And now... The Yugo

[TheMightyFavog]

Discuss...

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Weird - I made mention of the Yugo in a thread earlier tonight

Two Yugo references in one night!

[DainBramaged]

5. There is a guy in my town who has one of the last convertibles

In perfect condition and drives it in all of the parades with some big wig or the other in it (usually a big jerk). It doesn't even smoke.

But this is where most Yugo's are now.

[Hand]

2. A Fiat clone made in Yugoslavia...

Need I say more?

[Kutjara]

4. Yes, Yugoslavian flair and Italian build quality.

How could it possibly fail?

[Hand]

6. HAR!

OUTSTANDING!

[libnnc]

3. my piano teacher had one

He was so proud of it. No air. No radio. Stick shift and no power steering. But it was paid for by gawd! And it was powder blue with pin stripes.

[DainBramaged]

7. A sweat and shift model. Oh I long for the days of automotive insanity

[Kutjara]

8. The Yugo was bad, but nothing was worse than...

...The Mighty Trabant!!!



It was made of a bizzare cellulose/plastic composite that was slightly more flammable than gasoline, would collapse like a beercan in any crash faster than 10 mph, and had its gas tank on top of the engine. It wasn't a car so much as a mobile suicide chamber.

[Reverend_Smitty]

9. It's products like these that almost guarantee the failure of Communism

It's surprising the steel curtain lasted as long as it did

[rockymountaindem]

10. Laugh if you want but I saw my fair share of those *still* driving around in Hungary.

Maybe they're better than we give them credit for being? On the other hand, the Czechs have moved well past all that crap into nice new Skodas. Some of them looked so good that I'd have no problem driving one around in the US.

[Kutjara]

11. New Skodas are great.

Skoda is owned by Volkswagen now, so the Skoda Octavia is basically the same as the Volkswagen Passat. The rest of the range is similarly based on VW models of equivalent size.

I think the continued existence of the Trabbie in former Eastern Bloc countries has more to do with nostalgia and the ingenuity of local mechanics than the intrinsic qualities of the marque. Trabants are deathtraps. I used to drive one when I lived in the Czech Republic and my life flashed before my eyes on a regular basis.

[Writer]

12. The Yugo. Value on the lot: $3990...

value once its driven off the lot: $39.90. :P

[Archae]

13. Yugo...

...get screwed. :-)