If possible, the FSO 125p was even worse. Further, it was the only small car of the era that could be genuinely fun to drive. Also, I think that first step after buying any used car in general should be changing of belt. These cars came with an optional AM/FM cassette deck that was very basic, only 5W total if I recall right, or was that 5W per channel? Even in Western Europe, cars arent marketed as they are here. The poor gal, if I remember, was named Lelo. According to IMDBThe first thing to appear on screen is a little blurb about the Yugo car company using the town of Verplanck as a test area for their new model years ago. This was not a design fault, but like the Corvair, the company seriously underestimated the ability of the American motorist to neglect even basic maintenence. Much embarrassment was caused to Toyota when it was found domestic panels had been mistakenly exported to NZ for local assembly we keep cars forever and these rusted out under a year on local limestone based and cowshit covered roads. Also, this post made me curious: how did Subaru make the transition from dangerous sardine can to granola FWD/AWD family compact in the US? Secondly, I would be one of those people who had a good experience with a Yugo. They found slipshod handling of stamped body panels, and the assembly lines using dirty, even dented panels; he found painting in dusty areas, not the clean, dust-free booths required for good paint covering and adhesion. It cut costs, and as was the concern then (as now) it was Green using the parlance of today. The Yugo, new clutch, new exhaust, patched wiring and all, went into the trash. The steel is much thicker than Fiat used, and although fit and finish wasnt great, it was no worse than on a Fiat. Privacy policy I remember that time very well, it was impossible to find coffee or bananas or laundry detergent etc in the stores, and the industry was struggling to get raw materials. i cant imagine where bricklin would get the approximately $35k/mo rent. A girl I knew in high school had one of these, it got rustier seemingly by the day, and this was in 1991-2 so it wasnt by any means an old car. Someone around my area with a perverse sense of humor drove a Yugo stretch limo for a few years, those being about 20 years ago. Money was a problem; but not the root problem. DROWNING MONA 1/2 Tasteless but sporadically uproarious black comedy. [SOUNDBITE - clip from Drowning Mona trailer, 2000] Every car in the movie, save for the police vehicle and a main character's landscaping pickup, is a . Kathleen Wilhoite (Lucinda) and Melissa McCarthy (Shirley) appeared on Gilmore Girls (2000). 2. } I saw it on the Helena streets quite a lot, but it was the only one in the city. He claimed the belt was good for 200,000-plus miles, often outlasting the pulleys. Yes it was 3990 excluding transmition and tax and delivery charges. Do not sell my data But recycled steel, for whatever reason, is overly prone to corrosion. In fact, if anything, Americas foreign policy in the 80s encouraged Yugoslavia to manufacture and export finished goods to pay its debts. Neve Campbell was also working on Party of Five (1994) and Scream 3 (2000) while shooting this film. Dispose of the rest of the car. He lost his house, his fortuneAnd the dozens of Yugo GVs that he received as part of his settlement with his bankers. I paid a lot of attention to new cars back then, and even then I dont know if I ever saw one. Ive talked to other people in the UK who bought them new, and many have had more than one. This was before the deal with Chery. The Little SuBARu Wow!, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLPp-NFInXw. What is the purpose of door release handles if they break right away (they appeared to be bendable plastic molded around a paper clip), and how did they ever get installed in the first place if they didnt work to begin with? I knew I wasnt buying a Lexus. (https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/jan/14/cover/#) Big deal, huh? It was not much bigger than a homeless persons shopping cart and similarly stocked. Now that its privatized, products have risen in quality to what the buyer expects for his money. Agree with this last. Drowning Mona (2000) is a never remembered black comedy that I absolutely love. I saw one parked on Colorado Blvd. I guess this is so the company could find out how the car is before releasing it to the general public. With no new product in the pipeline, Bricklin would either have to find another car to flog or get an honest job, so there was a mutual meshing of interests when he arranged a visit to the Red Banner Factory in Yugoslavia that turned out the new apple of his eye in 1984. I bought it in January because I figured it would be fun to see just how bad it could be. After Mona Dearly (Bette Milder) dies in the movie's opening moments when her Yugo plows through a guardrail and into the Hudson River far below, Wyatt begins investigating her death. I also have to say that state ownership does not always lead to poor business. The local news interveiwed some and they were going for $4000 Id end up with used junk, but now I got a new import!. I had very good support for the Yugo as Atlanta is the home of Bayless, which is a big Fiat parts house. In 1968, Bricklin thought that what America needed was an air cooled two cylinder car that could make zero to sixty in thirty seven agonizing seconds. I recall seeing the garage full of yugos being worked on when Id take mine in and I recall seeing them dead on the side of the road everywhere. He soon discovers that her death was no accident. I knew about their reputation, but I really needed a set of wheels that wasnt going to set me back a couple of thousand dollars. Comments are property of their authors. Our Mr. Bricklin also had an idea to start up another company fed by Zastava, this time to be called ZMW. The Birdcage - Features a yellow Yugo Cabrio in Miami. English tongues tended to read it JUG-oh not a saleable name. A magazine road test came up with the amusing summary: Drowning Mona is a 2000 American 'comedy' film starring Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, Melissa McCarthy, Brian Doyle-Murray and box-office superstar Will Ferrell . With a State-owned automobile plant, management is there for political reasons which may have nothing to do with competence. And often wins. Its essentially a Fiat, and the same thing applied to them. I bought a used, year-old Yugo. Zastava took over the American company. Drowning Mona (2000) Trivia Showing all 16 items The first thing to appear onscreen is a little blurb about the Yugo car company using the town of Verplanck as a test area for their new model years ago. But back to the subject, shortage of all kind of raw material was the main reason for poor quality, not drunken workers. View 9 images She is a bit of a contrarian anyhow, and has a mechanic-relative. And management, often put there through politics, has little interest in learning of customer dissatisfaction. The Yugo was based on a mash up of models 127 and 128 built under license by a wildly unproductive workforce in an obsolete factory with assembly quality that made real mid 70s Fiats look hand built. They start, get you to your destination in the dry, and thats about all you can saytheres no enjoyment in operating it and build quality was a joke. The biggest thing Ive heard was the timing belts were supposedly good for 30K miles and many owners were caught off guard, mostly due to not reading and/or heeding the maintenance intervals and boom, they croaked as they were not non interference motors like most OHC motors arent. This is the same scenario as Chrysler- My parents always said that if you get a Dodge in town itll be a lemon, but in the country, itll be a good car because the smaller country dealer relies on repeat business and does a better PDI, ensuring bolts arent missing, and both sides identify the car correctly. Our narrative today is of a modern P.T. The ignition constantly gave out and so did the clutch. (first posted 10/10/2011) Every once in a while, a visionary, iconoclastic automotive pioneer bursts on the scene and, bucking the long odds and naysaying conventional wisdom, delivers a disruptive new line of cars. We learn that Verplanck was selected as a test market when the Yugo was being introduced to the United States. The Yugos bait was a stunningly low MSRP of just $3990. Reading in Consumer Reports that the tester injured his toe when the front seat came crashing down on it. I ask because I wanted to make a comment in the article about the C3 Audi 100/Audi 5000 about how much of a disaster my fathers ownership experience turned out to be, but I figured itd make an interesting point of comparison. The place where I used to work was given a Yugo 45. Last Update: . I see one maybe twice a year. Ive always had a soft spot for these little cars from Yugoslavia. Handling is sharp and the engine loves to rev. i found this article about the space: Your email address will not be published. There are heaps of suspects ranging from her husband, her son, her son's friend, her son's friend's fiance and so on. The Yugo got its biggest role in 2000, in Drowning Mona, starring Casey Affleck, Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Danny DeVito, and Bette Midler, with Will Farrell making a delightful cameo. People who took care of some basic maintenance and corrosion protection could see 10 to 15 years of service without too much trouble. Yugoslavia was in the state of bankruptcy at that time, import of all goods and raw materials was practically halted. Nasty Mona Dearly (Midler) drives her car into the Hudson River and drowns. Yeah, theres no question on really poor build quality. It is a measure of the local intelligence that when the car and driver are dragged to shore some hours later, the doctor checks her pulse. Except that the belt managed to get into the TIMING BELT caseand pop THAT off. Drowning Mona is basically a comic murder-mystery. I dont know if I was lucky (twice) or if my mechanical aptitude allowed me to save the cars I owned. Only with the threat of armed intervention by Nato and the UN is an uneasy peace maintained. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. The faded red one in the piece is for sale- $750. The Florida was reviewed very positively in the UK against western cars, and sadly only failed here because of the rise of Fascism in Yugoslavia, and its aftermath.. 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Quality (or a lack of same) would ensure that the car could not survive in a competitive marketplace. Kind of reminds me of a first generation Rabbit/Golf, which Ive always considered the gold-standard for the best styled small car. The Yugo became the default entry level car for people that knew the price of everything but the value of nothing. By third world standards, the Yugo was not a terribly bad car and sales continued even after its mother country began breaking up in the early 90s. R/S AUTOLINE INC. (1.3 miles away) 1215 W IMPERIAL HWY, Suite 213, BREA, CA 92821. 3. Sales quickly slowed when word of the myriad problems began to circulate in the media. "Drowning Mona" is a frustrating comedy. Anyway, the employee joked that it even had the rear window warmer to keep your hands warm when pushing it. Yugoslavia, markets in new states opened for foreign cars and some of my friends bought American cars lured by size and luxury, but this love affairs usually ended quickly and costly. There was a movie in 2000 entitled Drowning Mona where most of the people in a . In The Film, for some inexplicable reason, everyone who lives in the Catskill area towns seems to drive a YUGO. I drove it in Atlanta rush hour traffic, it got about 40MPG and I grew to really like the little beast. Drowning Mona | 2000 | PG-13 | - 5.5.5. If I remember correctly, the car was equipped with all the usual goodies a Fiat engine with dual Webers, full roll cage, sticky racing tires, etc. So, with connections, he was brought to Japan for a series of lectures; and if America wasnt interested, Japan was very much so. They pronounce it yugo and Bricklins people realized a car called Jugo would have problems in marketing. } Barnum and the circus freak show that he brought to America in the twilight of the Reagan years. In the end, its poor management. His last notable brush with the automotive world (in 2004) involved a vague alliance with (uh-oh) Chinese auto maker Chery. Although it shares some similarities with the Fiat 127, it is actually based on the much more advanced Autobianchi. Needless to say, it wouldve been better if Bently had just gone ahead and let them have the Mulsanne. (not the 1st time Ive done this,haha). Nuff said? Just as quickly as the Yugo ascended to number two in european import sales, the car plummeted back to earth and never rose again. Actually, Perry did a much better job of it than I could have. He was a priest for several small parishes in the mountains of a N. Eastern state, I forget which and came around a bend to get from one parish to another when he hit the poor animal and it was enough to total that car out but he got that many miles out of it. Rated PG-13 Had Bricklin given the tooling to the Koreans, and had it built to their standards under contracthed have had what he wanted. Id actually like to have another one, but beef it up with Fiat parts. Gearboxes on the other hand well, its a Fiat after all, and it teaches you how to double clutch. Subaru was just a little behind the curve in terms of design and safetyas befits a smaller company. He regaled us with stories of his work at Yugo and claimed that the factory started to develop (or adapt) an automatic transmission for the market in the USA. One time the keys were out and the car was still on and would not turn off. The worst of the Japaneese cars would rust in structural places that would make the car unsafe. IIRC, they licensed Fiat designs in the mid 50s and in 2008 they signed a Memorandum of Understanding to buy the auto assembly plant from Zastava. I think that its important to remember that Subaru (Fuji Heavy Industries) itself didnt try to push the 360 into the American market-It was Bricklin looking for a lottery win and the little 360 was his ticket. The best part was they all had the same license plates on them to just have a semblance of legality! After the death of Marshal Tito in 1980, long simmering Balkan feuds became a way of life and continue there to this day. Sorry, Jeff, but I dare to notice that you dont know so much about Zastava (factory and cars, their projects and people, its country and history) and dare to write about. *cough cough*, Malcolm is now wanting to import Chinese cars. 1. Bricklin used franchise fees to run the company (a major accounting no-no) while the car was being modified for safety and emissions certification in the U.S. and dealerships were sold, territories assigned. How did Danny DeVito die in Drowning Mona? I guess the major issue in my favor was the relatively inexpensive parts when I did need them, and the fact that Georgia is semi-arid, so no rust issues. VW, in its first days, had all the same problems as Zastavabut with a product that was continually improved, they overcame it inside of five years. ), it was quite good. But even before then, Subarus had features that endeared them to snow-belt climates, like dual radiators that got the car to warm up quickly. Yugo-mania also swept through Hollywood for a time and was the star car in movies such as The Birdcage, Drowning Mona, Die Hard 3, The Crow, Inspector Gadget and 101 Dalmatians. The base GV had a 1.1L, SOHC motor that originated in the Fiat 128 and the GVX had the 1.3L\, SOHC, motor, also from the Fiat 128 and I think it had the 5spd manual in it but the base GV got the 4spd manual. Americans are a funny lot.I am not sure what $4000 in 2016 money equates to but you can these days get plenty on the used car lot if you look carefully for roughly the same money as anything in the light car class or it can be can be a car you dreamed about when it was new but couldnt afford at the time.We Australians never saw the Yugo but $12,000 before you factor in things like automatics and on roads plus good condition gets you better than most of these cars from foreign lands and brands which dont exist anymore.I suppose the modern day equivalent of this would be something like a Suzuki Celerio or a Mitsubishi Mirage in my part of the world new,used equivalent buying gets you a three year old Corolla or Pulsar or one size smaller a well kept Yaris or Mazda 2. Nevermind that their cars are horribly unreliable, people still buy them. Also, the factory refused to make design changes that were obviously needed and would have been simple to implement. I cant imagine that anybody that test drove one like mine actually laid down real money for one. The car itself rattled and shook upon starting. One of the magazines rolled one on test, and they had a top speed of around 65mph. By May of 1988, Malcom Bricklin needed a lifeboat and he found it on Wall Street. If Italy had built it, would it be known as the It??? Purchased one year old cars for less than $1500 while attending college. Ive been toying with seeing if I can find one thats been stored in a garage somewhere and buying it to replace my aging truck that leaks oil and coolant and tide the time before I can buy the new Fiat 500. Actually, from my experience with Yugo monocoque, four doors would have crushing effect on rigidity:). I know another-a lifelong car nut, married to another can nut. Every vehicle in town that is not a truck is a Yugo, except the police cruisers, which are Plymouth Horizons. Perhaps they were sabotaged so the poor workers wouldnt have to slave to make them for america? The interior squeaked everywhere that it didnt rattle. I attach a picture of a 1100,the previous model,(5 door too! As a result, in mid-1986, Yugo America began selling cars at a starting price of $3,990 (equivalent to $9,863.56 in 2021) for the entry-level GV ("Good Value") hatchback equipped with the 1,100 cc overhead-cam five-main-bearing engine and four-speed manual transmission. Its the manifestation of the postwar Japanese industrial culturepredicated on continuous quality improvement; and with the use of statistical controls to produce ever-higher quality items with fewer deviations from specification. Substandard seatbelt anchors, collapsing seats, hard starting, no starting, the list was endless. Doug DeMuro joyfully reviewed one a couple of years ago. Sloppy or ignorant engineering plays a part most times; but its MANAGEMENT thats supposed to identify problems and stop them as soon as possible. The problem here was, first, poor management, as I noted; second, a workplace culture and a national culture that was absolute authoritarianism. Or maybe Bobby (Casey Affleck), Jeff's landscaping partner, killed her to save the embarrassment of having her create a scene at his wedding to Ellen (Neve Campbell), Chief Rash's daughter. Japanese cars generally started out small, usually around 800cc in the mid 1950s and grew with the prosperity of the country and desire to chase export markets. Casey Affleck has gone on record saying that both this film and Soul Survivors (2001) were his two least favorite films that he has worked on. The next Yugo we were to get in the US, the Sana/Florida, showed even more independent development of a Fiat design by the Yugoslavs. Or perhaps the murderer was her husband, Phil (William Fichtner), who is having an affair with Rona (Jamie Lee Curtis), a waitress at the local diner (who is also having an affair with Jeff, so maybe she killed Mona just because she was tired of hearing about her from both men). How many remains ??? This car had one genuine asset: ride quality. It is a measure of the local intelligence that when the car and driver are dragged to shore some hours later, the doctor checks her pulse. Of course a $800 car isnt worth shyte to the insurance company, so they gave me a token $1000 for my time and trouble (another story). I frankly dont know how anything this poor could ever be made. As it turns out, the same rental car place was STILL selling surplus Yugos, and I bought a blue one this time. And the opening of China and competition from S Korea in a way ate Yugos lunch in the global market. Two YUGO watches, new. Source for information on Drowning Mona: VideoHound's Golden Movie . The process, alone, of a car manufacturer as a unit of government, is suspect. My dad is a bit of a FIAT nut so he would wrench on it from time to time. (rolls eyes). 2) At the 2014 Route 66 Mother Road Festival in Springfield, Illinois there was a Yugo with a Chrysler 426 Hemi (with blower) in the rear of the car (Hemi under glass). I test drove one of these brand new when they hit the market. Theyre really a mishmash of the two; with their own unique body. With just 25 horsepower (at a cacophonous 5500 RPM), the elfin 360 was the type of cynical exercise that would define Bricklins career in the car business. I was enrolled in a community class marketing course and the teacher brought up the Yugo, and was joking about it. After Mona Dearly (Bette Milder) dies in the movie's opening moments when her Yugo plows through a guardrail and into the Hudson River far below, Wyatt begins investigating her death. Show more Yugo America. Screenwriter Peter Steinfeld says the film was originally going to be set in a mythical north. Mine was an 86 and a half Yugo. Old joke. At least a Suzuki Samurai has a separate frame. I sold the car to a coworker of my BILs, who drove the car another three years before he totaled it. The class all came out to look at it in the parking lot, Yugo was an exercise in marketing magic, and an exercise in embarrassment. That's not who I am. depends 100% on very cheap parts and lots of mechanics around that know the car inside out. An automatic wouldnt fit in the Yugo engine bay, so the only thing shiftless about the Yugo would be the Zastava workers that routinely drank on the job. as long as you didnt try to get away with normal American car owner maintenance. In regard to that old devil corrosion, an honest question: were there any cars of the seventies that DIDNT rust like mad? However, these engines have been known to go 200K with little bearing wear if maintained appropriately. How do explanations of Zastavas lack of quality control compare to, say, one which could be made to illustrate the reasons of Audis numerous failures? This car didnt want to go into reverse at a standstill. When they came unglued from rot, there was no there there to support the structure. A "Fetzer valve" is a fictional part of an engine, introduced in the movie Fletch (1985). My cell phone was apparently assembled at gunpoint by drunk Yugoslavians in the year 1984 . Its not too late! Todays story, though, has nothing to do with anybody like that. I think youre a bit dismissive of Zastava. Audis have been headaches to owners at various times. Which, actually, was a very good little car . But is an Audi as bad as a Yugo? . Barnum, Theres a sucker born every minute con-artist. Jeff might have wanted to kill her. There are lots of related legacies connected with Americas brief, mad affair with the Yugo. Damn that X1/9 still looks beautiful just like mine the 81 behind the new Abarth. I could be wrong there; but a surprising number of parts, including the airbox and cables, the steering column, the drivetrain, are all direct or modified parts from the 128. Amazingly, someone got in it, started it, and it ran and drove (more or less) away. As played in flashbacks by Midler, Mona is a ferocious harridan who may have hacked off her own son's hand just because he was trying to snatch her beer. 500 Yugo cabrio were imported to the States. Yes, even a Saturn will rust in Detroit, but in less harsh climes, Yugos tend to last well. Unscrew the shift knob. Thank you for the history, it complements the story of the car well. 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