Well yeah ! That’s just what I thought . . . Uh 🙄 . . Yeah . . Just gotta think of Schlep Car ! Ok , now that’s just from the EARLY 80s ( Sid & Marty Kraft Superstars ) I know . . But HECK . . Talking about old iron !
"Drowning Mona" with Danny DeVieto. Its about Yugo's in an offhanded way. Yugo gave people in Verplank NY cars to test out. True story. Its pretty funny.
@@Rathbone_fan_account Found the teacher that drives an econo-box. No offense to teachers. They should get paid enough to drive, at the very least, a moderately priced car.
@@LegoDork Not a teacher, and I definitely don't drive an 'econobox'. I just feel deep respect for people who put their heart into this tough and unrewarding, punishing even profession. They shape entire generations.
Don't knock an old Range Rover, Jeremy Clarkson declared it the most reliable, unreliable car when Top Gear did their Bolivia special. Thats like being called the best looking ugly bloke at a party 🙉
I saw Jame May drive one to the Studio in London ( I presume as I only saw the clip) into the lobby. Onto the lift, where he asked someone to press the button. Then drove it down the hallway into the studio. That might be less trouble than walking to a limo or taxi or uber etc, but basically its a mobility scooter. 😁
My parents owned the Tahoe Hybrid, I used to drive a Murano CrossCabriolet. My brother used a 2015 Mirage. Aw man, what horrible decisions my family did. Edit : most of these cars lasted under 2 years :)
Damn son! Mitsubishi cars, especially the 90's Galant's and yes, some Mirage's we're the cars that def felt like they were about to fall apart at any minute, any second if you were going over 40mph.
@@805NAVE my dad bought a V6 Honda Accord 2004 used when I was in elementary school and drove me around in it. Still runs well enough that I took it as a hand me down and it's my daily now. With a decent trim level the car doesn't need to be bought from a luxury manufacturer for it to be considered "nice". It gets the job done check engine light maybe once every year or two
@@terminhaider9695 Had that same V6 in my 2005 Saturn Vue, very peppy and gave me and the wife great service for 8 years - Change that timing belt before around the 120-130k mark though! Those Honda V6 engines will be destroyed if you let that belt break, I learned the hard way smh.
THE YUGO, a car that I made 800% when I sold it. Saw it at a repair shop. Been sitting there for a long time. Found out it had been in the same family since new. They would sell it. Price $200. Sold. Problem, it had broken the timing belt and bent all the exhaust valves. I did the work myself and here was the cost. Valves $1.25 each. Belt $9.00. Head gasket set, $19.00. Total, $33.00. Sold it on EBay for $1,800.00. Guy drove it home from NC to Fla.. Called me up and said the car drove wonderfully. No problems what so ever. I liked the car. It was what it was. Enjoyed driving it. Everywhere I went, people sought me out. All former owners wanting to reminisce about their Yugo's.
What, no Ford Pinto or Cortina? The very early 70 models were totally gutless shitboxes. Sure, they would get you fromA to B, but, just terrible cars. Honourable mention, the Chevy VEGA
One of these days Doug is going to look back and wonder, "what possessed me to act so annoying and pushy in what was otherwise a genuine piece of popular art?"
I feel like that shoutout should have been that first vid. Also a couple other vids. This seems late. Still, better late than never. Also, sure the guy gave it for free, but I think he deserves the normal pay rate for it.
That particular Yugo blew its engine and was sold to Tavarish, who with help from Jared Pink, modified it with a Fiat 1500 twin carb engine among other things, who then gifted it to Rob Dunn from Aging Wheels. Rob has a couple of Yugos, a Trabant, and a bunch of other automotive oddities. For some odd reason he seems to like them, undoubtedly for the amusement value. That little Yugo has been on quite the journey in its life, and it's not over yet. With double the horsepower it was designed for there are some wild times ahead for it in Rob's hands. Anyone curious should head over to the Aging Wheels channel. It's a hoot, you won't regret it.
@@obelic71 There are many 100+ hp Yugos in its homeland of Serbia. Engine swap from old Fiats can be done in like 3 hours and is way more common than you think lol
@@dindinbre ofcourse Zastava did build alot of fiatmodels under licence in the region and also its engines. the 2L 16V what is placed in the Fiat Tipo abarth and the Lancia delta HF integrale. would be a real treat.
@@obelic71 Yes, those are really exotic one and are few well known builds with Delta Integrale engines, but that imo is quite an overkill for such a weak chassis that was never designed for engine over 75 horsepower. SOHC 128A engines are very much bolt on, and DOHC engines can be installed with not much mods. I have also seen some builds with Opel 2.0 16V engines from Kadett GSI and Calibra. Not very street driveable tho. Track orriented Yugos are usually built with factory 1.3 engine or 1.6 SOHC engine, they are quite a bit oversquare (especially 1.3 engine, 86.4mm piston with 55.5mm stroke) which allows them to rev up to 8k with right components.
After the revealing video where ge gives up on a project simply because he feels he can't get it done in time for SEMA tavarish is really more like it.
Drove a Trabant for ~15years. Loved it. Love the Transmission! Gear shifter is at the Steering wheel and when you are accustomed to it, it is fun, as you can shift quicker while turning corners. There also was a Tank/Kraftstoff display (optional) and in later versions, they also had some funny diode fuel consumption display.
A teacher in high school had an Isetta, the football team carried in into the student's lounge. left it there. He sold it over the summer and bought a Renault Dauphine ... it found its way into the auditorium, on the stage.
Ha-ha, a similar thing was done to a highschool phys ed teacher with a Trabant. As a practical joke, a few of the kids lifted the Trabant up and put it in between the trunks of two large trees, leaving about an inch or two clearance, front and back. It took almost 1/2 hour of wiggling back and forth for the teacher, to free the Trabant. He wasn't happy...
We had a Yugo and my dad spent the weekend in the garage fixing it. I remember him coming inside with a part and explaining “I have no idea what this is”. It died during a Colorado snow storm.
i got used Yugo for 18th birthday and i fix all by mu self and i did not know much about cars....now i drive 2018 car that is computer on wheels that can almost drive alone but has check engine light last few months and no service center can find what is is wrong..its just crazy complex
You'll be surprised but the Trabant is amazing on rough roads and in winter conditions! We've been on such crazy places in the mountains with our trabi only few jeeps could get there. And in the winter it was almost the only car that came through the snow! Greets from Bulgaria, love your videos!
@@purplegill10 well, comfortability in a Trabi ve never been a score haha do you mean ford model t from 1912, you should know that we've drove our Trabi daily in the 1990s 😉
I've seen many people who could drive in places and snow where those American trucks just can't. Older lighter cars are much better than the crap they make today. It's all plastic and chrome about how it looks, not fuel efficient, terrible to drive, dangerous. But it's pushed by the oil industry and men are insecure and believe the Marlboro man marketing and think they need a big terrible truck to be masculine. Lighter smaller cars are the better option.
As someone who eats lunchables, which one do you recommend? My wife has this thing where she wants to buy a bunch for nostalgia sake. I remember pizza is the only good one. We are also 29
@@abc1099a check out prozd vid where he reviews all the lunchable types. Honestly they just aren't great, apart from the nostalgia factor th-cam.com/video/y1gmikBXWio/w-d-xo.html
I think that - like me - Doug might be the type of guy who when his laptop screen doesn't work unless it's at precisely 90 degrees, he keeps using it. For years, in my case.
@@Bzons Yeah i was pretty convinced that the GAZ would make it into the worst top 3, i didn't include the Isetta because maybe he thought it was more cute than bad, but yeah, i forgot about it breaking down during the review.
Yeah, i still think he should've put the GAZ in the top 3 instead of the Isetta, i always thought it was kinda cute, but yeah, it broke down during the review, i guess that does spoil the fun
@@Games_and_Music HEYHEYHEY SOVIET CAR IS BEST CAR. WE HAD SELF DRIVING BEFORE ANYONE ELSE BECAUSE IN RUSSIA YOU DON'T DRIVE THE CAR, THE CAR DRIVES YOU
@@Games_and_Music GAZ is far from the worst. It is actually a comfortable car to ride in. I never had a chance to drive it, but I rode in one and it is fine. There are worse cars to be in, for sure.
LOL an izzetta was owned by our junior high vice principal. During classes we picked it up and put it into the wood shop instructors pickup truck with a canopy. He drove it home not realizing until later the izzettta was in his truck.
There's one at White Bear Mitsubishi that has 414K miles on it...and it's a CVT. He clearly doesn't know what he's talking about, especially since he said he reviewed a 2016 Mitsubishi Mirage. *There is no such thing as a 2016 Mitsubishi Mirage.*
When I was a child in the 80’s in former Czechoslovakia, when we saw a bright green Trabant, we had to jump 3 times and that was supposed to bring us luck, oh, the good old days...
I remember when the Yugos' engines were blowing up in the 30-50k range (don't recall the exact limit), and the factory's response was to give you a replacement engine. Exactly the same brokety engine, so meaning you had another 30-50k miles to go. There was a time when you'd see them for sale by owner 'with extra engine'.
@@jamesmancuso3666 You can see in his “Car Spotting” videos how much he knows about cars. His knowledge of the details and the history of so many cars is outstanding.
Doug, I don't really think it's fair to put an armored car on the list, it's a military vehicle. It wasn't made for style or comfort. The real question is how effective was it in it's combat role? How well does it protect the occupants from gunfire and explosions? What did soldiers who used it think about it?
Its all about context... he drove those cars on US roads... go drive cars in an European city (one that dates back to medieval times) and trust me, the Isetta comes out on top and you would hate any large SUV because you get stuck (I think there is a Top Gear Episode in Lucern, and that is not even a bad city).
My business partner grew up in Germany as a US Air Force brat. He recalls seeing autobahn accidents when a Mercedes S-Class would be in the left lane doing maybe 120mph and an Isetta would pull out ahead of them to pass another car and just get destroyed. The Autobahn, back then at least, had many curves so seeing a superfast car coming up behind you in your mirrors was difficult.
@@lasersailor6684 He first used it in his Cadillac Allanté video, seven months ago... I don‘t know why he came up with crediting the designer just now.
Just sold our Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet. It was an insane design that was perfect for us. I wanted to relive my convertible car youth and we needed a tall car to accommodate my mobility impaired mother-in-law. It became my second favorite car I’ve owned, my favorite being my MG Midget (yes, I obviously like “different” cars). As someone who loves a bargain, the great thing about controversial cars is that they don’t hold their value as compared to new. The CrossCabriolet was a $50K car new and we bought it used for $19K with about 70K miles. Wonderfully modern electronics for its era. It turned heads wherever we went, usually with very positive comments. You might think the trunk was useless, but it fit my MIL’s walker very well, with more room for groceries. The only negatives were that it was EXTREMELY difficult to get out of the back seat without face-planting on the pavement, and the soft-touch plastic covering the dash and doors was very easy to nick or tear, as proven by our dog the first time we took him for a ride and he put his paws (and claws) on the dash. Ultimately, as we were approaching 200K miles, we traded it in on a 2020 Equinox w/2LZ Premier, a very nice vehicle for our needs, but not special like the CrossCabriolet. She’ll be missed.
@@datathunderstorm I think there were other 80s U.S. cars that had the spare in the engine bay too---mainstream ones---I just saw an old MotorWeek retro video with one the other day. Can't remember which make it was.
@@datathunderstorm Also the French old Renault 5. I never forget it when I was kid and my uncle popped the hood of his green Renault 5 to surprise me with that scene.
I had 3 Volts and they were great. I got my ELR and it's everything that I wanted to do to make my Volt unique and special. As much as people like to complain about the $76K pricing (which was a terrible mistake), I think that if Cadillac had sold the ELR for $50K new, it would have been a huge hit! Importantly, now you can get a low mileage one for $20K, and it is comfortable and relatively economical. It has all of the good drivetrain bits from the Volt in a stylish body and has the feel of a near-luxury car.
Old Ben Stepman used to run a Yugo dealership near Vegas back in the early 90's. You could see abandoned Yugos all over Clark County for several years after he closed the store.
Cool ranking! Some words of wisdom to add: The Yugo: if something is crap but it's cheap - it's still crap. The Trabant: men of steel drive cars made of cardboard.
I'm from Eastern Germany and the Trabant is a legend here! We have big fanclubs and you can see them driving on the streets. The nice ones look really great and they're fun to drive in the city because they're very light. Prices went up in the last years. Very iconic car. Also I think the Isetta is a legend, because it's important car history 😊
There are Trabant-clubs everywhere, even in Switzerland... some people love that car in every corner of the world. Doug is just ignorant and blatantly anti-communist, like so many Americans... they had luxury cars even in the '50s after the war, Europe had Isetta and Trabant, because of economic hardships, and those were the lucky ones who could afford even those. He's completely missing the context and perspective to appreciate these cars, but I can't blame him for that.
I have find much more terrible cars from USA Than Isetta and Trabant i remember on TopGear he is americano and he thinks that US cars are best but Enzo Ferrari sad, Americans cannot build real cars like Ferrari and Porsche
@@Rotaermel Free healthcare, free education, equality of women, mostly equal distribution of goods, total separation of state and religion, no personal taxes, stable jobs, plannable future, support for workers, just to mention a few. At least these were mostly true in socialist-era Hungary. It certainly wasn't perfect, but wasn't all that bad either...
I remember when they first came out, and I saw a woman driving one at my job, going into the parking garage. It was so ugly to look at that I couldn't believe anyone would voluntarily buy that hideous thing.
It won’t die out I don’t think, he posts video that a lot of people would want to see on here, like “10 worst cars I’ve reviewed” because that’s something that would have a big audience, where “10 most ugly cars I’ve reviewed” would be a More Doug Demuro video.
No AMC on this list. That's impressive. My father owned an AMC Eagle, which was a terrible car but really deserves quite a bit of credit as a precursor to the eventual SUV craze and takeover of the market. It was a high-stance "station wagon" with 4WD way, way, way before its time. You really ought to review the Eagle for its place in history. Of course you'll never read this comment, so what am I talking about.
I had a Zastava 101, the Yugo predecessor, and it was the second car I totaled in a crash and the only car I've ever crashed three times so hard that parts were flying off of it. Well, I guess, that doesn't say as much about the Yugo as it does about my driving back then :D But anyway, it had cruise control, so that's +1 in the features category.
Germany is the last country who will accept electric cars for anything. Their support for high performance internal combustion engines rivals Gun supporters in America.
@@joe6096 true! Germans love the combustion engine, especially the diesel in the commercial sector. if Germany produces only electric cars in 25 to 30 years, at least 60% of Germans will switch to used cars with traditional powered engines.
@@joe6096 It isn't just a mentality thing. Nobody ever talks about it, not even in Germany, but I think the biggest problem EVs have in Germany is that almost nobody has a garage. People don't have a place where they can charge their EV over night. Lots and houses in Germany are small, most people rent apartments and the relatively few people who have a house with a garage, use it to store stuff (like skiing gear, old home trainers, Christmas decoration and so on) in it and still park their car on the road. For most people in Germany, owning a EV would mean they would have to lay a long power cable out their kitchen window, half a block down the road to where they park their car. EV technology will only ever really work in Germany when you can charge them as fast as filling a gas tank at a gas station. That is what makes it so ridiculous that the German press has this vendetta against the German car industry and acts as if the German car manufacturers were stupid, obsolete dinosaurs who should have died out because the fact that they didn't immediately switch all their production to EVs the moment Elon Musk had his first press conference, means they were "asleep at the wheel" or whatever. As I said, nobody ever seems to think of such differences between cultures and countries. EV technology the way it is now, is kind of tailor made for the actually very unique, rare and abnormal world of US suburbia, where everyone has 2+ car garages in their large wooden houses with walk in closets and so on. It is the same with other technologies that tech gurus like to tout as "the future". Take "screen walls" as an example. People seem to be pretty sure that in the near future, everyone will have whole walls that are screens in their homes and maybe even "Holo Deck"-like rooms where all 4 walls are screens. Once again, that can only really work in American suburbia. Everywhere else in the world, houses are small and have no walk in closets, so people need to put cabinets, shelves and other storage furniture on every wall in every room of the house.
@@TrangleC As a german I've actually never thought about the garage problem, but that's 100% true. Most people really do live in flats/apartments and charging those cars would be hella impractical.
Superstar TH-camrs be like: 'I need an editor to put bling sounds with a countdown mark after every car, make sure the acoustics are perfect, let's test the cam angle, make sure it doesn't look weird! Doug be like...
All the Yugos in the US are from what I know a debt that Yugoslavia had toward the States, so since we didn't have the money to pay, we sent them a shitload of Yugos that were made specifically for the US market. Since there was a deadline I bet most of them were just put together rather in a hurry than with care. That's how we get all those stories of how they broke down in the US, but people from Yugoslavia will tell you that they went to the moon with their Yugo because ours were made probably with a bit more care and love.
The original debt existed because Yugoslavia sold the US plans for rocket-engineering stuff and those plans and blueprints didn't work so to compensate they sent those Yugos, so basically, Yugoslavia fucked the US over 2 times in a row. I wouldn't be surprised if that was one of the reasons why they didn't rush to stop the war here in YU back in the 90s.
In post war Germany having a car at all was something to be proud of. My great grandfather used to tell stories of how they went on family trips in an Isetta.
@@Cher007 my sister has owned three expeditions, all reliable. My grandpa owned four Broncos, all reliable. Just because you own several, definitely doesn’t mean they’re unreliable. In fact it can mean the exact opposite.
I had a 2008 Tahoe Hybrid 4x4. The big hybrid sticker had already been removed when I got it at 100k miles. It was one of the best cars I've ever owned. Doug downplays the mpg difference but it was 25% better on the highway and about 50% better around town. As I lived in an urban area when I owned it that meant a significant savings. It was nice driving around in traffic on all electric mode. It was also a promo proof of concept vehicle so it came with every option available on the Escalade as standard. Power everything, heated seats, backup camera etc. It was also very comfortable on the highway as well as being a better towing vehicle than the standard Tahoe. Perhaps I was lucky but it was very reliable. I drove it from 100k miles up to 288k and only ever did regular maintenance (tires, oil, belts etc.), it never even needed the hybrid battery replaced. Only around 288k did it start to develop a valve tick and needed the heads rebuilt. It still ran fine but obviously needed some work. Wish I would have kept it and fixed it but I was living in a condo at the time and didn't have room to do DIY car work.
I also had the 2008. It was reliable and way better efficiency than a straight gas model. I liked it a lot. I still own a 2007 Trailblazer with the 4.2 and just turned 260K. Just change the oil like you're supposed to and things go much better for you.
I own two of the cars on this list. I've never been so honored
And that same exact yugo, right?
@@brettstaneslow That exact Yugo and that exact Trabant
Sounds like you need an isetta
Your reviews are hilarious.
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The slow speed in the Yugo is a safety feature...
Well yeah ! That’s just what I thought . . . Uh 🙄 . . Yeah . . Just gotta think of Schlep Car ! Ok , now that’s just from the EARLY 80s ( Sid & Marty Kraft Superstars ) I know . . But HECK . . Talking about old iron !
Meh, if you have a 5 speed Yugo 65 in pristine condition it's pretty fast🤭
the looks must be one of the quirks
According to the laws!! Lol
"Drowning Mona" with Danny DeVieto. Its about Yugo's in an offhanded way. Yugo gave people in Verplank NY cars to test out. True story. Its pretty funny.
One of my teachers back in the 70s had an Isetta. Often he couldn't find his car after school because it took just four people to carry it away.
People are assholes.
@@Rathbone_fan_account Found the teacher that drives an econo-box.
No offense to teachers. They should get paid enough to drive, at the very least, a moderately priced car.
@@LegoDork Not a teacher, and I definitely don't drive an 'econobox'. I just feel deep respect for people who put their heart into this tough and unrewarding, punishing even profession. They shape entire generations.
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You know the Yugo actually came with a heated rear window. That way you could keep your hands warm while you were pushing it home.
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Skoda joke...🙄
@@bugyg2000 bro chill skodas weren't the only bad cars back in the day 😂
I remember all the Yugo jokes on late night... "Two people shot and killed in a Yugo push-by shooting".
Offenders tracked down quickly as a bystander managed to get the number.... the chassis number
I had a salesman try to show me one new. The drivers seat wasn’t bolted down
@@frasiec The seats were like lawn furniture. Bolted down or not it was bad news.
I was very surprised the pt cruiser wasn’t on here.
"The back glass panel heater is more often used as a hand warmer in the winter"
When you get towed by a Range Rover, You know your car is unreliable.
What’s wrong with a range?
@@ilove_kyliegh It doesn't have any Range.
Don't knock an old Range Rover, Jeremy Clarkson declared it the most reliable, unreliable car when Top Gear did their Bolivia special. Thats like being called the best looking ugly bloke at a party 🙉
@@barneybarret6088 Jeremy clarkson is some punkass
It's a true off-road car in that it's been known to spend most of its time off-road: Either in the garage or the mechanic's.
Doug is so lazy, having his Iseta towed when he could’ve put it in his pocket and walked it over there
No it was to make a point about reliability by being towed by a Range Rover.
I saw Jame May drive one to the Studio in London ( I presume as I only saw the clip) into the lobby. Onto the lift, where he asked someone to press the button. Then drove it down the hallway into the studio. That might be less trouble than walking to a limo or taxi or uber etc, but basically its a mobility scooter. 😁
Think this guy was being sarcastic, strange to see people take it way too serious. C'mon, you guys can't get a joke
@@Ozzy_2014 I think you mean Clarkson driving the Peel P50. He drove that through the BBC studio
My parents owned the Tahoe Hybrid, I used to drive a Murano CrossCabriolet.
My brother used a 2015 Mirage.
Aw man, what horrible decisions my family did.
Edit : most of these cars lasted under 2 years :)
Buy a 4th gen Camaro
Damn son! Mitsubishi cars, especially the 90's Galant's and yes, some Mirage's we're the cars that def felt like they were about to fall apart at any minute, any second if you were going over 40mph.
@@zew1414 the diamanté was classy and luxurious tho! Loved those. Not as good as my Lexus tho
@@805NAVE my dad bought a V6 Honda Accord 2004 used when I was in elementary school and drove me around in it. Still runs well enough that I took it as a hand me down and it's my daily now. With a decent trim level the car doesn't need to be bought from a luxury manufacturer for it to be considered "nice". It gets the job done check engine light maybe once every year or two
@@terminhaider9695 Had that same V6 in my 2005 Saturn Vue, very peppy and gave me and the wife great service for 8 years - Change that timing belt before around the 120-130k mark though! Those Honda V6 engines will be destroyed if you let that belt break, I learned the hard way smh.
Our YUGO is not even the worst, feeling proud right now
idemoo 😂
Tavarish rebuilt it
From worst to not worst, making progress
The Yugo is actually based on the Fiat 127 which won European Car Of the Year ............ in 1972.
It is probably still better than a Tata Nano.
It's better than a BMW.
It was strange not to hear him say “more” in the intro.
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Is he doing away with that second channel now?
Chris Powell I guess
THE YUGO, a car that I made 800% when I sold it. Saw it at a repair shop. Been sitting there for a long time. Found out it had been in the same family since new. They would sell it. Price $200. Sold. Problem, it had broken the timing belt and bent all the exhaust valves. I did the work myself and here was the cost. Valves $1.25 each. Belt $9.00. Head gasket set, $19.00. Total, $33.00. Sold it on EBay for $1,800.00. Guy drove it home from NC to Fla.. Called me up and said the car drove wonderfully. No problems what so ever. I liked the car. It was what it was. Enjoyed driving it. Everywhere I went, people sought me out. All former owners wanting to reminisce about their Yugo's.
..... just got out of mental rehab ..... always thought a Yugo would be cool with a small block ...... see there ..... back I go ...............
@@charlesstiesmeyer1494 Don't put yourself in a straitjacket just yet---there have been Chevy 350s dropped into Yugos.
Was the buyer drunk or something when he made that decision to buy it for $1800?! LOL
@@deller5924 i mean, he did drive it back to florida
Valves $1.25 each? They probably cost more to transport them then they were worth 😂
i love the yugo, it's such a shit box and has so much personalitty
I guess it had about 70 hp, wow.
You must have Necrophilia.
@@metalmike570 55hp, IIRC, at least the one I saw reviewed in CR back in the day.
2:50 Maserati Quattroporte
4:04 Chevy Tahoe Hybrid
4:44 armored military
5:31 Mitisubushi Mirage
6:59 Nissan Murano Cabrio
8:09 Cadillac ELR
9:28 Mercedes Metris
11:03 Yugo
12:11 Trabant
13:26 BMW Isetta
THANK YOU!
thanks man...
Maserati seriously didn’t deserve to be here
What, no Ford Pinto or Cortina? The very early 70 models were totally gutless shitboxes. Sure, they would get you fromA to B, but, just terrible cars. Honourable mention, the Chevy VEGA
Thanks.. doug has a habit of rambling on....
“Make sure you check out cars and bids.” - Doug’s gravestone.
It should be "Check out my quirks and features."
CARS and BIDS
One of these days Doug is going to look back and wonder, "what possessed me to act so annoying and pushy in what was otherwise a genuine piece of popular art?"
THIS!!!! is
Doug DeMuro
19**-20**
“Man of Many Quirks and Features”
You mean CARRRRSSSS N BIDDSSSS
“I have no doubt that some people are gonna issues with some of these but keep in mind you’re wrong”
Gotta love Doug
8:43 Doug: ''It looked great''
Also Doug: 6/10 for styling
My respect for Doug after he shouted out the Doug score designer📈📈
the Insta preview looks good, the Fiat Cinquecento Hawaii and the Men with Ven made me laugh
I always skip the Doug Score so I never even knew he had a fancy intro, let alone who made it.
@@scott8919 same, I just skip to the total score out of curiosity
More respect if he paid him instead of just saying thanks.
I feel like that shoutout should have been that first vid. Also a couple other vids. This seems late. Still, better late than never. Also, sure the guy gave it for free, but I think he deserves the normal pay rate for it.
That particular Yugo blew its engine and was sold to Tavarish, who with help from Jared Pink, modified it with a Fiat 1500 twin carb engine among other things, who then gifted it to Rob Dunn from Aging Wheels. Rob has a couple of Yugos, a Trabant, and a bunch of other automotive oddities. For some odd reason he seems to like them, undoubtedly for the amusement value.
That little Yugo has been on quite the journey in its life, and it's not over yet. With double the horsepower it was designed for there are some wild times ahead for it in Rob's hands. Anyone curious should head over to the Aging Wheels channel. It's a hoot, you won't regret it.
The only Yugo in the world with a power to weight ratio of 1:5 and rally specs.
@@obelic71 There are many 100+ hp Yugos in its homeland of Serbia. Engine swap from old Fiats can be done in like 3 hours and is way more common than you think lol
@@dindinbre ofcourse Zastava did build alot of fiatmodels under licence in the region and also its engines.
the 2L 16V what is placed in the Fiat Tipo abarth and the Lancia delta HF integrale. would be a real treat.
@@obelic71 Yes, those are really exotic one and are few well known builds with Delta Integrale engines, but that imo is quite an overkill for such a weak chassis that was never designed for engine over 75 horsepower. SOHC 128A engines are very much bolt on, and DOHC engines can be installed with not much mods. I have also seen some builds with Opel 2.0 16V engines from Kadett GSI and Calibra. Not very street driveable tho. Track orriented Yugos are usually built with factory 1.3 engine or 1.6 SOHC engine, they are quite a bit oversquare (especially 1.3 engine, 86.4mm piston with 55.5mm stroke) which allows them to rev up to 8k with right components.
@@robbdudeson346 Rob's channel is called Aging Wheels.
th-cam.com/users/agingwheels
Alternate title: "The next 10 project cars for Hoovies Garage"
Hoovie has gone up in the world lately,tavarish is now buying shit cars, including dougs number three, that yugo or his fake lamborghini for 500 bucks
You mean Tavarish
Awesome
After the revealing video where ge gives up on a project simply because he feels he can't get it done in time for SEMA tavarish is really more like it.
@@jasongerrard8940 Tavarish gave the Yugo to Aging Wheels. It was perfect for him.
It hit me today: Doug's hand gestures look like that challenge where it's the arms of somebody else standing behind Doug.
I hope he'll go visit Jay Leno; they seem related what do you think?
There should be an art gallery of just Doug Demuro thumbnails.
chocolate rain guy Pog
Chocolate rain car pog
Chocolate YuuY
Wow. The internet legend himself. I’m humbled and honored.
@@LessDougDeMuro YuuY
I'm loving these Sunday uploads
YuuY From Times Square
HIII JaaJ!
#YuuY
Hello again JaaJ with another top comment!
Hey guys
Props for actually giving credit to the person who made that animation. A lot of creators skimp out on that.
Drove a Trabant for ~15years. Loved it. Love the Transmission! Gear shifter is at the Steering wheel and when you are accustomed to it, it is fun, as you can shift quicker while turning corners. There also was a Tank/Kraftstoff display (optional) and in later versions, they also had some funny diode fuel consumption display.
They even facelifted the Mirage/Space Star. So they are not done with it yet.
The new one looks way better and fits in with their other cars
@@zafrylaiman8695 exactly, it may be one of the best looking cars in Mitsubishi’s new lineup
Imho the SpaceStar/Mirage is a super reliable car cause nothing in there to break down.
The new mirage is actually a surprisingly attractive little car
@@graysonelliott397 Like the Nissan March.
A teacher in high school had an Isetta, the football team carried in into the student's lounge. left it there. He sold it over the summer and bought a Renault Dauphine ... it found its way into the auditorium, on the stage.
that teacher must have been a real pill
Your school had a student lounge?
Ha-ha, a similar thing was done to a highschool phys ed teacher with a Trabant. As a practical joke, a few of the kids lifted the Trabant up and put it in between the trunks of two large trees, leaving about an inch or two clearance, front and back. It took almost 1/2 hour of wiggling back and forth for the teacher, to free the Trabant. He wasn't happy...
We found a way to turn Mr Lumb's (fairly cool French teacher) Citroen 2CV around, so that he parked it nose in, but found it nose out!😅
Doug: "Today we're discussing the WORST cars!"
* Maserati looks around nervously *
fny
I was waiting for the Ghibli...
@@ashwinmahajan8065 same i was kinda bummed to not see it on the list
I'm impressed there was only one here and not even the one I expected
Cadillac aswell
Scroll to 14:15-14:30 - Simply the best commentary from Doug in all my years of watching. Truly hilarious and transparent!
Thanks for shouting out Hasler Designs! Been wondering who made that awesome animation
are YOU hasler designs?
@@ssa0026 no, I'm Hasler Designs
@@ssa0026 No but it sounded kinda sus now that I look back at it 😂
@@AmongUs-mb4qx 😑
@@AmongUs-mb4qx no, IM hasler designs
Doug casually with a smile : “Any accident you will be dead” 😂😂😂😂
lol right? like it's just another fact of life."sky is blue, grass is green, any accident and you'll be dead..."
Well if u crash at high speed on a motor bike ur dead
That comment got me on tears 😭🤣😂
@@silversonic99 facts😂😂😂
@@parysknapton9043 Yeah,but if you're paying the extra cost(and fuel) for a car you should't be equal to a motorcycle.
I could never imagine in my life, I would see a Maserati Quattroporte and a Trabant in a same list.
Yeah.. Maserati is not for this list
At least the Maserati Quattroporte is last in the top ten (that means it's the least worst) while the trabant is far ahead in the list.
@@adnanjusic4890 exactly
Especially after seeing ChrisFix
They are both pieces of crap. And cheaply built. And unreliable. Pretty dang similar
Doug:”Mitsubishi is not a reliable car company, nor do they make good cars”
Lancer Evo: **Sad Engine Sputters**
Magna: *laughs in 500,000+ ks*
We had a Yugo and my dad spent the weekend in the garage fixing it. I remember him coming inside with a part and explaining “I have no idea what this is”. It died during a Colorado snow storm.
Maybe it was the car's appendix? Funny thing is, I think they figured out the purpose of the human appendix.
@@ericpmoss what’s the purpose?
i got used Yugo for 18th birthday and i fix all by mu self and i did not know much about cars....now i drive 2018 car that is computer on wheels that can almost drive alone but has check engine light last few months and no service center can find what is is wrong..its just crazy complex
An Isetta being towed by a Range Rover - now that is a MEME with huge potential. 2 unreliable cars - like the blind leading the blind.
I bet people who make memes about Land Rover or any car brands are just wishing death on people for driving these cars they don't like.
Oddly enough it would be just as good if the Isetta was towing the RR. Lol
@@maquesim4296 THAT WOULD BE IMPOSSIBLE YOU REEEEEEEE
@@maquesim4296 You are a death wisher.
@@maquesim4296 If you car breaks down, Id' laugh as I don't care about other people's cars.
I laughed way too hard at "that's a decision".
You'll be surprised but the Trabant is amazing on rough roads and in winter conditions! We've been on such crazy places in the mountains with our trabi only few jeeps could get there. And in the winter it was almost the only car that came through the snow! Greets from Bulgaria, love your videos!
Reminds me of the model T in that same old, uncomfortable yet VERY capable car category.
@@purplegill10 well, comfortability in a Trabi ve never been a score haha do you mean ford model t from 1912, you should know that we've drove our Trabi daily in the 1990s 😉
Great compared to what? A radio flyer?
I've seen many people who could drive in places and snow where those American trucks just can't. Older lighter cars are much better than the crap they make today. It's all plastic and chrome about how it looks, not fuel efficient, terrible to drive, dangerous. But it's pushed by the oil industry and men are insecure and believe the Marlboro man marketing and think they need a big terrible truck to be masculine. Lighter smaller cars are the better option.
I still can’t believe Doug is 32 years old. I’m 29 and still eat Lunchables.
As someone who eats lunchables, which one do you recommend? My wife has this thing where she wants to buy a bunch for nostalgia sake. I remember pizza is the only good one. We are also 29
@@abc1099a I'm 22 and I eat lunchables
I reccomened the cheese and pepperoni pretzel stick ones where you combine them
Fun fact I thought he was in his 50s and I have never eaten a lunchable
abc1099a can’t go wrong with Turkey or ham cracker stacker or nachos ones
@@abc1099a check out prozd vid where he reviews all the lunchable types. Honestly they just aren't great, apart from the nostalgia factor th-cam.com/video/y1gmikBXWio/w-d-xo.html
* my dad lecturing me about how things used to be better in his day.
* My dad also saying the best car he ever had was a BMW ISetta
Same here. With exception: my father owned trabant. Combi version. Which was even worse than sedan...
Gentlemen, do you agree with me if I say that Matiz is somehow the successor to the Trabant?
Doug's wife is concerned that he hasn't changed his t-shirt in over a week
Doug has a wife? I thought he only made love with carssss and bidsss
@@DyslexicMitochondria Sup bro! i watch ur channeI. Love ur videos. Surprised to see you here
I’m honestly surprised he’s married
That's because he really hates the Allroad
He’s been married for a long time now
"I would rather drive a slow car fast than a fast car slow"- jay leno
do you guys know why Yugo had back window heater installed?
so you didn't have cold hands in winter while you were pushing it when it broke down :P
Doug's the type of guy who doesn't believe his laptop screen can tilt further than 90 degrees
Exactly what i was thinking...lol
I've honestly never seen anyone else use a laptop like that on youtube. lol
Doug's the type of guy to intentionally not tilt the screen more than 90-degrees in order to not "wear out the hinge".
I'm one of those guys. i did it whenever there's no table bcs it's easier for me to type with that position
and no hot thighs
I think that - like me - Doug might be the type of guy who when his laptop screen doesn't work unless it's at precisely 90 degrees, he keeps using it. For years, in my case.
Now we just need a "10 Cars with the quirkiest features"
we get that every year though. go watch all the end of year quirk videos
@@andy4an yeah but those are of that year specifically, I mean't quirkiest features EVER like this video.
Nissan Cube probably
Pontiac Aztec TOP1
Trabant with fuel dipstick
It's interesting because I'm not really into car stuff but I will legit watch 5 straight hours of Doug reviews 🤣🤣🤣🙏
Honestly I'm shocked that the Ghibli didn't get a Dishonorable Mention.
Or the GAZ 24-10
Same
@@Bzons Yeah i was pretty convinced that the GAZ would make it into the worst top 3, i didn't include the Isetta because maybe he thought it was more cute than bad, but yeah, i forgot about it breaking down during the review.
Or the Hummer H2.
@@bradleymeyer9775 That aswell.
“This bmw broke down while I was test driving it”. It might not be nice but at least it’s a true bmw
Throttle house also reviewed this car. It also broke down. A true bmw there.
Oml/@@qayyum6663 mmmm o
Oh yeah yeah
Bmws arent that bad
@@F80__Los not saying its bad. Its just not reliable.
Isetta: saves BMW from bankruptcy and helps 6 people escape from East Germany
Doug: worst car i‘ve ever reviewed
Isetta: 🥺👍
Sad :/
The Isetta not even that bad, its the best of that type of "car". He should do a Robin review.
Also helps disabled people
Yeah, i still think he should've put the GAZ in the top 3 instead of the Isetta, i always thought it was kinda cute, but yeah, it broke down during the review, i guess that does spoil the fun
@@Games_and_Music HEYHEYHEY SOVIET CAR IS BEST CAR. WE HAD SELF DRIVING BEFORE ANYONE ELSE BECAUSE IN RUSSIA YOU DON'T DRIVE THE CAR, THE CAR DRIVES YOU
@@Games_and_Music GAZ is far from the worst. It is actually a comfortable car to ride in. I never had a chance to drive it, but I rode in one and it is fine. There are worse cars to be in, for sure.
LOL an izzetta was owned by our junior high vice principal. During classes we picked it up and put it into the wood shop instructors pickup truck with a canopy. He drove it home not realizing until later the izzettta was in his truck.
when the only good think you can say about a car is "it's a mode of transportation."
*RIP Mirage*
There's one at White Bear Mitsubishi that has 414K miles on it...and it's a CVT. He clearly doesn't know what he's talking about, especially since he said he reviewed a 2016 Mitsubishi Mirage. *There is no such thing as a 2016 Mitsubishi Mirage.*
Not me wondering why this isn’t on More Doug Demuro
haha i thought it was more doug demuro till you mentioned it
The car spotting vid too, infact that said More DougDemuro in the intro
Same
Same
not me wondering too
When I was a child in the 80’s in former Czechoslovakia, when we saw a bright green Trabant, we had to jump 3 times and that was supposed to bring us luck, oh, the good old days...
I remember when the Yugos' engines were blowing up in the 30-50k range (don't recall the exact limit), and the factory's response was to give you a replacement engine. Exactly the same brokety engine, so meaning you had another 30-50k miles to go. There was a time when you'd see them for sale by owner 'with extra engine'.
Great job shouting out the designer of your Doug Score animation. They deserve the recognition.
If the woke scolds come for Doug, all is lost.
@@donmelon3187 ??
@@RawNoLimits ??
@@A-SavageRedneck ??
This man's thumbnail game is on point.
Dougs wife: “Doug I want a divorce”
Doug: “ok, but first check out Cars and Bids!”
Cars and jokes. A trading site made by a youtube reviewer who doesn't really understand cars but has an eye for odd ones. Awesome!
@@jamesmancuso3666 You can see in his “Car Spotting” videos how much he knows about cars. His knowledge of the details and the history of so many cars is outstanding.
Doug, I don't really think it's fair to put an armored car on the list, it's a military vehicle. It wasn't made for style or comfort. The real question is how effective was it in it's combat role? How well does it protect the occupants from gunfire and explosions? What did soldiers who used it think about it?
Exactly! The Isetta is a great car, beloved by soldiers on all battlefronts!
Its all about context... he drove those cars on US roads... go drive cars in an European city (one that dates back to medieval times) and trust me, the Isetta comes out on top and you would hate any large SUV because you get stuck (I think there is a Top Gear Episode in Lucern, and that is not even a bad city).
Glue on a couple of Maple leaves and the car is camouflaged completely.
THIS becomes louder and louder over the years.
Its been 4 days
His intros have gotten progressively more intense each video
THAT
Is true
@@treaco89 Could it be because he's gotten increasingly hyper?
having an entire career built out of YT he still refuses to upgrade his mic best return on investment gg man
A few dampers on the walls in the garage would help too. Guess it's part of the brand at this point 😂
I never noticed a problem. But I'm probably just so used to it at this point
Supercar Blondie passed him in subs about a year ago she's at 5.5 million her mic sounds good especially when she's REVING an engine!
@@marcbee1234 she’s also a woman reviewing cars. Older men eat that shit up
and shmee is still using a POS camera and cant figure out how to upload a video without terrible compression
"Any accident and you'll be dead" got me actually ded LOL
Well princess Diana sat in a Mercedes high end one and she was dead too, just a stupid remark by Dog DeMuro
😂 😂 😂 me too
My business partner grew up in Germany as a US Air Force brat. He recalls seeing autobahn accidents when a Mercedes S-Class would be in the left lane doing maybe 120mph and an Isetta would pull out ahead of them to pass another car and just get destroyed. The Autobahn, back then at least, had many curves so seeing a superfast car coming up behind you in your mirrors was difficult.
“got me actually ded”. “Killed me” sounds so much better and doesn’t use one of the most worthless words in the English language “actually”.
@@Pfirtzer dude calm down
a lot of app companies used to require you or at least incentivize you to buy a metris, i'll never know why
Doug DeMuro is now releasing videos every Sunday on it's main channel. I was like "wait where is More Doug DeMuro?"
If you ever go to Eastern Europe everyone has a friend or knows someone who still has a Yugo, even if its just sitting in their yard.
@@ax9701 Because it had not much about it to be broken. It served it’s function well
Just like with the Trabant and East Germany. My uncle is so proud of his restored one, it's insane!
btw the yugo has little to do with eastern Europe, as it was mostly driven in the Balkan region, which is further south
@@dimitrijedjurdjevic838 yeah in southern Europe, yugos are rare in Eastern Europe
Never seen a Yugo in Poland.
I really liked how he credited the Doug score intro designer. Shows integrity
Should have done it the first time he used it... which was months ago.
@@lasersailor6684 very true
@@lasersailor6684 years…I think
@@lasersailor6684 He first used it in his Cadillac Allanté video, seven months ago... I don‘t know why he came up with crediting the designer just now.
@@lasersailor6684 well over a year now
Just sold our Nissan Murano CrossCabriolet. It was an insane design that was perfect for us. I wanted to relive my convertible car youth and we needed a tall car to accommodate my mobility impaired mother-in-law. It became my second favorite car I’ve owned, my favorite being my MG Midget (yes, I obviously like “different” cars). As someone who loves a bargain, the great thing about controversial cars is that they don’t hold their value as compared to new. The CrossCabriolet was a $50K car new and we bought it used for $19K with about 70K miles. Wonderfully modern electronics for its era. It turned heads wherever we went, usually with very positive comments. You might think the trunk was useless, but it fit my MIL’s walker very well, with more room for groceries. The only negatives were that it was EXTREMELY difficult to get out of the back seat without face-planting on the pavement, and the soft-touch plastic covering the dash and doors was very easy to nick or tear, as proven by our dog the first time we took him for a ride and he put his paws (and claws) on the dash. Ultimately, as we were approaching 200K miles, we traded it in on a 2020 Equinox w/2LZ Premier, a very nice vehicle for our needs, but not special like the CrossCabriolet. She’ll be missed.
Me: * Hears someone shouting * "THIS"
Also me: "Is that Doug Demuro??"
😐
@@bingcringing Literally get a sense if humor 💀💀 your boring asf
What is this trend of absolutely useless comments that seem like they are generated from a low IQ bot.
@@purxsfv yeah dude
@@arctikf0x698 well the thing is I'm not a bot.
when he said "some people might take issue with this list but keep in mind you're wrong" I laughed way too loud
Danm that was hilarious 😑
This was hilarious. The placement of the spare tire in the Yugo definitely takes the cake for me.
The Original Soviet Lada Niva Jeep had its spare tyre in the engine compartment also - surreal but true. I used to drive one.
Spare tire next to hot engine🤣🤣
@@datathunderstorm I think there were other 80s U.S. cars that had the spare in the engine bay too---mainstream ones---I just saw an old MotorWeek retro video with one the other day. Can't remember which make it was.
@@datathunderstorm Also the French old Renault 5. I never forget it when I was kid and my uncle popped the hood of his green Renault 5 to surprise me with that scene.
First time I saw that I thought “How the hell do you get the tire out without taking the filter assembly off?”
The fact that the Fiat Multipla is not even on this list just shows how much of a GOAT it actually is.
Fun fact: my dentist bought an ELR new, still has it. I showed him the review and he laughed.
God DeMuro Less than that even.
I bought one for $20k and people love it when they see it
@@thenotoriousc8846 Yep. Reason it's on his list is it sold for $80K when new. Okay. Love mine.
that Cadillac definitely looks cool
I had 3 Volts and they were great. I got my ELR and it's everything that I wanted to do to make my Volt unique and special. As much as people like to complain about the $76K pricing (which was a terrible mistake), I think that if Cadillac had sold the ELR for $50K new, it would have been a huge hit! Importantly, now you can get a low mileage one for $20K, and it is comfortable and relatively economical. It has all of the good drivetrain bits from the Volt in a stylish body and has the feel of a near-luxury car.
Yugo is Legend... When you learn to drive Yugo you know to drive tank
Yugo stands for "Yugo... straight to the junkyard"
What tank?
😤😤
They don't know that you can open it and start it up with šarafciger :D
Old Ben Stepman used to run a Yugo dealership near Vegas back in the early 90's. You could see abandoned Yugos all over Clark County for several years after he closed the store.
Your two videos per week have been something to look forward to over the past year when there wasn't much to look forward to.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
We all know the Audi A6 All-road and Chrysler PT Cruiser are your 2 favourite cars you’ve ever reviewed.
Same with the Mercedes Metris
@@sgt_zestiest_ballz and Isetta
Is that a C6 RS6? If so, what a beauty in Sepang Blue
@@satsumagt5284 Datsun 100A it is the worst car ever. Only you and me know that
@@lowrider69yearsago58 the head gasket lasts like 400 km in some game
"Terribly slow... any accident you're gonna be dead"
That got real real quick
you know it's bad when you lose to an NA Miata in a collision.
Maserati with unreliable transmission? Wow what a surprise..
Cool ranking! Some words of wisdom to add:
The Yugo: if something is crap but it's cheap - it's still crap.
The Trabant: men of steel drive cars made of cardboard.
No kidding, I once saw a Yugo with a personalized license plate that said..."PORSCHE".
i am actually surprised the ghibli didn't end up here. remember him saying "does the ghibli?"
teach me how to doougy
Big ups fca interiors
*iMovie effect:* no
I'm from Eastern Germany and the Trabant is a legend here! We have big fanclubs and you can see them driving on the streets. The nice ones look really great and they're fun to drive in the city because they're very light. Prices went up in the last years. Very iconic car. Also I think the Isetta is a legend, because it's important car history 😊
Same in Mother Polska. It’s an Effen Legend. Most of the GenX learned how to drive in a Trabant.
There are Trabant-clubs everywhere, even in Switzerland... some people love that car in every corner of the world. Doug is just ignorant and blatantly anti-communist, like so many Americans... they had luxury cars even in the '50s after the war, Europe had Isetta and Trabant, because of economic hardships, and those were the lucky ones who could afford even those. He's completely missing the context and perspective to appreciate these cars, but I can't blame him for that.
I have find much more terrible cars from USA Than Isetta and Trabant i remember on TopGear he is americano and he thinks that US cars are best but Enzo Ferrari sad, Americans cannot build real cars like Ferrari and Porsche
@@MetalTrabant Is there any reason to be pro-communist?
@@Rotaermel Free healthcare, free education, equality of women, mostly equal distribution of goods, total separation of state and religion, no personal taxes, stable jobs, plannable future, support for workers, just to mention a few.
At least these were mostly true in socialist-era Hungary. It certainly wasn't perfect, but wasn't all that bad either...
the recollection of the isetta review was absolutely hilarious 14:20
Let's take a moment to remember that the Kia Spectra is the best car, let's let Doug decide the other nine best cars he has reviewed.
I’m glad I’m not the only one that remembers the $1 car
@@ethanquesenberry7948 best joke I’ve heard all day😐
Best line was during the Murano review: “well that was a decision.”
Owning the convertible Geländewagen is "a decision" too, so... We understand that.
I remember when they first came out, and I saw a woman driving one at my job, going into the parking garage. It was so ugly to look at that I couldn't believe anyone would voluntarily buy that hideous thing.
@@LordPrometheous The small fraternity of people who own them absolutely love it. They are a unique breed. I see them in Florida once in a while.
@@povertyspec9651 I guess it's a love it or hate it type of vehicle. Like PT Cruisers.
@@LordPrometheous pt I think has grown on people like the aztek. Or vice versa... whatever all of them suck but I get the appeal of them all.
I wonder why he isn't posting these kind of videos on More Doug Demuro, I wouldn't want that channel to lose views or something I Iove those videos
He gets more views on this channel and this was a highly requested video
I think with 3 channels to create content for, Its a bit hard to follow up, more likely "more doug demuro" will merge in doug main channel
It won’t die out I don’t think, he posts video that a lot of people would want to see on here, like “10 worst cars I’ve reviewed” because that’s something that would have a big audience, where “10 most ugly cars I’ve reviewed” would be a More Doug Demuro video.
@@TheARESClanGaming its the same concept though that he posts on More Dough Demuro so I don't think that holds up
@@MrLucator what's the third channel?
No AMC on this list. That's impressive. My father owned an AMC Eagle, which was a terrible car but really deserves quite a bit of credit as a precursor to the eventual SUV craze and takeover of the market. It was a high-stance "station wagon" with 4WD way, way, way before its time. You really ought to review the Eagle for its place in history. Of course you'll never read this comment, so what am I talking about.
I ❤️Yugo. That was a vehicle on which I learned to drive. Also I learned basic mechanics maintaining it... respect to Yugo
shitbox.the european chevette
me too
👍
I had a Zastava 101, the Yugo predecessor, and it was the second car I totaled in a crash and the only car I've ever crashed three times so hard that parts were flying off of it. Well, I guess, that doesn't say as much about the Yugo as it does about my driving back then :D But anyway, it had cruise control, so that's +1 in the features category.
YuuY
“Any accident you’re going to be dead”. 😂
I literally bust out laughing when he said that
at least you wont have to drive an Isetta anymore
Fun Fact: In Germany there are still more Trabants on the road than Teslas
Germany is the last country who will accept electric cars for anything. Their support for high performance internal combustion engines rivals Gun supporters in America.
There are even fan clubs of the trabant in Germany.
@@joe6096 true! Germans love the combustion engine, especially the diesel in the commercial sector. if Germany produces only electric cars in 25 to 30 years, at least 60% of Germans will switch to used cars with traditional powered engines.
@@joe6096 It isn't just a mentality thing. Nobody ever talks about it, not even in Germany, but I think the biggest problem EVs have in Germany is that almost nobody has a garage. People don't have a place where they can charge their EV over night. Lots and houses in Germany are small, most people rent apartments and the relatively few people who have a house with a garage, use it to store stuff (like skiing gear, old home trainers, Christmas decoration and so on) in it and still park their car on the road.
For most people in Germany, owning a EV would mean they would have to lay a long power cable out their kitchen window, half a block down the road to where they park their car.
EV technology will only ever really work in Germany when you can charge them as fast as filling a gas tank at a gas station.
That is what makes it so ridiculous that the German press has this vendetta against the German car industry and acts as if the German car manufacturers were stupid, obsolete dinosaurs who should have died out because the fact that they didn't immediately switch all their production to EVs the moment Elon Musk had his first press conference, means they were "asleep at the wheel" or whatever.
As I said, nobody ever seems to think of such differences between cultures and countries. EV technology the way it is now, is kind of tailor made for the actually very unique, rare and abnormal world of US suburbia, where everyone has 2+ car garages in their large wooden houses with walk in closets and so on.
It is the same with other technologies that tech gurus like to tout as "the future".
Take "screen walls" as an example. People seem to be pretty sure that in the near future, everyone will have whole walls that are screens in their homes and maybe even "Holo Deck"-like rooms where all 4 walls are screens.
Once again, that can only really work in American suburbia. Everywhere else in the world, houses are small and have no walk in closets, so people need to put cabinets, shelves and other storage furniture on every wall in every room of the house.
@@TrangleC As a german I've actually never thought about the garage problem, but that's 100% true. Most people really do live in flats/apartments and charging those cars would be hella impractical.
It's funny knowing the owner of the yugo had food poisoning and couldn't keep himself out of the bathroom the day Doug was shooting his car.
*Takes off sunglasses* "That is one big pile of scrap metal."
You mean when he reviewed whats his names maclaren f1,that pile of metal.
For those who don't know, both the Yugo and theTrabant that Doug tested exist in improved form on the Aging Wheels channel.
Robert owns two of the top three. I somehow think he'll be proud of this.
@@73twall Nonsense - he'll be gutted it's not a clean sweep and is currently frantically searching for an Isetta.
A piece of chewing gum stuck to a Trabant's fiberglass body is an improvement to it's structural integrity.
@@drunkenhobo8020 this sounds eminently plausible and entirely likely
Agine wheels has recently got the yugo back. It wasn't his when he reviewed it.
Its had a restomod done to it now. Pretty cool little thing now.
Superstar TH-camrs be like: 'I need an editor to put bling sounds with a countdown mark after every car, make sure the acoustics are perfect, let's test the cam angle, make sure it doesn't look weird!
Doug be like...
Yes, and Doug's videos are still better than the others. Thats the point.
@@pogodanaprzygode You get my point.
All the Yugos in the US are from what I know a debt that Yugoslavia had toward the States, so since we didn't have the money to pay, we sent them a shitload of Yugos that were made specifically for the US market. Since there was a deadline I bet most of them were just put together rather in a hurry than with care. That's how we get all those stories of how they broke down in the US, but people from Yugoslavia will tell you that they went to the moon with their Yugo because ours were made probably with a bit more care and love.
The original debt existed because Yugoslavia sold the US plans for rocket-engineering stuff and those plans and blueprints didn't work so to compensate they sent those Yugos, so basically, Yugoslavia fucked the US over 2 times in a row. I wouldn't be surprised if that was one of the reasons why they didn't rush to stop the war here in YU back in the 90s.
Everything you wrote is not true.
Just a few hours ago I was telling my wife that I wish I still had my Isetta. Thanks for the sobering reminder of why I don't own it still, Doug
People from Germany after WWII started crossing the Alps and going on vacation to Italy with the Isetta, so it certainly wasn't just a city car.
They must have been single.
he has no idea ,, its a pity no one has told him how much they are these days he would flip..
I would love to see Iseta crosing Tirol and Brenerro pass..
@@w.reactor it would be life changing if you survived !!
In post war Germany having a car at all was something to be proud of. My great grandfather used to tell stories of how they went on family trips in an Isetta.
Only true OG’s can understand D-Doug’s T shirt
It's genius really
Audi reliability
@@roddydykes7053 Owned several, found them very reliable. Fast, great interior.
@@matteagle42 The first two statements contradict each other 😂
@@Cher007 my sister has owned three expeditions, all reliable. My grandpa owned four Broncos, all reliable. Just because you own several, definitely doesn’t mean they’re unreliable. In fact it can mean the exact opposite.
😂😂😂😂 almighty BMW??? that's disastrous!!!
The Isetta is famous for my generation because of Steve Urkel having one.
iT WAS ALSO IN THE MOVIE aBSOLUTE bEGINNERS (forgot the caps lock on)
But Scotty does it better.
@@sandasturner9529
....makes me feel sad for the rest 🎶
@@GS-zc4sk I replied to the wrong comment, sorry.
I never realized it was an actual car, I though Steve Urkel built it himself.
Is the isetta the only “hatchfront”?
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Yes
Zündapp Janus, Heinkel Kabine have similar doors.
@@gearhead9828 go shift your head up one step
Or down 1365366 steps and you're in the same gear as me
There was another German manufacturer called Zündapp who produced the Janus. Addiotionally a Polish manufacturer built roughly 20 Smyk.
That Allroad shirt is great
I had a 2008 Tahoe Hybrid 4x4. The big hybrid sticker had already been removed when I got it at 100k miles. It was one of the best cars I've ever owned. Doug downplays the mpg difference but it was 25% better on the highway and about 50% better around town. As I lived in an urban area when I owned it that meant a significant savings. It was nice driving around in traffic on all electric mode. It was also a promo proof of concept vehicle so it came with every option available on the Escalade as standard. Power everything, heated seats, backup camera etc. It was also very comfortable on the highway as well as being a better towing vehicle than the standard Tahoe. Perhaps I was lucky but it was very reliable. I drove it from 100k miles up to 288k and only ever did regular maintenance (tires, oil, belts etc.), it never even needed the hybrid battery replaced. Only around 288k did it start to develop a valve tick and needed the heads rebuilt. It still ran fine but obviously needed some work. Wish I would have kept it and fixed it but I was living in a condo at the time and didn't have room to do DIY car work.
I also had the 2008. It was reliable and way better efficiency than a straight gas model. I liked it a lot. I still own a 2007 Trailblazer with the 4.2 and just turned 260K. Just change the oil like you're supposed to and things go much better for you.