As noted, Bricklin first noticed the subcompact Yugo on the streets of London and within a couple of months, he had set up his first meet and greet with the management at Zastava . Then again, Ive always had a liking for the odd car or two over the years. Perhaps they were sabotaged so the poor workers wouldnt have to slave to make them for america? there used to be a sign on the front that said visionary vehicles but that came down at least two years ago. Vehicle used a lot by a main character or for a long time, Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase, Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene. Gearboxes on the other hand well, its a Fiat after all, and it teaches you how to double clutch. What a story! 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. During lunch the high schoolers came out and lifted it up so the front tires were up on the sidewalk. The salesman was vaguely aware that they were built somewhere in Europe,but he was cagey about just where. This was almost $1100 lower than the cheapest Chevy Sprint and lower than even the Hyundai Excel. From the Subaru 360, to the SV1, to the Yugo, up to Chery, he followed the time-honored scammers credo of taking as much money as he could through charm and charisma, and when the going got tough and his shell-game started coming unraveled, he bailed with his loot and moved on to his next scam. Bricklin had formed Yugo of America to import the car and as was his custom, financial shenanigans were part of the mix. 2) At the 2014 Route 66 Mother Road Festival in Springfield, Illinois there was a Yugo with a Chrysler 426 Hemi (with blower) in the rear of the car (Hemi under glass). When they came unglued from rot, there was no there there to support the structure. Wyatt finds no shortage of suspects. The process, alone, of a car manufacturer as a unit of government, is suspect. A quiet little in-joke indeed, but I mention it so the filmmakers will know their work was not in vain. 1. All in all, Monas jaunt into the river could have been described as a pretty fortuitous accident for everyones lives she touched, or in Monas case, bludgeoned. And often wins. 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. 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. I know there were folks who collected Yugos for nothing, for running and parts cars. Rona Mace (Jamie Lee Curtis) is an anagram for "a romance". 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. as long as you didnt try to get away with normal American car owner maintenance. Nevermind that their cars are horribly unreliable, people still buy them. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Youre welcome here anytime ! Serendipity! The last Yugo that we would recognize rolled off the assembly line in November 2008. Jason Torchinsky of Jalopnik had an interesting take on it lately; She picked them up for virtually nothing and was content with bare-bones transportation. . Why Fiat? https://jalopnik.com/the-yugo-is-not-the-worst-car-ever-and-anyone-who-says-1830229976, The Yugo Is Not the Worst Car Ever and Anyone Who Says That Is a Lazy Hack So Lets Prove It, Your email address will not be published. Yes it was 3990 excluding transmition and tax and delivery charges. i found this article about the space: 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. 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. Secondly, I would be one of those people who had a good experience with a Yugo. Ford uses a similar shade on their Mustangs of recent vintage and still love it even now. Purchased one year old cars for less than $1500 while attending college. The result is that the UK Yugo was a far superior car to the US one, with its dealership network out to make a quick buck. This may seem shocking, but Yugos really dont rust badly. Unscrew the shift knob. Todays story, though, has nothing to do with anybody like that. Parts are no problem, because it is basically a FIAT. A "Fetzer valve" is a fictional part of an engine, introduced in the movie Fletch (1985). Generally what kills them is the cost of major systems repairs, to where its not economically justifiable. Youd have to go from fourth to first gear to come down. Ive got video somewhere. 3) The Yugo has a good reputation in the land of its birth. In my Country was make an attempt to import the Yugo Cabrio,rebadged as Innocenti Koral Cabrio,but homologation fiche wasn't approved for Italy,but if car was tested by Italian motor magazines(Italy will import Yugos twice,1986 to 1987 with origin name Zastava Yugo and 1990 to 1992 as Innocenti Koral 45 and 55--that rebadged for our Country), I like this movie. I did appreciate the way Yugo could make one part do what a western car needed three for. Japanese rust problems are designed in the cars are only meant to last 6-7 years and were poorly protected in the factory. I would venture to guess that there are fewer than 500 running condition Yugos still on the road in the U.S. (most of which need a little TLC) Anybody that ever owned one of these little mobile gulags will tell you that there was nothing loveable, cute or endearing about them. By the 90s Japan had it totally nailed. 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. 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. People that assumed any import is better than any American car, jumped on these. It would take about eight years from apparent problem to engineered fix to failure of the fix and another engineered solution. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Yes, a Deer. Malcolm Bricklin was one of those guys who is the quintessential P.T. I was worried that shed make it. I actually checked out a Yugo about the same time I was looking at Sundances, Colts and similar vehicles and decided: No, I didnt have the time for the do-it-yourself maintenance it mightve required my current cars took care of that at the time! FWIWYugo wasnt named for Yugoslavia, but its a phonetic of the name Jugo which is what the Mediterranean wind is called in their language. All Rights Reserved. Ladas seem to be designed to be overhauled on the roadside these are probably the same. The problem here was, first, poor management, as I noted; second, a workplace culture and a national culture that was absolute authoritarianism. This is all fictional of course. } State-owned auto companies or assembly plants, tend to have little to no feedback from end-user to management. First, salt as a melting agent on roads was relatively new. Ah yes, I can see it now. No argument with the political details of your well made point. She was rather negligent about maintenance, so would have been tough on any vehicle, but her Yugo, like many of its kind, fell apart rather quickly, stressing a budget that was already tight. Kathleen Wilhoite (Lucinda) and Melissa McCarthy (Shirley) appeared on Gilmore Girls (2000). Do not sell my data Thanks for your detailed experience. Early oil changes, followed maintenance schedule. I drove it in Atlanta rush hour traffic, it got about 40MPG and I grew to really like the little beast. 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. Trivia: Childrens toys are more dependable. When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect. In the early 80s many of the domestics suddenly found they could use galvanized steel for body panels, and inner fender liners and other rust proofing methods, (better drains, etc.) By May of 1988, Malcom Bricklin needed a lifeboat and he found it on Wall Street. He was rather sad that after 170,000 miles it had And management, often put there through politics, has little interest in learning of customer dissatisfaction. Reading in Consumer Reports that the tester injured his toe when the front seat came crashing down on it. The battery required water to be poured into it. Id love to hear what they thought a year later. On the side fixed windows was lettered YuGo BIG or YuGo HOME. A girl I knew in high school had one of these, it got rustier seemingly by the day, and this was in 1991-2 so it wasnt by any means an old car. 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. 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.) Reviewed in . It wasnt my intention to advocate poor workmanship on the Yugo, it was all too obvious but i wanted to show that there were also other circumstances involved. Doug DeMuro joyfully reviewed one a couple of years ago. Another movie moment: Nick drives a Yugo in the film _Nick & Norahs Infinite Playlist_. 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. Sorry, Jeff, but I dare to notice that you dont know so much about Zastava (factory and cars, their projects and people, its country and history) and dare to write about. -You know why Yugo drivers go to heaven? What do you call a Yugo with twin exhausts? (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. And as any living myth, this one spreads into other areas as well: If I remember correctly, the car was equipped with all the usual goodies a Fiat engine with dual Webers, full roll cage, sticky racing tires, etc. It was owned by a gentleman named Dave Benton who claimed to be the former engineering manager for Yugo North America. Thank you for the history, it complements the story of the car well. 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. These rear engined devices were a blast to drive, with tail-out shenanigans a-la Porsche 911 being easy to emulate. It couldnt be trusted just sitting in the parking lot. 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. But recycled steel, for whatever reason, is overly prone to corrosion. 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. Before we wrap, lets sort them out. When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect.When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect.When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect. 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. A few things come to mind regarding the Yugo / Zastava Koral (and larger Yugo / Zastava Skala), mainly that it is a pity it never received similar developments such as 5-door hatchback, 2/4-door saloon and 3/5-door estate bodystyles as found on other Fiat 127-based variants like the SEAT 127 / SEAT Frua and Fiat 147 / Fiat Oggi / Fiat Panorama, along with larger 1372-1596cc+ versions of the Fiat SOHC engine. See production, box office & company info, Siskel & Ebert: Drowning Mona/My Dog Skip/What Planet Are You From?/The Next Best Thing/Miss Julie. There were surely other goofs that were institutionalized. There are many causes for poor management. At that time, Bricklin was probably best known for the eponymous car that he launched amidst much fanfare in 1974. Bricklin wisely took the first offer and netted about $20 million for his trouble. How did Danny DeVito die in Drowning Mona? The Yugo was a far superior car compared against a Chevette, or first generation Hyundai. It was only later, when the bean-counters bid out the belts on a cost basis, that they developed a much shorter lifespan. He soon discovers that her death was no accident. Very entertaining. It broke down like a Yugo. Holy mackerel, Goe, what a story and experience! 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. Now that its privatized, products have risen in quality to what the buyer expects for his money. The first year all those repairs were paid for, so it wasnt as miserable then. 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. The Yugo became the default entry level car for people that knew the price of everything but the value of nothing. Yugoslavia was in the state of bankruptcy at that time, import of all goods and raw materials was practically halted. Say what you will about Bricklin he is a man of action. It had become commonplace in the 1950s; and manufacturers first tried ignoring the problem; then dealing with it with superficial fixes like Zincrometal body panels. 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. (France) Chi ha ucciso la signora Dearly? 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. People's spotty memories and clumsy lies complicate the investigation, and the . 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. Motor Trend reported that their hand picked press ringer broke down during testing. Required fields are marked *. Ive been around big rigs all of my life, but they never looked bigger than when I was next to them on the freeway. She does figure in a quiet little in-joke. This doomed script and conventional direction venture for Nick Gomez (" New Jersey Drive "/" Laws of Gravity "), results in a comedy that got by with a few mean-spirited jokes. One reason is that lots of people own and drive them and parts are a breeze. The one thing that the Yugo shared with its Fiat ancestry, was the fact that these things were biodegradable in the midwest. His shaky little import business was marketing Bertone X/19s after Fiat said arrivederci in 1982, but the end of that venture was in sight. 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. Screenwriter Peter Steinfeld says the film was originally going to be set in a mythical north. } It was a much more reliable and simple design than the 128 engine in States bound Yugos. Let me disillusion youI busted a piston crown and bent a valve badly enough to freeze up the camshaft. I also started using Restore engine treatment, and that took care of that issue. At least a Suzuki Samurai has a separate frame. I test drove one of these brand new when they hit the market. . Another factor was that Subaru managed to kick Bricklin out on the street and take over distribution and marketing before he ran it into the ground. It was amazing (to me) how they found a solution so quickly. 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. Ive heard that by 1989, Malcolm Bricklin was kicked out and Zastava took over importing the cars to the US and made a substantial series of changes/improvements and the cars then came with fuel injection, the GV, GVL, GVC, and GVS and the sportier GVX were combined into one car, the GV Plus fitted with better seats (the fold and slide seats from the GVX), the larger 1.3L 4, the 5spd in a more basic interior and exterior trim package, adding the AC etc and Bosh fuel injection and I hear from Chris Vitale who runs Fiat 500 USA blog who owned a 1991 Yugo with FI until a couple of years or so ago that by then, their warranty claims were very good, but the war took its toll as did the emissions debacle in 1992 brought the cars run in the US to an end. The base GV had a 1.1L, SOHC motor that originated in the Fiat 128 and the GVX had the 1.3L\, SOHC, motor, also from the Fiat 128 and I think it had the 5spd manual in it but the base GV got the 4spd manual. Actions lie louder than words. by Carolyn Wells. Just finished Drowning Mona and came here for background. Her brake lines had been cut. 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. He was absolutely correct. He lost his house, his fortuneAnd the dozens of Yugo GVs that he received as part of his settlement with his bankers. His routine went something likeThe Yugo, what self respecting country would name a car that sorry after itself? 459 tweaks (and 18 months) later, the Yugo was almost ready for launch. Why are there so many Yugo in this movie? Like all good European cars used to do, it came with its own tool kit and (owner) service manual. It eventually developed a bad piston ring(s), and the blow by was enough to clog the carburetor so that it would stop running. 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. Its well nigh impossible to understand the Yugo episode without understanding the guiding hand behind what is generally considered to be the worst car ever offered for sale in the U.S. Malcom Bricklin had been knocking around the car industry for over a quarter century when he spotted a Yugo 45 on a London street in 1984. Further, it was the only small car of the era that could be genuinely fun to drive. Fuji was pretty well aware that the car wasnt suitable for America circa 1969. 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. She wrote something like, How cute, Ill be Lelo in her Yugo.. Thanks for telling it. Barnum and the circus freak show that he brought to America in the twilight of the Reagan years. They were not standing still, by any means. 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. 1. FSO 125P: It began the use of the FWD, horizontal boxer engine which carries on in Subarus to this day (albeit in a modern form). Having had some up-close contact with a 128, Id say that its more 128 than 127. UK Yugo dealers were often small garages in small towns, who really tried to do the prep work to get the cars out well. As for the FloridaBricklin was itching to bring it in. Privacy policy 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. 2. Bricklin was kicked out in the first (of two) bankruptcies, true. 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. In fact, it was through the good offices of Lawrence Eagleburger that all of the political red tape was navigated in order to make the project feasible. When the Yugo GV was finally offered for sale in September 1985, (as an 86 model) , initial orders looked promising. If Germany had built it, would it have been called the Germ? That's not who I am. Though set in Verplanck, "Drowning Mona" was shot entirely within an hour's commute of Los Angeles. There was something wrong with every single facet of this car. As it turns out, the same rental car place was STILL selling surplus Yugos, and I bought a blue one this time. Im pretty sure that she kept her clothes on. I cant think of another car that disappeared off the roads faster. AMC, in its last years, went so far as to have Ziebart license its procedure for use in the factory. It failed, of all places, on the Bonneville salt flats area in Utah. I wonder why they used the Yugos, To show the towns Quirkyness? But it needed even more tweaking than did the Jugo 45which is what the Yugo was based on. Drowning Mona | 2000 | PG-13 | - 5.5.5. In the end, its poor management. If Italy had built it, would it be known as the It??? Nobody had let management know that the wiring harness as made, wasnt usable in that part of the car. The running gear would be the 1.1 Litre straight four that Zastava had learned to build from Fiat and the transmission would be a truly nasty four speed manual. (As you said JustPassinThru). Neve Campbell was also working on Party of Five (1994) and Scream 3 (2000) while shooting this film. Dealers there are order-takers. Ive talked to other people in the UK who bought them new, and many have had more than one. It took time, development, persuading of management that there WAS a problem (not an easy task in the Japanese culture) but bit by bit, the problems were resolved. Dont forget, we had the Czech Skoda Estelle, the Russian Lada and the Polish FSO 125p all competing at the bottom of the market. Whats bad. Drowning Mona is a 2000 U.S. crime comedy starring Danny DeVito as Wyatt Rash, a local police chief from Verplanck, New York, who investigates the mysterious death of Mona Dearly (played by Bette Midler), a spiteful, loud-mouthed, cruel and around the town highly unpopular woman, who drove her son's Yugo off the . They were incredibly simple mechanically. Here, it is well known that you change the timing belt every 40K miles. My problem was that I didn't care who killed Mona Dearly, or why, and didn't want to know anyone in town except for Chief Rash and his daughter. or all of the Ladas.As has been mentioned already this kind of cheap car ownership But back to the subject, shortage of all kind of raw material was the main reason for poor quality, not drunken workers. 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. They had other third-world markets in mind. I would be *shocked* to see a single one moving under its own power in 2011. It's a movie that has an attitude problem it couldn't resolve as easily as it did the mystery to Mona's death. Agree with this last. Regarding the rust: It was a myriad of factors. I dont buy junk to begin with, maintain them, and only have minimal issues with them. 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. My BIL and I popped out the axles, but that was more of a preventative move, rather than a necessity. What am I supposed to make outta that? 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. 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). Two cars are in the driveway of a glorious but faded Victorian mansion: The Bertone and a Yugo. There are like 100 YUGOs in the movie, which I think came out around 1998. 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), . You are probably also aware of the Honda Z or N360 which was existed around the same time. Likewise the Toyotas and Datsuns. 3. Of course, as pointed out, it was more probable that hed have put the company out of business, too. 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. 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