I actually saw a Cadillac rear end a Yugo on the freeway. Due to the Yugo's high rear bumper the Caddy went right under the Yugo, so the Yugo wound up in the Caddy's engine compartment after going through the grill. The Caddy was pretty much trashed, the Yugo was perfectly intact. Funniest accident I've ever seen.
a similar thing happened to me with my 86 corolla, this KIA Sorento's rear bumper went over my the top of my hood when the guy backed into me practically tearing his plasticy bumper off. My car was mostly untouched lol
Well, they were made from 18 gauge steel. Seriously. If you couldn't make it to the gym, opening and closing the hood a few times was a good substitute.
Guy walks into an auto parts store and says "I'd like a rear-view mirror for my Yugo." Guy behind the counter thinks for a second, and say, "OK, sounds like a good trade to me."
The Yugo still has one feature that no Bentley or Rolls Royce has, and that’s a heated push starter!!!! It just happens to be located on the rear window.....
The cubby hole in front of the gear shifter was usually used to store cassette tapes of popular singer Šaban Šaulić. The one above it was used for a pack of cigarettes of your choice.
+Kamion King or cassettes of Lepa Brena & Slatki Greh , Dragana Mirkovic and Vesna Zmijanac. If you are a rock fan- Bijelo Dugme , Riblja Corba, Leb i Sol.
Sir. I owed new in 1987 and 1988. The 1988 has air conditioning. We purchased for teen daughter's. The cars worked all the way into college years. No major driving issues. Thank you
@@triton4541 it was the same class of the car. Small European comute economy car. It lasted longer than most of French cars in that class. Citroens or Peugeots.
Serbian driving instructors still use Yugo's, because if you can drive a Yugo, you can drive anything. How does Mercedes test for leaks in their cars? They leave a cat in overnight and the next morning if it's dead, the car is approved. How do they test Yugo's? The same way, if the cat is still inside the car the next day, the car is approved. What do you call a Yugo with airconditioning and airbags? A fantasy. If a Yugo is uniform in color, it's considered "new". If one door is a different color it's "slightly used". If a Yugo is literally two different Yugo's spliced together, it's "well cared for".
If you can drive a Yugo, you can drive anything. Except, that is, for another Yugo. They're all different in temperament, quirks and mechanical play. Not from model to model, no the same line of Yugo's are all individually different. I'm not joking.
@@Smilomaniac Exactly, and sometimes you got free tools, when the assembly worker had no time to finish (or he had boli kurac) and left it inside the cabin and got shipped like that.
"Not from model to model, no the same line of Yugo's are all individually different." That doesn't surprise me when Zastava was still using manufacturing techniques from WW1 and having dozens of people working on the car at the same time....increasing the possibility of errors.
How to double the price of your Yugo? Leave a today's newspaper on the back seat. Why is the Yugo the best car during the winter? When you push start it and you realize that the rear windshield has heaters. What came as standard equipment on a Yugo? Monthly bus pass. Why do Yugo drivers go to heaven? They've been thru hell. What are the two happiest moments in owning a Yugo? When you buy it and when you sell it. What do you call a Yugo on top of the mountain? A miracle! What do you call two Yugos on top of the mountain? Fiction. A guy goes to the car dealer: -Hey, i'm interested in the new Yugo. -Sure thing, have a look it's a beauty. -O i like it, does it come with air conditioning? -Yes as a matter of fact it does, and ABS, ESC, ASR, heating seats and a button that when you push at higher speeds poops two wings on the side and you can fly! -Are you mocking me?! -Well you started it.
My mother, at 77, decided to enter her first local timed rally with her Yugo GV. Her navigator was an ESL Columbian woman who had no driver’s license and had never driven. They finished first, beating a BMW and a Jaguar. It is not the car, it is the driver and her navigator.
At the factory, the inventor explained to his boss the idea behind the new car. The boss just said to him, " Yugo" Almost as worse, The Japanese made a new car. The Germans were pressed to help with the name " We need it now" the Japanese said .." Datsoon ?" the Germans responded. ( My dad told me this one once.) Datsun.
@@Patchuchan Yes. A friend of my mom gave me a ride in a tesla, and he had to take his eyes of the road for like 2 or 3 seconds to change the fan speed. To do that in my 99 F150, I just reach over and turn a knob. If I'm in 3rd or 5th, I don't even have to take may hand off the shifter.
From the movie Dragnet: (1987) "After losing the two previous vehicles we had been issued, the only car the department was willing to release to us at this point was an unmarked 1987 Yugo, a Yugoslavian import donated to the department as a test vehicle by the government of that country and reflecting the cutting edge of Serbo-Croatian technology.."
Most imports had that. What people forget is that every single Ford Ranger and Mazda B2000 were all carbureted, and every Datsun 720 had a 4 speed and a two barrel... In this same class, the next closest for price you could get would have been a Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla - both of which, their base models were 4 cylinder engines with two barrel carburetors. Many people say the 16 seconds 0-60 was "horrendously slow," but then again at the time... A brand new Honda Civic would have only just beaten that at around 14 seconds. Taking into account that this car cost nearly half of every other new car on the market... It wasn't that bad. You could get a Yugo GVX with air conditioning, an AM/FM/Cassette radio, and an automatic transmission for less than a base model Corolla.
@@Snubbs My Xsara Picasso doesnt have one. Its a boring car, boring cars dont need it. My Honda CBF 600 has one, but it doesnt need it, because you can feel those sweet 10000 RPM quite well. My Focus had one, it also didnt need it, because you noticed it quite fine when you hit the limiter. The one car that could have needed one but didnt have one was my old Fiesta. It took ages to hit the limiter, the Engine always was just making noise and at 140 km/h the wind speed was louder than the engine. Plus, it did reach top speed in 4th, not 5th.
I had the Yugo 45A, a UK version of this car. Ran it for a year and it never let me down despite me treating it like a go cart. I raced it everywhere. Made many trips to Ireland and trashed it with a full payload down the motorway at 100 mph, no speed cameras in those days!!! ! With hindsight that was fecking madness but still the car never let me down, nothing fell off it, and it did almost 45mpg round town and 55 on the highway. After a year on the road I sold it for the same as I paid for it. My memory of the car was fun if unsophisticated but still cheap cheerful driving. With the luxury of 20-20 hindsight nearly 30 yrs the Yugo 45a was truly appalling, but back then to get a 3 yr old car for £600 ($900) that never let me down was a gift. I loved it. I had a love for off beat East European cars at the time and owned a whole raft of bizzare vehicles. These included the Polish built Fiat 126bis, a 2 door hatchback version of the companies micro car. It was powered with a flat two 600cc engine, again another go cart that was incredible fun. Again it never let me down, did 60+ mpg and I sold it for what I paid for 12 months on. I owned another Yugo the 311, pure fun and topped out at an extraordinary high speed for the tiny 1100cc it employed. Another fun Eastern block car was the Romanian Dacia Duster, the 1980's military 4x4 with a Renault 1200cc engine, oh it was also a canvas top. Again great fun to drive especially given that London was having a heat wave for the time I had it... The list of bizzare cars I had is very lengthy, but what fun I had. The bottom line here is a cheap crapy car 30 years on is a cheap crapy car, but at the time if it was all you could afford they what fecking fantastic...
Yugo was a car, for poor Yugoslavian citizens. It could be bought on bank loan very cheaply, and with Yugoslavian pays, it could be payed off in 2-3 years, and if maintained properly it lasts 30+ years. It was used in all parts of Yugoslavia, from cities to mountain villages and it was cheap and easy to maintain and repair.
@@uroskostic8570 Vugo and Trabant like cars should be the cars going down our roads today. Electric or Ethanol / Bio diesel. It is not a matter of being cheap for poor country's. High income people should also be driving this basic low cost vehicles for 20-25 year until the machine is worn out from use an age. There is nothing a Tesla or a Toyota or any modern car is good for. They are a big waste of material and is people being lazy and selfish. How many SUV's are driving around with 1-2 people in them? Only family vans need to be bigger then a 2 door car. And they do not need entertainment screens and all modern trash. Only thing modern vehicles have going for them is safety and luxury. And really if there was some proper laws and rulers we could have solved safety by lowering the average speed where collision risk is high and put some real infrastructure in place to stop crashes to being with. It is simply going to be more dangerous on the road but it should dam be. The drivers should be careful and try and avoid killing themselves. We can not let big heavy SUV's and trucks drive around if anyone is going to be willing to drive a modern Vugo. Like a modern simple car without phone screens and self driving nonsense should be the future. We are walking around with phones in our pockets. Not saying a Vugo is a role model. But with some quality and safety improvements they basically are perfect. The car should at most have ABS and stability control. With a good modern suspension + modern fuel injection. And be cheap and made to last. Using less fuel and not cheat emissions rules simply by being light and minimalist. This are not Iphones. They are instead of community transport like buses. On the public roads it is going from A-B and safety/economics. Nothing more. RUELS NEED TO EXIST REFELCTING THIS. Even rich people should not be allowed anything but basic planet friendly vehicles. Laws exist for reasons like stopping the rich as much as stopping the dangerous people killing us. Abusing us. Yet we got stuff like self driving cars and all kinds of stupid stuff on the road. Only problem is heavy traffic lorries being a problem around "non protected" drives. But if drivers are told to be careful and brake that promise then they are killers and should be treated like killers. Traffic is just going to be slower = saving fuel and safer to even todays traffic. Like most cases of traffic accidents are down to people expecting stuff to be safe and end up becoming a deadly big heavy bullet. It is not the crash safety that is the problem. But the drivers and road conditions.
As a mechanic I miss cars like this, quick and easy to fix, no BS. And don't forget this was made pre 92 and is based on the fiat 127 so most cars of that era had little else anyway. They may get a bad press but try doing a comparison with one of its contemporaries, i.e Polo, Metro, Fiesta, R5 there's not much difference.
I loved my 91 Yugo. Didn't have all those problems. It had fuel injection which had it's own problems, but it was actually a pretty reliable little car. I enjoyed it!
hey I LOVED my Yugo! It was so simple I can fixed most anything by myself, no expensive car mechanic needed. It had pretty good power on flat roads (its utless on mountains and hills). It also had a fabulous heater! For poor people, this thing was great. You can even sleep inside it. It also had excellent gas mileage!
So Yugo was not designed for all Yugoslav citizens but only those living on flat lands :D So no Yugoslavian car for Slovens, Macedonians, Bosnians, Montenegrains and Kosovians; only for Croats and Serbs, but not all Croats and Serbs, but only those living in northern parts of Croatia and Serbia. xD Or it would be even better it the Yugo would never venture outside Vojvodina and maybe Belgrad. :D
My grandmother had one of these back in the mid 80's. Rode in it very often. It was a perfectly capable little economy box. And the price was right as she was on a fixed income.
So sorry. Grams are one of the hardest people in our lives to loose. Boy, I would have loved to have seen a 'lil' ol' lady' driving a Yugo! Must have been a sight:)
Shane Singleton But it was not NEAR as good as a half worn out Asian econobox for the same price, that's the problem. If you only had that much to spend it was about the worst choice you could make.
I am from a Bosnian family and these things are EVERYWHERE in ex-Yugoslavia, these are so common that my father even owned one of these. This car really is a successful car, it still has mostly been replaced by 90's VW Golfs as Zastava dissolved in 2006. The golf still looks quite similar on the outside and maybe on the inside and basically continues its legacy.
@@bokexd3173živim u novom sadu ali kad sam posetio srpsku kao da je svaki treći auto bio golfić (verovatno jer ste geografski bliži sarajevskoj tvornici). u novom sadu su jugići mnogo, mnogo češći nego golf
No, worse actually. Can confirm from ownership it's a lot rougher and you wouldn't want to be sliding down it. Would burn a lot and would probably shatter under your weight and end you swiftly
I went with a car like this to the North Cape in Norway starting from Amsterdam the Netherlands. We had no problems. Lots of dirt roads up north. No problems. 50 mpg and a lot of fun. 6000 miles in two weeks during that vacation. No problem. Finally after 15 years it succumbed to rust. But the engine was still like new.
Folks in the Netherlands are the tallest in Europe; bigger than Serbs. Was it a comfortable drive? We used to see a good number of Yugos in England. They all seemed to disappear over about a year. Maybe they all failed test regulations when the government tightened up the standards?
Ik u're lieing @ the thing that gave it away is, u said u got 50 mpg, for one it's carberated, secondly u had to pull over give or take 50 times, because yugos r shit
You put it in the 3rd gear when you started it ;) 1st gear requires that the gear shift sticks in your right knee (I'm more than 6,5 ft tall and I drove YUGO for almost 10 years). My was GVX model (more advanced one with 5 gears), and it was still good when I sold it.
@@VeraTheTabbynx H, 1 is left forward, 2 is left backwards, 3 is right forward, 4 is right backwards. He shifted from 3 to 2, then 3 again, and finally 4 :).
I knew a guy in 1988 who was driving a Yugo he had gotten for free (or almost free). He bought it new, and about a week later a car in front of him stopped suddenly and while he was able to stop the car behind him wasn't and knocked him ito the car in front. The bodywork bent enough to puncture all four tires, and the insurance company totaled the car and paid off the loan. He used a tire iron to bend the bodywork back away from the wheels, bought new tires, and was back on the road.
I remember seeing these new at the dealer lot in 1986. I think they were $5,000 new. I asked the salesman what people thought of the new Yugo. He said; "People love them.....until they drive one."
They were $4300 in Dallas. Later marketing had some dealers giving one away when you purchased a new Cadillac. A Chevy dealer talked me out of one when he admitted that there were many in their repair shop. I did not like the Chevette, so I went and bought a new 1987 Omni.
The Yugo was a car that met its design concept perfectly-it was cheap transportation-nothing more. What is wrong with that? the VW Beetle was the same concept-it did the job it was designed to do.
Exactly, and the Yugo was better than a number of imported cars on the market when it was sold in the US, but not as good as my Ford Escort Pony was ...
Well, it's perfectly fair to compare it to the Beetle in beeing designed for cheap transportation. And quite a good point. But there is a massive difference. The VW was an engineering masterpiece made to run for years, the Yugo just wasn't.
I drove a brand new one. It did NOT do the job it was designed to do. At least for American buyers. It was easily the worst car offered in the US market at the time. Imported or domestic. And there were a number of not very good cars on sale then. The Beetle is a great car in comparison. It did its job in a superior manner. The Yugo failed in almost every measure applied to it.
The didn't sell them long here in the US, cause they were junk. Numerous stories of them breaking down on the trip home from the dealer after some poor chump had just bought it new.
Strange because you had to work on these on a daily basis, most of the time on the side of the road...if, it didn't burn down before you got your tools out.
As much as I like the Yugo, fuel economy wasn't exactly spectacular. The lack of a 5th gear really hurt highway mileage and the lack of power hurt the city mileage. If the engine had it's power a bit lower and more torque, I'd bet that city economy would have doubled and it's been proven (existence of the GVX) that a 5th gear would raise highway economy. 25 city / 31 highway could have been 38 city / 45 highway with some slight improvements. Longevity was an issue because few people opted for the full undercoat and even fewer took these poor cars in for maintenance like they were supposed to. Hell, oil changes and all engine and vehicle maintenance for the first year of 25,000 miles were completely free! It's baffling that people *still* managed to neglect these cars. One of the biggest issues they faced was the use of a rubber timing belt, which would snap around 40,000 miles if not changed. They were recommended to be changed every 25,000 to 30,000 miles by every dealer I've talked to, the manual states it dozens of times, the parts catalogs have it in bold letters front and back, and the service manual recommends that if you even need to so much as THINK about changing tension or working on the valvetrain that you should replace it anyways, and that under no circumstances should one ever be re-used.
They had spare tires? Mine never had a spare tire but then I got it out of a junkyard and drove it for a year or so... I loved my little Yugo it was a lot of fun to drive
Considering they were aimed at people who had never owned a car before or wanted the cheapest transport possible I think they achieved their objective well. If the alternative was a bus (or worse) they are ok.
Well the 2nd World War impacted us the most and The Austro-Hungarians basaclly enslaving us before that.We got used couse we were generous to give some of our resources.
@@iro-huncarguy8367 Nah a well adjusted Trabant enigne will do 110 kph flat-out on flat and thanks to the freewheeling device your speed downhill is as high as you can stand without s***ing yourself. Know a guy that push his Trabant to 160 kph with a modified engine, at that speed it becomes basically an aeroplane.
@@iro-huncarguy8367 True, I always found Trabants fun to drive, especially the 60s examples that are well made, the years went on the quality got worst and worst because the government stopped almost all investments into the factory. I have seen few documents were the designers of the Trabant talked, they said that they had a modern four-stroke four-cylinder engine ready by the same time the 601 went into production but nobody would allow its production and the chief designer actually got into trouble with the police for trying to get it into production. How sad that such brilliant men were stuck in such a horrible situation. Even here in The Czech Republic (then Czechoslovakia) in '64 they introduced a new car, the Škoda 1000 MB a rear engined car with a alloy die-cast aluminium engine block and gearbox casing, a modern technology for that time. By '69 they prepared a completely new car, with engine in the front and RWD , with fully die-cast 1.6 liter aluminium DOHC engine and gearbox housing, fully independent suspension with semi-tralling arms in the back and five speed gearbox but thanks to the Soviet invasion of 1968 that car never went into production and the same rear engined design was used till the late 80s.
If I remember correctly, they were trying to build these during some kind of civil war. They were having all sorts of troubles with suppliers so they had to make do with what they had. I give them credit for trying.
There's a steel tube under the car the jack fits into so the car can't fall off. The spare is under the hood so you don't have to empty the trunk to fix a flat. You can't lock the keys in. You can't leave the headlights on. You can't start it when it's already running.
All very good points, but you forgot to mention that it has a steering lock, an AM/FM/Cassette stereo was standard and air conditioning was optional, and that the air conditioning was massively overpowered for such a small car (the condenser coil is easily 3x the size of the engine's radiator), not to mention that the power assist brakes could stop the car in a shorter distance than any other car in the price range, and that it had heated rear window and rear wiper washer as standard. In standard configuration, the Yugo was better equipped than cars that cost twice as much.
@@TheOzthewiz I don't like how people label them "smokers windows", turn those things into the wind and you don't need AC. It's like an SJW way of implying that they're obsolete.
My dad got given one of these in the early 90s as a courtesy car when his was in the garage. It was one of the shoddiest driving experiences I've ever had, I felt like I was being driven around in a box of Tic Tacs.
I remember that my parents used to have one. It was between 1990s and 2000. I can also remember that we went up a mountain in the winter (with good amount of snow) and while most modern cars for the time were stuck on their way up we made it up there with no issues.
I had a blue one. Got better mpg than any car I ever had. It would go 38 miles on a single gallon of gas. It had a 4 cylinder an a 3 speed standard shift transmission. I loved that car because it was cheap to keep goin as the parts from a Chevy Corsica an a Dodge Stratus would fit the car. It was a extremely simple car. Totally worth the $120 I paid fer her at a towing company auction. No one else bid on it. But me an everyone laughed an said it was weak. If I can pull a semi up an icy hill like I done did a many times before in the thing then I highly doubt everything bad ya gotta say bout my money saving car.
I had a yugo once, it lasted for 20 years. On the side of the tapashima-fugigoko highway. Fun fact, it ran for only 12 days after buying it for 20 yen. For comparison, a meal costs 500 yen. It still sits there as I couldn't bother less. I am thinking of making it a project car after all this time. More likely an engine swap, body panel swap, turbo, hydraulic PB, possibly a new transmission and it should be good to go.
Austin, I hope you see this. I bet you never expected this much attention from an old and forgotten cheap car from the 1980's! Congrats!! I remember when these cars were new, and actually had a friend whose parents owned one just like yours. These cars, as well as the Hyundai Excel/Mitsubishi Precis and Dodge Colt/Mitsubishi Mirage were some the cheapest little fun cars of the 1980's.
When I was looking for a used car as my first I consulted my uncle, who did some work at a used car lot. There was a Yugo for sale in town and It was adorable. I was smitten with it. At mentioning it he SCREAMED no and refused to elaborate. I understand why now. I didn't give up on ugly cars. I've owned a 2005 Aveo, 2008 Cube, and a 2011 Cube. They are shaped like friends. Even the poor sweet Yugo is worthy of love. Just love. Not driving.
Yugo GGGGVVVVV, when you say it like that it sounds expensive. We call it Yugo Tugo, which in translation means sadness, but it rhymes perfectly. The car is absolute crap, there is no denying ............ buuuuut. Where the hell you can buy a car for 200$ drive it, find parts on every corner, so when it breaks it cost you less than pack of cigarettes. And you can drive what the hell you want in it without care you can break or damage something.
Yugo was a very common car here (in ex-Yugoslavia). It was quite good, when you only had Trabant to compare it too. You focus on the flaws too much, instead on focusing on how it's not Trabant. For example, it's not manufactured out of old communist pants. If that isn't a big plus, I don't know what is, yet you neglected to mention that...
Krešimir Cindrić Sure. If you were comparing it to a horse and buggy with half dead horses, it was quite good. Unfortunately we are not comparing to a laughable Trabant, we are comparing it to free enterprise options.
@-T-X-M- I'd argue that that could be altered in hieght with some common mods but widening the car would be ridiculously priced in comparison to the vehicle
During one model year, I can't remember which, maybe 1986 or 1987, the Yugo cabriolet was the only car with a powered convertible top sold in the US. NOBODY EVER BRINGS THAT UP.
It is funny to hear people from the former Yugoslavia praising them. But when cheap used western cars became available they dumped them as fast as they could....
@@williamegler8771 "But when cheap used western cars became available they dumped them as fast as they could...." they dumped old cars to buy newer "old car" and it is not a prove that the car was bad. With the same logic new iPhones that have broken screan in no time are more reliable than old Nokia 3310?
@@williamegler8771 bullshit, YUGO cars still driven all around Serbia very much. And they stopped producing them 12 years ago. I drive Yugo Florida In 1.3 EFI, made in 2002, and still runs great without any malfunctions.
The fact that you have yugo in what looks like mint condition is a testament of it's durability. Simple cars tend to be easier to maintain that why you see to this day Ladas in Russian, Georgia running. In 50 years I doubt I'll see F-150 from this year running around being an overly complicated car that only the dealers works with.
Old f150s though were super simple you still see tons of 80-97 f series around and many people prefer them as work trucks over newer f150s because they’re easy and cheap to maintain
Strange comparison because there are still many F150s from the same era as this Yugo still on the road here in the US because of that exact reason; they were much simpler than later gens... Makes me think you dont know what youre talking about or youre blowing smoke in order to force a talking point.
I use a Zastava 1.1 as my daily driver, and while it is crude by today's standards, it's really very reliable if you do preventive maintenance. It's not the most comfortable, fast or even good looking, but it gets the job done, and then some. The biggest problem with these cars was poor quality control in later production years, and today the lack of adequate spare parts, since Zastava ceased production in 2008, and the remaining parts manufacturers aren't really providing the market with quality spare parts, so many people are forced to obtain good parts from scrapped cars. Anyways, l've been driving mine for 10 years, and apart from a total of three times (which was really my own fault), it has literally never left me stranded. I believe that we have the same carburettor setup, the Weber 7Y 2M-RA, which really is a fantastic carburettor when works properly, but the biggest drawback of it is the jet setup for the second venturi, which is really nonsensical 97/250(!?), and it really chokes the engine.
Plenty... TH-cam comment wouldn't cover it. It's best to head out to Zastava fan club forum, register there, there is a lot of good advice, and people are happy to help you choose your car. Long story short, you'd check anything on Zastava as with any other car: leaks, rust, spongy brakes, engine running, starting up, smoke on the exhaust, tires and how the treads are worn, does it pull on either side when driving, braking or accelerating... Where will you be buying your car?
@@hillbillypeakgarage6797 No, it was never a good car. If it was 1986 and the price of a Yugo was all you could afford for a new car you were FAR better off with a good used car.
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1 thing you might not know. There was a version of the Yugo whit a electric engine back in 1998 xD So the Yugo was environmentally friendly before it was cool xD
RiceFlavouredVTEC I agree I am an American and I love that car I have read much about it and seen some videos. Someone needs to show this to America NOW!!!
I had a new one when they came out. I put a little over 100K miles on it. It made quite a few 1,500-mile round-trips to and from my parents' house for visits. It was what is was, nothing more or less. Occasionally I still dream about driving that car. It had an American Frigidaire air-conditioning system in it. I did re-build its American Holley carburetor once. I did replace the brake shoes a couple times (drums all around). I think that the alternator might have been American, too. Not sure. Acceleration was okay up to about 30MPH but entering a highway required a little planning and care. Rear storage was actually quite good. I'm sure that modern highway speed limits would be harder on it than the late 1980's speed limits but it could do 80-90MPH when asked. Parking and city-driving was a dream. I used to hit my cement driveway at a nice clip when returning from work and I'd yank up hard on the hand brake, steer hard to the left, and slide to a stop sideways in the driveway. Fun times.
Rear seat folded all the way down with headrests removed. In the seats behind them is a zippered pocket for storage. the car was crap and under powered and mainly made to last a year. stick shift always got stuck, gas cap wouldn't come off, my hatch never stayed open as the gas strut never worked, the engine strained carrying more than 2 passengers. radio knobs fell off, speakers cracked and then died, ignition was replaced about 3 times, my clutch broke 3 times, gas mileage was around 26, one time my ignition disengaged from the motor and i had no way to turn it off or drive it so I abandoned it on the side of the road, the shift cover came out in my hand onetime, it had no tinted glass, interior bulbs burned out, door chime died, all knobs on doors broke, in fact they had cracks in them: the door releases, when we test drove it, a paperclip was inside them, that is all they were, that same 'give' in the shifter is in the front engine compartment release lever, it will actually come all the way off and you put it back in! Second gear was useless, and first you also can't stay in it, it is just to get you to second! In the door were metal pieces there to make the door feel heavier, they simply snapped in pieces, that is why they door sways without stopping, those broke fast. After being on the highway the gear would stay in fourth and I had to use extreme force to yank it out of fourth, it felt like it melted into fourth each time. Every single part of the car had multiple issues, it was dangerous to drive, weak, paint pealing, imagine driving on gravel! i shook to death! I gave up on it at 25,000 miles it was a death trap, it never wanted to be a car, it was fake just to make the sale. I suspect Yugoslavia never wanted to produce cars for us so theY purposefully made them sabotaged, I used to wonder how something could be so poorly made, Fischer Price kids toys are more reliable, what is the purpose of making things that don't work at all? Warranty was only 1 year or your bought one for four years. Radio was pathetic, the old school kind where there was a marker on a string to line up on the station, it would get stuck and not move, the radios were cheaper than the car, i replaced mine also about 3 times, this is still considered a new car and all these problems were going on, you never knew what next was going to fail.
@@calorus A to B sometimes. The terrible peddles and steering cause more danger than in a normal car. If you just want A to B, then you want a serviceable engine, good steering, and good pedals. The Yugoslav has an ok engine for around town, but it utterly fails in terms of the controls. If the controls were made to be better, then the car would be perfectly adequate starter car.
My cousin bought two of these as totaled. One was wrecked in the rear, the other was smashed in the front. He cut them in half and welded the good ends together and sold the rest for scrap. He drove it for ten years and didn't even bother painting it, other than the primer over the welded seams. The front was Yellow and the rear was red.
I literally want every car this guy reviews. I like those small, cheap cars. They’re very interesting and unique. I would totally like this Yugo as my daily driver.
I owned 2 Yugo's as Work vehicles. I got $0.30 per mile reimbursement. I got well over 40 miles per gallon. I drove an average of 150 miles per day for traversing 3 counties. Per month I averaged a total of 3,250 miles plus. That is $975 per month. I purchased the car for $4,900. I earned from its usage $11,700 per year x 3 years before purchasing a new Yugo. That means I earned $20,400 in 3 years after my costs of the vehicle. Also no down time and sold the first Yugo for $2,900. I used that $2,900 to purchase the second Yugo with Air and my cost after the trade was $3,000. I worked 1 year with the New Yugo but with 4 counties to work and averaged 200 miles per day at $0.35 per mile. I was reimbursed $18,200 +/- and sold the Yugo for $4,600. SO who says a Yugo is a worthless vehicle! And in the past Mileage Reimbursement was NON TAXED. And, NO! My engines were never replaced nor did I ever have an issue with them. Just change the oil every 3,000 miles and you will do great!
I remember that the Yugo and the Hyundai Excel (not to be confused with the Accel, much later) were released within a few months of each other. The Yugo was $3995 and the Hyundai was $4995. My friend's mom bought that Hyundai and drove it for several years. It was a pig off the line as well, and if you turned the A/C on while you were driving it was as though you had added 600 pounds of gravel to the trunk: The car struggled massively to maintain speed. Anyway, Hyundai is not only still around, but has come a LONG way in terms of quality, unlike the Yugo which died a pretty quick death.
1. This vehicle is better than walking. 2. This vehicle is better than a bicycle. 3. This vehicle is better than riding a bus. So go ahead and laugh at this vehicle. It is a better car than you could ever possibly build.
I used to be a proud owner of a 1993 Yugo Coral 55. It had a stronger engine, 5 gear shifter, grey interior (think Golf), and the chasis was reinforced...as in, they used thicker and better sheet metal to make it because it was...wait for it....made for the western market. It was made to be exported but since Yugoslavia fell apart, the car stayed in the country...and I frickin bought it. No regrets, I loved my time with it, then I sold it to my cousin who then gave it to his dad. He still drives it around town, I like seeing it, brings back happy memories
Dude I'm Yugoslavian and Yugo was good car because for price of one Mercedes 240D, ford escort, golf, Corolla, kadett... bye 3-8 Yugo cars. Also all those cars fail at same rate(not Mercedes) as Yugo. And honestly is golf 1st gen, or ford escort better then Yugo? It's a same shit
@@JeffDeWitt A gen 1 Golf (not the GTI) has exactly 3 more horsepower than a Yugo GVX, and a Ford Fiesta Mk1 has the same amount of power. The Fiesta has a similar wheelbase and nearly identical interior and exterior design. The Mk1 Golf was actually *more dated than the Yugo* because contemporary German design in the late 1970s was equivalent American designs of the mid-1960s. A Mk1 Golf looks like a Studebaker Lark. Performs about the same, too. Both the Fiesta and the Golf suffered from valvetrain problems - as did the Yugo GV, and all three of them had issues with body rot, but only the Yugo was not subject to frame rust. Standard equipment wise, the Yugo came with a decent-sounding AM/FM/Cassette radio, more than two gauges and some lights, and a heated rear window. Don't forget that a top model Yugo GVX with air conditioning, AM/FM/Cassette stereo with 4 presets and rear windshield / wiper / washer cost less than half what a base model VW Golf would have cost you at the time.
@@AiOinc1 There is NO comparison between a first generation Golf (it was called the Rabbit here), and a Studebaker Lark. I've driven a Golf and I OWN a Lark. Among other differences the Lark is a front engine, rear wheel drive car with a separate body and frame... and a chassis and greenhouse that dated back to 1953. The Golf was a transverse engine, front wheel drive, unit bodied car, we didn't start building anything like that in the US until the Chrysler Omni/Horizon twins came out in 1977, and they were based on a European model.
@@JeffDeWitt The layout of the drivetrain doesn't affect the resulting vehicle performance in normal road conditions at all. A non-GTI Golf will accelerate just the same as an old American car that was cheap when it was new. The chassis makes no difference to engine power and acceleration, especially with so little of both.
@@AiOinc1 Again, I've driven a Golf and own a Lark, there is a tremendous difference in the way the cars feel (and look!). The Golf is lighter, handles better and feels zippier to drive, the Lark has a more substantial feel and feels more solid going down the road. If you are driving a Golf that performs like a Lark there is something wrong with its suspension, a car with rack and pinion steering, McPherson struts and semi-independent rear really should drive better than a car with recirculating ball steering, king pins and a solid rear axle.... although depending on the Lark it may be a LOT faster than the Golf.
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I actually saw a Cadillac rear end a Yugo on the freeway. Due to the Yugo's high rear bumper the Caddy went right under the Yugo, so the Yugo wound up in the Caddy's engine compartment after going through the grill. The Caddy was pretty much trashed, the Yugo was perfectly intact. Funniest accident I've ever seen.
@Voltaic Fire Yeah, but, the Yugo was still a Yugo, so, it didn't actually come out any better.
@@ExUSSailor Doubt it
a similar thing happened to me with my 86 corolla, this KIA Sorento's rear bumper went over my the top of my hood when the guy backed into me practically tearing his plasticy bumper off. My car was mostly untouched lol
Well, they were made from 18 gauge steel. Seriously. If you couldn't make it to the gym, opening and closing the hood a few times was a good substitute.
@@bob_._. 18 gauge is super thin, I think you mean 8 or 6?
It delivers what it promises. Yugo to the store, Yugo to work, Yugo home. The name never promised Yuenjoyride or Yugetthereeasily.
Underrated comment.
"If Yugo, I'll go!!".
Yugo, We go!
It also never promised that it would be the one taking you to work, just that you would be going...
It worked. It was affordable. What more do you want.
Guy walks into an auto parts store and says "I'd like a rear-view mirror for my Yugo." Guy behind the counter thinks for a second, and say, "OK, sounds like a good trade to me."
Most underrated comment
I don't get it can someone please explain.
@@gatousakhel6206 Yugo is worth as much as a rearview mirror.
@@Kyrieru but then what is he gonna do with the rear view mirror?
@@alexm566 r/whoosh
"My shoe is fogging the window."
That sentence is so absurd it's hilarious.
I just noticed at 8:59 you can faintly see it really is fogging up
The Yugo still has one feature that no Bentley or Rolls Royce has, and that’s a heated push starter!!!! It just happens to be located on the rear window.....
Took a few seconds to get it
The cubby hole in front of the gear shifter was usually used to store cassette tapes of popular singer Šaban Šaulić. The one above it was used for a pack of cigarettes of your choice.
Kamion King Saban Saulic i Drina cigare ahaha 😂😐😐
Kamion King MONEY WHERE IT MATTERS
To je to brate :)
Our choice*
+Kamion King or cassettes of Lepa Brena & Slatki Greh , Dragana Mirkovic and Vesna Zmijanac. If you are a rock fan- Bijelo Dugme , Riblja Corba, Leb i Sol.
Sir. I owed new in 1987 and 1988. The 1988 has air conditioning. We purchased for teen daughter's. The cars worked all the way into college years. No major driving issues. Thank you
It looks like the French car the Peugeot 104. :)
@@triton4541 it was the same class of the car. Small European comute economy car. It lasted longer than most of French cars in that class. Citroens or Peugeots.
@@uroskostic8570 : J'ai lu la traduction et je like.
You got ur daughters a car with that low a safety rating shame
@@adventureguy4119 : Bonjour je vous like. :)
Serbian driving instructors still use Yugo's, because if you can drive a Yugo, you can drive anything.
How does Mercedes test for leaks in their cars? They leave a cat in overnight and the next morning if it's dead, the car is approved.
How do they test Yugo's? The same way, if the cat is still inside the car the next day, the car is approved.
What do you call a Yugo with airconditioning and airbags? A fantasy.
If a Yugo is uniform in color, it's considered "new". If one door is a different color it's "slightly used". If a Yugo is literally two different Yugo's spliced together, it's "well cared for".
If you can drive a Yugo, you can drive anything. Except, that is, for another Yugo. They're all different in temperament, quirks and mechanical play. Not from model to model, no the same line of Yugo's are all individually different.
I'm not joking.
@@Smilomaniac Exactly, and sometimes you got free tools, when the assembly worker had no time to finish (or he had boli kurac) and left it inside the cabin and got shipped like that.
"Not from model to model, no the same line of Yugo's are all individually different."
That doesn't surprise me when Zastava was still using manufacturing techniques from WW1 and having dozens of people working on the car at the same time....increasing the possibility of errors.
@@MrGAdam - lol! Boli kurac indeed.
How to double the price of your Yugo? Leave a today's newspaper on the back seat.
Why is the Yugo the best car during the winter? When you push start it and you realize that the rear windshield has heaters.
What came as standard equipment on a Yugo? Monthly bus pass.
Why do Yugo drivers go to heaven? They've been thru hell.
What are the two happiest moments in owning a Yugo? When you buy it and when you sell it.
What do you call a Yugo on top of the mountain? A miracle!
What do you call two Yugos on top of the mountain? Fiction.
A guy goes to the car dealer:
-Hey, i'm interested in the new Yugo.
-Sure thing, have a look it's a beauty.
-O i like it, does it come with air conditioning?
-Yes as a matter of fact it does, and ABS, ESC, ASR, heating seats and a button that when you push at higher speeds poops two wings on the side and you can fly!
-Are you mocking me?!
-Well you started it.
The older I get, the more a car like that appeals to me.
I use to laugh at them. Now I want one 😂
@@theadventuresofjavier8698 Stop lying 😂
Mitsubishi mirage with manual transmission.
They.were simple, no frills but functional vehicles that got the job done.
@@MrClassifide Those are modern GEO Metros.
My mother, at 77, decided to enter her first local timed rally with her Yugo GV. Her navigator was an ESL Columbian woman who had no driver’s license and had never driven. They finished first, beating a BMW and a Jaguar. It is not the car, it is the driver and her navigator.
I like how people try to protect this car's reputation
@@arandomnpc6409 which part of "its not the car" is protecting the reputation?
@@ohblahdeohbladah I think I wrote this at the wrong comment
This is the best story I ever heard, at least from the TH-cam comments sections but maybe… anywhere 😂
I want a movie about this
"Why does a Yugo have a rear window defogger?" -- "To keep your hands warm while you're pushing it"... Old Yugo Joke.
Okay
This one caught me off guard. Properly had me laughing out loud.
At the factory, the inventor explained to his boss the idea behind the new car.
The boss just said to him, " Yugo"
Almost as worse, The Japanese made a new car. The Germans were pressed to help with the name " We need it now" the Japanese said .." Datsoon ?" the Germans responded. ( My dad told me this one once.) Datsun.
Fan speed controls are on the left because it was cheaper to only have one electrical harness for all the switches.
At least it has a physical fan speed control vs it being a setting buried in the infotainment system.
@@Patchuchan fax
@@Patchuchan Yes. A friend of my mom gave me a ride in a tesla, and he had to take his eyes of the road for like 2 or 3 seconds to change the fan speed. To do that in my 99 F150, I just reach over and turn a knob. If I'm in 3rd or 5th, I don't even have to take may hand off the shifter.
@@benjammin2020 as cool as Tesla's are the lack of physical controls is definitely a flaw.
@@garethbaus5471 Also their interior, in some examples, is about as well build as in the Yugo.
Compared to the Trabant, this is like a Bentley.
Several decades newer.
I want a trabant so bad
It's a Rolls Royce compared to the POS Wheego
I badly need a Yugo.
I am going to give it to my ex wife.
She always wanted a Bentley 😀
@@philipcooper8297 They were still making almost exactly the same trabant in 86.
From the movie Dragnet: (1987)
"After losing the two previous vehicles we had been issued, the only car
the department was willing to release to us at this point was an
unmarked 1987 Yugo, a Yugoslavian import donated to the department as a
test vehicle by the government of that country and reflecting the
cutting edge of Serbo-Croatian technology.."
Serbo-croatian technology? You wanna see croatian built cars ? Google Rimac..
Quote Joe Friday
Did anyone else notice his hand reach for the steering column at first, when he first shifted from 1st to 2nd? Habit from the Trabant I assume.
Yes haha
To be fair, a 4 speed gearbox and a carburetor was normal in mid 80's.
Most imports had that. What people forget is that every single Ford Ranger and Mazda B2000 were all carbureted, and every Datsun 720 had a 4 speed and a two barrel...
In this same class, the next closest for price you could get would have been a Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla - both of which, their base models were 4 cylinder engines with two barrel carburetors.
Many people say the 16 seconds 0-60 was "horrendously slow," but then again at the time... A brand new Honda Civic would have only just beaten that at around 14 seconds.
Taking into account that this car cost nearly half of every other new car on the market... It wasn't that bad. You could get a Yugo GVX with air conditioning, an AM/FM/Cassette radio, and an automatic transmission for less than a base model Corolla.
Tachometer was also not common in economy cars at the time. He really can’t tell when to shift ? Dude shouldn’t be driving a stick shift.
most US cars in the 80s had 3-speed auto with no overdrive so...
@@michaelconverse5127 hell, there were cars from the 2000s that didn't have tachos. the base model hyundai excel comes to mind.
@@Snubbs My Xsara Picasso doesnt have one. Its a boring car, boring cars dont need it. My Honda CBF 600 has one, but it doesnt need it, because you can feel those sweet 10000 RPM quite well. My Focus had one, it also didnt need it, because you noticed it quite fine when you hit the limiter. The one car that could have needed one but didnt have one was my old Fiesta. It took ages to hit the limiter, the Engine always was just making noise and at 140 km/h the wind speed was louder than the engine. Plus, it did reach top speed in 4th, not 5th.
I had the Yugo 45A, a UK version of this car. Ran it for a year and it never let me down despite me treating it like a go cart. I raced it everywhere. Made many trips to Ireland and trashed it with a full payload down the motorway at 100 mph, no speed cameras in those days!!! ! With hindsight that was fecking madness but still the car never let me down, nothing fell off it, and it did almost 45mpg round town and 55 on the highway. After a year on the road I sold it for the same as I paid for it. My memory of the car was fun if unsophisticated but still cheap cheerful driving.
With the luxury of 20-20 hindsight nearly 30 yrs the Yugo 45a was truly appalling, but back then to get a 3 yr old car for £600 ($900) that never let me down was a gift. I loved it.
I had a love for off beat East European cars at the time and owned a whole raft of bizzare vehicles. These included the Polish built Fiat 126bis, a 2 door hatchback version of the companies micro car. It was powered with a flat two 600cc engine, again another go cart that was incredible fun. Again it never let me down, did 60+ mpg and I sold it for what I paid for 12 months on. I owned another Yugo the 311, pure fun and topped out at an extraordinary high speed for the tiny 1100cc it employed. Another fun Eastern block car was the Romanian Dacia Duster, the 1980's military 4x4 with a Renault 1200cc engine, oh it was also a canvas top. Again great fun to drive especially given that London was having a heat wave for the time I had it... The list of bizzare cars I had is very lengthy, but what fun I had.
The bottom line here is a cheap crapy car 30 years on is a cheap crapy car, but at the time if it was all you could afford they what fecking fantastic...
Yugo was a car, for poor Yugoslavian citizens. It could be bought on bank loan very cheaply, and with Yugoslavian pays, it could be payed off in 2-3 years, and if maintained properly it lasts 30+ years. It was used in all parts of Yugoslavia, from cities to mountain villages and it was cheap and easy to maintain and repair.
@@uroskostic8570 Vugo and Trabant like cars should be the cars going down our roads today. Electric or Ethanol / Bio diesel. It is not a matter of being cheap for poor country's. High income people should also be driving this basic low cost vehicles for 20-25 year until the machine is worn out from use an age. There is nothing a Tesla or a Toyota or any modern car is good for. They are a big waste of material and is people being lazy and selfish. How many SUV's are driving around with 1-2 people in them?
Only family vans need to be bigger then a 2 door car. And they do not need entertainment screens and all modern trash. Only thing modern vehicles have going for them is safety and luxury. And really if there was some proper laws and rulers we could have solved safety by lowering the average speed where collision risk is high and put some real infrastructure in place to stop crashes to being with. It is simply going to be more dangerous on the road but it should dam be. The drivers should be careful and try and avoid killing themselves. We can not let big heavy SUV's and trucks drive around if anyone is going to be willing to drive a modern Vugo.
Like a modern simple car without phone screens and self driving nonsense should be the future. We are walking around with phones in our pockets. Not saying a Vugo is a role model. But with some quality and safety improvements they basically are perfect.
The car should at most have ABS and stability control. With a good modern suspension + modern fuel injection. And be cheap and made to last. Using less fuel and not cheat emissions rules simply by being light and minimalist. This are not Iphones. They are instead of community transport like buses. On the public roads it is going from A-B and safety/economics. Nothing more. RUELS NEED TO EXIST REFELCTING THIS.
Even rich people should not be allowed anything but basic planet friendly vehicles. Laws exist for reasons like stopping the rich as much as stopping the dangerous people killing us. Abusing us. Yet we got stuff like self driving cars and all kinds of stupid stuff on the road. Only problem is heavy traffic lorries being a problem around "non protected" drives. But if drivers are told to be careful and brake that promise then they are killers and should be treated like killers. Traffic is just going to be slower = saving fuel and safer to even todays traffic. Like most cases of traffic accidents are down to people expecting stuff to be safe and end up becoming a deadly big heavy bullet. It is not the crash safety that is the problem. But the drivers and road conditions.
Yugoslavia is not Eastern Europe
@@TheDiner50 He said, as he typed from his computer he was using to watch videos instead of running math equations.
its more fun to drive a slow car fast than it is to drive a fast car slow
As a mechanic I miss cars like this, quick and easy to fix, no BS. And don't forget this was made pre 92 and is based on the fiat 127 so most cars of that era had little else anyway. They may get a bad press but try doing a comparison with one of its contemporaries, i.e Polo, Metro, Fiesta, R5 there's not much difference.
Yep, the only car beating the shit out of it on every aspect is the Peugeot 205, but this is a story for an other day
But your paycheck will be lesser than others
Lot nicer than a Tata Nano!
It's also a bit unfair to look at the condition of a 30 year old car. Most will look as crap after all this time.
@@bombtwenty3867 True. I wanna see a 35 years old rusted beaten small Ford. No big difference.
"Remember, the GV stands for Great Value."
Walmart: *Heavy breathing*
Yugo shopping, Yugo to work, Yugo home, Want to cruise? Yugo if I go.
you sure it doesnt mean get violated?
I loved my 91 Yugo. Didn't have all those problems. It had fuel injection which had it's own problems, but it was actually a pretty reliable little car. I enjoyed it!
hey I LOVED my Yugo! It was so simple I can fixed most anything by myself, no expensive car mechanic needed. It had pretty good power on flat roads (its utless on mountains and hills). It also had a fabulous heater! For poor people, this thing was great. You can even sleep inside it. It also had excellent gas mileage!
For poor people, ah yes, that's us, the eastern block
So Yugo was not designed for all Yugoslav citizens but only those living on flat lands :D So no Yugoslavian car for Slovens, Macedonians, Bosnians, Montenegrains and Kosovians; only for Croats and Serbs, but not all Croats and Serbs, but only those living in northern parts of Croatia and Serbia. xD Or it would be even better it the Yugo would never venture outside Vojvodina and maybe Belgrad. :D
My grandmother had one of these back in the mid 80's. Rode in it very often. It was a perfectly capable little economy box. And the price was right as she was on a fixed income.
I hope your grandmother is still alive...didnt get in an accident in that car!
Unfortunately cancer took her back in 1993.
So sorry. Grams are one of the hardest people in our lives to loose. Boy, I would have loved to have seen a 'lil' ol' lady' driving a Yugo! Must have been a sight:)
It was. She drove it like she stole it. :) It was bright red with tan interior. She was only in her 50's back then.
Shane Singleton
But it was not NEAR as good as a half worn out Asian econobox for the same price, that's the problem. If you only had that much to spend it was about the worst choice you could make.
The heated rear window was there to heat your hands while pushing it ;)
Old 80's joke... Or was it just a joke.
Lmao opel driver
;)
haha good one :D
William Jonsson that's awesome!
I am from a Bosnian family and these things are EVERYWHERE in ex-Yugoslavia, these are so common that my father even owned one of these. This car really is a successful car, it still has mostly been replaced by 90's VW Golfs as Zastava dissolved in 2006. The golf still looks quite similar on the outside and maybe on the inside and basically continues its legacy.
Kod nas u Republici Srpskoj u malom gradu gdje sam jako ih slabo viđam, vidim golf dvojke, ali yugo baš slabo
It's sad it never mad it in America it's a cool looking car bigger than the smart car and extremely cheap
@@bokexd3173živim u novom sadu ali kad sam posetio srpsku kao da je svaki treći auto bio golfić (verovatno jer ste geografski bliži sarajevskoj tvornici). u novom sadu su jugići mnogo, mnogo češći nego golf
The interior plastics remind me of the material water park slides are made out of lol
Nylon
Those are normally fiberglass. Much nicer
No, worse actually. Can confirm from ownership it's a lot rougher and you wouldn't want to be sliding down it.
Would burn a lot and would probably shatter under your weight and end you swiftly
I had a new 1988 Yugo, loaded. It was the best car ever. Amazing gas mileage, never any problems and it was great!
Is this a verified review?
Yugo was not that bad, it was cheap and reliable and it was easier to change gears in Yugo 55 than in Mitsubishi ASX which was pure horror
Considering what kind of Small engine it had and the fact it was tiny and light the mileage was actually terrible.
So… why aren’t you still in it? Did the hamster die?
I went with a car like this to the North Cape in Norway starting from Amsterdam the Netherlands. We had no problems. Lots of dirt roads up north. No problems. 50 mpg and a lot of fun. 6000 miles in two weeks during that vacation. No problem. Finally after 15 years it succumbed to rust. But the engine was still like new.
Folks in the Netherlands are the tallest in Europe; bigger than Serbs. Was it a comfortable drive?
We used to see a good number of Yugos in England. They all seemed to disappear over about a year. Maybe they all failed test regulations when the government tightened up the standards?
@@RWBHere I still see lot's of parked Yugo's, Yugo's on sale, driven Yugo's to this day in Serbia.
Ik u're lieing @ the thing that gave it away is, u said u got 50 mpg, for one it's carberated, secondly u had to pull over give or take 50 times, because yugos r shit
@@claudespeed277 u are shit
Impressive! I could only imagine traveling through Europe. One experience to remember. Nice story.
You put it in the 3rd gear when you started it ;) 1st gear requires that the gear shift sticks in your right knee (I'm more than 6,5 ft tall and I drove YUGO for almost 10 years). My was GVX model (more advanced one with 5 gears), and it was still good when I sold it.
Mine was perfectly capable of starting in 3rd gear. Was driving only in 3rd for 2 weeks when gear stick fell off. Ah, memories.
@@morismateljan6458 that brings back memories when the gearshifter broke off in my dad Passat B3 ;D
@Ladson the typical Fiat sound of the times (and by "the times" I mean the 70s, not the 80s).
So, if he started in 3rd, how did he then upshift 3 times?
@@VeraTheTabbynx H, 1 is left forward, 2 is left backwards, 3 is right forward, 4 is right backwards. He shifted from 3 to 2, then 3 again, and finally 4 :).
I knew a guy in 1988 who was driving a Yugo he had gotten for free (or almost free).
He bought it new, and about a week later a car in front of him stopped suddenly and while he was able to stop the car behind him wasn't and knocked him ito the car in front. The bodywork bent enough to puncture all four tires, and the insurance company totaled the car and paid off the loan. He used a tire iron to bend the bodywork back away from the wheels, bought new tires, and was back on the road.
I remember seeing these new at the dealer lot in 1986. I think they were $5,000 new. I asked the salesman what people thought of the new Yugo. He said; "People love them.....until they drive one."
They were $4300 in Dallas. Later marketing had some dealers giving one away when you purchased a new Cadillac. A Chevy dealer talked me out of one when he admitted that there were many in their repair shop. I did not like the Chevette, so I went and bought a new 1987 Omni.
That is probably the most valuable Yugo ever! Doug DeMuro reviewed it, Tavarish had it, Austin’s Garage and now you.
WOW
The Yugo was a car that met its design concept perfectly-it was cheap transportation-nothing more. What is wrong with that? the VW Beetle was the same concept-it did the job it was designed to do.
Exactly, and the Yugo was better than a number of imported cars on the market when it was sold in the US, but not as good as my Ford Escort Pony was ...
Well, it's perfectly fair to compare it to the Beetle in beeing designed for cheap transportation. And quite a good point. But there is a massive difference. The VW was an engineering masterpiece made to run for years, the Yugo just wasn't.
I drove a brand new one. It did NOT do the job it was designed to do. At least for American buyers. It was easily the worst car offered in the US market at the time. Imported or domestic. And there were a number of not very good cars on sale then. The Beetle is a great car in comparison. It did its job in a superior manner. The Yugo failed in almost every measure applied to it.
@@americanrambler4972
As well as breaking down during a road test when they first imported them over.....that should have been a warning.
The didn't sell them long here in the US, cause they were junk. Numerous stories of them breaking down on the trip home from the dealer after some poor chump had just bought it new.
There is no reason to hate small cars for "cheap" materials, it reflects on fuel mileage and longevity. Also, less parts equals less fixing!
Strange because you had to work on these on a daily basis, most of the time on the side of the road...if, it didn't burn down before you got your tools out.
And a Yugo has less and less parts as you drive it!
And cheaper to fix due to the car is too cheap
As much as I like the Yugo, fuel economy wasn't exactly spectacular. The lack of a 5th gear really hurt highway mileage and the lack of power hurt the city mileage.
If the engine had it's power a bit lower and more torque, I'd bet that city economy would have doubled and it's been proven (existence of the GVX) that a 5th gear would raise highway economy.
25 city / 31 highway could have been 38 city / 45 highway with some slight improvements.
Longevity was an issue because few people opted for the full undercoat and even fewer took these poor cars in for maintenance like they were supposed to. Hell, oil changes and all engine and vehicle maintenance for the first year of 25,000 miles were completely free! It's baffling that people *still* managed to neglect these cars.
One of the biggest issues they faced was the use of a rubber timing belt, which would snap around 40,000 miles if not changed. They were recommended to be changed every 25,000 to 30,000 miles by every dealer I've talked to, the manual states it dozens of times, the parts catalogs have it in bold letters front and back, and the service manual recommends that if you even need to so much as THINK about changing tension or working on the valvetrain that you should replace it anyways, and that under no circumstances should one ever be re-used.
Un auto sencillo y de bajo mantenimiento que te lleva y trae todos los días. NO TIENE PRECIO
I love the spare tire in the engine compartment. Massive thermal cycles sure make for reliable rubber storage :-P
They had spare tires? Mine never had a spare tire but then I got it out of a junkyard and drove it for a year or so... I loved my little Yugo it was a lot of fun to drive
Yeah i run an ol sub with that feature.. was running the spare after a flat, sidewall cracked all the way round lol. Thank god i noticed
4:25 "And if you need more space, just fold down your rear seats to give you plenty of extra storage volume. Look at that." *thump*
Amazing.
Considering they were aimed at people who had never owned a car before or wanted the cheapest transport possible I think they achieved their objective well. If the alternative was a bus (or worse) they are ok.
Well the 2nd World War impacted us the most and The Austro-Hungarians basaclly enslaving us before that.We got used couse we were generous to give some of our resources.
A bus has better ride quality and accelerates faster.
@@rileycoyote4924 A *serbian* bus? lol no
@@DasAntiNaziBroetchen Maybe not a Serbian bus, but I was referring to an American bus.
@@rileycoyote4924 Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t think people who bought a yugo were prioritizing ride quality or acceleration
Speed limits become goals!! Man you're killing me............................. lol
"Speed limits... sorta become... goals?" _😂_
Not until you own a trabant🤣🤣🤣
Especially the 120km/h speed limits, as the top speed of a trabant is 100km/h downhill, with tail wind, with someone pushing you
@@iro-huncarguy8367 Nah a well adjusted Trabant enigne will do 110 kph flat-out on flat and thanks to the freewheeling device your speed downhill is as high as you can stand without s***ing yourself. Know a guy that push his Trabant to 160 kph with a modified engine, at that speed it becomes basically an aeroplane.
@@eozcompany9856 oh I know. Obviously, what's the fun in only staying on the ground🤣
@@iro-huncarguy8367 True, I always found Trabants fun to drive, especially the 60s examples that are well made, the years went on the quality got worst and worst because the government stopped almost all investments into the factory. I have seen few documents were the designers of the Trabant talked, they said that they had a modern four-stroke four-cylinder engine ready by the same time the 601 went into production but nobody would allow its production and the chief designer actually got into trouble with the police for trying to get it into production. How sad that such brilliant men were stuck in such a horrible situation. Even here in The Czech Republic (then Czechoslovakia) in '64 they introduced a new car, the Škoda 1000 MB a rear engined car with a alloy die-cast aluminium engine block and gearbox casing, a modern technology for that time. By '69 they prepared a completely new car, with engine in the front and RWD , with fully die-cast 1.6 liter aluminium DOHC engine and gearbox housing, fully independent suspension with semi-tralling arms in the back and five speed gearbox but thanks to the Soviet invasion of 1968 that car never went into production and the same rear engined design was used till the late 80s.
If I remember correctly, they were trying to build these during some kind of civil war. They were having all sorts of troubles with suppliers so they had to make do with what they had. I give them credit for trying.
@Artemis But also after the war.
"Speed limits become... Goals." Haha
Hey, no glove box, no center console, cup holders or door pockets... Just like a Tesla!
Lauri Hoefs hey, at least it doesn't break down every month
Lauri Hoefs no v8 engine,no leather seats,no sat nav on 30 year budget car .outrageous.
And Tesla was a Serbian too! ;)
Ausintune Tesla is a rich mans car and also look dumb.
@@AR15.666 teslas look awesome
There's a steel tube under the car the jack fits into so the car can't fall off. The spare is under the hood so you don't have to empty the trunk to fix a flat. You can't lock the keys in. You can't leave the headlights on. You can't start it when it's already running.
All very good points, but you forgot to mention that it has a steering lock, an AM/FM/Cassette stereo was standard and air conditioning was optional, and that the air conditioning was massively overpowered for such a small car (the condenser coil is easily 3x the size of the engine's radiator), not to mention that the power assist brakes could stop the car in a shorter distance than any other car in the price range, and that it had heated rear window and rear wiper washer as standard.
In standard configuration, the Yugo was better equipped than cars that cost twice as much.
Has NICE swing out vent windows. Can't get those in my '13 Focus at ANY price!
@@TheOzthewiz I don't like how people label them "smokers windows", turn those things into the wind and you don't need AC. It's like an SJW way of implying that they're obsolete.
now that's engineering. and not just make-up
"It only took five attempts" because you basically stalled it every time...
In third gear.
@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 Not once but THREE times!
@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 By the fact he then proceeded to upshift 3 times, no he didn't
My dad got given one of these in the early 90s as a courtesy car when his was in the garage. It was one of the shoddiest driving experiences I've ever had, I felt like I was being driven around in a box of Tic Tacs.
That sounds like a fantastic driving experience and you are simply a little BORING
Hilarious
I remember that my parents used to have one. It was between 1990s and 2000. I can also remember that we went up a mountain in the winter (with good amount of snow) and while most modern cars for the time were stuck on their way up we made it up there with no issues.
I had a blue one. Got better mpg than any car I ever had. It would go 38 miles on a single gallon of gas. It had a 4 cylinder an a 3 speed standard shift transmission. I loved that car because it was cheap to keep goin as the parts from a Chevy Corsica an a Dodge Stratus would fit the car. It was a extremely simple car. Totally worth the $120 I paid fer her at a towing company auction. No one else bid on it. But me an everyone laughed an said it was weak. If I can pull a semi up an icy hill like I done did a many times before in the thing then I highly doubt everything bad ya gotta say bout my money saving car.
Riki Diki89 they had them in automatic.. but I think it was a trim level/ option because the cars were better the older they got...
Riki Diki89 you are incorrect. Mine has the original 3 on the tree manual transmission.
Riki Diki89 false. It was a 3 on the tree stick shift car. Yer biased bs lies do not fase my intelligence. Clearly something ya don't have.
I have never seen a 3 speed Yugo...I don't think you had one.
3 speed was automatic only. Even the European market version was a 4 speed manual with a 900cc OHV engine.
I had a yugo once, it lasted for 20 years. On the side of the tapashima-fugigoko highway. Fun fact, it ran for only 12 days after buying it for 20 yen. For comparison, a meal costs 500 yen. It still sits there as I couldn't bother less. I am thinking of making it a project car after all this time. More likely an engine swap, body panel swap, turbo, hydraulic PB, possibly a new transmission and it should be good to go.
日本にユーゴを持っていたのか分からなかった。
运命 wait, how did a Yugo get to Japan?
@@windoak2113 Yu go on a yugo
How the fuck did Yugo got into Japan?
I recognize that car.
We need to get RCR to review this now
Austin's Garage did doug demuro also review your car?
Fenno Graas yes
That was a good video but one of the most hated
Austin, I hope you see this. I bet you never expected this much attention from an old and forgotten cheap car from the 1980's! Congrats!! I remember when these cars were new, and actually had a friend whose parents owned one just like yours. These cars, as well as the Hyundai Excel/Mitsubishi Precis and Dodge Colt/Mitsubishi Mirage were some the cheapest little fun cars of the 1980's.
"speed limits sort of become...goals" - and this killed me :D Thanks!
When I was looking for a used car as my first I consulted my uncle, who did some work at a used car lot. There was a Yugo for sale in town and It was adorable. I was smitten with it. At mentioning it he SCREAMED no and refused to elaborate. I understand why now.
I didn't give up on ugly cars. I've owned a 2005 Aveo, 2008 Cube, and a 2011 Cube. They are shaped like friends. Even the poor sweet Yugo is worthy of love. Just love. Not driving.
Yugo GGGGVVVVV, when you say it like that it sounds expensive. We call it Yugo Tugo, which in translation means sadness, but it rhymes perfectly. The car is absolute crap, there is no denying ............ buuuuut. Where the hell you can buy a car for 200$ drive it, find parts on every corner, so when it breaks it cost you less than pack of cigarettes. And you can drive what the hell you want in it without care you can break or damage something.
Istina, istina... ;)
I'm sold. Looking for a Yugo right now.
Yugo was a very common car here (in ex-Yugoslavia). It was quite good, when you only had Trabant to compare it too. You focus on the flaws too much, instead on focusing on how it's not Trabant. For example, it's not manufactured out of old communist pants. If that isn't a big plus, I don't know what is, yet you neglected to mention that...
Doesn't the Yugo enjoy great parts availability? Aren't they designed to be designed to be easy to work-on. that beats most modern cars!
Krešimir Cindrić
Sure. If you were comparing it to a horse and buggy with half dead horses, it was quite good. Unfortunately we are not comparing to a laughable Trabant, we are comparing it to free enterprise options.
Krešimir Cindrić so that is what yugo means
@-T-X-M- I'd argue that that could be altered in hieght with some common mods but widening the car would be ridiculously priced in comparison to the vehicle
During one model year, I can't remember which, maybe 1986 or 1987, the Yugo cabriolet was the only car with a powered convertible top sold in the US. NOBODY EVER BRINGS THAT UP.
Rear seats do fold flat. Take dead rest, fold it once, and then lift whole seat and you have flat floor.
It is funny to hear people from the former Yugoslavia praising them.
But when cheap used western cars became available they dumped them as fast as they could....
@@williamegler8771 woAH THErE bUDDY
@@williamegler8771 "But when cheap used western cars became available they dumped them as fast as they could...." they dumped old cars to buy newer "old car" and it is not a prove that the car was bad. With the same logic new iPhones that have broken screan in no time are more reliable than old Nokia 3310?
probably too much work for an american
@@williamegler8771 bullshit, YUGO cars still driven all around Serbia very much. And they stopped producing them 12 years ago. I drive Yugo Florida In 1.3 EFI, made in 2002, and still runs great without any malfunctions.
When he said
STOP HAVING FRIENDS
i felt that 😂👌
I love that you ended up with this car and that it was saved from what by all logical means should have been its demise!
The fact that you have yugo in what looks like mint condition is a testament of it's durability. Simple cars tend to be easier to maintain that why you see to this day Ladas in Russian, Georgia running. In 50 years I doubt I'll see F-150 from this year running around being an overly complicated car that only the dealers works with.
Old f150s though were super simple you still see tons of 80-97 f series around and many people prefer them as work trucks over newer f150s because they’re easy and cheap to maintain
Strange comparison because there are still many F150s from the same era as this Yugo still on the road here in the US because of that exact reason; they were much simpler than later gens... Makes me think you dont know what youre talking about or youre blowing smoke in order to force a talking point.
Its not his Yugo.
I'm surprised they didn't just use the spare tire as the steering wheel.
That is in fact a great idea!
They should had that would feel less cheap, lmao.
Still its a good car no matter what
@@ronaldderooij1774 Ja hoor waar stuur je dan mee na een lekke band
Actually it was part of the air cleaner. Steering wheel would have been much better.
A Yugo in America? Oh you get the HubNut seal of approval. I'm glad the Yugo that appeared in The Crow was not the only one that landed there.
I know of two of them
They were common for awhile in America. That is, until they started breaking down, which took about eighteen months. Then they were suddenly all gone!
@Alladeen Madafaker a surprising amount of bits on these are from the fiat parts bin being a derivative of the fiat 127.
Wow, hubnut, didn't expect to see you here!
It looks like the French car the Peugeot 104. :)
who else got this in their recommendation after tavarish modded this thing and gave it to him
These cars were amazing for the price. Like many others said, it was actually quite reliable.
Better that walking
I use a Zastava 1.1 as my daily driver, and while it is crude by today's standards, it's really very reliable if you do preventive maintenance. It's not the most comfortable, fast or even good looking, but it gets the job done, and then some. The biggest problem with these cars was poor quality control in later production years, and today the lack of adequate spare parts, since Zastava ceased production in 2008, and the remaining parts manufacturers aren't really providing the market with quality spare parts, so many people are forced to obtain good parts from scrapped cars. Anyways, l've been driving mine for 10 years, and apart from a total of three times (which was really my own fault), it has literally never left me stranded.
I believe that we have the same carburettor setup, the Weber 7Y 2M-RA, which really is a fantastic carburettor when works properly, but the biggest drawback of it is the jet setup for the second venturi, which is really nonsensical 97/250(!?), and it really chokes the engine.
nusproizvodjac i'm about to buy a zastava z101; any adivces?
Plenty... TH-cam comment wouldn't cover it. It's best to head out to Zastava fan club forum, register there, there is a lot of good advice, and people are happy to help you choose your car.
Long story short, you'd check anything on Zastava as with any other car: leaks, rust, spongy brakes, engine running, starting up, smoke on the exhaust, tires and how the treads are worn, does it pull on either side when driving, braking or accelerating... Where will you be buying your car?
Romania, the car looks and runs good for her age
I love you man.
@@GPBX01B šta je to zastava 1.1 ? Ili misliš 101 ?
A Yugo in 90s computer beige. Did they come in any other colour?
I think beige, red and blue.
I know they came in gray (like mine) and possibly black.
Oh the memories of that era.
Surly you jest; colour choices cost MONEY! Be thankful it came in ANY colour!
Red,so many red yugos
And beige yugos yes
"Lol" is usually used euphemistically but I genuinely laughed out loud when you said speed limits were goals in this car!
is it me or does it look almost exactly like a VW golf?
It reminds me more of the first Opel Corsa
design costs money
I thought exactly the same thing.
Its a copycat design
Glad you had the time to make a new video. I recently found your channel and I've been enjoying it a lot.
Isn't that the one Daddy Doug reviewed?
Indeed
Same parking lot, even. I wonder if this video will also get a followup from the owner complaining about how negative the review was.
Pocket Fluff Productions this is the owner's response.
Pocket Fluff Productions I think it was more that the guy was having a really hard day, with the stomach flu and all
RCR2719 Georgia same car that Doug review
Pissing on a 30 year old budget car, well done.
For someone who doesn't have a lot of money this is a good car
People will be doing this to the Mitsubishi Mirage in 30 years mark my words.
They're already doing it with the Prius.
John Rickard
Mitsubishi Mirage
Toyota Matrix
Honda Fit
Every Fiat
@@hillbillypeakgarage6797 No, it was never a good car. If it was 1986 and the price of a Yugo was all you could afford for a new car you were FAR better off with a good used car.
I've just recently discovered your channel thanks to a suggestion from YT. Love your stuff! I'm totally binge watching it all. Love these goofy cars you got
Yugo's had a rear window defroster to keep your hands warm while pushing the car.
omg you're alive!
HEY YOU OWN THIS CAR NOW
1 thing you might not know.
There was a version of the Yugo whit a electric engine back in 1998 xD
So the Yugo was environmentally friendly before it was cool xD
I take it that it probably had enough charge to get to the store and back?
?!? source please?
@@alexm566 it was called the Yugo Elektra
Sadly most of the Elektras got their batteries replaced with engines...
I love how there is a piece falling off while Robert is reviewing it
"no matter! just stop having friends and you'll be just fine" hahahahaha hilarious!!!
You really need a early 80´s Dacia, lada or Skoda, they were sold in Canada, so you might be able to find one.
Yugo missed a huge marketing opportunity by failing to ever name one of their models the Screwyourself. Love your vids. Keep up the good work!
Please get a Wartburg 353! Please !
I Could send You some parts if You get one
Send me an email to agingwheels[at]gmail.com
Yess the Americans need a taste of this classic
RiceFlavouredVTEC I agree I am an American and I love that car I have read much about it and seen some videos. Someone needs to show this to America NOW!!!
Try to get an ZAZ 968 "Zaporožec" or Tavria
I whole heartedly second that. Get a Wartburg 353. The East German BMW. Great Car!
I had a new one when they came out. I put a little over 100K miles on it. It made quite a few 1,500-mile round-trips to and from my parents' house for visits.
It was what is was, nothing more or less. Occasionally I still dream about driving that car.
It had an American Frigidaire air-conditioning system in it. I did re-build its American Holley carburetor once. I did replace the brake shoes a couple times (drums all around). I think that the alternator might have been American, too. Not sure.
Acceleration was okay up to about 30MPH but entering a highway required a little planning and care. Rear storage was actually quite good.
I'm sure that modern highway speed limits would be harder on it than the late 1980's speed limits but it could do 80-90MPH when asked.
Parking and city-driving was a dream.
I used to hit my cement driveway at a nice clip when returning from work and I'd yank up hard on the hand brake, steer hard to the left, and slide to a stop sideways in the driveway.
Fun times.
Rear seat folded all the way down with headrests removed. In the seats behind them is a zippered pocket for storage. the car was crap and under powered and mainly made to last a year. stick shift always got stuck, gas cap wouldn't come off, my hatch never stayed open as the gas strut never worked, the engine strained carrying more than 2 passengers. radio knobs fell off, speakers cracked and then died, ignition was replaced about 3 times, my clutch broke 3 times, gas mileage was around 26, one time my ignition disengaged from the motor and i had no way to turn it off or drive it so I abandoned it on the side of the road, the shift cover came out in my hand onetime, it had no tinted glass, interior bulbs burned out, door chime died, all knobs on doors broke, in fact they had cracks in them: the door releases, when we test drove it, a paperclip was inside them, that is all they were, that same 'give' in the shifter is in the front engine compartment release lever, it will actually come all the way off and you put it back in! Second gear was useless, and first you also can't stay in it, it is just to get you to second! In the door were metal pieces there to make the door feel heavier, they simply snapped in pieces, that is why they door sways without stopping, those broke fast. After being on the highway the gear would stay in fourth and I had to use extreme force to yank it out of fourth, it felt like it melted into fourth each time. Every single part of the car had multiple issues, it was dangerous to drive, weak, paint pealing, imagine driving on gravel! i shook to death! I gave up on it at 25,000 miles it was a death trap, it never wanted to be a car, it was fake just to make the sale. I suspect Yugoslavia never wanted to produce cars for us so theY purposefully made them sabotaged, I used to wonder how something could be so poorly made, Fischer Price kids toys are more reliable, what is the purpose of making things that don't work at all? Warranty was only 1 year or your bought one for four years. Radio was pathetic, the old school kind where there was a marker on a string to line up on the station, it would get stuck and not move, the radios were cheaper than the car, i replaced mine also about 3 times, this is still considered a new car and all these problems were going on, you never knew what next was going to fail.
The "Q" in YUGO stands for Quality.
You misspelled qYUGO
The "H" in your life stands for happynes
Everyone's just leaving you hanging, so...
There's no Q in Yugo.
You're welcome.
Love The Yugos Theyre good for a Start car
Red Adair: "I can do it cheap, I can do it fast, or I can do it right. Pick any two."
I'm not sure the Yugo achieves any of the above.
Cheap and Right. Proper budget motoring for people who just want to go from A to B rather than wave their dicks about.
@@calorus A to B sometimes. The terrible peddles and steering cause more danger than in a normal car. If you just want A to B, then you want a serviceable engine, good steering, and good pedals. The Yugoslav has an ok engine for around town, but it utterly fails in terms of the controls. If the controls were made to be better, then the car would be perfectly adequate starter car.
@@sheeplord4976 You always want more, of course you do, but in very basic terms, this fulfills all of the core functions of a car.
@@calorus the function of a serviceable car is to get you from A to B in a controlled manner. This car has questionable controls
My cousin bought two of these as totaled. One was wrecked in the rear, the other was smashed in the front. He cut them in half and welded the good ends together and sold the rest for scrap. He drove it for ten years and didn't even bother painting it, other than the primer over the welded seams. The front was Yellow and the rear was red.
Holy crap, i can imagine how ridiculous itll be driving down a highway seeing a......... McDonalds car
I remember when this was first released in the U.S. in the 80s and I seriously considered it because used cars of that era were also crap.
I just now noticed that this is the exact same Yugo that Doug reviewed
Opste je poznato da se Yugo vozi sa 2 promila u krvi
Joke translated:
"It's commonly known that the yugo is only driven once you're drunk
jebes to, kad prevedes izgubi se humor
@@IrisGalaxis da tacno, samo srpski ima taj """udar, ukus"""" ili kako god
I literally want every car this guy reviews. I like those small, cheap cars. They’re very interesting and unique. I would totally like this Yugo as my daily driver.
I owned 2 Yugo's as Work vehicles. I got $0.30 per mile reimbursement. I got well over 40 miles per gallon. I drove an average of 150 miles per day for traversing 3 counties. Per month I averaged a total of 3,250 miles plus. That is $975 per month. I purchased the car for $4,900. I earned from its usage $11,700 per year x 3 years before purchasing a new Yugo. That means I earned $20,400 in 3 years after my costs of the vehicle. Also no down time and sold the first Yugo for $2,900. I used that $2,900 to purchase the second Yugo with Air and my cost after the trade was $3,000. I worked 1 year with the New Yugo but with 4 counties to work and averaged 200 miles per day at $0.35 per mile. I was reimbursed $18,200 +/- and sold the Yugo for $4,600. SO who says a Yugo is a worthless vehicle! And in the past Mileage Reimbursement was NON TAXED. And, NO! My engines were never replaced nor did I ever have an issue with them. Just change the oil every 3,000 miles and you will do great!
I remember that the Yugo and the Hyundai Excel (not to be confused with the Accel, much later) were released within a few months of each other. The Yugo was $3995 and the Hyundai was $4995. My friend's mom bought that Hyundai and drove it for several years. It was a pig off the line as well, and if you turned the A/C on while you were driving it was as though you had added 600 pounds of gravel to the trunk: The car struggled massively to maintain speed.
Anyway, Hyundai is not only still around, but has come a LONG way in terms of quality, unlike the Yugo which died a pretty quick death.
Aging Camper spotted at 8:25.
1. This vehicle is better than walking.
2. This vehicle is better than a bicycle.
3. This vehicle is better than riding a bus.
So go ahead and laugh at this vehicle. It is a better car than you could ever possibly build.
Speedlimits become ... goals - had to laugh so hard. You made my day. Came from Technology Connections btw. Great channel - subscribed !
I used to be a proud owner of a 1993 Yugo Coral 55. It had a stronger engine, 5 gear shifter, grey interior (think Golf), and the chasis was reinforced...as in, they used thicker and better sheet metal to make it because it was...wait for it....made for the western market. It was made to be exported but since Yugoslavia fell apart, the car stayed in the country...and I frickin bought it. No regrets, I loved my time with it, then I sold it to my cousin who then gave it to his dad. He still drives it around town, I like seeing it, brings back happy memories
“The brakes are...alarming.”
😂
Yeah we know all why we are watching this in 2021
Dude I'm Yugoslavian and Yugo was good car because for price of one Mercedes 240D, ford escort, golf, Corolla, kadett... bye 3-8 Yugo cars. Also all those cars fail at same rate(not Mercedes) as Yugo. And honestly is golf 1st gen, or ford escort better then Yugo? It's a same shit
Yes, the first generation Golf and Escort were better. More reliable, bigger and could actually keep up with traffic on the Interstate.
@@JeffDeWitt A gen 1 Golf (not the GTI) has exactly 3 more horsepower than a Yugo GVX, and a Ford Fiesta Mk1 has the same amount of power. The Fiesta has a similar wheelbase and nearly identical interior and exterior design. The Mk1 Golf was actually *more dated than the Yugo* because contemporary German design in the late 1970s was equivalent American designs of the mid-1960s. A Mk1 Golf looks like a Studebaker Lark. Performs about the same, too.
Both the Fiesta and the Golf suffered from valvetrain problems - as did the Yugo GV, and all three of them had issues with body rot, but only the Yugo was not subject to frame rust.
Standard equipment wise, the Yugo came with a decent-sounding AM/FM/Cassette radio, more than two gauges and some lights, and a heated rear window.
Don't forget that a top model Yugo GVX with air conditioning, AM/FM/Cassette stereo with 4 presets and rear windshield / wiper / washer cost less than half what a base model VW Golf would have cost you at the time.
@@AiOinc1 There is NO comparison between a first generation Golf (it was called the Rabbit here), and a Studebaker Lark. I've driven a Golf and I OWN a Lark.
Among other differences the Lark is a front engine, rear wheel drive car with a separate body and frame... and a chassis and greenhouse that dated back to 1953.
The Golf was a transverse engine, front wheel drive, unit bodied car, we didn't start building anything like that in the US until the Chrysler Omni/Horizon twins came out in 1977, and they were based on a European model.
@@JeffDeWitt The layout of the drivetrain doesn't affect the resulting vehicle performance in normal road conditions at all. A non-GTI Golf will accelerate just the same as an old American car that was cheap when it was new. The chassis makes no difference to engine power and acceleration, especially with so little of both.
@@AiOinc1 Again, I've driven a Golf and own a Lark, there is a tremendous difference in the way the cars feel (and look!). The Golf is lighter, handles better and feels zippier to drive, the Lark has a more substantial feel and feels more solid going down the road. If you are driving a Golf that performs like a Lark there is something wrong with its suspension, a car with rack and pinion steering, McPherson struts and semi-independent rear really should drive better than a car with recirculating ball steering, king pins and a solid rear axle.... although depending on the Lark it may be a LOT faster than the Golf.
Even your subscribers are hilarious! My new favorite channel.
i love the way it squeaks when you make any movement
we owned 2(Slovenian person here, they were rather common). they got us from A to B wo dying. they were all right.