The guy in the video: This car sucks, it'll probably fall apart after 3 months of use. 90% of the comments: Our family had a yugo for 20 years, we never took it to the mechanic and it never let us down. I got raised by that car, it is like a parent to me. Unforgettable experience.
The guy pissed me off actually: One of the reasons why is it the worst car ever is because it has only five switches on the dash🤔 The fuck is he expecting on a 1980's car? A nitro maybe?😡😡😡
@@misaVR well ya see, look at how many features a similarly priced car had. You could get an AMC spirit for not much more, and it had so many features, and it looked nicer. Then at the same time, you could’ve gotten a new mustang for not much more. And then there’s the Ford Fiesta, looks like a Yugo, but performs like a true hatchback. The yugo was overpriced for its features and speed. And a little over 6 years later, the geo metro came out, it was 6000 new and it was miles faster. Plus this is the 80s, someone could’ve bought a 70s charger with a 426Hemi for a couple thousand.
@@Menace2DaComments You're forgetting one thing: it was not made for USA needs. Where it was made you need more than $1.5k for yearly registration for engines of 2.5L+. It was not made to run fast, but to run economically: 6L/100km fuel and still get you to the same place as Mustang. And guess what: it still runs all over Yugoslavia.
I'm not that surprised. If you make fun of something, you're gonna get people who defend it. I don't mind the Yugo, but in the US, there's no arguing that it was cheapo transport. (I'm not from the US.)
@Sussy ass motherfucka it doesn't matter where and who it was manufactured for. The fact you could buy a substantially more ethical vehicle for basically the same price exposes what a piece of scrap metal this embarrassment actually was. Just accept the fact your country makes trash vehicles.
"no automatic climate control" from a car from the fucking 80's, get your mindset in that time alright... and think of the price -.- sometimes i feel like you have no idea about cars (especially older cars)
There was no climate control, in summer, you'd die in a Yugo, but in winter the heating was superb, I'm driving a Hyundai i30 today, and the heating can hide itself compared to the Yugo. If I had the heating on max, I had to had to open the window not to bake. I was never cold in my Yugo.
@@bibox9487 you are wrong there, it's designed by Zastava factory in Kragujevac, Serbia. Truth is that Zastava did produce models licences under Fiat but this isn't one of them. Engine, gearbox and body is designed by Yugoslav engineers. Yes, they made have used some Fiat solutions from their experience building Fiat cars, but nothing on this car has to do with Fiat. The sad fact about this car and it's factory is that they produced Yugo's until late 2007 and all they changed on it was brand badge, bumpers and stop lights. So, for 30 years, for how long they were making them, that is all off the developments that car got. Many of us, ex Yugoslav's learn to drove on this car, it was unreliable, but cheap and available parts. I learned a lot about mechanics driving it. All in all, it's not as bad as some other cars produced in Eastern Europe at the time.
@@comoespeja when you have time and desire you read this wikipedia article in italian leanguage www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zastava_Yugo&ved=2ahUKEwjEsdu_zuTiAhVBlosKHaD7C5MQFjAIegQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw01ghSsHqJv34wPBRSxUuJk
Kcuf elgoog. i was a yugo owner from 1988 to 2003 and i can say a lot of the things they say about the yugo is not that true is more like they like to ridicule the car i wich still jave it
It’s an awesome joke, but in reality it would still be gutted for anything you can sell without having to admit it came from a Yugo and the rest torn apart with a huge “SCREW YOU” spray painted/keyed on the side by the thief, for having the gall of trying to outsmart them. It’s like that urban legend of the thieves leaving a message of “whenever we want it (whatever the heck you’ve got valuable), we’ll take it”. Yes, I have depression. I need to get my head examined.
@@Kia_Soulless the flag you have in your name is Palestine.... And seriously,what kind of ignorant person you are? My previous comment is just a joke, don't take it seriously
I bought a Yugo GV JUST LIKE THIS ONE in 1988. It was a 1987 and had just been dented all over by a hailstorm. It had 5k miles, A/C, and an AM/FM cassette stereo. Got it for $2,000. Put 68K miles on it without a single problem! Sold it for $1200 still running well!
I bought a NEW 1988 Yugo GV , on sale for $2690.00 + tax & fees. Drove it for over 65,000 trouble free miles. Sold it for $1900. While it was nothing special, It was my best ( financially speaking) car deal ever. Was I the only lucky one? Probably not.
@@harunhodzic7473 it can be considered south eastern europe btw i was in kosovo 2006 literally everybody is laughing about that car even people who dont own a car wouldnt take it xD
the old joke -- buddy walks in to the auto parts store and says, "hi...I'd like to get a mirror for my Yugo" Buddy behind the desks replies, "fair trade"
A friend had a Yugo that he drove 70 miles round trip everyday, it was also air conditioned and the car lasted 184,000 miles before the engine blew. I don't remember him having much trouble with it.
The antire issue about Yugo's got toally overreacted. It started to be sort of fashion to talk bad about that poor cheap car. but the fact is that in late 1980s and early 1990s a lot of car manufacturers trought the globe were trying to create a cheap car that would be easly affordable to poor people in all over the world. Yugo actually followed what was Yugoslav political engagement at that time, which was the non-ALligned moviment, so it was maynly made for eprot to poor countries in Africa and Asia where people could get a car for firt time for less then 1000 doollars. It also ended up extremely popular in Yugoslavia and the rest f central ad Eastern Europe as sort of cheap urban car that could drive you from one part of the town to the other in quick ammount of time, and with the advantage f bein small and thus requiring a small sac of parking.
Yugo was designed by FIAT and assembled in Serbia, and it's s purpose was to provide affordable transportation. That's it Nothing more than that. Of course, the car technology has advanced a lot in the last 50 yrs, but you can always make fun of the car for something that is not supposed to be - an overpriced toy for spoiled people with high expectations .
Electronic HatefulTV Yugo and Former Yugoslavia have nothing to do with Eastern Europe,,,Yugoslavia was Central European country,as for ashtrays they were optional since nobody gives a Shit about smoking...
I don't think longevity counts when you're constantly replacing major parts.. The thing is probably on the 6th engi swap by now xD I can't even give it longevity of the bodywork because even that has major rust.
I bet it's like my neighbors Trabant. Barely running, falling apart so bad that his cousin is afraid to vacuum it in case it's the dust that is holding it together and constantly has something replaced/repaired. A cheap beater just to do wild stuff and don't care about trashing it? Hell yeah, sign me up! But never as a daily driver and not a good car, especially not by todays standards.
Dude... downshifting on a hill when you are in 4th or overdrive is quite NORMAL (especially in an econobox). You're letting your inner drama queen show.
Gunther Ultrabolt Novacrunch Honda Civic -06. has about 91hp. it's off the cheaper end. non-automatic gears and no speed control. (front wheel drive+not diesel) obviously a 6-gear+reverse model.
+julkkis666 Right, so you sometimes have to downshift for hills. If you have a 2006 Civic with a 6-speed manual, you do not have a "cheaper end" you have an Si, which has 197hp from the factory.
Vitez sa Vozdovca In the 1980s very few people outside Yugoslavia knew of or cared about Serbia. This car was considered Yugoslavian, not Serbian. Even today, very few people like or dislike Serbia. It's just not important. The reason the Yugo is generally laughed at is not that people in the West dislike Serbia. The real problem is that this car was laughably unreliable. It was badly made and it required more maintenance that other cars. If your only choice of cars was Yugo, you could make do, but in the West people had many, many better choices. For the price of a new Yugo, you could buy a used Toyota which was much better built and infinitely more reliable.
Was it being used daily for 30 years? Your stupidity is surprising. The car owner mentioned buying 2: 1 to use as a running car, and a second one for parts. He said it is running for 6 months now, not 30 years, idiot.
Morpheas Well, Yugos in Serbia run after 30 years, they dont break... You can get it for 250$ and fix it really easily.. And he runs it for 6 months, but it was made 30 years ago
I mean it's the country they were designed for after all, with tons and tons of mountainous dirt roads. The Yugo had pretty good ground clearance for a little car.
It looks like a Volkswagen Jetta, Golf , Rabbit and Sirocco, Chevy Sprint and Chevette, Plymouth Horizon, Dodge Omni and Colt, Ford Fiesta, Mitsubishi Champ, and vaguely like a Toyota Tercel. ALL "economy" cars looked like that. This video reminds me of people who buy a tool at Harbor Freight and bitch cause it aint a 'Snap-on".
You can make fun of the concept of the Yugo but every country in the world should have a car like the Yugo.Made cheap for the masses and 100% made within the country's borders.
windsor laser Well the Ford Model T idea is older than the Bug.Same idea though.Make a car affordable enough for the workers making it can afford it. The people in charge said we can't have that so let's safety regulate beyond the reach of poor people.
it wasnt cheap, it was very unreliable and cost a fortune to maintain. Ive spent a lifetime buying cheap things and in the long run you wind up spending more money not less.
Y10Q So it's ok to buy cars made globally.The motor made in Canada, the transmission made in Mexico, the body in the United States and the wire harness from Germany.Let's say the transmission factory burns down, the boat caring the wire harness sinks,Canada imposes a trade embargo against the US for human rights violations and the car body workers go on strike for better wages putting everyone in the chain out of work.Thanks to global capitalism.
No, if Tesla stayed home, it would be somebody else a few months later. It is not about Tesla. We have the correct environment in this country for people like Tesla to come and do their stuff and make the world a better place. The people that made that Yugo are the exact opposite of what we are trying to achieve in the world. Cash based economies.
This car is a luxury car. In East Germany, the Trabant didn't get a fuel indicator in the car. Count your lucky stars (red communist stars) that you get an interior fuel indicator.
I’ll never forget when I was crossing the border from Serbia into Macedonia, you would see entire families of 6 stuffed into one Yugo with their luggage and everything. Hell of a sight to see.
Saw the smile on your face while driving it! 😅 Reminds me of good ol’ times getting my fresh driving license back in 2000, jumping in my dad’s 1992 Yugo Koral 55 and being the happiest guy on earth!
lol no wonder the Yugo had such bad rep in the States. Here in Serbia it came with 65hp and parts were so common and cheap that breaking down wasn't even a problem: you could find cheap parts literally everywhere and it's so mechanically simple that a child can fix it quickly
Nope. It came with 45hp 900cc engine with 4 gear transmition and 55hp 1100cc with 5 gears, later one called lux model ;) The GVX model came with 65hp but they were very rare and very expensive to buy. The GVX had quite nice seats, but they were still POS. And if breaking down isn't a problem, than you don't need a car ;)
Yugo is a Fiat 127, not 128. There was the Yugo Skala that was a 128 derivative and was bigger. A friend had an Innocenti Koral, that was a Yugo 55, and had no problems. Cars were reliable enough, they are considered as crap beause they had low or no maintenance, harsch conditions and lot of KM, they were made with crap only since the 90s (war), not the 80s. For the wealthy US standards, it was crap anyway, reliable or not reliable.
Yeah dumbest thing I've ever heard in a video. My wife bought a Rover Metro in the 90's ... this was a time that Porsche and Ferrari were making super cars!! .... yeah, and? Today you can buy a cheap pile of crap from India for 4 grand, or you can buy a Bugatti for a million ... same old shit.
@Zimraan Hossain because balkan people hate the fact he called yugo bad since everyone here has driven one and there are so many of them on the roads so i really dont know why he called it shit
@Zimraan Hossain yeah Lada Niva is one of the dopest SUV's out there but yugo is basically a meme car in ex yu countries so people get offended when the car is taken seriously 😂
@@ПавлеБлажевић The car doesn't have a passenger wing mirror. You really think the car is good? It's not even legal in most countries to have no passenger wing mirror.
The difference between the simple yugo version and the GT one, is that GT has a cigar lighter.. And between GT and GTR is that on GTR the lighter works
This car represents my childhood. It ran perfectly and it was treated with respect. His name is part of why so many people from Balkan region hold it dearly as well. This is a pure insult of the review. It’s not made for spoiled Americans, but for tough smoking Balkan folks who don’t require fancy stuff - but a character ;)
Definitely some culture clash in Doug's review. But he's quite objective in how the car performs and its build quality compared to other cars of the same period. Of course Doug won't know the history and the cultural context and significance of this car, and that's ok.
@@MooMooManist Yes, there is definitely something that he didn’t do - his Balkan homework ;) The car was more than just a car. And above all it performed well with low maintenance. Of course it’s not a pair with today’s cars or some from his era, yet it was simple and reliable enough to take us to Jadransko more ( Adriatic sea) and back :)
@@miljasarajka3597 It's hard for Americans to understand that in communist times, owning a car was a big deal, and you couldn't just change it every 4 years. You kept it and repaired it until you couldn't drive it anymore! Also, Jadransko more looks absolutely splendid! I would love to visit one day.
I like how everyone sees this is a model in very bad condition and he complains about how everything is broken. I can buy a broken Mercedes and also complain like it's the worst car ever made.
That car is perfect. The shape, the wheels, the exhaust, the engine, the color, the interior. My favorite dream car. I just opened a saving account. One day, you will be mine.
You guys may laugh, but one day, when I own this, you'll pull next to me at a red light, I'll look at you with my eastern-european Adidas outfit and fake Raybans, and game on. 60 HP of fury with my optional 3 speed automatic, you better watch out. I plan to install a set of Chinese 95/12/80 all season radials on this beast. Low 21's on 1/4 for sure.
*A Jay Leno Yugo joke from 1990:* "Well ya know, Yugo is having a tough time selling cars lately. So to entice new customers, they're offering free accessories like a rear-window defogger. Which is great, cuz it keeps your hands nice and toasty when you're pushing it."
My first car was a 93' red Yugo GV Plus with the grey interior. Never had a problem with it. It cost me around $200 17 years ago. I really miss that little bastard.
Exactly. It was a 4000$ car, and he's looking at a 30 year old specimen. I had a holiday in Croatia a few times back in the days (part of the former Yugoslavia) and they were driving them all around and people were extremely satisfied with Yugos. The guy says you can't find any spare parts for them, well daaa, try to find spare parts for a Buick or Chevy from 1987 anywhere in Europe, good luck. So this is plain cheap shot at a cheap little car.
For a small cheap car the only important things are reliability and fuel efficiency. My base model 2009 Mazda 3 doesn't have automatic climate control.
Because he is a spoiled lil brat. Mummy does his laundry, and daddy buys him some Porsche´s. I guess this fucktard never had the need to earn money by himself. He never had to think about useing public transportation or even ( god forbid! ) walk to the place where he works. You know, anything that isn´t a 100k dollars Corvette w/ golden handbrake-lever is "crap" for him. This is the most disgusting piece of "elite" review I have ever seen.
Nothing makes me determine a person to be an A-hole more quickly and resolutely than to see them car shaming: for one thing, if affordability isn't an issue for you, you got nothing to say about those for whom it is. For another thing, for some of us, a car is merely an APPLIANCE (an F'ing appliance!) - we own them to get our butts from place to place, not to impress anyone. I'm the opposite of impressed by anyone who sinks their money into a car.
Let's talk abou different perspectives. I'm from former Yugoslavia, and until that state fell apart in the first half of the 90s, and few years after that, Yugo was a beloved car. Sure, many people simply could not afford somethibg better so their only option was a Yugo. Anyway, it was a simple and easy to maintin car, wich many of the yugoslavian owners maintained itself. On the other hand, Americans bought these as an expendable cars, drove them to the ground, never serviced them...and Yugo was labeled as a crap car. Well of course it was compared to the automobiles that cos 5 to 10 times its price, but hey, you get what you pay for. Back to Yugoslavia - after the late 90's used imports from the rest of Europe flooded the car market here, and once beloved Yugo was labeled as a poor man's crap car. You can still see some of them around here, and its usually driven by old gentlemen who have bought them new decades ago and preserved them.
my mom used to have one, she got it as a gift, brand new in 1989 (older than me). We towed it to a scrapyard in 2016. It took me to school every day, cross country, to vacations, through snow and blizzards, off-road... She drove it 7 days a week since 1989. It was a well-used car and parts were dirt cheap (there's like 5 things in total in the whole car that you can replace lol). Last time breaks broke we just let it sit in the backyard until we decided to scrap it. Mom cried for two days and still is heartbroken today. Now she drives Golf 2 from '91. She's old school slav.
Yeah. There were stories of people not even maintaining them. A woman here once said to a dealership, "I didn't pay $4000 on this car to worry about stuff like oil changes!"
Professional Automotive Detailing will last longer than most modern cars and there electrics. They are now a commodity designer to last 10 years. All they need to do is last 4 years with out a major failure, so it can be sold on. Then anther 6 of gradual failure, then it will be sold to kids that will get anther 2 years out of it before scrapping. Then the cycle continues, and your meant to move up the chain the older/wealthier you get. For example, you buy a £20k car four years layer you sell for £7-8, that person the sells 5 or 6 years later for £500-1k. That is how the system works today,and if your purchase does the above you'll happily buy form that brand again. If you get serous defects in them time periods you'll change brands and or put off potential buyers.
ive driven 3 different yugos and lemme tell you, everyone from the territory of former yugoslavia loves that car like a mother loves her child. sure it sometimes does something you didnt expect but generally you are really proud of it no matter what it does! its just a fun car to have. and i mean the ones from the 80s like the one you got there, those little guys have a soul
There is Yugo with 4 doors.. It was call Yugo Florida.. My parents bought it in 1989.. They called it Florida becase they wanted to export to US but then war happened
I bought a brand new 1988 Yugo at a Buick dealership back in 1988 for around $5000 and it was quite a fun little car to drive. I used it as a second car, a commuter for the 10 mile drive to work each day. My small daughters loved to ride in it, too. The little car had tight steering and the body was painted inside and out like the VW Beetle was. Mine had AC, but I had to turn it off when climbing a grade, ha! The seats were firm, but back support was good. I don't think it's fair to review a 30 year old example as a definitive Yugo, but then again, the fact that a Yugo lasted 30 years is pretty impressive. I only had my '88 Yugo one year, as Hurricane Hugo came through Charleston, SC in 1989 and lobbed parts of my house roof onto the hood and top of the little car. "Hugo hit my Yugo!" A guy on the roofing crew that fixed my house wanted my Yugo. He explained that the chassis and engine were essentially Fiat and he collected Fiats. I sold it to him for $2000 which paid off what I owed on it. I have often thought of that little blue Yugo with fondness.
They were worth what they charged for it, and not as bad as some would tell you. Easy target for bullying by simple minds. It was what it was- an outdated FIAT design with a new body
Mazza Fokkar Probably. But even 924 parts have to be the cheapest Porsche parts to buy since most of them are rotting away, scrap. And you don't necessarily have to replace them with genuine Porsche parts if you can avoid it.
Joseph Summers Yeah you´re probably right. But on the downside Porsche has probably never before or after the 924 made a more boring and dull car that even consists of severeal Volkswagen part and a "dead" 4-cylinder engine.
dude, i OWNED this car for many years. neat, cheap, easy to park due to small size, didn't bother about getting it scratched because it was so cheap. my experience with it is very positive. it was a great car for getting around town. not so good for long trips. but i only used it to get to work and buy groceries. fond memories.
My dad bought a Yugo in '86, we were a family of 4, and we went from Long Island, New York to Disney World Florida and back. Had no idea how!! And still don't.
@@Charlie-Cat. No. After two trips to Niagara Falls, and one to Virgina Beach, my dad got rid of it (don't remember if he sold it), and bought a brand new 1988 Nissan 200sx.
I learned to drive a stick shift in a Yugo! It was 1989 and I was a junior in high school! Here is the story behind it, my best friend Rebeca asked her dad for a Honda Civic as a gift for her senior year in high school, she wanted a white one, until one day her dad called her and asked her to confirm if she wanted a white car, she confirmed! She was so excited, until he arrived with the Yugo GVX! She was livid! Then she came to pick me up and when I got in, I went to roll my passenger window and the lever fell off! , it popped back on with some pressure though!, she went to adjust the rear view mirror and the thing also popped off! You were able to snap it back on the same way. On the first week the gas gauge stopped working and many many many times the car left us stranded. But we had a lot of fun with it and it took us everywhere, if that car could speak! Good times!
@@johnnyzeee5215 I would be surprised if even a tenth or a twentieth of them were still on the road. The vast majority of cheap cars disappear within a very short period of time. They are throwaway cars; you only drive them until you have access to a better mode of transportation.
@@no1DdC As I posted before, it was a bit high saying " millions ", the stated production of Yugos during their full run was about 750,000. Hmm don't know... Conditions in some parts of the former Yugoslavia may be such that if you have a running car, you take whatever measures are necessary to keep it running as long as possible. There are thousands of 1950's era cars still used as daily drivers in Cuba, with quite resourcefully owner - fabricated or adapted parts, coat hanger wire , duct tape , etc.
Long live the YuuY (THIS Yugo). It was advanced af, that even the world wasn't ready for the quirks and features it deliver. Why complain about the simple interior? That's the point, it's the people's race car for the road.
No he did not everyone knows that these cars are terrible. Anyone who ever owned one will tell you they’re terrible cars and don’t drive nice, but the history to it makes it interesting to own one of these. I would love to buy one I great condition it will give you that communism feeling!
There is a joke: -"How do you double the value of Yugo when you want to sell it?" -"You fill up the tank" Beside the joke, I think yugo was a great little car that you could drive as a student basically for free...you could maintain it with a piece of cloth and a glue... you appreciate this kind of things when you are a student, right? I guess Doug doesn't, as he obviously grew up with Ferrari F40
try funny :) driven quite a few, the fun thing was how nippy they were as you start (they weigh like 300 pounds), but they'd run out of breath at 50 mph (4 gears, that's regular yugo 45, the slightly bigger engines made it a little suicide rocket on bicycle wheels). On top of that, it's perched horribly high, feels like you're a tennis ref, you go into a slight curve at 40 mph and start wondering if your inside wheels are still on the road... :D
My cousin had a Yugo back in the late 80's. That Yugo had a serious lean to on the Driver's side. But again my cousin weighed 400 lbs. She loved that car. The only complaint she had was having to change the tires on left side often. 🤔
I bought a new Yugo in 1987 for $3995 from a Chevy dealer. In the seven years I had it, I replaced the tires twice, the muffler twice, and the battery once. I had no other major expenses or repairs. The then TV ads show a garage with the door opening and vintage VW Beetle drives out to be replaced by a Yugo. The car was meant to be basic transportation like the Beetle which nobody wants these days. I kept my Yugo for eight years and the only reason I got rid of it was I'd moved to Florida and the car had no AC, plus parts were getting hard to find. From the very beginning, the Yugo was maligned and made fun of. It was a decent little car though terribly outdated, but it would have been an ideal car for the 1960s and 1970s. Having had four Beetles, I was used to a low powered car, and 40 hp is plenty for a little car like this. Basic cars like the Yugo have little profit margin, and the car makers want to sell cars with bells and whistles to make more money.
I wanted the car to be like the previous four Beetles I'd owned, the first of which was a 57', oval rear window, 36 hp and no gas gauge. When you ran out of gas, you flipped a lever on the floor and you had another gallon to get you to a gas station.
Northern Light , I also had one brand spanking new the exact same color as in this video. mine had a/c that actually worked also. the only thing that I ever replaced was the clutch cable. I used a metal coat hanger, I swear I did, worked good too. had off road tires and a very nice stereo system in it. I sold it for $1,500 bucks in 1992 . great car I think. got 40 miles per gallon. great dirt road car with the hand brake .!!!!!!!!
My brother lived in the suburbs of Philly would put his kids in the back his wife riding shotgun and drive to New Hampshire to visit our parents. He would do this 3 or 4 times a year with NO issues. He actually bought another one.
I once out ran a tornado in Iowa in my Yugo Sport. I had it floored and the clutch was smoking and the twister was going about 72 miles per hour and I was going about 75 mph. Talk about a wild ride and a white knuckle death grip on the wheel. Had nightmares about that for years after.
So the storm chaser vehicle options back then was to pay a gazillion dollars to build a mobile weather station out of a Ford truck or pay $3,990 for a Yugo.
@@nikolajankovic3735 пишеш "АЛ" у функцији "ЈЕЛ" ахахаха комуњаро глупа, у Јожиној Југославији поубијани сви Срби који су имали ИКУ изнад 80, није ни чудо што су данас ови маторци оперисани од живота
@@nikolajankovic3735 што не одеш мало у Северну Кореју или на Кубу да радиш него што се мучиш овде у злом капитализму, сигурно би имао за боља кола тамо где је прави комунистички систем!!!
Yeah, my parents had one of these... It was cheap as hell, started every morning even in the coldest winter, used almost no gas, could still hit 90 mph and ran for years until they eventually sold it to another Yugo owner as a back up car. Some people say they were crap, I didn't see that. I saw a cheap, efficient beast. The only downside was that later on parts were hard to get for it...
Tommy Whitaker My mother came home one day with a traffic ticket for 90 mph in a 45 zone. It might have been downhill or with a draft, but they could do it. She just said she was on the highway when she got pulled over.
The logic around production in eastern Europe at the time was: "Make as much as you can for the lowest price", since the majority of people in the Eastern Bloc couldn't even dream of affording a Ferrari F40, a cheap car that works, works. That's why most car companies from the east (Yugo, Lada, Dacia, Skoda) started out making terrible cheap cars so that their citizens could afford them
The Tempo succeeded the Fairmont in 1983 having driven both the Fairmont was the better car, had a F-150 that was in for warranty and was given a Tempo for a loaner drove it for three days and remember thinking to myself , Man I would be pissed if I payed money for this car.
Yugo was based on Fiat models and designed in Italy, so it's practically a Ferrari
No, it's not practically a Ferrari - it's a Ferrari, but practical.
@@theinstitute1324 oof
Yeaaa
It was based on Fiat 127, which was a quite reliable car... In 1971, when it was released. Yugo came in 1981... 😅
Italian design by Fiat from 1966.
Only a true Slav can master it...
That Serb yuh
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OFFCORS)))))))))))))))))))))))) no wonder doug said its bad
CUZ U FOKIN CANT DRIVE IT U FOK
Does the Yugo have a radio? I need one to blast out cheeki breeki hardbass
The speedometer is broken, so you don’t know how fast yugo😉
Lol that was S~M~O~O~T~H
yugo nowhere fast
Haha xD
Well, how slow actually.
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The guy in the video: This car sucks, it'll probably fall apart after 3 months of use.
90% of the comments: Our family had a yugo for 20 years, we never took it to the mechanic and it never let us down. I got raised by that car, it is like a parent to me. Unforgettable experience.
The guy pissed me off actually: One of the reasons why is it the worst car ever is because it has only five switches on the dash🤔
The fuck is he expecting on a 1980's car? A nitro maybe?😡😡😡
@@misaVR well ya see, look at how many features a similarly priced car had. You could get an AMC spirit for not much more, and it had so many features, and it looked nicer. Then at the same time, you could’ve gotten a new mustang for not much more. And then there’s the Ford Fiesta, looks like a Yugo, but performs like a true hatchback. The yugo was overpriced for its features and speed. And a little over 6 years later, the geo metro came out, it was 6000 new and it was miles faster. Plus this is the 80s, someone could’ve bought a 70s charger with a 426Hemi for a couple thousand.
@@Menace2DaComments You're forgetting one thing: it was not made for USA needs. Where it was made you need more than $1.5k for yearly registration for engines of 2.5L+.
It was not made to run fast, but to run economically: 6L/100km fuel and still get you to the same place as Mustang. And guess what: it still runs all over Yugoslavia.
I'm not that surprised. If you make fun of something, you're gonna get people who defend it. I don't mind the Yugo, but in the US, there's no arguing that it was cheapo transport. (I'm not from the US.)
@Sussy ass motherfucka it doesn't matter where and who it was manufactured for. The fact you could buy a substantially more ethical vehicle for basically the same price exposes what a piece of scrap metal this embarrassment actually was. Just accept the fact your country makes trash vehicles.
"no automatic climate control" from a car from the fucking 80's, get your mindset in that time alright... and think of the price -.- sometimes i feel like you have no idea about cars (especially older cars)
Actually, there is no climate control at all.
Indeed, this one is called a "heater" lol
since it was an expensive option to get climate control in a car in the 80's. but i hope you still get my point
I actually kinda' like the way they did the controls though.
There was no climate control, in summer, you'd die in a Yugo, but in winter the heating was superb, I'm driving a Hyundai i30 today, and the heating can hide itself compared to the Yugo. If I had the heating on max, I had to had to open the window not to bake. I was never cold in my Yugo.
The westerners are just not ready for this level of engineering advancement
it's a fiat project sold to the Yugoslav government, so it's western engineering
@@bibox9487 you are jerk if you didn´t get the sarcasm
@@bibox9487 you are wrong there, it's designed by Zastava factory in Kragujevac, Serbia. Truth is that Zastava did produce models licences under Fiat but this isn't one of them. Engine, gearbox and body is designed by Yugoslav engineers. Yes, they made have used some Fiat solutions from their experience building Fiat cars, but nothing on this car has to do with Fiat. The sad fact about this car and it's factory is that they produced Yugo's until late 2007 and all they changed on it was brand badge, bumpers and stop lights. So, for 30 years, for how long they were making them, that is all off the developments that car got. Many of us, ex Yugoslav's learn to drove on this car, it was unreliable, but cheap and available parts. I learned a lot about mechanics driving it. All in all, it's not as bad as some other cars produced in Eastern Europe at the time.
@@comoespeja when you have time and desire you read this wikipedia article in italian leanguage www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=it.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zastava_Yugo&ved=2ahUKEwjEsdu_zuTiAhVBlosKHaD7C5MQFjAIegQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw01ghSsHqJv34wPBRSxUuJk
@Roscoe Dogg Don't you fucking dare touch the keyboard if you don't get the joke.
Id rather have a conversation with a yugo owner than a mustang owner
I'd rather not talk to anyone.....ANYONE
Kcuf elgoog. i was a yugo owner from 1988 to 2003 and i can say a lot of the things they say about the yugo is not that true is more like they like to ridicule the car i wich still jave it
Id rather have a conversation with a Yugo owner than with Doug DeMuro
Well, you´re as annoying as those butthurt anti Trump dudes hahahah
Kcuf elgoog good idea same value
Fun fact: the Yugo is its own anti-theft feature
It’s an awesome joke, but in reality it would still be gutted for anything you can sell without having to admit it came from a Yugo and the rest torn apart with a huge “SCREW YOU” spray painted/keyed on the side by the thief, for having the gall of trying to outsmart them. It’s like that urban legend of the thieves leaving a message of “whenever we want it (whatever the heck you’ve got valuable), we’ll take it”.
Yes, I have depression. I need to get my head examined.
@@marcoantoniosalazarmatamor9496 damn
@@Kia_Soulless Israel is Palestine
@@mr_lonelyboy2001 literally who asked
@@Kia_Soulless the flag you have in your name is Palestine.... And seriously,what kind of ignorant person you are? My previous comment is just a joke, don't take it seriously
Yugo:
Horsepower: Yes
Top speed: depends on music
Price: 4 čevape
Lifespan: infinite
Runs on: Rakija, sometimes gas
horsepower=enough
You ROFL broke me at "Horsepower: Yes"
0-60: yes
Looks like a lifetime car... there's no way you'll resale that piece of crap 😁😁😁😁
@@robertkammerer4128 0-100 (km/h): maybe
Ferrari:
0-60 2.9 seconds
Yugo:
0-60 yes
Let's be honest man, it's more of a maybe
hands down the best comment here !
60 mph or kmh?
@@devams1 no one uses mph man
It does the same time if you drive it off a cliff
Doug:
Anyone from the Balkans: “So you have chosen ... death.”
Hahahaha yes
I'm from the Balkans and we had yugo
Matej Spasov Pa čija porodica nije imala jugića
Jebo on sve svoje
@@whatever7645 luul moja
I bought a Yugo GV JUST LIKE THIS ONE in 1988. It was a 1987 and had just been dented all over by a hailstorm. It had 5k miles, A/C, and an AM/FM cassette stereo. Got it for $2,000. Put 68K miles on it without a single problem! Sold it for $1200 still running well!
It must have had a souped up engine to run both car and air conditioner!
Q: How do you instantly double the value of a Yugo?
A: Fill it with gas!
Wow that’s very original
How to easily puke when you have stomach pain? Just watch ford mustang it is ugly as Shit.
No you go to Los Santos customs in gta v and tune it
The Trabant calls, it wants its punchline back... Once it gets delivered, that is.
tramvaj12 damn what did mustangs do to you
I bought a NEW 1988 Yugo GV , on sale for $2690.00 + tax & fees. Drove it for over 65,000 trouble free miles. Sold it for $1900. While it was nothing special, It was my best ( financially speaking) car deal ever.
Was I the only lucky one? Probably not.
At one time I wanted to make it a Yugo Limo 4x4. Would have been pretty cool.
I'm so sorry for you cause it lasted 65000km too much; you definately weren't the lucky one;D
Bud Chronic , he said 65000 trouble free miles then he sold it. Sorry you can't understand what you read. ouch
i had a 55 rodge that i paid 50 dollars for, but that doesn;t make dodge a good car...
Donald Badeaux "While it was nothing special, It was my best ( financially speaking) car deal ever." Nothing special does not mean "good car"
"even the ashtray doesn't work"
A catastrophic flaw for an Eastern European car.
Its a feature, you're supposed to ash out the window smh
Yugoslavia ain't Eastern bruv
@@harunhodzic7473 it can be considered south eastern europe btw i was in kosovo 2006 literally everybody is laughing about that car even people who dont own a car wouldnt take it xD
South-Eastern European*
John Pyle you were in serbia boi 🤣
"What country is this car from?"
"It no longer exists."
the old joke -- buddy walks in to the auto parts store and says, "hi...I'd like to get a mirror for my Yugo" Buddy behind the desks replies, "fair trade"
How do you double the value of your Yugo?…
Fill the tank.
@@Pete...NoNotThatOne that's for the traband
Friends don’t let friends drive Yugo
It takes 2x Dodge Ram 2500 Big Horn towing mirrors to trade for 1 entire running Yugo on today's market.
Friends don’t let friends buy Yugos
It costed 4000 in 1992 and 1k right now? 3K DEPRECIATION IN 25 YEARS!!! Most cars depreciate 3k the second you drive it out the dealer lmaooooooo.
Chthonian121 it depreciated 3k when it was started and stayed there
Or you can say it lost 400% of it's value in 25 years...
LOL
You can buy it in the Balkans for like 200-500$.
400% of its value is $16,000
A friend had a Yugo that he drove 70 miles round trip everyday, it was also air conditioned and the car lasted 184,000 miles before the engine blew. I don't remember him having much trouble with it.
The antire issue about Yugo's got toally overreacted. It started to be sort of fashion to talk bad about that poor cheap car. but the fact is that in late 1980s and early 1990s a lot of car manufacturers trought the globe were trying to create a cheap car that would be easly affordable to poor people in all over the world. Yugo actually followed what was Yugoslav political engagement at that time, which was the non-ALligned moviment, so it was maynly made for eprot to poor countries in Africa and Asia where people could get a car for firt time for less then 1000 doollars. It also ended up extremely popular in Yugoslavia and the rest f central ad Eastern Europe as sort of cheap urban car that could drive you from one part of the town to the other in quick ammount of time, and with the advantage f bein small and thus requiring a small sac of parking.
nomebear The engine bkew because he did not service the cooling system. True for any car.
Yugo was designed by FIAT and assembled in Serbia, and it's s purpose was to provide affordable transportation.
That's it
Nothing more than that.
Of course, the car technology has advanced a lot in the last 50 yrs, but you can always make fun of the car for something that is not supposed to be - an overpriced toy for spoiled people with high expectations .
Most people drive a bigger version of it today. It's a 4 cylinder hatchback , we have those today. Some even call them mini suv's. LOL
Price ?
-2 liters of Rakija.
Brate moj ako si ga toliko platio opljačkali te
Blesooo... 😊😁👍👍
Zagreb ebnom zlotdik diev
Lol brate sta razume ovi iz 1950ih je proizveden auto.
Огњен Миленковић too
You don"t need ashtrays in eastern europe. There are windows you know
@@charlesdavis7142 Shill
Electronic HatefulTV Yugo and Former Yugoslavia have nothing to do with Eastern Europe,,,Yugoslavia was Central European country,as for ashtrays they were optional since nobody gives a Shit about smoking...
@@charlesdavis7142 True about Yugo?
We are from southern Europe...idiot
Spiky YT still on the eastern part of the "Iron Curtain" 🤷🏻♂️
Back when i as getting my driving license every driving school had only yugos because if you learn how to drive yugo you will know everything else
Someone told me that you had to know how to change the clutch cable if it snapped and you couldn't pass if you couldn't do it.
Brate svi su iz balkana
брате и данас у саобраћајним средњим школама мој друг учио да вози на југићу ХАХАХАХАХ
U mean if you crash yugo it cost u 2000k only
@@450niko 2000k of what?
The longevity of a Yugo is something that you can't deny and that's one of the most important aspects of a car.
I don't think longevity counts when you're constantly replacing major parts.. The thing is probably on the 6th engi swap by now xD
I can't even give it longevity of the bodywork because even that has major rust.
I bet it's like my neighbors Trabant. Barely running, falling apart so bad that his cousin is afraid to vacuum it in case it's the dust that is holding it together and constantly has something replaced/repaired. A cheap beater just to do wild stuff and don't care about trashing it? Hell yeah, sign me up! But never as a daily driver and not a good car, especially not by todays standards.
Dude... downshifting on a hill when you are in 4th or overdrive is quite NORMAL (especially in an econobox). You're letting your inner drama queen show.
When driving it I usually have to go down to second on any extended hill
i usually drive in 6th gear when i don't need the extra torque, but there are two hills on which i sometimes turn to 5th gear to not lose ~5km/h
***** That information is irrelevant until you tell us what make model and year of car you are driving.
Gunther Ultrabolt Novacrunch Honda Civic -06. has about 91hp. it's off the cheaper end. non-automatic gears and no speed control. (front wheel drive+not diesel)
obviously a 6-gear+reverse model.
+julkkis666 Right, so you sometimes have to downshift for hills. If you have a 2006 Civic with a 6-speed manual, you do not have a "cheaper end" you have an Si, which has 197hp from the factory.
What's on the last page of a Yugo's manual? The bus schedule
😂😂
totally underrated comment lool
@@kentony4441 How do you double the Yugo's value?
Fill the gas tank
@@watchdogsgarbagetruck8324 totally underrated comment this is the 1000000th time I see it
😂
How do you double the value of a Yugo?
Fill the gas tank.
Cringe...
chemistryguy 10/10 would read joke again.
Lol
I still drive my dad's YUGO ! he is 30 years old and reliable ! costs 300 USD today
So a $4000 car isn't as good as a $225000 car, amazing isn't it.
+Zoltán Marosi yes every car breaks down. Just how engineering works
БОЛЕСНА СТРАНА there is no logic,inace ja sam Srbin,ovo ime koristim za kanal
IKR, shocking.
"Every car is shit" CYCLIST ALERT. you're on the wrong channel buddy
Except Toyota camry, they last forever.
The Yugo is a perfect little car, I don't see the issue here.
Thank you. I agree 100%
Maybe his issue is because Yugo was build in Serbia. West countrys never liked us,personally i dont know why,we gived so much to world.
Vitez sa Vozdovca As an American, I love Serbia. I am sorry for what NATO has done to your region. God bless you. Bill Clinton will burn in hell.
Vitez sa Vozdovca
In the 1980s very few people outside Yugoslavia knew of or cared about Serbia. This car was considered Yugoslavian, not Serbian. Even today, very few people like or dislike Serbia. It's just not important.
The reason the Yugo is generally laughed at is not that people in the West dislike Serbia. The real problem is that this car was laughably unreliable. It was badly made and it required more maintenance that other cars. If your only choice of cars was Yugo, you could make do, but in the West people had many, many better choices. For the price of a new Yugo, you could buy a used Toyota which was much better built and infinitely more reliable.
+Max Werner In the mens hairstyle video you said you were from Estonia.
it still runs after 30 years. Your argument is invalid.
Was it being used daily for 30 years?
Your stupidity is surprising.
The car owner mentioned buying 2: 1 to use as a running car, and a second one for parts.
He said it is running for 6 months now, not 30 years, idiot.
Morpheas Well, Yugos in Serbia run after 30 years, they dont break... You can get it for 250$ and fix it really easily.. And he runs it for 6 months, but it was made 30 years ago
+Morpheas Excuse me sir, this is a Christian server so no swearing
Damn you are fucking stupid! Don't take things too literally!
Morpheas yes as others said it, you're too stupid to even exist. You don't believe it's run for only 6 months now do you?! moron.
I saw many Yugos in Serbia working absolutely well. It was an incredible scene seeing a Yugo actually off-roading on a muddy snow-covered trail.
I mean it's the country they were designed for after all, with tons and tons of mountainous dirt roads. The Yugo had pretty good ground clearance for a little car.
True- Yugo was a reliable brand- those bashing it are clueless. It was economical too and with proper mainteneance would outlast its competitors
Ugly primitive car made for poor eastern europe @@zanthony1286
@@zanthony1286 Exactly. But with no maintenance at all, it is always easy to blame the car...
Call me crazy, but that actually isnt a terrible looking car.
Hugh Jass yeah honestly if it had a new transmission and engine swapped in it would be awesome
Way better looking than any 2016/2017 Honda or Toyota made today...
Sadly...
Hugh Jass No, it's just fucking awful looking
It looks like a Volkswagen Jetta, Golf , Rabbit and Sirocco, Chevy Sprint and Chevette, Plymouth Horizon, Dodge Omni and Colt, Ford Fiesta, Mitsubishi Champ, and vaguely like a Toyota Tercel. ALL "economy" cars looked like that. This video reminds me of people who buy a tool at Harbor Freight and bitch cause it aint a 'Snap-on".
Doug: "What is that noise?"
Austin: "It started like two days ago... I just ignore it."
🤣🤣🤣
Omfg, that was hilarious 😂
A Random Passerby Us americans just have high standards, youve already seen the flaws in this yugo
I do the same in my car. Just turn the radio up louder.
Doug: This is the worst car.
*angry balkan noises*
Haha🤦♂️👈🏼
We are not angry... Im from Serbia, producer of Yugo and I'd rather walk than drive this shit lol
Sad Luigi im angry im from Bosnia 😠 yugo was best car ever 😠
@@denissssss8579 it was like communism
Shit
Squatting intensifies
People are driving Yugos even today.
That speaks a lot.
they need transplants to keep running
Despite their small size, Yugos are actually designed for five people;
1 person sits in the driver's seat, and the other four would get out and push
Abe Froman sausage king?
Abe Froman Duh!
That is why they installed a defroster on the back window, so the people pushing it can keep their hands warm while pushing...
heres a yugo that got cut in half to be a bench lmao losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv/cto/5891890955.html
Abe Froman Funny but true...Because 5 Americans can't can't sit in Yugo because they are fat
My mom had a Yugo Koral 55 made for the USA. It was '89, but we had it from 1992 and we sold it in 2004. That thing ran and never broke.
Also, the seat doesn't work that way. Yours is broken. You lift the lever and the upper part goes forward.
I date Jennifer Aniston.
Bud Chronic You took your mom to the prom and got lucky.
Skodaman2 , OUCH!
@@cunjoz That may be on a later or higher level model. One piece tilting seats were typical on British and European two door cars up to that time.
This was my family's car for the first 14 years of my life. I feel attacked.
ahh youve caught on. this video is actually a personal attack on you.
@@soulfly3438 soon, this video will be a PHYSICAL attack on you!! (Angry mob knocks on bedroom door)
Your just poor dude
im 9 and i got a new car when i was 7 and i had to let the yugo go it was a really sad day lol
Just to be clear... are you counting several years where your family owned this car, but it wasn't actually operable?
Hellcat 0-60:3.4 secs
Yugo 0-60: *yes*
3.4 days
Yugo 0-60..."ill try"
Tesla S Plaid 0-60 2.1 secs
You can make fun of the concept of the Yugo but every country in the world should have a car like the Yugo.Made cheap for the masses and 100% made within the country's borders.
Isn't that how the VW Bug got started... cheap to buy, cheap and easy to fix type philosophy?
windsor laser
Well the Ford Model T idea is older than the Bug.Same idea though.Make a car affordable enough for the workers making it can afford it.
The people in charge said we can't have that so let's safety regulate beyond the reach of poor people.
it wasnt cheap, it was very unreliable and cost a fortune to maintain. Ive spent a lifetime buying cheap things and in the long run you wind up spending more money not less.
Y10Q
So it's ok to buy cars made globally.The motor made in Canada, the transmission made in Mexico, the body in the United States and the wire harness from Germany.Let's say the transmission factory burns down, the boat caring the wire harness sinks,Canada imposes a trade embargo against the US for human rights violations and the car body workers go on strike for better wages putting everyone in the chain out of work.Thanks to global capitalism.
No, if Tesla stayed home, it would be somebody else a few months later.
It is not about Tesla. We have the correct environment in this country
for people like Tesla to come and do their stuff and make the world a
better place. The people that made that Yugo are the exact opposite of
what we are trying to achieve in the world. Cash based economies.
This car is a luxury car. In East Germany, the Trabant didn't get a fuel indicator in the car. Count your lucky stars (red communist stars) that you get an interior fuel indicator.
Sign of bourgeois values creeping into socialist paradise to have fuel indicator.
Luxury yes yes ahahhahaah
Dan S
A side get Porshe, the other have this.
hmmm red communist stars-in homer simpsons' voice
I was about to write about the Trabant - that is the definition of a P.O.S.
You are most wanted in Eastern Europe
Bounty: 10000$
Bounty:10 Yugos,no hate for the Yugos it is amazing car for the price and reliable
doug is gonna escape the bounty hunters in a yugo...oh noooo
Serbia is not in Eastern Europe:)
No 10000$ bounty on your hed bounty is i balkan and estrn europ if its in balkan than is 10000 litars of rakia but in russia 1000 litasr of votka
@@bogicvujadinovic772 I'm buying one for $1800 👍 it's blue
YuuY
7:08 A.M., April 5, 2021
Timezone?
I’ll never forget when I was crossing the border from Serbia into Macedonia, you would see entire families of 6 stuffed into one Yugo with their luggage and everything. Hell of a sight to see.
@Luka Jovanovik никога није брига шта возиш
34 HP lost
In high school, we got 11 in a Yugo to go home from a football game. Had to leave the hatch open.
@@lanceryderwilson8618 So he had like 6 left or something?
ONLY IN MACEDONIA COME VISIT YOU WILL SEE EVERYTING
YUGOS ON EVERY STREET
In Serbia you can look out your window and still see 10 yugos on the street, they can't be killed and are cheap as hell...
milo How much is it actually ? I’m curious
@@guillaumegiroux9425 100-300 € easy
@@petarlalic3650 let's say 300 - 600 if you want the car to drive and BREAK 😁
Nije bas tako jarane
Yeaaaa my bro
Saw the smile on your face while driving it! 😅 Reminds me of good ol’ times getting my fresh driving license back in 2000, jumping in my dad’s 1992 Yugo Koral 55 and being the happiest guy on earth!
I entered a contest once where first prize was a Yugo. Second prize was 2 of them.
😂😂😂
@@socialmeaslesinpartnership1252 Holy s#*t
Did that really happen?
Sorry to poke old wounds, but is there a news article?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😀😃
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
lol no wonder the Yugo had such bad rep in the States. Here in Serbia it came with 65hp and parts were so common and cheap that breaking down wasn't even a problem: you could find cheap parts literally everywhere and it's so mechanically simple that a child can fix it quickly
Everything you've just said still stands today. Pozdrav.
Nope. It came with 45hp 900cc engine with 4 gear transmition and 55hp 1100cc with 5 gears, later one called lux model ;) The GVX model came with 65hp but they were very rare and very expensive to buy. The GVX had quite nice seats, but they were still POS.
And if breaking down isn't a problem, than you don't need a car ;)
its a copy of the fiat 128
No way... Fiat 128 is a tough car, and pst... has 4 doors not 2 , you confuse it with other Fiat like 133 144
Yugo is a Fiat 127, not 128. There was the Yugo Skala that was a 128 derivative and was bigger. A friend had an Innocenti Koral, that was a Yugo 55, and had no problems. Cars were reliable enough, they are considered as crap beause they had low or no maintenance, harsch conditions and lot of KM, they were made with crap only since the 90s (war), not the 80s. For the wealthy US standards, it was crap anyway, reliable or not reliable.
Doug the kind of guy to compare a Yugo to the F40.
Yeah dumbest thing I've ever heard in a video. My wife bought a Rover Metro in the 90's ... this was a time that Porsche and Ferrari were making super cars!! .... yeah, and? Today you can buy a cheap pile of crap from India for 4 grand, or you can buy a Bugatti for a million ... same old shit.
You're both completely missing the point
@@jonpresley1163 Go on.
Justin Stewart:
Well the F40 is maybe the same level of luxury than the Yugo,
But the plastic is Carbon fiber
Yugo is faster
I remember when I was 11 years old in 1987 Lincoln rewarded their customers with a free Yugo if they bought a Continental
Re - sell the Continental, keep the Yugo...
There was a joke back in the day in the Yugo manufacturing plant:
"You pretend to pay us, we pretend to work."
@Zimraan Hossain because balkan people hate the fact he called yugo bad since everyone here has driven one and there are so many of them on the roads so i really dont know why he called it shit
@Zimraan Hossain yeah Lada Niva is one of the dopest SUV's out there but yugo is basically a meme car in ex yu countries so people get offended when the car is taken seriously 😂
Павле Блажевић but... it is shit. Never was a good car and never will be.
@@ПавлеБлажевић It's literally cheap.
@@ПавлеБлажевић The car doesn't have a passenger wing mirror. You really think the car is good? It's not even legal in most countries to have no passenger wing mirror.
The difference between the simple yugo version and the GT one, is that GT has a cigar lighter..
And between GT and GTR is that on GTR the lighter works
🤣
My Yugo is 29 years old and he have 300k kilometers on road!!!
Stojadinov pa i Stojadin je znao preci 200 300 000...
They are shit for abusing Yugo
@global tips holy
Ofcourse
Маријана Стојадинов why do u spend so much money towing it around?
This car represents my childhood. It ran perfectly and it was treated with respect. His name is part of why so many people from Balkan region hold it dearly as well.
This is a pure insult of the review.
It’s not made for spoiled Americans, but for tough smoking Balkan folks who don’t require fancy stuff - but a character ;)
Dude don’t stereotype ppl, not all americans are spoiled and not all balkans are tough as f
Definitely some culture clash in Doug's review. But he's quite objective in how the car performs and its build quality compared to other cars of the same period.
Of course Doug won't know the history and the cultural context and significance of this car, and that's ok.
@@MooMooManist Yes, there is definitely something that he didn’t do - his Balkan homework ;)
The car was more than just a car. And above all it performed well with low maintenance. Of course it’s not a pair with today’s cars or some from his era, yet it was simple and reliable enough to take us to Jadransko more ( Adriatic sea) and back :)
@@miljasarajka3597 It's hard for Americans to understand that in communist times, owning a car was a big deal, and you couldn't just change it every 4 years. You kept it and repaired it until you couldn't drive it anymore!
Also, Jadransko more looks absolutely splendid! I would love to visit one day.
Thats why im glad to be an American and not a communist.
Yugo is actually good but this one is broken. Its even rusty. And interior is beautiful.
Bogdan Zivkovic I agree I like the simplistic beige brown interior it's very pleasing to me lol
Yeah I like that interior color too.
debadge new bodykit new everything, Rice the shit out of it
Bogdan Zivkovic yep
I like how everyone sees this is a model in very bad condition and he complains about how everything is broken. I can buy a broken Mercedes and also complain like it's the worst car ever made.
Tesla roadster:4 people, 0-60 1.9 seconds, 200000$
Yugo-your whole drunk squad, 0-60 yes, whatever you have in your pocket
Lol
0-60 1 afternoon
That car is perfect. The shape, the wheels, the exhaust, the engine, the color, the interior. My favorite dream car. I just opened a saving account. One day, you will be mine.
One day... In about a month of saving.
You get paid once a month?
You guys may laugh, but one day, when I own this, you'll pull next to me at a red light, I'll look at you with my eastern-european Adidas outfit and fake Raybans, and game on. 60 HP of fury with my optional 3 speed automatic, you better watch out. I plan to install a set of Chinese 95/12/80 all season radials on this beast. Low 21's on 1/4 for sure.
Brawndo Shing Cheng Deathmaster tyres
I can't find one anywhere! PLEASE HELP!
I have $249.00 burning a hole in my pocket
*A Jay Leno Yugo joke from 1990:*
"Well ya know, Yugo is having a tough time selling cars lately. So to entice new customers, they're offering free accessories like a rear-window defogger. Which is great, cuz it keeps your hands nice and toasty when you're pushing it."
LOL
lmao. good one
fidorover LMAO
Do you know how to double the value of a Yugo?
Fill up the tank.
fidorover have you been sat on the since the 1980s?
That was a school yard joke we'd say to kids that's parents drove these and Skoda's.
My first car was a 93' red Yugo GV Plus with the grey interior. Never had a problem with it. It cost me around $200 17 years ago. I really miss that little bastard.
Why are you going to compare it to a porsche??? And why are you looking for features that shouldn't be for a cheap car.
Exactly. It was a 4000$ car, and he's looking at a 30 year old specimen. I had a holiday in Croatia a few times back in the days (part of the former Yugoslavia) and they were driving them all around and people were extremely satisfied with Yugos. The guy says you can't find any spare parts for them, well daaa, try to find spare parts for a Buick or Chevy from 1987 anywhere in Europe, good luck. So this is plain cheap shot at a cheap little car.
For a small cheap car the only important things are reliability and fuel efficiency. My base model 2009 Mazda 3 doesn't have automatic climate control.
Because he is a spoiled lil brat.
Mummy does his laundry, and daddy buys him some Porsche´s.
I guess this fucktard never had the need to earn money by himself.
He never had to think about useing public transportation or even ( god forbid! ) walk to the place where he works.
You know, anything that isn´t a 100k dollars Corvette w/ golden handbrake-lever is "crap" for him.
This is the most disgusting piece of "elite" review I have ever seen.
Nothing makes me determine a person to be an A-hole more quickly and resolutely than to see them car shaming: for one thing, if affordability isn't an issue for you, you got nothing to say about those for whom it is. For another thing, for some of us, a car is merely an APPLIANCE (an F'ing appliance!) - we own them to get our butts from place to place, not to impress anyone. I'm the opposite of impressed by anyone who sinks their money into a car.
Rodney Kingston lol you're cool
I had a Yugo back in the late 80s. I loved my Yugo. It was still running when I sold it.
Let's talk abou different perspectives. I'm from former Yugoslavia, and until that state fell apart in the first half of the 90s, and few years after that, Yugo was a beloved car. Sure, many people simply could not afford somethibg better so their only option was a Yugo. Anyway, it was a simple and easy to maintin car, wich many of the yugoslavian owners maintained itself. On the other hand, Americans bought these as an expendable cars, drove them to the ground, never serviced them...and Yugo was labeled as a crap car. Well of course it was compared to the automobiles that cos 5 to 10 times its price, but hey, you get what you pay for. Back to Yugoslavia - after the late 90's used imports from the rest of Europe flooded the car market here, and once beloved Yugo was labeled as a poor man's crap car. You can still see some of them around here, and its usually driven by old gentlemen who have bought them new decades ago and preserved them.
Same story with the old boxy Ladas here in Russia!
my mom used to have one, she got it as a gift, brand new in 1989 (older than me). We towed it to a scrapyard in 2016. It took me to school every day, cross country, to vacations, through snow and blizzards, off-road... She drove it 7 days a week since 1989. It was a well-used car and parts were dirt cheap (there's like 5 things in total in the whole car that you can replace lol). Last time breaks broke we just let it sit in the backyard until we decided to scrap it. Mom cried for two days and still is heartbroken today. Now she drives Golf 2 from '91. She's old school slav.
Ok but it's a shitty car
Yeah. There were stories of people not even maintaining them. A woman here once said to a dealership, "I didn't pay $4000 on this car to worry about stuff like oil changes!"
@@kettyca666 Golf 2 it's a great car too, though.
My favorite joke about the Yugo is -
Why do all Yugos have a rear window defroster?
So that you can keep your hands warmer when you are pushing it.
Bruce you can push my car,on my language it is : puš maj kar, it means something different.....
What do you call a Yugo with over 1000 miles on it?
An underachiever!!!!
@@boskosimovic5148 HAHAHAHAHAHAH
Cep,poruka njima svima od sr...ca !
at least the yugo will last longer then newer fait products (jeep,Chrysler,dodge)
lol the only way they could get away from their electrical issues is to go back to the Yugo..
Professional Automotive Detailing that's because ethereal nothing to go wrong lol
Yugo's still driving around the balkans lmao
Ironic you say that, since the Yugo and the newer Chrysler products all sport Fiat lineage.
Professional Automotive Detailing will last longer than most modern cars and there electrics.
They are now a commodity designer to last 10 years. All they need to do is last 4 years with out a major failure, so it can be sold on. Then anther 6 of gradual failure, then it will be sold to kids that will get anther 2 years out of it before scrapping. Then the cycle continues, and your meant to move up the chain the older/wealthier you get.
For example, you buy a £20k car four years layer you sell for £7-8, that person the sells 5 or 6 years later for £500-1k. That is how the system works today,and if your purchase does the above you'll happily buy form that brand again. If you get serous defects in them time periods you'll change brands and or put off potential buyers.
ive driven 3 different yugos and lemme tell you, everyone from the territory of former yugoslavia loves that car like a mother loves her child. sure it sometimes does something you didnt expect but generally you are really proud of it no matter what it does! its just a fun car to have. and i mean the ones from the 80s like the one you got there, those little guys have a soul
Yugo but the car doesn't
haha!!
V1ksa tako je brate ahahah sta ovi znaju sta je yugo
od kad vozim ficu, niko nece moga micu, ali od kad vozim juga, samnom se jebala svaka druga!
ne znam bre al kod nas ako kupis jugo nece da jebes poprolicno dugo
V1ksa hahahah tako e
Yugo was going to make a 4 door called the we go lmao
There is Yugo with 4 doors.. It was call Yugo Florida.. My parents bought it in 1989.. They called it Florida becase they wanted to export to US but then war happened
The joke went way over these 2 guys heads LOL
I can't believe this joke is so underappreciated xD
Too bad Toyota grabbed Aygo.
Wego.
Jesus. Ya fucked it all up.
I bought a brand new 1988 Yugo at a Buick dealership back in 1988 for around $5000 and it was quite a fun little car to drive. I used it as a second car, a commuter for the 10 mile drive to work each day. My small daughters loved to ride in it, too. The little car had tight steering and the body was painted inside and out like the VW Beetle was. Mine had AC, but I had to turn it off when climbing a grade, ha! The seats were firm, but back support was good. I don't think it's fair to review a 30 year old example as a definitive Yugo, but then again, the fact that a Yugo lasted 30 years is pretty impressive. I only had my '88 Yugo one year, as Hurricane Hugo came through Charleston, SC in 1989 and lobbed parts of my house roof onto the hood and top of the little car. "Hugo hit my Yugo!" A guy on the roofing crew that fixed my house wanted my Yugo. He explained that the chassis and engine were essentially Fiat and he collected Fiats. I sold it to him for $2000 which paid off what I owed on it. I have often thought of that little blue Yugo with fondness.
Hurricane Hugo killed Yugo
This is a nice story. 👍
They were worth what they charged for it, and not as bad as some would tell you. Easy target for bullying by simple minds. It was what it was- an outdated FIAT design with a new body
Jimmy McPhail congrats u spent 10k on a car worth $200
They were only 4K new @@n0h0m0
Any car is worst if something doesn't work, roll sleeves and start fixing
In Croatia you can get a yugo for 100 $ and is in a better condition than this one
Fat Scarce True XD
100 for yugo - 300 for insurance
Zagreb ebnom zlotdik diev
Everyone here is secretly in love with it.
Not if you're from the country in which Yugo was made and see it all the time on the streets.
+92kosta I was being extremely sarcastic...
ive got 5 garage spots
and ive been contemplating selling my aventador for a yugo/lada combo.....
sonza68
my shit-car soft spot is big enough to park 20 yugos in :D
CarCrave I am
Car looks perfectly fine to me. It's not like it costs as much as a Porsche
Meh, for $2,500 US you can get a decent shape Porsche 924 that's just a little older. So it's not far off from Porsche money.
yugo is like 200-700 dollars, not even near 2500
+Joseph Summers - Yeah but the 4.000 bucks was for a NEW Yugo. And all Porsches cost a fuckload of money to repair.
Mazza Fokkar
Probably. But even 924 parts have to be the cheapest Porsche parts to buy since most of them are rotting away, scrap. And you don't necessarily have to replace them with genuine Porsche parts if you can avoid it.
Joseph Summers Yeah you´re probably right. But on the downside Porsche has probably never before or after the 924 made a more boring and dull car that even consists of severeal Volkswagen part and a "dead" 4-cylinder engine.
dude, i OWNED this car for many years. neat, cheap, easy to park due to small size, didn't bother about getting it scratched because it was so cheap. my experience with it is very positive. it was a great car for getting around town. not so good for long trips. but i only used it to get to work and buy groceries. fond memories.
Yugo is the model not the company. It is made by Zastava.
Yugo Is the name of company. Yugo Koral / Zastava Koral, Yugo Florida /Zastava Florida. It's just another name for a different region
@@jonyrambo2626Maybe in the states for some reason. But elsewhere and in its home land its a Zastava Yugo.
zastava is name of the factory, yugo was a name for premium models lol, like infinity for nissan, acura for honda, or brabus for mercedes
most of the people in yugoslavia drove zastava 101 (google it) popularly called stojadin
Don't they make some type of firearms? SKS or ak type rifles? Maybe?
"Here's Why Yugo Is One Of The Worst Cars Ever Made"
Balkans: *You have provoked a gang war*
Ps: Like ako si s Balkana
xD
My uncle had 1 of these
GTA SA?
Yugo je apsolutno sranje od auta ne razumem cemu larpanje, danas mozda 1% stanovnistva vozi yugo i oni koji voze voze to jer nemaju para za bolji auto
@@foste013 istina
"Its hard to find parts for it"
Meanwhile balkans using it as a reference to cars what have infinite parts that you can find everywhere
My grandad’s house has a shed behind it that just has old parts, most probably being from Zastava lol.
YuuY
It’s PHuayra!
@@1slonata yep
Jugo je najjaci auto.
Jeste brate 😂
Najjaci
Da
@Tristan Cerinšek pa sto odgovaras na engleskom onda
DAAA !!!
My dad bought a Yugo in '86, we were a family of 4, and we went from Long Island, New York to Disney World Florida and back. Had no idea how!! And still don't.
Do you or your family still have the Yugo?
@@Charlie-Cat. No. After two trips to Niagara Falls, and one to Virgina Beach, my dad got rid of it (don't remember if he sold it), and bought a brand new 1988 Nissan 200sx.
@@charlesedward5047 I see. After all the trips it made, did it the car ever had any trouble afterwards?
He called a tow truck while you were sleeping.
@@charlesedward5047 only a true yugoslav can master it
The Yugo needs no fuel. Only rakija
Коловра rakija is the ultimate cheap overpowered fuel.
Raki drinkable and usable.
What the hell is rakija? 😂😕
Lance Combes Traditional drink.
Коловрат Tako je stari
I learned to drive a stick shift in a Yugo! It was 1989 and I was a junior in high school! Here is the story behind it, my best friend Rebeca asked her dad for a Honda Civic as a gift for her senior year in high school, she wanted a white one, until one day her dad called her and asked her to confirm if she wanted a white car, she confirmed! She was so excited, until he arrived with the Yugo GVX! She was livid! Then she came to pick me up and when I got in, I went to roll my passenger window and the lever fell off! , it popped back on with some pressure though!, she went to adjust the rear view mirror and the thing also popped off! You were able to snap it back on the same way. On the first week the gas gauge stopped working and many many many times the car left us stranded. But we had a lot of fun with it and it took us everywhere, if that car could speak! Good times!
The Yugo still has more personality than the host of the show.
That is true but to be fair : Piece of coal has more personalty than him
Then why do you watch the videos?
That's right , that Doug demuro, what a tool.
There are probably millions of Yugos still running as daily drivers all over Europe.
Seriously
IF winter its cold enough you can pick up girls with this car xD
I stand corrected. According to Google, from 1980 to 2008, 794, 428 total Yugos were built. Still quite a lot of cars.
@@johnnyzeee5215 I would be surprised if even a tenth or a twentieth of them were still on the road. The vast majority of cheap cars disappear within a very short period of time. They are throwaway cars; you only drive them until you have access to a better mode of transportation.
@@no1DdC As I posted before, it was a bit high saying " millions ", the stated production of Yugos during their full run was about 750,000. Hmm don't know... Conditions in some parts of the former Yugoslavia may be such that if you have a running car, you take whatever measures are necessary to keep it running as long as possible. There are thousands of 1950's era cars still used as daily drivers in Cuba, with quite resourcefully owner - fabricated or adapted parts, coat hanger wire , duct tape , etc.
Why does a Yugo have a heated rear window?...
...to keep your hands warm while pushing it!
Abe Froman haha so funny, you definitely didn't steal that joke from Jay Leno. HAHAHAHAHAH
Darko Petreski Jay didn't write it. It's a classic...my dad told it to me like 20 years ago.
Filling the gas tank on a Yugo immediately doubles it's value.
20 years ago Jay Leno told the joke. It was in like 1990
Long live the YuuY (THIS Yugo). It was advanced af, that even the world wasn't ready for the quirks and features it deliver. Why complain about the simple interior? That's the point, it's the people's race car for the road.
Yeah, who needs a screen when you have an iphone
Who’s else came back after watching vinwiki
The vinwiki video just showed up in my news feed today!
VinWiki
Me! Here to figure out why there's so many downvotes.
Me
Same
You litterally triggered every Balkan.
Not me. I think the car sucks.
Yugo je katastrofa. Imao ga i raspao se doslovice. Sooo nope!
@Joe Eschaton I have many of them in my family and they are basically 110% borats.
@@Niko_Soldo YUGO IS PERFECT
No he did not everyone knows that these cars are terrible. Anyone who ever owned one will tell you they’re terrible cars and don’t drive nice, but the history to it makes it interesting to own one of these. I would love to buy one I great condition it will give you that communism feeling!
There is a joke: -"How do you double the value of Yugo when you want to sell it?" -"You fill up the tank" Beside the joke, I think yugo was a great little car that you could drive as a student basically for free...you could maintain it with a piece of cloth and a glue... you appreciate this kind of things when you are a student, right? I guess Doug doesn't, as he obviously grew up with Ferrari F40
Milos Vasic you can get better cars than a Yugo…
+Jimmy Grant can't agree more
Milos Vasic , and I bet the yugo is fun 2 drive.
try funny :) driven quite a few, the fun thing was how nippy they were as you start (they weigh like 300 pounds), but they'd run out of breath at 50 mph (4 gears, that's regular yugo 45, the slightly bigger engines made it a little suicide rocket on bicycle wheels). On top of that, it's perched horribly high, feels like you're a tennis ref, you go into a slight curve at 40 mph and start wondering if your inside wheels are still on the road... :D
The dude on the high chair in tennis is called an umpire!
My cousin had a Yugo back in the late 80's. That Yugo had a serious lean to on the Driver's side. But again my cousin weighed 400 lbs. She loved that car. The only complaint she had was having to change the tires on left side often. 🤔
it's always funny to see an American worrying about pollution.
and whole country drives cheap v8s :) ) ) )
and china has more pollution than America :) ) ) )
China has one of the strichtest environmental laws of the globe dude. Something the US should follow up on.
Stoffer Poelman *Should not***
You're an idiot Stoffer. China is smug-covered polluted cesspool.
In Serbia/Croatia/Bosnia we still drive it...
Zagreb ebnom zlotdik diev.
Jeste pošto Balkanci ste siromašni
Naravno
@@johnsmith-uf6ev ne baš
no surprise, if you can't afford car you drive cart
I bought a new Yugo in 1987 for $3995 from a Chevy dealer. In the seven years I had it, I replaced the tires twice, the muffler twice, and the battery once. I had no other major expenses or repairs. The then TV ads show a garage with the door opening and vintage VW Beetle drives out to be replaced by a Yugo. The car was meant to be basic transportation like the Beetle which nobody wants these days. I kept my Yugo for eight years and the only reason I got rid of it was I'd moved to Florida and the car had no AC, plus parts were getting hard to find. From the very beginning, the Yugo was maligned and made fun of. It was a decent little car though terribly outdated, but it would have been an ideal car for the 1960s and 1970s. Having had four Beetles, I was used to a low powered car, and 40 hp is plenty for a little car like this. Basic cars like the Yugo have little profit margin, and the car makers want to sell cars with bells and whistles to make more money.
Impressive that you had so little to replace and low maintenance on it. It must have served you well.
just go to Balkan, here we have more than enough parts for that junker
I was lucky I guess.
I wanted the car to be like the previous four Beetles I'd owned, the first of which was a 57', oval rear window, 36 hp and no gas gauge. When you ran out of gas, you flipped a lever on the floor and you had another gallon to get you to a gas station.
Northern Light , I also had one brand spanking new the exact same color as in this video. mine had a/c that actually worked also.
the only thing that I ever replaced was the clutch cable. I used a metal coat hanger, I swear I did, worked good too.
had off road tires and a very nice stereo system in it. I sold it for $1,500 bucks in 1992 .
great car I think. got 40 miles per gallon. great dirt road car with the hand brake .!!!!!!!!
My brother lived in the suburbs of Philly would put his kids in the back his wife riding shotgun and drive to New Hampshire to visit our parents. He would do this 3 or 4 times a year with NO issues. He actually bought another one.
I once out ran a tornado in Iowa in my Yugo Sport. I had it floored and the clutch was smoking and the twister was going about 72 miles per hour and I was going about 75 mph. Talk about a wild ride and a white knuckle death grip on the wheel. Had nightmares about that for years after.
So the storm chaser vehicle options back then was to pay a gazillion dollars to build a mobile weather station out of a Ford truck or pay $3,990 for a Yugo.
You got a Yugo up to 75MPH ? Dayum Son!
Ok, I'll say it: sounds like that came straight out of a movie, not Twister from 1996 tho!
Ne seri
You outrun a twister ON A YUGO?! 😳
Respect! 😯👍
Still driving it
28 years and counting
I like the cut of your jib, sir
@@nikolajankovic3735 пишеш "АЛ" у функцији "ЈЕЛ" ахахаха комуњаро глупа, у Јожиној Југославији поубијани сви Срби који су имали ИКУ изнад 80, није ни чудо што су данас ови маторци оперисани од живота
@@КосовоПатриота Ti bi trebao da ides da se lecis, stvarno.
Sacuvaj me boze, kakvi kreteni postoje
@@nikolajankovic3735 што не одеш мало у Северну Кореју или на Кубу да радиш него што се мучиш овде у злом капитализму, сигурно би имао за боља кола тамо где је прави комунистички систем!!!
how's life in Kazakhstan?
Yeah, my parents had one of these... It was cheap as hell, started every morning even in the coldest winter, used almost no gas, could still hit 90 mph and ran for years until they eventually sold it to another Yugo owner as a back up car. Some people say they were crap, I didn't see that. I saw a cheap, efficient beast. The only downside was that later on parts were hard to get for it...
Agreed! I still have my Yugo after 17 years. Lasted longer than my BMW that was an electrical wiring nightmare!
Charlie Cat when all the wires are exposed like that, its easier to find the problem
Larpgasm I thought yugos only go 69 mph I guess they go 90 mph
Tommy Whitaker My mother came home one day with a traffic ticket for 90 mph in a 45 zone. It might have been downhill or with a draft, but they could do it. She just said she was on the highway when she got pulled over.
Larpgasm did she get pulled over or did she get it in the mail
The logic around production in eastern Europe at the time was: "Make as much as you can for the lowest price", since the majority of people in the Eastern Bloc couldn't even dream of affording a Ferrari F40, a cheap car that works, works. That's why most car companies from the east (Yugo, Lada, Dacia, Skoda) started out making terrible cheap cars so that their citizens could afford them
Yugo is not from est block.
@@vladimirdjordjevic6771 znam, ali to ne menja činjenicu da nam je proizvodnja bila sličnija istočnom bloku nego zapadu
@@imborahey7568 sve jedno, jis se kotrljaju. Pogledaj kanal aleksic moto. Decko pegla 101, nije to tako lose..
U need to master a Yugo I can't explain it's like a wild horse but once u master it, it can literally bring Tito alive
Fuckin A 👍
Skellar yella lol
Ejjjjjj coke,coke,coke,coke,coke Yugo se ljulja ko i njena bulja...
Ilija Bosnjak hahaha
Honestly, it was literally the most inexpensive thing you could buy.... 30 years later it's still running and driving. Say that about a Tempo.......
Actually there are 2 80s ford tempos in my town that still run drive and have no body rot
Crown Victoria, inexpensive and durable
I had an 87 Tempo that refused to die.
Dishonorable mention, to the Tempo/Topaz predecessor, the Ford Fairmont/Mercury Zephyr.
The Tempo succeeded the Fairmont in 1983 having driven both the Fairmont was the better car, had a F-150 that was in for warranty and was given a Tempo for a loaner drove it for three days and remember thinking to myself , Man I would be pissed if I payed money for this car.