Calling the Yugo the worst car ever is simply unfair. When it came out, it was a symbol of affordability and practicality. It gave many people the chance to own a car when they might not have been able to otherwise. For its time, it served its purpose beautifully, it was compact, easy to maintain, and surprisingly loved by those who drove it. The Yugo wasn’t trying to be a luxury or, sport car, it was about making driving accessible to everyone, and in that sense, it was a true success.
@@denisk1096pa ti sad voziš bolji auto ,ali po putu koji ti je ta šugoslavija napravila ,bosna ti nije napravila ni sokak od kako je nastala (ili si u inostranstvu što je još gore)
late 90s to early 2000s Japanese econoboxes (Corolla, Civic, etc) are basically that, there are still plenty of them around cuz they run forever and you can still get parts for them.
I received my used Yugo from 80s in beginning off 90s when i turned 18 .It was when all things went fast downhill ( war,sanctions ,economy went to sht) and even i had 0 idea about car mechanics i service that car whole 90s by my self in yard ,i did not go single time to mechanics . Now i have multiple "western" modern cars but for everything i need to go to service and many times car is in service for few months because they have always big back log and you need to wait for parts. For Yugo you could buy part like on every street corner and it was dirty cheap
I bought a brand new GVX in 1988 when I was living in Colorado. It had all the available options such as air conditioning crank sunroof AM/ FM cassette stereo as well as the standard body kit alloy wheels and rally lights as well as the 1300cc engine and 5spd. I drove it for 93,000 miles and it was almost trouble-free. It required a fuel pump and a brake master cylinder but it never failed to start or left me stranded on my commute from Vail to Denver every day. I remember I got good gas mileage but I had to fill it up almost every day because of the tiny tank the memory that sticks in my mind the most was coming out to start it one morning in January when it was -28 °F at 4:45 in the morning. My neighbors were trying to start their cars and several much more expensive cars like Volvos SAABs Subarus and BMWs were having trouble starting but I got in my Yugo pushed in the clutch turned the key and it started like it was a nice summer day in Belgrade! I let it warm up for a few minutes and went to turn on the radio and noticed the knob was missing and then I noticed the rearview mirror was missing. I looked all around the car and all the knobs the handles for the windows as well as the rearview mirror were on the floor. I guess the glue and the interior plastic parts for engineered for a nice Mediterranean climate not a brutal Rocky Mountain winter! I drove all the way to work and it took over half an hour at highway speeds how far to warm up enough to melt the snow that I tracked into the car! The last trip was from Colorado to New York when I got another job and since I had to park it on the street it eventually got vandalized and the insurance totaled it.
We had two in Greece. They never broke down, never had a hint of rust, and were extremely economical. Downsides, they were of course very sparsely equipped, the only thing that you could call "equipment" was the radio cassette player and the rear window windscreen wiper, they were underpowered and, what a surprise, the space was limited at the rear. Zastava made a pick-up version too. It was rated at 500 kilos yet everyone was loading them with more than a ton. They were extremely popular. They only disappeared because of the war in Yugoslavia. As far as I can tell the one and only reason this car became a victim of jokes, was because when it was imported in the US the americans were driving 20-foot land yachts, with 500 cubic-inch gas guzzler V8s making the "fantastic" power of 160 bhp. Per displacement, the Yugo was in fact far more powerful.
Had two in the United States. Kids drove to college. 1986 Red GV & 1987 Blue GV with air conditioning. They had zero issues of four years of college. Miami Beach Florida.
I had Yugo for 8 years and never had a problem. Just look at the VW now. 3 water pumps, broken valve springs within the first 2 years of ownership. Love it or hate it, Yugo wins a reliability contest with ease.
It's fascinating how something once labeled 'the worst car ever made' still sparks such nostalgia and debate. Quirky, ambitious, and maybe not as bad as its reputation-it's a true underdog in automotive history. Great video!
Old man who travelled to Yugoslavia before the breakup. It was indeed a really nice country and people were genuinely happy. It was so sad to hear what happened to the nice people I had met through friends who lived there. Friendships and families ripped apart. 😢 This nostalgia is not just for a car, it's for a happy place that was lost.
@@nemanja98rs No offense, but that is a bit of a simplistic view of the situation. Sure, there were outside influences and dictators. However, at the end of the day, it was us, the people, who voted for and supported those dictators, who bought into the propaganda that we should hate each other, and who picked up weapons against our brothers and sisters. I am afraid that if we place the blame entirely on someone else and play the victim, we will never learn from our mistakes and are bound to repeat the same things again, which, unfortunately, seems to be the direction we are heading.
@@yesno5794 Not at all. Very poor reliability, poor gas milage, very poor construction. During crash tests by the Institute for Highway Safety, it underwent extreme damage. It came in last for emission tests and led the list of lemon vehicles. It was not the expectations that made it bad, it simply was bad, and the US has produced some really bad cars.
I worked in Belgrade and my girl friend had one Called Ivanka. It worked! Never mind the more expensive cars it just kept going. And she actually had to hit it to get it to start! With a hammer.
My Yugo 60 pretty much saved my life. Long story but in short: April 2 1992 Sarajevo - my new Yugo windshield got stollen. Next day I sourced and installed new one and took car the same day 300km away at my relatives garage to leave it until things settle. But war broke in Sarajevo next day, I couldn’t go back. I fled Bosnia few weeks after managed to sell Yugo over the phone for two one way ticket from Prag to Toronto. Has been living in Canada and US ever since. If no Yugo I am sure i would’ve been drafted into the war.
Hardly the worst car in the world. It is what it is, a cheap form of transportation. I had one as a courtesy car once while my Renault 11 was in the garage. Sure, it's slow and basic but I found it fun to drive. I'd have one of these over most American cars.
I sada vozim 55-ticu 91. godište i kao nov je. Ne bih ga menjao ni za kakav strani dizel polovnjak ni slučajno. Nema u njemu nikakvog kompjutera i uvek pali na jedan zub, a zvuk je nešto posebno. Samo se vi i dalje zanosite autošovinizmom i zlonamernim izmišljotinama...
i live in the usa in niles ohio i have owned over 250 cars my 1987 yugo gv is my favorite i will never get rid of it this car always starts i do have to repair it from time to time
Moja mama ima kolekciju od 8 ZASTAVA vozila od kojih su 4 komada YUGO-a, raznih modela. Ja vozim jedan od njih - YUGO TEMPO 1.1. Svi su kupljeni novi i danas su kao novi. Održavaju se redovito i nema problema. Pola Europe sam prešla s tim TEMPO-m bez greške. Naravno, udobnost nije na razini današnjih auta, nema klimu, i drugu opremu dekadentnog kapitalističkog zapada 😂 ali koga briga za to. Važno je da grijanje radi za medalju. Za sva ex socijalistička auta, ZASTAVA auta su bili auta sa velikim A. Npr. Trabant 🤣🤣🤣Namjerno sam komentar napisala na jeziku ex zemlje gdje je legendarni YUGO proizveden. Nek krepaju dušmani 🤣Hvala na izboru teme ☝
@@ivanamestrovic7860 Chitavo detinjstvo smo imali zastava kao svakodnevni auto. Plavi Fikja '84 godishte, koj sam voleo, onda smo kupili crveni Yugo Koral 55 iz '91(koj je eto plamnuo tokom voznja) i jedan sivi Yugo Koral 55 iz '90 godishte. Tristakj sam uvek voleo, ali tada moji roditelji nisu hteli zbog nemachkog amerikanca koj smo imali u garazi. Kakvi su bili Tempo?
Yugo is definitely not the "worst car ever made", far from it. All yugo/zastava cars were based on FIAT patents, because they had a FIAT license to produce and use FIAT parts. Nobody called old FIATS the worst car in the world, but somehow its okay to say that about a Yugo. All cars had issues, especially cars made in the era that Yugo comes from, to say Yugo is the worst of them is simply not true. Yugo was for Yugoslavia what VW was for Germany. Not to mention how devasted Yugoslavia was after WWII, its a miracle they made a car at all. And another thing, VW Golf MK2 was also produced in large numbers in Yugoslavia.
It was chosen the worst car of all times in the USA..... did USA forgot VEGA and PINTO and and ++...... The big all america car company did panic when a small car came and was economical to have and use......
For $3995 usd brand new car Yugo !! Better than some Chevys of the 80s ! Or today German junks costing $100000 plus usd ! Today i rather have 20 Brand new cars costing $5k than 1 Ev Porsche costing 200k !
4:02 When the Jugoslav anthem "Uz Maršala Tita" started i started to Cry. Polska 🇵🇱 is greeting his lovely Ex-Jugoslav Brothers and sisters in Balkans 🇵🇱 ❤🇷🇸🇭🇷🇸🇮🇧🇦🇲🇪🇲🇰 May god protect you guys
You could repair this car at home anytime, only some serious engine and gears damage was needed to go to service/repair shop. Cheap, affordable and got you from A to B.
Cannot believe anyone would pay $8,500-$10,000 for the Yugo. I actually test drove one in 1986. It was just too small, and it was pretty obvious it was not built well, even to me, a person ignorant of vehicles at the time. The Yugo looks like an AMC Gremlin, except even smaller.
These cars are actually built like a tank. Built to last and since they are simple, repairing is never complicated or expensive. If you have one and well preserved, they can reach a pretty high value in the market because they are not produced anymore and if well maintained, many of them will become classics in time.
Had a Zastava 101 in Denmark from new. We drove it as the familys car for 11 years. Simple and reliable, no serious problems. My next car was a Lada Samara. Over 6 years we had a load of repairs, even had to change the engine. The 101 was the basis for the more modern Yugo 45. So most likely the americans look at the Yugo as bad, as it was the only communist produced car they ever had the possibility to buy.
you know we're kinda in a same boat with eastern cars. Everything depends on how you treat them, and even if you don't care properly they still will get you from point A to point B, But, they can give you joy if you treat them nice. They aren't really that bad, they're fine vehicles, yeah, very oldschool, but they were a part of someones life. Doesn't matter if it's Zastava, Volga, Tatra, ARO etc. There's no need in that bias aura - i have a 1963 Volga, used it to ride to my job for a month, haven't had any troubles with it except the fuel pump tends to boil in traffic jams, but i guess that's a problem of such old cars at all. Otherwise it's a nice and reliable car and i love it. And it's beatiful
what a dumb condescending video … nothing wrong with Yugo , it was a super affordable , basic car , affordable to buy, easy to work on , maintain , and you could probably insure it for 20 bucks a month … 4 cylinder engine was hardly using any gas … perfect for around town , to go to school, work or grocery store, it was a car easy to own , it would probably cost you 20 bucks for gas to run it whole day long for the whole week … it’s not for everyone , but many people loved it .. today when 3/4 of people in US don’t have $400 saved for emergencies, credit card debt and repossessions are skyrocketing many would like to own a Yugo … imagine paying $1000 per month for used car if you could buy a brand new one for $5000 … and lastly, Yugoslavia was not communist country , it was socialist country , hence the name abbreviation, SFRJ , Socialist Federative Republic of Jugoslavia … it was the last barrier between Western Europe, and communist Russia and Eastern Europe … Romania , Hungary, Poland etc were communist countries, not Yugoslavia …
Thanks for your input. I wonder, did you actually watch the whole video? It was mostly positive about the Yugo and made some of the same points you make. As for whether or not Yugoslavia was Communist, it was ruled exclusively by Tito's SKJ party, the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, from 1945 to 1990. It may have been the "last barrier" between the West and the Soviet Union and its satellite states in the sense that it never joined the Warsaw Pact and instead was one of the co-founders of the Non-Aligned Movement. But it was still definitely Communist. Communism is a form of socialism, and even the Soviet Union was called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
@@DWREVcommunism is not socialism , nor it is a form of socialism, democrats are in power in US , and US is not a democracy , it is a republic , communist party was in power in Jugoslavia , system was socialism .. eastern block countries were communist countries with communism as a political system … as far as Yugo goes , it definitely had less recalls than Ford or Stellantis garbage … and Tito didn’t rule , he was democratically elected by all people of Jugoslavia to be their president … and he was very much loved and respected by his people , he brought peace and prosperity, and built Jugoslavia up from nothing , to 4. strongest military force in Europe …
@@Robbert_nlWdym Yugoslavia (before Tito's death) was one of the most advanced *socialist* countries in Eastern europe It also was never under Soviet control like the rest of countries in the Eastern Bloc/Warsaw pact
That same Yugoslavia (Serbia) gave you all you have today, that your country "inherited" after the split. Maybe you are longing for more of that. We can talk about merger but not what the so called Yugoslavia was, we are simply not repeating the same mistakes. They were repeated 2 times which resulted in 3 world wars, it's been enough. There is no 3rd time nor longing for the 4th big war or any war for that matter. You either face reality peacefully or stay "independent" there is also not much 3rd option either. You might want to be good about it all but your politicians have different plans anyway. It's easy to dream.
We used to get them here in the UK, and I would love to get my hands on a Yugo today - the only Eastern Bloc car I ever owned was a 1985 Trabant 601S DeLuxe and that was an experience to remember. (Almost bought a Lada once, just after I passed my test, but ended up with an old Fiat instead.)
@iana6713 People hate on the cars from the Eastern Bloc, and I understand their quality may not be the best, but that doesn't mean we can't enjoy them. Even bigger models, restricted to Government personnel back in the day, or even commercial vehicles, like trucks...I think they're all pretty cool.
@@Roddy_Zeh Couldn't agree more - you are exactly right! These countries had to make do with restrictions on what technology and materials they could get access to, and what they achieved was remarkable. Take the Trabant I mentioned - they became a phenomenon in the former East Germany. If you can ever get a chance to drive one, do it! It's such a symbol of a bygone age. Bigger vehicles like Czechoslovakia's Tatras were works of art - they were beautiful machines.
@@iana6713 I think there are at least a few examples here in Brazil, don't know when they were brought, probably in the last 20-25 years, as collectible vehicles. If I ever get the chance, I surely won't miss it! 👏🏻😁 I love the Tatras, both the cars AND the trucks! The ZIL trucks and the limosines, the UAZ jeep, I like everything. Heck, I'd daily drive even a MAZ 537 tank/ICBM hauler if I could! 😂 The only issue would be space to park and the fuel costs. 🙌🏻😅😭
Simple cars are needed today. Here in the Philippines, most people can't afford brand new vehicles. What is popular is Japanese Kei cars, vans and trucks that are imported CKD and reassembled here. Often they are customised to fit the needs of Filipino families and businesses. The simpler the vehicle, the better. It literally doesn't matter how old the original vehicle was, because it is completely rebuilt, both the bodies and mechanicals. You can get a vehicle to your own personal choice, for less than half of the cost of a base model from the large manufacturers. They are all based on the Suzuki Kei cars, vans and trucks, and come with the unburstable Suzuki 657cc three cylinder engine. It can be had with carburettor or fuel injection, and even with a turbo. The fuel economy is astounding. There are even 18 seater versions which double as transport for families and businesses. I almost forgot to mention that they come in 4x2 and 4x4, and gearboxes range from manual four and five speeds, to straight automatic transmissions with three, four, or five speeds, and Tiptronic clutchless manual transmission.
Eh, moji Yugići... U svom vozačkom stažu imao sam ih nekoliko i svi su se odlično pokazali. Ni jednog nisam kupio novog ali sam svakom od njih bio drugi vlasnik. Prvi je bio Yugo 60 iz 1990 godine, a zadnji Yugo Tempo 1.3 iz 2003 godine. Na ovom zadnjem sam čak sam i limariju radio i sam ofarbao auto. Taj sa motorom od 1300 cc je išao kao lud, toliko, da sam se plašio da s obzirom da nije imao ojačanje ne polomi koševe. Motor je bio odličan, i ako je imao na satu 130000 km iberlauf je bio još uvek utaknut u karburator. Obožavao sam tog svog poslednjeg Yuga tako da mi je i danas žao što sam ga prodao. Često pomislim kako bi današnji klinci snašli sa sauhom (čokom) i radostima koje može da napravi bobina i razvodna kapa?
It's strange how so much effort and talk was put into saying and showing that it's a bad car, so many emissions are messed up, and yet the Yugo is still being driven today wherever it was sold.
My first car was a jugo. Handed down from my father. It chewed petrol like any other car, had to fix it every weekend to get it through the next week but it was easy to fix with parts in every corner shop. It wasn't much of a car but it drove and brought home loads of memories
The Yugo was never a bad car at all, it was just outdated the moment it came from the line... Nevertheless it was a car that kept nations moving... I don't really understand what people mean by "quality" when they talk about cars... Cars need to be regularly maintained and serviced no matter the model and brand
The capitalist media ridiculed the cars of the former Stalinist east. The reality was that many of these cars were not that bad. Yes, they lacked luxury, but they were affordable. Due to the centralized and undemocratic nature of the Stalinist system, few innovations were carried out on eastern cars. This is not because they did not wanted to do it. Often the ruling bureaucrats said no and the factories were forced to stay with outdated designs. The East-German Trabant 601 was a model of 1961 and had prototype replacements (P602, P603, and P610) for the 1970's, all were rejected by the conservatives who ruled East Germany.
Biggest problem with the Yugo in the US was with the country gone and the importer folded, before the oldest ones were 10 years old you couldn't get parts - if the junkyard didn't have one with what you needed, the only recourse was to go to a sports-car specialist that carried Fiat parts and pay more than the car was worth for those. The Chevy Chevette was a better bottom-of-the-barrel pick since GM parts were cheap and plentiful.
Interesting rewiev. U forgot to mention that Yugo in Yugoslavia 1990 was about 6500 DEM (Deutche Marks), and that would be arround 7 monthly wages for averige Yugoslavian - so it was made to be pretty affordable for the working class of Yugoslavians. There was at least one brand new car made in Yugoslavia at that time that was cheaper than Yugo - it was Renault 4. And also, U didnt mention what other brands were making in the '80s beacuse as that East German said - Yugo was wet dream for them as it was for many others. Later model Yugo Florida (Sana -for export markets) first was sanctioned from Fiat that was afraid of competition for their Tipo, than later Yugoslavia got sanctions... and that was the end of bigger exports...
Sana / Florida was best in it's class and sure enough all western political media bashed it into the ground. Often just like this video pointed out the 1st Yugo and how junk it is bla bla bla just to cover up the attention of this company and whatever they made next. Karma and irony is that most big brands who bashed Zastava , contributed to the bombing and sanctions most had fallen while Zastava continues to make army vehicles and Renaults. Honestly there is no room for a new brand anyway on the civilian market since for Europe a cheap Kia or Daewoo with 10 year warranty is all you need. Renault is 2nd best and the rest I don't even look at it let alone care. Im done. Personally I have both Yugo and Florida, race them on closed tracks and don't care for anything else anymore. If I could register a Zastava car for the road it would be a Florida Pickup. Since I cant anymore due to new BS regulations etc then that option is out and I learned to live with it, they wont force me to buy a new car even if I had the money among other stuff, plenty of fines are forced and fake too so I am not giving them money nor wasting my life on it, period.
Nah, yugo was a proper trash, as someone who grew up in yugoslavia, it was trash, but ok for the poor people i guess. Yugo florida was equally the utmost trash, a try at modrrn body, but poorly designed, ridiculously small wheels, underpowered, and all along ugly and outadet technologically, i knew a man who bought it, a general director of my dad's firm, where he was a technical director. My dad drove a gt55, a zastava 101, it was both a sportscar and a limo compred to yugo, i drove that stojadin for years later when i was a student in the 90s, just repainted it in purple, put wider tires and good audio, my old man installed underside chassis strengthening that connected the front of the chassis with the middle, protecting the engine from the underside, the car was undestructive, everyone in zagreb, in every student dorm and night club knew my car, so many trips to concerts to ljubljana, so many summer trips along bad island roads, cheap to mantain, but it had something, and i sold it somewhere about 2000s still for 500 marks or already euros not sure any more, all the newer yugos were already rotten and fell apart. I knew, a drove a lot of them from my friends late 80s, early 90s, all were trash, everybody who had one wanted to replace it with something else asap, not true for zastava 101, they were the true legends. Yugo and florida were utmost trash, a shame, 101 and figuar, 750, were real zastava heroes. But i can't emphasize enough what a trash yugo actually was, when i was in auto school, i drove the 101 there, but they had only two, and a fleet of yugos, and once or twice i had to go with yugo, my insyructor also hated them, we all knew each other as my dad was a steward/judge for the races at amd, and i was in the club too as i raced karts a bit in the 80s there, anyways even i as a student driver noticed how trash it was, from the gearbox, poor engine, steering/geomtery, everything was trash, and paper thin metal of the body, would rot extremely fast. I know that fangirls love them because they grew up in them, but that's just one generation who didn't know for anything better unfortunatelly. In reality they quickly wanished from the streets of slovenia abd croatia in the 90s, because they were trash, but zastava 101 and 128 did not, as they were much better cars, late 80s yugos were everywhere, much higher nubers than 101 and 128, somewhere 93-93 you had the same number or more 101 and 128 models, 98 you could hardly see a yugo anywhere.
@@xityarxip Actually Zastava cars was given to the Fiat by "someone" who could put a signature on that kind of deal ("given" because when U calculate how much did they pay, how much did they invested, how much Serbia invested...). Only model made in former Zastava is Fiat 500L with a lot less workers now compared to than. A lot of side companies that were in cooperation with Zastava R closed for good now because Fiat is having its own suppliers. '99 they said every Yugo sold is some other foreighn brands model unsold. They know exactly what R they targeting in Zastava - the newest part of the factory for painting cars, besides others.
Zastava cars were very affordable during the 1980s due to inflation. My father bought a Zastava 128 in 1984 on 5-year loan with very low interest rate. Monthly installments in the last year were enough to buy a pack of cigarettes, because the dinar devalued massively in five years.
My sister was living in Denmark and did have a YUGO..... Once I did meet her and the CAR and I thought it was time to react..... Did put safety belts in rear and the starter motor was not working and she was a long way from home...... Parts for the starter motor was of course not available and I did mix some YUGO and FIAT and something else and did fix it there...... But the strange things with this car was some rust-holes in the middle of the panels and all over the body.... just a hole from nothing...... The car was a white one and I did put some body sealant into the holes and the YUGO-car was like a new again.......
My yugo spent 5l/100km in his prime, went up to 160km/h. Clean engine, no oil drops, nice body. For 30 years of usage no one know how many km our yugo has drive. Maybe close to 700k or 800k km. I do not see nothing bad there, only outdated models.
I'm not remotely surprised that eventually Suzuki, Toyota, Nissan, Daewoo, Hyundai, Peugeot and Renault introduced cars that are similarly affordable like Yugo but with more long-lasting mechanical parts to former Yugoslav republics and other former Socialist Bloc nations in Europe, effectively speeding up the decline of Zastava Automobiles and its Yugo brand, although Zastava itself was able to run its carmaking business in the 2000s by continuing the assembly and sales of licensed Fiat models until 2008.
what could you expect for a car that cheap? i always remember an old saying where i lived "theres a price, there's quality" i never seen this car IRL, but if i had a chance to own one, i would be happy
The Yugo sold in the US for a little under 4k usd. The average car price at the time in the US was 6k to 20k usd. Compared to todays cars the Yugo is downright crude.
@@1972Ray exactly, we also have those "low end basic cheap" cars in Indonesia , yes they're crappy and bit doo doo...no amenities just bare bone basic vehicle, yeah they didn't sold it as it is anymore they installed lots of feature today, but its cheap vehicle, especially in US, where people didnt maintain their cars its just a throwaway car, you cant complain for such price...
I have a Yugo convertible with 14km on the tacho. Found it for small money in Italy and bought it. It's as close to new as it can be, considering it's an old car now, 34 years old to be precise.
Yugo was my first car when I got my license :) special car driven everywhere, I will never forget once we drove back from all day party at the weekend house and car stopped no gas and we kids didn’t know what to do…I will never forget two of us pee inside a gas tank and car just started😂 I will never forget that …as home was not that far away we came back safely …yugo is a lot of things but worst care never
Born in Yugoslavia, this was also my first car. As an 18-year-old boy, I could buy a used Yugo for a couple of 100 dollars. Latter even bought one for 50 dollars.
This car not only is fun to drive but its indestructable & can be reapaired on your own without original parts if you are technically versed - the engine is weak yet you can't kill it either! The most fun is to ride it at its limits, the underground/streetconditions doesnt matter Its a legend & I had a lot of fun & scary moments (with insane drunken drivers) with a Yugo- "Coral 45" Once we ended up in the ditch of a gravel path in village in the mountains bc the driver wanted to hit a rabbit after drinking more than 10 Rakija(s) (plum-whisky 60+% alc.) We needed a tractor to pull us out & back on the street The same guy a day later broke his big toe & burned his hand in the process when we were driving to a soccer match, village vs village like 8ppl on the tractor & a small costum made wooden trailer 3x3 meters His uncle was driving & he was sitting in front on the bonnet...when we left the garden to enter the gravel path he turned left hard & the guys foot was between the wheel & the tractors body He yelled out loud & the uncle said which side(your foot is pinched)? He answered "Left, left!!" The also drunken uncle thaught he should steer left hand side to release his foot & turned left even harder We heard him scream "Ahhh...fool other side" while grapping the tractors chimney out of pain...naturally he burned his hand & we all laughed our a.o. - blood was running down his toe & he got a blister on his hand...he was hot, but still stayed on the same spot till we reached that lawn at the other village, joining the soccer match with his broken toe...of course he wasn't running much & soon chose to be the goal guard It was during war-time & the (serbian-bosnian) front was only 25km airline & we heared rockets & saw the light from explosions & the noises at night, but we had so much fun that very summer, its unforgetable!! But I & other friends had fun with a Yugo "Coral 45", for a decade to come at a complete other place, down in Serbia & I love + miss those days & all the gorgeous girls that countrey calls their daughters!!
@DWREV it was the good old days between '93 to 2000... We were young lunatics without fear & limits enjoying our lifes...now I'm older & think twice before I would agree or join anybody do anything stupid - health & life are precious & one doesn't have the luck of a youngster - it's like the 7 lifes of a cat - I just have got 1 left so I need to be carefull 😂 Have a nice evening & an awesome, healthy & succsessfull new year!!
What a great video! Thanks for sharing it. I grew up in Michigan, a state made up of two peninsulas which are connected by a grand suspension bridge across the straits that connect Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. On a particularly windy day in September of 1989, a Yugo owned by a woman from my hometown plunged to her death from the bridge after her Yugo was blown off the bridge. It turned out that a Yugo 45 is no match for a 48 MPH (77 km/h) wind gust. I think that event was the final nail in the coffin for the Yugo, at least in the USA. There’s still a great need for an inexpensive reliable new car in my country, a need that the Yugo was able to meet for a brief but glorious period of my youth.
It's funny they say this is the "Worlds Worst Car" whilst you have cars like the ZunnDap, Isetta, and the Trabant 601, which I do love these cars dont at me. But compared to the features and creature comforts of these cars vs. the Yugo 45/Koral it makes the Yugo look like a luxury car.
I have growing up in Yugo. It was affordable Car Every Family could bye it. It is made for all people. It was our Pride. We loved it. Now people have problem to bye a brend new Car, because every car is expensive.
While Chinese people were driving bikes, in Yugoslavia Zastava produced 4 models, VW's Golf 1 and 2 were produced in Saraevo, Reno 4 in Slovenia... Considering the Yugo car, for that time it was affordable and basic car with lot of flaws. Zastava 101 was a bigger and better family car.
I need so cheap car for today.. Now I have to buy so expensive western car that doesn't any specific but drove me from point A to point B but with much higher price..
What a great little documentary - not going down the easy route of buying into all the jokes that grew up around the Yugo, but actually taking the little car seriously. It did what it was designed to, and who would've imagined a car from a Communist country finding a willing market in the US? We used to get them in the UK too, where they sold reasonably well - the motoring press did say they were better than the Soviet Lada.
@@djoledulic7036 Yugoslavia's ruling party was literally called the "League of Communists of Yugoslavia". Granted, it was not a member of the Soviet-dominated Warsaw Pact and independent of the Eastern Bloc institutions, but it had a state-run, socialist economic system based on Marxism. If not Communist, what was it?
@ I said it . Yugoslavia was not a communist country. I live there. Forget your definitions, better go, check, try to grasp and you will understand that Yugoslavia was not a communist country. All the best!
My family owned a 1973 Zastava 101 (called 1100 at the time) and it was a trip! Crazy practical, crazy cheap and unreliable (it had a non functioning 1st gear for 2 years) - the nostalgia it offered me is unlike anything else!
I bought a new 91 Yugo in 1991 from a Maserati dealer. Had issues with electrics, leaking hatch and tires. All repairs complete and got a new set of Michelin tires! People did know the car had Bosch electronic fuel injection and electronic ignition. Shifting was a good experience,(after adding Slick 50 to the transmission) and you never felt like you ran out of power when getting up to speed on the highway. It was fun to drive.
Originally based on the Fiat 128 , ECOTY 1970 , FWD incorporating an end -on gearbox with separate oil which gave the blueprint for a majority of FWD family cars today .
Modern colonialism or fascism if you like, would demonize anything coming from former communism. Although, Porsche is a communist technology and the half swing portal axle design, gear reduction planetary hub are also examples of communist auto-industry. Well, one may criticise political system but please NEVER disgrace engineers who always have contributed to technology. 😊
Porsche was used by Hitler,it was firstly used for tank production. Mauss tank had Porsche engines,it was heavy and slow. Germans have strong ego,especially about cars.Know this, then you can never get insulted. Its his personal opinion,not yours or mine.
Had a 1987 Yugo GV thru high school and part of college (89-91) and it wasn’t terrible. It had a/c (Florida) and I got good at replacing fuel pumps on the side of the road in 15 minutes (kept a few in the back, it was really the only problem the car had)
I witnessed the miracle of Yugo's razor-sharp tires cutting through thick snowfall when all those fancy Mercedes and BMWs were stuck in place, burning fuel for nothing...It was a steep slope, first snow of the year... only Lada Niva and Yugo were able to continue their journey...
Sorry but it has 55 hp, and has models of 60 and 65 hp that's has 1.3 EFI engine. Others have 1.1 l. The one with 45 hp was first and little was made, it had 4 speed manual trans. 55 have 5.
There was a Yugo passed opposite carriageway from me in Aberdeenshire Scotland about 2 years ago. Hadnt seen one on the roads for a long time. Those were the days of Skoda, Lada, Yugo, Dacia and FSO being quite common We even had thw Yugo Sana which looked good in ots day.
Yugo 45 was the best car I've ever owned. Easy to maintain and it let me down just once, but even then it was my fault, because I haven't checked the cooling liquid for a very long time. 25 years later I still regret selling it.
Calling the Yugo the worst car ever is simply unfair. When it came out, it was a symbol of affordability and practicality. It gave many people the chance to own a car when they might not have been able to otherwise. For its time, it served its purpose beautifully, it was compact, easy to maintain, and surprisingly loved by those who drove it. The Yugo wasn’t trying to be a luxury or, sport car, it was about making driving accessible to everyone, and in that sense, it was a true success.
Bili bi i drugi auti pristupačni da šugoslavija nije uvela 100% carine!
They pretend like the Chevrolet Vega or Reliant Robin don't exist lol
@@denisk1096pa ti sad voziš bolji auto ,ali po putu koji ti je ta šugoslavija napravila ,bosna ti nije napravila ni sokak od kako je nastala (ili si u inostranstvu što je još gore)
@@meganoobbg3387reliant robin, the deathtrap?
Also, both cost more than the Yugo did
@aleksandarjokic2918 opančaru,ja se vozim po cijeloj HRVATSKOJ autoputum koji smo napravili nakon što smo izvršili deratizaciju 1995🤣🤣🤣🚜💨💨💨
We need Yugo cars today. Affordable, small and so simple that anyone moderately skilled can service at home.
But higher quality. We first saw one at an international car show, it was the Yugo's debut, and it was comically bad.
@1972Ray Yugo was an early 70's project. It was no worse than any economy british ou italian car from that period.
late 90s to early 2000s Japanese econoboxes (Corolla, Civic, etc) are basically that, there are still plenty of them around cuz they run forever and you can still get parts for them.
@@DripDripDrip69 Guess what I'm driving now...
Late 90's and early 2000's japanese cars are absolutely gems.
I received my used Yugo from 80s in beginning off 90s when i turned 18 .It was when all things went fast downhill ( war,sanctions ,economy went to sht) and even i had 0 idea about car mechanics i service that car whole 90s by my self in yard ,i did not go single time to mechanics .
Now i have multiple "western" modern cars but for everything i need to go to service and many times car is in service for few months because they have always big back log and you need to wait for parts.
For Yugo you could buy part like on every street corner and it was dirty cheap
I bought a brand new GVX in 1988 when I was living in Colorado.
It had all the available options such as air conditioning crank sunroof AM/ FM cassette stereo as well as the standard body kit alloy wheels and rally lights as well as the 1300cc engine and 5spd.
I drove it for 93,000 miles and it was almost trouble-free.
It required a fuel pump and a brake master cylinder but it never failed to start or left me stranded on my commute from Vail to Denver every day.
I remember I got good gas mileage but I had to fill it up almost every day because of the tiny tank the memory that sticks in my mind the most was coming out to start it one morning in January when it was -28 °F at 4:45 in the morning.
My neighbors were trying to start their cars and several much more expensive cars like Volvos SAABs Subarus and BMWs were having trouble starting but I got in my Yugo pushed in the clutch turned the key and it started like it was a nice summer day in Belgrade!
I let it warm up for a few minutes and went to turn on the radio and noticed the knob was missing and then I noticed the rearview mirror was missing.
I looked all around the car and all the knobs the handles for the windows as well as the rearview mirror were on the floor.
I guess the glue and the interior plastic parts for engineered for a nice Mediterranean climate not a brutal Rocky Mountain winter!
I drove all the way to work and it took over half an hour at highway speeds how far to warm up enough to melt the snow that I tracked into the car!
The last trip was from Colorado to New York when I got another job and since I had to park it on the street it eventually got vandalized and the insurance totaled it.
We had two in Greece. They never broke down, never had a hint of rust, and were extremely economical. Downsides, they were of course very sparsely equipped, the only thing that you could call "equipment" was the radio cassette player and the rear window windscreen wiper, they were underpowered and, what a surprise, the space was limited at the rear.
Zastava made a pick-up version too. It was rated at 500 kilos yet everyone was loading them with more than a ton.
They were extremely popular. They only disappeared because of the war in Yugoslavia.
As far as I can tell the one and only reason this car became a victim of jokes, was because when it was imported in the US the americans were driving 20-foot land yachts, with 500 cubic-inch gas guzzler V8s making the "fantastic" power of 160 bhp. Per displacement, the Yugo was in fact far more powerful.
Thank you for your comment, the car was brilliant , don't need nothing better then Yugo🙂
@@plutoniusis And you said nothing on the very specific points that he lists.
Hello William. This is the story that I wanted to here today minus the totaled part.
Wow, I'm surprised. Good to hear.
Had two in the United States. Kids drove to college. 1986 Red GV & 1987 Blue GV with air conditioning. They had zero issues of four years of college. Miami Beach Florida.
What happened to them in the end?
@@DWREV 🚗 probably still driving around Miami Beach 😅
I had Yugo for 8 years and never had a problem. Just look at the VW now. 3 water pumps, broken valve springs within the first 2 years of ownership. Love it or hate it, Yugo wins a reliability contest with ease.
It's fascinating how something once labeled 'the worst car ever made' still sparks such nostalgia and debate. Quirky, ambitious, and maybe not as bad as its reputation-it's a true underdog in automotive history. Great video!
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So basically, USA went "An affordable car that outsells our cars?! CRUSH IT!!!"
I thought the same thing but who knows🤷♂
Old man who travelled to Yugoslavia before the breakup. It was indeed a really nice country and people were genuinely happy. It was so sad to hear what happened to the nice people I had met through friends who lived there. Friendships and families ripped apart. 😢 This nostalgia is not just for a car, it's for a happy place that was lost.
US vandalism...that is happened
We are brothers even after the horrific war we had. As a Croat I love my brother's and sisters from former Yugoslavia
It was the West and 3 local dictators that drove us apart. As a Serbian, I still see the ex Yu nations as brothers and sisters
@@nemanja98rs smetao im naš način života i činjenica da možemo bez njih pa nas zavadise preko tri debila
@@nemanja98rs No offense, but that is a bit of a simplistic view of the situation. Sure, there were outside influences and dictators. However, at the end of the day, it was us, the people, who voted for and supported those dictators, who bought into the propaganda that we should hate each other, and who picked up weapons against our brothers and sisters. I am afraid that if we place the blame entirely on someone else and play the victim, we will never learn from our mistakes and are bound to repeat the same things again, which, unfortunately, seems to be the direction we are heading.
no matter what the jealous West says, a Yugo is a Yugo. Would love to buy one.!
The West is not jealous, and you're right, a Yugo is a Yugo.
It was just the expectations of the West that made the Yugo look bad. In reality, a Yugo is a fine automobile.
@@yesno5794 Not at all. Very poor reliability, poor gas milage, very poor construction. During crash tests by the Institute for Highway Safety, it underwent extreme damage. It came in last for emission tests and led the list of lemon vehicles. It was not the expectations that made it bad, it simply was bad, and the US has produced some really bad cars.
@@1972RayI bet you I can use my girlfriends grandads yugo and you go get your self a new Mercedes and that yugo will outlive and outdrive the Mercedes
My dad still drives his Yugo. 25 years old, running like a charm, with 0 issues.
Hating yugo car was simply psychological operation and preparation for hating yugoslavs during 90s wars. It is always planed ahead of time.
I worked in Belgrade and my girl friend had one Called Ivanka. It worked! Never mind the more expensive cars it just kept going. And she actually had to hit it to get it to start! With a hammer.
When the brushes on the starter wore out, we hit the starter with a hammer and the brushes made contact again and the car started. We all did it.
Finally a normal Yugo review!
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You should read the reviews of the day, very funny.
Normal review??? Clean propaganda
My Yugo 60 pretty much saved my life. Long story but in short:
April 2 1992 Sarajevo - my new Yugo windshield got stollen. Next day I sourced and installed new one and took car the same day 300km away at my relatives garage to leave it until things settle. But war broke in Sarajevo next day, I couldn’t go back. I fled Bosnia few weeks after managed to sell Yugo over the phone for two one way ticket from Prag to Toronto. Has been living in Canada and US ever since.
If no Yugo I am sure i would’ve been drafted into the war.
Wow, what a story!
Brate, nek si ti meni živ i zdrav! Pozdrav iz Zagreba!
@alexbjanic7363 I'm glad you got out in time, Alex! That little gem saved You indeed!
Fun fact, today, 4 spark plugs for Yugo, in a country of origin (Serbia) cost $2.3
Nema to fun facta legendo, ovo je slika i prilika umjetne tvorevine. tj drage naše Juge 😂
@@asderdsaer nema neumjetne države
Hardly the worst car in the world. It is what it is, a cheap form of transportation.
I had one as a courtesy car once while my Renault 11 was in the garage. Sure, it's slow and basic but I found it fun to drive.
I'd have one of these over most American cars.
I sada vozim 55-ticu 91. godište i kao nov je. Ne bih ga menjao ni za kakav strani dizel polovnjak ni slučajno. Nema u njemu nikakvog kompjutera i uvek pali na jedan zub, a zvuk je nešto posebno. Samo se vi i dalje zanosite autošovinizmom i zlonamernim izmišljotinama...
kolko trosi otprilike?
i live in the usa in niles ohio i have owned over 250 cars my 1987 yugo gv is my favorite i will never get rid of it this car always starts i do have to repair it from time to time
Great story. How many miles are on it?
my yugo has 156000 miles
Nice. I hope it keeps going strong!
Moja mama ima kolekciju od 8 ZASTAVA vozila od kojih su 4 komada YUGO-a, raznih modela. Ja vozim jedan od njih - YUGO TEMPO 1.1. Svi su kupljeni novi i danas su kao novi. Održavaju se redovito i nema problema. Pola Europe sam prešla s tim TEMPO-m bez greške. Naravno, udobnost nije na razini današnjih auta, nema klimu, i drugu opremu dekadentnog kapitalističkog zapada 😂 ali koga briga za to. Važno je da grijanje radi za medalju. Za sva ex socijalistička auta, ZASTAVA auta su bili auta sa velikim A. Npr. Trabant 🤣🤣🤣Namjerno sam komentar napisala na jeziku ex zemlje gdje je legendarni YUGO proizveden. Nek krepaju dušmani 🤣Hvala na izboru teme ☝
Svaka cast . Jel imas fotke ? 😊 ❤
@@ivanamestrovic7860 Chitavo detinjstvo smo imali zastava kao svakodnevni auto. Plavi Fikja '84 godishte, koj sam voleo, onda smo kupili crveni Yugo Koral 55 iz '91(koj je eto plamnuo tokom voznja) i jedan sivi Yugo Koral 55 iz '90 godishte. Tristakj sam uvek voleo, ali tada moji roditelji nisu hteli zbog nemachkog amerikanca koj smo imali u garazi. Kakvi su bili Tempo?
Tako je!
Da mogu, dala bih ti hiljadu lajkova. Pozdrav iz BGda.
Велики Поздрав!
Yugo is definitely not the "worst car ever made", far from it. All yugo/zastava cars were based on FIAT patents, because they had a FIAT license to produce and use FIAT parts. Nobody called old FIATS the worst car in the world, but somehow its okay to say that about a Yugo. All cars had issues, especially cars made in the era that Yugo comes from, to say Yugo is the worst of them is simply not true. Yugo was for Yugoslavia what VW was for Germany. Not to mention how devasted Yugoslavia was after WWII, its a miracle they made a car at all. And another thing, VW Golf MK2 was also produced in large numbers in Yugoslavia.
YUP! VW Golf was produced in Sarajevo by TAS company.
It was chosen the worst car of all times in the USA..... did USA forgot VEGA and PINTO and and ++...... The big all america car company did panic when a small car came and was economical to have and use......
For $3995 usd brand new car Yugo !! Better than some Chevys of the 80s ! Or today German junks costing $100000 plus usd !
Today i rather have 20 Brand new cars costing $5k than 1 Ev Porsche costing 200k !
My friend had one. I remember one night driving and picking up girls. We were 7 in the car. Good times.
Yugo is just an Icon here in the Balacans, my first car ❤
Awesome video 🤟🤩
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4:02 When the Jugoslav anthem "Uz Maršala Tita" started i started to Cry. Polska 🇵🇱 is greeting his lovely Ex-Jugoslav Brothers and sisters in Balkans 🇵🇱 ❤🇷🇸🇭🇷🇸🇮🇧🇦🇲🇪🇲🇰 May god protect you guys
That was not Jugoslav anrhem.
Jugoslav anthem was "Hey Slaveni"
@@korda-u7r I know symilar to our Polish anthen. I writted "Uz Maršala Tita".
You could repair this car at home anytime, only some serious engine and gears damage was needed to go to service/repair shop. Cheap, affordable and got you from A to B.
Probably runs better than most ford's and jeeps of today.
and everything that VW overpriced...
No, it doesn't.
@@1972RayYes, it does!
I will take a Yugo over any current Stellantis product.
Cannot believe anyone would pay $8,500-$10,000 for the Yugo. I actually test drove one in 1986. It was just too small, and it was pretty obvious it was not built well, even to me, a person ignorant of vehicles at the time. The Yugo looks like an AMC Gremlin, except even smaller.
Bring them back, immediately. Everybody (still) needs a Yugo sometimes!
These cars are actually built like a tank. Built to last and since they are simple, repairing is never complicated or expensive. If you have one and well preserved, they can reach a pretty high value in the market because they are not produced anymore and if well maintained, many of them will become classics in time.
new Yugo? yes plz.
"Worst car" because you haven't seen other cars from east: Skoda, Tavria, Maruti, etc...
Even those aren't bad. Not really. Now, the 2CV? That's a bad car.
Had a Zastava 101 in Denmark from new. We drove it as the familys car for 11 years. Simple and reliable, no serious problems. My next car was a Lada Samara. Over 6 years we had a load of repairs, even had to change the engine. The 101 was the basis for the more modern Yugo 45. So most likely the americans look at the Yugo as bad, as it was the only communist produced car they ever had the possibility to buy.
@@frankandersen3195 Exactly....Yugo was cheap reliable and easy to fix far a way from a great but a good solid car for that money......
you know we're kinda in a same boat with eastern cars. Everything depends on how you treat them, and even if you don't care properly they still will get you from point A to point B, But, they can give you joy if you treat them nice. They aren't really that bad, they're fine vehicles, yeah, very oldschool, but they were a part of someones life. Doesn't matter if it's Zastava, Volga, Tatra, ARO etc. There's no need in that bias aura - i have a 1963 Volga, used it to ride to my job for a month, haven't had any troubles with it except the fuel pump tends to boil in traffic jams, but i guess that's a problem of such old cars at all. Otherwise it's a nice and reliable car and i love it. And it's beatiful
@@ravenouself4181 you know nothing about cars if you think 2cv is a bad car
what a dumb condescending video … nothing wrong with Yugo , it was a super affordable , basic car , affordable to buy, easy to work on , maintain , and you could probably insure it for 20 bucks a month … 4 cylinder engine was hardly using any gas … perfect for around town , to go to school, work or grocery store, it was a car easy to own , it would probably cost you 20 bucks for gas to run it whole day long for the whole week … it’s not for everyone , but many people loved it .. today when 3/4 of people in US don’t have $400 saved for emergencies, credit card debt and repossessions are skyrocketing many would like to own a Yugo … imagine paying $1000 per month for used car if you could buy a brand new one for $5000 … and lastly, Yugoslavia was not communist country , it was socialist country , hence the name abbreviation, SFRJ , Socialist Federative Republic of Jugoslavia … it was the last barrier between Western Europe, and communist Russia and Eastern Europe … Romania , Hungary, Poland etc were communist countries, not Yugoslavia …
Thanks for your input. I wonder, did you actually watch the whole video? It was mostly positive about the Yugo and made some of the same points you make.
As for whether or not Yugoslavia was Communist, it was ruled exclusively by Tito's SKJ party, the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, from 1945 to 1990. It may have been the "last barrier" between the West and the Soviet Union and its satellite states in the sense that it never joined the Warsaw Pact and instead was one of the co-founders of the Non-Aligned Movement. But it was still definitely Communist. Communism is a form of socialism, and even the Soviet Union was called the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
@@DWREV Yugoslavia was not a communist country. Make better research about it and make a correction in your video.
@@DWREVcommunism is not socialism , nor it is a form of socialism, democrats are in power in US , and US is not a democracy , it is a republic , communist party was in power in Jugoslavia , system was socialism .. eastern block countries were communist countries with communism as a political system … as far as Yugo goes , it definitely had less recalls than Ford or Stellantis garbage … and Tito didn’t rule , he was democratically elected by all people of Jugoslavia to be their president … and he was very much loved and respected by his people , he brought peace and prosperity, and built Jugoslavia up from nothing , to 4. strongest military force in Europe …
It was a very reliable but basic car. I love it. I might be a rare one but as a Slovenian I want Yugoslavia back.
Yes because communism, poverty, inequality and underdevelopment are so great! 🤡
@@Robbert_nl
It is if you're one of the more equal people.
@@Robbert_nlWdym Yugoslavia (before Tito's death) was one of the most advanced *socialist* countries in Eastern europe
It also was never under Soviet control like the rest of countries in the Eastern Bloc/Warsaw pact
That same Yugoslavia (Serbia) gave you all you have today, that your country "inherited" after the split. Maybe you are longing for more of that.
We can talk about merger but not what the so called Yugoslavia was, we are simply not repeating the same mistakes.
They were repeated 2 times which resulted in 3 world wars, it's been enough. There is no 3rd time nor longing for the 4th big war or any war for that matter.
You either face reality peacefully or stay "independent" there is also not much 3rd option either.
You might want to be good about it all but your politicians have different plans anyway. It's easy to dream.
@@Robbert_nlYou basically described modern day America.
People like a car to repair and be affordable a beauty in simplicity
Don't care, I like it.
Same, it's sh1t but iconic and slow
We used to get them here in the UK, and I would love to get my hands on a Yugo today - the only Eastern Bloc car I ever owned was a 1985 Trabant 601S DeLuxe and that was an experience to remember. (Almost bought a Lada once, just after I passed my test, but ended up with an old Fiat instead.)
@iana6713 People hate on the cars from the Eastern Bloc, and I understand their quality may not be the best, but that doesn't mean we can't enjoy them. Even bigger models, restricted to Government personnel back in the day, or even commercial vehicles, like trucks...I think they're all pretty cool.
@@Roddy_Zeh Couldn't agree more - you are exactly right! These countries had to make do with restrictions on what technology and materials they could get access to, and what they achieved was remarkable. Take the Trabant I mentioned - they became a phenomenon in the former East Germany. If you can ever get a chance to drive one, do it! It's such a symbol of a bygone age. Bigger vehicles like Czechoslovakia's Tatras were works of art - they were beautiful machines.
@@iana6713 I think there are at least a few examples here in Brazil, don't know when they were brought, probably in the last 20-25 years, as collectible vehicles.
If I ever get the chance, I surely won't miss it! 👏🏻😁
I love the Tatras, both the cars AND the trucks! The ZIL trucks and the limosines, the UAZ jeep, I like everything.
Heck, I'd daily drive even a MAZ 537 tank/ICBM hauler if I could! 😂 The only issue would be space to park and the fuel costs. 🙌🏻😅😭
Simple cars are needed today. Here in the Philippines, most people can't afford brand new vehicles. What is popular is Japanese Kei cars, vans and trucks that are imported CKD and reassembled here. Often they are customised to fit the needs of Filipino families and businesses. The simpler the vehicle, the better. It literally doesn't matter how old the original vehicle was, because it is completely rebuilt, both the bodies and mechanicals. You can get a vehicle to your own personal choice, for less than half of the cost of a base model from the large manufacturers. They are all based on the Suzuki Kei cars, vans and trucks, and come with the unburstable Suzuki 657cc three cylinder engine. It can be had with carburettor or fuel injection, and even with a turbo. The fuel economy is astounding. There are even 18 seater versions which double as transport for families and businesses. I almost forgot to mention that they come in 4x2 and 4x4, and gearboxes range from manual four and five speeds, to straight automatic transmissions with three, four, or five speeds, and Tiptronic clutchless manual transmission.
Eh, moji Yugići... U svom vozačkom stažu imao sam ih nekoliko i svi su se odlično pokazali. Ni jednog nisam kupio novog ali sam svakom od njih bio drugi vlasnik. Prvi je bio Yugo 60 iz 1990 godine, a zadnji Yugo Tempo 1.3 iz 2003 godine. Na ovom zadnjem sam čak sam i limariju radio i sam ofarbao auto. Taj sa motorom od 1300 cc je išao kao lud, toliko, da sam se plašio da s obzirom da nije imao ojačanje ne polomi koševe. Motor je bio odličan, i ako je imao na satu 130000 km iberlauf je bio još uvek utaknut u karburator. Obožavao sam tog svog poslednjeg Yuga tako da mi je i danas žao što sam ga prodao. Često pomislim kako bi današnji klinci snašli sa sauhom (čokom) i radostima koje može da napravi bobina i razvodna kapa?
Imagine if now there was a car for low price, simple yet reliable enought to get you from point A to B, for years.
Here in EX yugoslavia are still driven. I have one older neighbor he still drives his yugo 45 what he bough new. Yugo was ours first car
It's strange how so much effort and talk was put into saying and showing that it's a bad car, so many emissions are messed up, and yet the Yugo is still being driven today wherever it was sold.
In Germany the slogan for the Yugo was: "Mehr Auto braucht kein Mensch!" meaning "more car nobody needs".
My first car was a jugo. Handed down from my father. It chewed petrol like any other car, had to fix it every weekend to get it through the next week but it was easy to fix with parts in every corner shop. It wasn't much of a car but it drove and brought home loads of memories
What ended up happening to it?
@@DWREV as "the pinnacle of yugoslav engineering" it ended up at the scrap yard. Got eaten by rust
The Yugo was never a bad car at all, it was just outdated the moment it came from the line... Nevertheless it was a car that kept nations moving... I don't really understand what people mean by "quality" when they talk about cars... Cars need to be regularly maintained and serviced no matter the model and brand
The capitalist media ridiculed the cars of the former Stalinist east. The reality was that many of these cars were not that bad. Yes, they lacked luxury, but they were affordable. Due to the centralized and undemocratic nature of the Stalinist system, few innovations were carried out on eastern cars. This is not because they did not wanted to do it. Often the ruling bureaucrats said no and the factories were forced to stay with outdated designs. The East-German Trabant 601 was a model of 1961 and had prototype replacements (P602, P603, and P610) for the 1970's, all were rejected by the conservatives who ruled East Germany.
Biggest problem with the Yugo in the US was with the country gone and the importer folded, before the oldest ones were 10 years old you couldn't get parts - if the junkyard didn't have one with what you needed, the only recourse was to go to a sports-car specialist that carried Fiat parts and pay more than the car was worth for those. The Chevy Chevette was a better bottom-of-the-barrel pick since GM parts were cheap and plentiful.
Interesting rewiev.
U forgot to mention that Yugo in Yugoslavia 1990 was about 6500 DEM (Deutche Marks), and that would be arround 7 monthly wages for averige Yugoslavian - so it was made to be pretty affordable for the working class of Yugoslavians.
There was at least one brand new car made in Yugoslavia at that time that was cheaper than Yugo - it was Renault 4.
And also, U didnt mention what other brands were making in the '80s beacuse as that East German said - Yugo was wet dream for them as it was for many others.
Later model Yugo Florida (Sana -for export markets) first was sanctioned from Fiat that was afraid of competition for their Tipo, than later Yugoslavia got sanctions... and that was the end of bigger exports...
Sana / Florida was best in it's class and sure enough all western political media bashed it into the ground.
Often just like this video pointed out the 1st Yugo and how junk it is bla bla bla just to cover up the attention of this company and whatever they made next.
Karma and irony is that most big brands who bashed Zastava , contributed to the bombing and sanctions most had fallen while Zastava continues to make army vehicles and Renaults. Honestly there is no room for a new brand anyway on the civilian market since for Europe a cheap Kia or Daewoo with 10 year warranty is all you need. Renault is 2nd best and the rest I don't even look at it let alone care. Im done.
Personally I have both Yugo and Florida, race them on closed tracks and don't care for anything else anymore. If I could register a Zastava car for the road it would be a Florida Pickup. Since I cant anymore due to new BS regulations etc then that option is out and I learned to live with it, they wont force me to buy a new car even if I had the money among other stuff, plenty of fines are forced and fake too so I am not giving them money nor wasting my life on it, period.
Nah, yugo was a proper trash, as someone who grew up in yugoslavia, it was trash, but ok for the poor people i guess.
Yugo florida was equally the utmost trash, a try at modrrn body, but poorly designed, ridiculously small wheels, underpowered, and all along ugly and outadet technologically, i knew a man who bought it, a general director of my dad's firm, where he was a technical director.
My dad drove a gt55, a zastava 101, it was both a sportscar and a limo compred to yugo, i drove that stojadin for years later when i was a student in the 90s, just repainted it in purple, put wider tires and good audio, my old man installed underside chassis strengthening that connected the front of the chassis with the middle, protecting the engine from the underside, the car was undestructive, everyone in zagreb, in every student dorm and night club knew my car, so many trips to concerts to ljubljana, so many summer trips along bad island roads, cheap to mantain, but it had something, and i sold it somewhere about 2000s still for 500 marks or already euros not sure any more, all the newer yugos were already rotten and fell apart.
I knew, a drove a lot of them from my friends late 80s, early 90s, all were trash, everybody who had one wanted to replace it with something else asap, not true for zastava 101, they were the true legends.
Yugo and florida were utmost trash, a shame, 101 and figuar, 750, were real zastava heroes.
But i can't emphasize enough what a trash yugo actually was, when i was in auto school, i drove the 101 there, but they had only two, and a fleet of yugos, and once or twice i had to go with yugo, my insyructor also hated them, we all knew each other as my dad was a steward/judge for the races at amd, and i was in the club too as i raced karts a bit in the 80s there, anyways even i as a student driver noticed how trash it was, from the gearbox, poor engine, steering/geomtery, everything was trash, and paper thin metal of the body, would rot extremely fast.
I know that fangirls love them because they grew up in them, but that's just one generation who didn't know for anything better unfortunatelly.
In reality they quickly wanished from the streets of slovenia abd croatia in the 90s, because they were trash, but zastava 101 and 128 did not, as they were much better cars, late 80s yugos were everywhere, much higher nubers than 101 and 128, somewhere 93-93 you had the same number or more 101 and 128 models, 98 you could hardly see a yugo anywhere.
@@xityarxip Actually Zastava cars was given to the Fiat by "someone" who could put a signature on that kind of deal ("given" because when U calculate how much did they pay, how much did they invested, how much Serbia invested...).
Only model made in former Zastava is Fiat 500L with a lot less workers now compared to than.
A lot of side companies that were in cooperation with Zastava R closed for good now because Fiat is having its own suppliers.
'99 they said every Yugo sold is some other foreighn brands model unsold. They know exactly what R they targeting in Zastava - the newest part of the factory for painting cars, besides others.
Zastava cars were very affordable during the 1980s due to inflation. My father bought a Zastava 128 in 1984 on 5-year loan with very low interest rate. Monthly installments in the last year were enough to buy a pack of cigarettes, because the dinar devalued massively in five years.
and now only the dacia sandero keep the "affordable" in afforcable car.
My sister was living in Denmark and did have a YUGO..... Once I did meet her and the CAR and I thought it was time to react..... Did put safety belts in rear and the starter motor was not working and she was a long way from home...... Parts for the starter motor was of course not available and I did mix some YUGO and FIAT and something else and did fix it there...... But the strange things with this car was some rust-holes in the middle of the panels and all over the body.... just a hole from nothing...... The car was a white one and I did put some body sealant into the holes and the YUGO-car was like a new again.......
better than wartburg for sure
I absolutely love the Yugo’s, they were very successful in the 1980’s when I was growing up in the UK, they are far from being the worst car ever!
Saw a pink Yugo today, 12/28/2024 “parked” in Atlanta.
“Special driving experience”, you’ll never reach your destination.
Nice to hear this from serbia
My yugo spent 5l/100km in his prime, went up to 160km/h. Clean engine, no oil drops, nice body. For 30 years of usage no one know how many km our yugo has drive. Maybe close to 700k or 800k km. I do not see nothing bad there, only outdated models.
Nice story. Do you still have the car?
I'm not remotely surprised that eventually Suzuki, Toyota, Nissan, Daewoo, Hyundai, Peugeot and Renault introduced cars that are similarly affordable like Yugo but with more long-lasting mechanical parts to former Yugoslav republics and other former Socialist Bloc nations in Europe, effectively speeding up the decline of Zastava Automobiles and its Yugo brand, although Zastava itself was able to run its carmaking business in the 2000s by continuing the assembly and sales of licensed Fiat models until 2008.
Bring it back! But keep it looking almost the same. And No electronic gizmos
what could you expect for a car that cheap? i always remember an old saying where i lived
"theres a price, there's quality"
i never seen this car IRL, but if i had a chance to own one, i would be happy
The Yugo sold in the US for a little under 4k usd. The average car price at the time in the US was 6k to 20k usd. Compared to todays cars the Yugo is downright crude.
@@1972Ray exactly, we also have those "low end basic cheap" cars in Indonesia , yes they're crappy and bit doo doo...no amenities just bare bone basic vehicle, yeah they didn't sold it as it is anymore they installed lots of feature today, but its cheap vehicle, especially in US, where people didnt maintain their cars its just a throwaway car, you cant complain for such price...
I have a Yugo convertible with 14km on the tacho. Found it for small money in Italy and bought it. It's as close to new as it can be, considering it's an old car now, 34 years old to be precise.
We need a new Yugo ❤
Yugo was my first car when I got my license :) special car driven everywhere, I will never forget once we drove back from all day party at the weekend house and car stopped no gas and we kids didn’t know what to do…I will never forget two of us pee inside a gas tank and car just started😂 I will never forget that …as home was not that far away we came back safely …yugo is a lot of things but worst care never
Born in Yugoslavia, this was also my first car. As an 18-year-old boy, I could buy a used Yugo for a couple of 100 dollars. Latter even bought one for 50 dollars.
Yugoslavian proud
Yugoslav pride in deed!!!
"Artist collective from Slovenia" would be more correct than "Slovenian artist collective"
they made so nice movie about story of Yugo traveling from Serbia to USA with Yugo. Type Y? roadtrip documentary 2020
This car not only is fun to drive but its indestructable & can be reapaired on your own without original parts if you are technically versed - the engine is weak yet you can't kill it either!
The most fun is to ride it at its limits, the underground/streetconditions doesnt matter
Its a legend & I had a lot of fun & scary moments (with insane drunken drivers) with a Yugo- "Coral 45"
Once we ended up in the ditch of a gravel path in village in the mountains bc the driver wanted to hit a rabbit after drinking more than 10 Rakija(s) (plum-whisky 60+% alc.) We needed a tractor to pull us out & back on the street
The same guy a day later broke his big toe & burned his hand in the process when we were driving to a soccer match, village vs village like 8ppl on the tractor & a small costum made wooden trailer 3x3 meters
His uncle was driving & he was sitting in front on the bonnet...when we left the garden to enter the gravel path he turned left hard & the guys foot was between the wheel & the tractors body
He yelled out loud & the uncle said which side(your foot is pinched)? He answered "Left, left!!"
The also drunken uncle thaught he should steer left hand side to release his foot & turned left even harder
We heard him scream "Ahhh...fool other side" while grapping the tractors chimney out of pain...naturally he burned his hand
& we all laughed our a.o. - blood was running down his toe & he got a blister on his hand...he was hot, but still stayed on the same spot till we reached that lawn at the other village, joining the soccer match with his broken toe...of course he wasn't running much & soon chose to be the goal guard
It was during war-time & the (serbian-bosnian) front was only 25km airline & we heared rockets & saw the light from explosions & the noises at night, but we had so much fun that very summer, its unforgetable!!
But I & other friends had fun with a Yugo "Coral 45", for a decade to come at a complete other place, down in Serbia & I love + miss those days & all the gorgeous girls that countrey calls their daughters!!
Wow, that's quite a story!
@DWREV it was the good old days between '93 to 2000...
We were young lunatics without fear & limits enjoying our lifes...now I'm older & think twice before I would agree or join anybody do anything stupid - health & life are precious & one doesn't have the luck of a youngster - it's like the 7 lifes of a cat - I just have got 1 left so I need to be carefull 😂
Have a nice evening & an awesome, healthy & succsessfull new year!!
Thanks and the same to you!
What a great video! Thanks for sharing it. I grew up in Michigan, a state made up of two peninsulas which are connected by a grand suspension bridge across the straits that connect Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. On a particularly windy day in September of 1989, a Yugo owned by a woman from my hometown plunged to her death from the bridge after her Yugo was blown off the bridge. It turned out that a Yugo 45 is no match for a 48 MPH (77 km/h) wind gust. I think that event was the final nail in the coffin for the Yugo, at least in the USA. There’s still a great need for an inexpensive reliable new car in my country, a need that the Yugo was able to meet for a brief but glorious period of my youth.
Thanks for that interesting -- and tragic -- story. And glad you liked the video. Please pass it on to a friend!
Yugo owner here 😊👍
Built in 1989, It's the oldest car, I've ever had
Also, it is one of the more reliable cars, I've ever had 😂
Nice story. Do you still drive it today?
@DWREV Yes, it's even my Daily Driver 😂
Wow, now that's what you call value! Where do you live?
@DWREV in Germany, near Munich 😁
Other than in America, Yugos NEVER were a Common sight Here (They were only sold Here between 1990-1992)
Interesting. Then you're lucky to have one!
I own the red classic Yugo Koral 45 one. I inherited it from my father wo bought it in 1982 for his future son.
Nice story. Is it still running?
@@DWREV Yes but I need to change the Battery.
It's funny they say this is the "Worlds Worst Car" whilst you have cars like the ZunnDap, Isetta, and the Trabant 601, which I do love these cars dont at me. But compared to the features and creature comforts of these cars vs. the Yugo 45/Koral it makes the Yugo look like a luxury car.
I have growing up in Yugo. It was affordable Car
Every Family could bye it. It is made for all people. It was our Pride. We loved it. Now people have problem to bye a brend new Car, because every car is expensive.
I have 2 Yugos. Yugo is love, Yugo is live.....
Kupio polovnog juga 55 za 2400evra, prešao 121.000 km bez ikakvih problema. Nažalost limarija počela da trune. Kupio bih ga opet. Pozdrav svima
To say that Yugo was worst than Trabant or Wartburg is an insult to common sense
Fun fact Yugo is better than Tesla
100x
I am 187 cm tall and i grew up in this car in 2000s. Miss this car so much. My first car to learn how to drive on in 2008/2009 :) Great times.
While Chinese people were driving bikes, in Yugoslavia Zastava produced 4 models, VW's Golf 1 and 2 were produced in Saraevo, Reno 4 in Slovenia...
Considering the Yugo car, for that time it was affordable and basic car with lot of flaws. Zastava 101 was a bigger and better family car.
I need so cheap car for today.. Now I have to buy so expensive western car that doesn't any specific but drove me from point A to point B but with much higher price..
It was not the worst car for shore.
What a great little documentary - not going down the easy route of buying into all the jokes that grew up around the Yugo, but actually taking the little car seriously. It did what it was designed to, and who would've imagined a car from a Communist country finding a willing market in the US? We used to get them in the UK too, where they sold reasonably well - the motoring press did say they were better than the Soviet Lada.
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Yugoslavia was not a communist country.
@@djoledulic7036 Yugoslavia's ruling party was literally called the "League of Communists of Yugoslavia". Granted, it was not a member of the Soviet-dominated Warsaw Pact and independent of the Eastern Bloc institutions, but it had a state-run, socialist economic system based on Marxism. If not Communist, what was it?
@ I said it . Yugoslavia was not a communist country. I live there. Forget your definitions, better go, check, try to grasp and you will understand that Yugoslavia was not a communist country. All the best!
@@djoledulic7036 Thank you for a polite reply - sometimes you don't get that on the internet. Hvala vam.
Nothing can be worse than vw jetta
Yugo is full of memories, the worst but best
Zadnji puta sam vozio yugo ima 26 godina... pogodit u prvu ko da sam osvojio lotto jbt hhah top!
My family owned a 1973 Zastava 101 (called 1100 at the time) and it was a trip! Crazy practical, crazy cheap and unreliable (it had a non functioning 1st gear for 2 years) - the nostalgia it offered me is unlike anything else!
I bought a new 91 Yugo in 1991 from a Maserati dealer. Had issues with electrics, leaking hatch and tires. All repairs complete and got a new set of Michelin tires! People did know the car had Bosch electronic fuel injection and electronic ignition. Shifting was a good experience,(after adding Slick 50 to the transmission) and you never felt like you ran out of power when getting up to speed on the highway. It was fun to drive.
Originally based on the Fiat 128 , ECOTY 1970 , FWD incorporating an end -on gearbox with separate oil which gave the blueprint for a majority of FWD family cars today .
As someone who was born in Yugoslavia this brings a lot of emotions. Thank you for a great review.
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I've seen Yugo interpreting
Lancia Delta Integrale dress.
Must be somewhere,
Was looking AMAZING 👌
Modern colonialism or fascism if you like, would demonize anything coming from former communism. Although, Porsche is a communist technology and the half swing portal axle design, gear reduction planetary hub are also examples of communist auto-industry. Well, one may criticise political system but please NEVER disgrace engineers who always have contributed to technology. 😊
Porsche was used by Hitler,it was firstly used for tank production.
Mauss tank had Porsche engines,it was heavy and slow.
Germans have strong ego,especially about cars.Know this,
then you can never get insulted.
Its his personal opinion,not yours or mine.
Great video ❤❤❤
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Had a 1987 Yugo GV thru high school and part of college (89-91) and it wasn’t terrible. It had a/c (Florida) and I got good at replacing fuel pumps on the side of the road in 15 minutes (kept a few in the back, it was really the only problem the car had)
@5:08
"It has a horn. It works."
SOLD!!!
Another movie with a Yugo is "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist"
Thanks for that tidbit!
It was great, and it was at this time ok for the price, you can’t compare it to modern cars.
Yugo was just a simple,not expensive and very good car!
I had 3 of them. They served me good
I witnessed the miracle of Yugo's razor-sharp tires cutting through thick snowfall when all those fancy Mercedes and BMWs were stuck in place, burning fuel for nothing...It was a steep slope, first snow of the year... only Lada Niva and Yugo were able to continue their journey...
Sorry but it has 55 hp, and has models of 60 and 65 hp that's has 1.3 EFI engine. Others have 1.1 l. The one with 45 hp was first and little was made, it had 4 speed manual trans. 55 have 5.
There was a Yugo passed opposite carriageway from me in Aberdeenshire Scotland about 2 years ago. Hadnt seen one on the roads for a long time. Those were the days of Skoda, Lada, Yugo, Dacia and FSO being quite common We even had thw Yugo Sana which looked good in ots day.
I remember my mom driving it to a mechanic, and he said:" I dont know how this car is still driving, there is no drive belt left!" 😂
America and west destroyed Yugoslavia,standard procedure
Yugo 45 was the best car I've ever owned. Easy to maintain and it let me down just once, but even then it was my fault, because I haven't checked the cooling liquid for a very long time. 25 years later I still regret selling it.
I didn't like this car even back when they were still being produced...I would have preferred to buy a 10 year old VW Golf :)
Is the tooling still in existence?
A Yugo EV would be a really interesting vehicle now!