Fiat? He got two large import operations going and he launched the SV-1. 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). But Bricklin assured his erstwhile investors that the car could be made ready for the U.S. market with some minor tweaks. (first posted 10/10/2011) Every once in a while, a visionary, iconoclastic automotive pioneer bursts on the scene and, bucking the long odds and naysaying conventional wisdom, delivers a disruptive new line of cars. Just as quickly as the Yugo ascended to number two in european import sales, the car plummeted back to earth and never rose again. Mona Dearly: Yeah? Yes it was 3990 excluding transmition and tax and delivery charges. But with enough TLC (something the average American consumer wasnt high on), maybe they werent so bad (at least a few of them, anyway). Before we wrap, lets sort them out. Also in Drowning Mona's favor, at the heart of the movie, is a genuinely positive character, Verplanck Police Chief Wyatt Rash (Danny DeVito).He's possibly the only principled citizen in town. Whats good- quad headlights Serendipity! Second factor was, the popularity in the day of recycled steel in car manufacture. Very entertaining. readyGEO = true; @Zackman: No the real experience was driving that thing in Atlanta rush hour traffic at 80+ MPH. Everyone in Verplanck, N.Y., drives a Yugo. Parts are no problem, because it is basically a FIAT. 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. Personally I would have gone for the Skoda. They initially started out as an arms manufacturer. Had the car been screwed together properly, and had there been an engineering department to iron out the bugs, it could have had a long run. ), See all comments about this movie and its vehicles. Actually, Perry did a much better job of it than I could have. 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. The 4 door one was a dodge omni, think it was a glh. And it tanked with the critics. Two cars are in the driveway of a glorious but faded Victorian mansion: The Bertone and a Yugo. 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. Every vehicle in town that is not a truck is a Yugo, except the police cruisers, which are Plymouth Horizons., And lastly, I recall seeing a comedian on TV talking about Yugos. The Bricklin SV-1 was remembered for several interesting features: lurid (safety) colors , no cigarette lighter (Bricklin was a rabid non-smoker) , and most importantly, the ability to vacuum piles of money from the gullible government of New Brunswick, Canada. The cars were not labor or maintenance intensive at all, and in fact some things worked better on that car than did my dear old Lancer, like the A/C system. I may know the only satisfied Yugo owner in the U.S. I drove the blue one about three more years, but it did have some issues. It was owned by a gentleman named Dave Benton who claimed to be the former engineering manager for Yugo North America. She does figure in a quiet little in-joke. Could you imagine if another country decided to do that? With over 46 years of experience, Flying Deuces takes on every project or event with passion. I had two of them. It has interesting characters and situations and I found myself really enjoying the film--only to have it all fizzle at the end. Of course, being that these cars were manual transmissioned cars, Im sure they didnt rented out nearly as much as the Ford Escorts and Hyundais that had automatics. Sales quickly slowed when word of the myriad problems began to circulate in the media. Actually, from my experience with Yugo monocoque, four doors would have crushing effect on rigidity:). Youre welcome here anytime ! She wrote something like, How cute, Ill be Lelo in her Yugo.. Further, it was the only small car of the era that could be genuinely fun to drive. 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. } I guess Ive been mispronouncing subaru all these years. Yugoslavia was in the state of bankruptcy at that time, import of all goods and raw materials was practically halted. I mean, cmon, its an Eastern Bloc car. English tongues tended to read it JUG-oh not a saleable name. He drove them all fast and hard which no doubt shortened their operational life. The one thing that the Yugo shared with its Fiat ancestry, was the fact that these things were biodegradable in the midwest. Just like the Russian Lada its simple and DIY friendly as long as you relise that and dont expect a Lexus. The sexy Marsha Brady girl with the bellbottoms in the Subaru commercials is unforgettable. As the movie opens, a local woman named Mona Dearly ( Bette Midler) speeds down a country road and directly into the Hudson River when her brakes fail. That brochures more collectible than its car. Ive always had a soft spot for these little cars from Yugoslavia. The Yugos are a literal running joke throughout the movie. My mother drove it to work at the high school one time. finally blown up. Too many people in this country have this mentality that if its cheap, treat it as such and yes, a fulfilled prophesy. 1) Anything assembled at gunpoint tends not to be of high quality. Yes, even a Saturn will rust in Detroit, but in less harsh climes, Yugos tend to last well. 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. So, they set about seeing what was what with a road-trip around Romania in three cars they would be testing. I think we need to re-evaluate the Yugo against 1986 standards instead of 2011 standards. 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. That's not what I'm about." Visit Dealer Website. Even here in the Land That Rust Forgot, I rarely see anything from the 70s. And if it WAS done, thats $500 WASTED. Once I figured out what was happening to the carb, I developed an oil trap that kept motor oil from getting past the PC valve and being sucked into the carb. Very easy installation 15 t0 20 minutes. Last Update: . Paid less than a thousand for it, thought at the time it was a good buy. 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. 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. But like so much of his other stuff, the deal fell through. They are also heavily used rather than background or minor action vehicles. R/S AUTOLINE INC. (1.3 miles away) 1215 W IMPERIAL HWY, Suite 213, BREA, CA 92821. . I spotted the ones in the picture while out on a bike ride a few years ago. 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? i found this article about the space: Every character's automobile has personalized plates. NO. Dan beat me to it. I blame the cost-cutters, whove put us in this positionspin the dice wrong, youre buying a new engine. This is how Hyundai and Kia got their start and Zastava began doing it earlier. 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. Only the Italians could design a car to be so much fun to drive so slowly. Pictures provided by: garco, antp, ahight, Display options: Display as images Display as list (not that I cared that much about it I was in my mid-twenties and during summer season beaches were full of naked girls.) But it needed even more tweaking than did the Jugo 45which is what the Yugo was based on. Lucinda (Kathleen Wilhoite), the local garage mechanic, checks out the death vehicle and confirms the sheriff's suspicions: The car was rigged. Yeah, theres no question on really poor build quality. At least until the inevitable head gasket problems caused by an Iron head and alloy block. 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 . Wyatt finds no shortage of suspects. 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. He claimed the belt was good for 200,000-plus miles, often outlasting the pulleys. But outside of regular tourist routes and specially on the outer islands, unofficial nude beaches were everywhere. As it turns out, the same rental car place was STILL selling surplus Yugos, and I bought a blue one this time. They pronounce it yugo and Bricklins people realized a car called Jugo would have problems in marketing. Thanks for telling it. We learn that Verplanck was selected as a test market when the Yugo was being introduced to the United States. See production, box office & company info, Siskel & Ebert: Drowning Mona/My Dog Skip/What Planet Are You From?/The Next Best Thing/Miss Julie. I remember the lights were tied to the ignition switch so if you left the light switch on, theyd go off when you shut down the car, and back on when you started it back up, and that meant headlights and all, ala SAAB. But who? (A former test site for the Yugo car company, we're told. Bricklin often says that the first model year or so of production the cars were well assembled and then once Zastava saw the money they let things slip. As played in flashbacks by Midler, Mona is a ferocious harridan who may have hacked off her own son's hand just because he was trying to snatch her beer. The salesman was vaguely aware that they were built somewhere in Europe,but he was cagey about just where. 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. Except that the belt managed to get into the TIMING BELT caseand pop THAT off. Unfortunately, Bricklin was smitten by the cars simple mediocrity and, just like a cartoon character with outsized dollar signs for eyes, he began the process for bringing the homely little car to the states. They were true babes in the woods, and they lacked the capital to deal with the investment and the costs of distributing cars. There was a dealer in Denver Colorado, called Apple Motors, who used to sell warmed up Yugos. i find it interesting that visionary vehicles still lists 172 duane st. in tribeca as their headquarters. setTimeout(waitGEO, 200); I heard a version on Car Talk of a deer that a priest hit and it had 150K on the clock when he hit it in his Yugo. Though set in Verplanck, "Drowning Mona" was shot entirely within an hour's commute of Los Angeles. He sat in the front seat once and never again! To this day I have never felt a more imprecise,balky shifter. 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. 2) My wife (an engineer like yourself) has been to Dubrovnik and says that the beaches are incredible. 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. Here is the text that opens Drowning Mona before we see the first shot: Todays story, though, has nothing to do with anybody like that. Saying that, it doesnt mean that people were particularly promiscuitive or anything like that. The accident I referenced in my earlier post has adversely affected my overall health (lumbar damage), and Im nowhere near as ready to slide under a car as I used to be. Destination was Las Vegas; and by the time I got there the only way to get it to move was in First. 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. alignments. 2. 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. I had been driving a Datsun 200 SX and the 5 speed was like silk. The "Fetzer valve", when Lucinda the mechanic is giving the Sheriff her findings about Mona's car, she says the "Fetzer valve" had been punctured. @EdDan: How do you double the value of your Yugo? If Germany had built it, would it have been called the Germ? Ladas were, and are, shite. And management, often put there through politics, has little interest in learning of customer dissatisfaction. Later I also replaced steering rack under warranty because of some slack inside. 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. Another example of the high cost of low priced objects. The local news interveiwed some and they were going for $4000 Id end up with used junk, but now I got a new import!. Casey Affleck wore a blonde wig for this film. I know of a 1979 Datsun pickup that completly rusted out in 6 years. 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. lol, Yugos were marketed in USA 1985 to 1990 by Malcolm Bricklin's vehicle imports Firm. The Little SuBARu Wow!, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLPp-NFInXw. To be sure, the car was primitive, even by 1980s standards. I wonder if he actually carried that threat out, and if his daughter ever forgave him if he did. It was only later, when the bean-counters bid out the belts on a cost basis, that they developed a much shorter lifespan. He was a statistician in the War Department who became interested in using statistical controls to produce higher-quality manufactured goods. I havent seen one on the road in at least 15 years. parts are easy, I have a new driver side indoor handle ordered that will be here Tuesday. There was something wrong with every single facet of this car. (Fiat DID design the chassis, after all.). 1. Many years later I saw it, and her, driving down a street near my house. Found it! 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! 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! 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