IIRC, David E Davis even tried to help move these things by stating in Automobile that he was going to send his daughter off to college in one. We had these in the U.K, I dont remember them being particularly bad, the main criticism was that it was seen as too expensive for what was clearly an Eastern European rehash of a cast off western design. It was as if the Yugo was being promoted as crap, but SUPERIOR crap. And was thus more expensive. Which together would have theoretically allowed the Yugo to be more successful. Also in that time, poor workmanship wasnt exclusively Yugos problem. As it turns out, the same rental car place was STILL selling surplus Yugos, and I bought a blue one this time. 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. Thanks for your detailed experience. Motor Trend reported that their hand picked press ringer broke down during testing. I guess I should note that I owned the cars 20+ years ago, I was a lot more enthusiastic about getting underneath the car for just about any reason. Bricklins old nemesis Consumer Reports weighed in on the cars many shortcomings in its February 1986 issue and refused to recommend it at any price. Barnum, Theres a sucker born every minute con-artist. The problem is, there's not a single person in town who DIDN'T have a motive. When the coroner first jumps into the water to check Mona's dead body, he is neck-deep in water. They obviously do not run. Bricklin often says that the first model year or so of production the cars were well assembled and then once Zastava saw the money they let things slip. Its essentially a Fiat, and the same thing applied to them. As I said earlier, this car obviously didnt meet the expectations of the majority of the American masses, but I know you werent the only one who found the Yugo a simple and easy-to-work-on car. everything behind them. There are heaps of suspects ranging from her husband, her son, her son's friend, her son's friend's fiance and so on. Beads of sweat formed on his forehead, it wasnt that he didnt want to learn, it was where he was sitting that had him scarred. Having had some up-close contact with a 128, Id say that its more 128 than 127. 2. In fact, it was through the good offices of Lawrence Eagleburger that all of the political red tape was navigated in order to make the project feasible. Danny Devito and Bette Midler starred together in "Ruthless People". It just flat refused. Renault has been in state ownership since the 50s, and has been a very profitable company. I was sure youd have had one. other small car offerings back then. Almost everyone in town is a suspect. The Yugo was a far superior car compared against a Chevette, or first generation Hyundai. Very entertaining. Every character's automobile has personalized plates. Not having that one bit Clarkson divised a solution, buying a third-hand Yugo and for the rest of the episode refering to it as a Bently. State ownership is generally coupled to some sort of coersion, such as a penalty tax on other makes. } I had two of them. Found it! At that time, Bricklin was probably best known for the eponymous car that he launched amidst much fanfare in 1974. http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_113306-Plymouth-Horizon-C2-1984.html Like you can buy a car without a transmition. (not that I cared that much about it I was in my mid-twenties and during summer season beaches were full of naked girls.) He soon discovers that her death was no accident. No argument with the political details of your well made point. But outside of regular tourist routes and specially on the outer islands, unofficial nude beaches were everywhere. I remember checking them out back in I think 1986 at a local dealer and loved that bright blue they were offering at the time, called Adriatic Blue. The Yugo, new clutch, new exhaust, patched wiring and all, went into the trash. One of the sight gags is that everyone in town drives a Yugo, thereby using personalized license plates as a necessity more than anything else.) The poor gal, if I remember, was named Lelo. Wyatt finds no shortage of suspects. And, with such an unsatisfying ending and its inability to capitalize on a potentially funny situation, it's a film that you probably shouldn't rush to see on DVD. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Ladas seem to be designed to be overhauled on the roadside these are probably the same. Bricklin wisely took the first offer and netted about $20 million for his trouble. European manufactures give guarantee for lets say 50k-250k km (~30k-150k mi) and 5-10 years, whatever come first (in practice mileage is more important), but previous owner could use some product with shorter life thats why this saving of couple* Euros isnt worth a risk. Actually, the GM B body starting in 1977 was very, very resistant to corrosion. The battery required water to be poured into it. 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? He sat in the front seat once and never again! Everyone in Verplanck, N.Y., drives a Yugo. [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 . Re: Malcolm Bricklin I do not see him as a crook. . 1987 brought about several other trims, the GVL, GVS, GVC,which were very similar other than the door panels and seat upholstery. Ive got video somewhere. Two YUGO watches, new. With an estimated cost of $16,000 each to build against a selling price of around $5K, Bricklins SV-1 was a blast furnace that no amount of subsidy could fully quench.The maritime province had sunk over four and a half million taxpayer dollars into the scheme since its beginning, and slow sales (along with numerous engineering problems) cost no small number of politicians their jobs. Also in Drowning Mona's favor, at the heart of the movie, is a genuinely positive character, Verplanck Police Chief Wyatt Rash (Danny DeVito).He's possibly the only principled citizen in town. @EdDan: How do you double the value of your Yugo? After we meet the local residents, we understand why they're driving them now: They can't afford to replace them. During WWII, they built a few Jeeps. its a beautiful nineteenth century townhouse that was redesigned combining the 19th century iron front with a modern glass setback. there used to be a sign on the front that said visionary vehicles but that came down at least two years ago. He was scarred sh*tless and begging me to not make him drive it. Its not like Fiat designs were anything special, quite the contrary in many instances. Very well-maintained. I havent seen one on the road in at least 15 years. France, to use your example, had a protected market with tariffs on American cars (disguised as a horsepower tax). Mine was still only about a year old, so I was in denial about its performance. Parts were cheap due to the exchange rate, so there was not the pressure on dealers to deny problems and warranty claims, like Ford and Vauxhall put on their dealers. To see mine riding on a tow truck was so humiliating. 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. Sure some of the plastic trim was suspect, but dont forget that GM was still doing rubbermaid doors then, and the Japanese were still stapling vinyl over cardboard for door trims. It was like, when you get in, what is next to give out or give you trouble. But like so much of his other stuff, the deal fell through. Competing econoboxes included the Chevy Chevette,. Had Bricklin given the tooling to the Koreans, and had it built to their standards under contracthed have had what he wanted. She put about 50,000 miles on it without a problem-it was scrapped when she got rear-ended by a Camry. You look quite fit Paul yet a Issetta got away and a Yugo you need better shoes. Enterior wall panels were thin cardboard with painted on carpet flecks. depends 100% on very cheap parts and lots of mechanics around that know the car inside out. In regard to that old devil corrosion, an honest question: were there any cars of the seventies that DIDNT rust like mad? With Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, Peter Dobson, Will Ferrell, William Fichtner, Raymond O'Connor, Marcus Thomas and . Mine was an 86 and a half Yugo. Bowfinger - The main character produced a documentary called The Yugo Story. 5 Yugo i know its a rare thing but should we park them together ? Did it even come close? Further, it was the only small car of the era that could be genuinely fun to drive. Anyway, the employee joked that it even had the rear window warmer to keep your hands warm when pushing it. I did appreciate the way Yugo could make one part do what a western car needed three for. They didnt always start, and they DID always rust away. who collected Yugos for pennies on the dollar and used the collection as a parts supply to keep ONE of them running. AMC, in its last years, went so far as to have Ziebart license its procedure for use in the factory. Why are there so many Yugo in this movie? My best friend had for a brief time, a rusted 1980 Civic DX hatchback that ultimately blew out its 2 upper gears in the 5spd manual tranny that did it in even though his mechanic could not get the bolts out to replace the clutch due to rust. Amidst mutual finger pointing, the deal collapsed in July 2008 as the erstwhile partners took turns suing one another in federal court. But the Japanese companies focused; and today its almost unheard of to find a Toyota or Honda ruined from corrosion. that stated this town was used as a consumer testing site for the cars. Ive always had a soft spot for these little cars from Yugoslavia. I owned one. Disc #1 -- Drowning Mona Play Feature Chapters Setup 5.1 Surround Stereo English SDH Subtitles: On Subtitles: Off Extras - Trailers Drowning Mona Eye Of The Beholder . Money was a problem; but not the root problem. *shakes tiny fist*. 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? Ive been around big rigs all of my life, but they never looked bigger than when I was next to them on the freeway. The engine in mine was the old fiat 903 engine that dated back to the Fiat 600 of the 50s. Its not too late! The real reason why Crvena Zastava went into this adventure was that they were desperate to get some foreign currency to keep assembly lines alive. The country was communist, but with good relations with the US and a cosmetically overhauled version of socialism, the idea was the Yugoslavia would compete in Western markets and as a result, the country took on a lot of debt throughout the 70s to update its capacity for making consumer goods, among other projects. The first Mazda was also a kei-car, the R-360. Reviewed in . Thanks for your first hand account ! It had become commonplace in the 1950s; and manufacturers first tried ignoring the problem; then dealing with it with superficial fixes like Zincrometal body panels. To be said, Jasons book is 90% about Bricklin. An older Yugo, since the car hasn't been manufactured since its country went out of business. With a State-owned automobile plant, management is there for political reasons which may have nothing to do with competence. It really has all of the benefits of an Italian car with none of the drawbacks. The steel is much thicker than Fiat used, and although fit and finish wasnt great, it was no worse than on a Fiat. NO. I saw one not long ago on the streets in Eugene, but couldnt catch it. Parts are no problem, because it is basically a FIAT. Nevermind that their cars are horribly unreliable, people still buy them. With the pullout of Fiat, Renault and the British makes just a few years before,. Introduced at an offer price of just under $1300 , the little Subaru made much of its over 60 MPG fuel economy and low cost of ownership. I saw this movie. Handling is sharp and the engine loves to rev. What kind of car is in the movie Drowning Mona? I wonder if he actually carried that threat out, and if his daughter ever forgave him if he did. This has been true of: Renault in its government-ownership days; And, now, Government Motors, which is thumbing its nose at old GM customers who have warranty claims. Worse, it was not just fenders and rocker panels that looked bad but did not affect the way the car drove. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. I want to say she drove it, but I dont think she actually put many miles on it. Jason Torchinsky of Jalopnik had an interesting take on it lately; 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. Its well nigh impossible to understand the Yugo episode without understanding the guiding hand behind what is generally considered to be the worst car ever offered for sale in the U.S. Malcom Bricklin had been knocking around the car industry for over a quarter century when he spotted a Yugo 45 on a London street in 1984. Wheel barrow. This may seem shocking, but Yugos really dont rust badly. I attach a picture of a 1100,the previous model,(5 door too! Im guessing the sport badging is why the decimal point is so far to the right? For Some Thematic Elements, Language and Brief Sexuality, Berlinale 2023 Highlights, Part Two: Reality, Manodrome, The Adults, Inside, Golda, Angela Bassett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Fraser, Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson Feted at SBIFF 2023, Revisiting Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Tragically Common: Jamie Dack, Lily McInerny and Jonathan Tucker on Palm Trees and Power Lines. Same thing was sold in the US as the Precis. Of course not. if(document.getElementById("unic-gdpr")) { after about 30 years of having the car rust off of the frame. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Why did so many Fiat designs get recycled and built behind the Iron Curtain? 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. Trivia: They took in much more foreign revenue and as the economy began to fail more and more fundamentally, the leaders of those republics decided theyd be better off independent of Yugo. In this black comedy, everyone in a small town becomes a suspect when a much-despised woman not-so-accidentally drives her Yugo off a cliff. An older Yugo, since the car hasn't been manufactured since its country went out of business. I test drove one of these brand new when they hit the market. I dont buy junk to begin with, maintain them, and only have minimal issues with them. It was not much bigger than a homeless persons shopping cart and similarly stocked. 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. Nobody had let management know that the wiring harness as made, wasnt usable in that part of the car. Every vehicle in town that is not a truck is a Yugo, except the police cruisers, which are Plymouth Horizons. First of all, thanks to Perry Shoar for a very well written explanation of the events of the 70s and 80s that led to the meltdown of Yugoslavia. I paid a lot of attention to new cars back then, and even then I dont know if I ever saw one. It eventually developed a bad piston ring(s), and the blow by was enough to clog the carburetor so that it would stop running. A Mitsubishi in all but name, Proton wisely didnt fiddle around with it much meaning you got a reliable Pseudo-Japanese car for your money, not a cobbled together lash up like the yugo was. My point is more that while suited for its home market, the Yugo was a cynical attempt by its promoter to make a quick buck by appealing to the most fickle, least loyal of all purchasers-the price shopper.It is only coincidental that the car was built in Yugoslavia. As the movie opens, a local woman named Mona Dearly ( Bette Midler) speeds down a country road and directly into the Hudson River when her brakes fail. 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. alignments. -Because they have already been through hell. So it worked pretty well in the domestic market, but USA is another story. Modern kei cars are dimensionally similar to the old sidevalve english Fords tall and narrow hopefully they dont fall over as easily I see lots of elderly people driving used import keis here. These are the kinds of people who don't like to be thrown out of bars because it's a loss of valuable drinking time. But then my wife (of all people) found a Yugo for $800. Tracey Walter appeared in the original Tim Burton Batman, Danny DeVito appeared as The Penguin in Batman Returns and William Fichtner appeared in The Dark Knight. Another example of the high cost of low priced objects. Not too long before I sold it, it had started to develop noisy CV joints, but by then the car was 8 years old and 100,000 miles. I think that for a 1992 car (perhaps it should be a Serb-o? . Too many people in this country have this mentality that if its cheap, treat it as such and yes, a fulfilled prophesy. Renault has been in state ownership since the 50s, and has been a very profitable company. 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. How did Danny DeVito die in Drowning Mona? The gravity powered it! As my old profesor of economics said: War is the best economic valve Unfortunately, Ive learned that from personal experience. Also i believe that the whole project couldnt last very long because Crvena Zastava never had economic strength to satisfy such demanding market, which requires first class quality, excellent dealer network and a newer and bigger model every year, just to stay in business. It would be interesting to see how the rear suspension was beefed up. Ironically, if he had stuck it out with Subaru for the long haul, he might have done a whole lot better for himself. readyGEO = true; His routine went something likeThe Yugo, what self respecting country would name a car that sorry after itself? Before I moved to Atlanta in the early 90s, we sold off our other cars before moving. Since mine had been in a rental fleet, it was actually pretty well taken care of, it had an OK aftermarket radio and A/C. He drove them all fast and hard which no doubt shortened their operational life. Id actually like to have another one, but beef it up with Fiat parts. Ah yes, I can see it now. But Bricklin assured his erstwhile investors that the car could be made ready for the U.S. market with some minor tweaks. Its hard to pinpoint a weak spot on a Yugo because every system in the car was so badly designed and assembled that the whole car was a no contact accident. The civil war in the former Yugoslavia was the finishing blow, but wasnt the reason it wasnt brought over. . It had a three way folding back seat back that could make multiple level shelves out of itself, you could haul a lot of stuff in that car. Also, familiarity is important in servicing a car.Lots of American mechanics wouldnt bother to learn the finer points of working on Yugos because there were so few of them and parts were slow to arrive when needed. (A former test site for the Yugo car company, we're told. UK Yugo dealers were often small garages in small towns, who really tried to do the prep work to get the cars out well. I owned two. Saw a lot of Datsuns with the box off, and the tiny size of the frame on those thingsthey were half-ton trucks only by extreme optimism. At our Year 2000 track day at Lime Rock, one of the entries was a race-prepared Yugo. Say what you will about Bricklin he is a man of action. They were true babes in the woods, and they lacked the capital to deal with the investment and the costs of distributing cars. I blame the cost-cutters, whove put us in this positionspin the dice wrong, youre buying a new engine. The one thing that the Yugo shared with its Fiat ancestry, was the fact that these things were biodegradable in the midwest. She does figure in a quiet little in-joke. But the proof of the pudding is the tasting; and I have YET to see a government-built car, or other product or service, which could stand head to heat with private competionstand on MERIT. The best part was they all had the same license plates on them to just have a semblance of legality! Rather, I see him as an irrepressible optimist who went into his various ventures believing everything would turn out well and he was blind to the shortcomings of the cars he imported. For my family and me back in the eighties, fuel economy was king, so I drove K-Cars and assorted used vehicles that were cheap we never really struggled, but cash and monetary resources were scarce, hence my missing out on the larger, more deluxe offerings of GM, Ford and Chrysler. A quiet little in-joke indeed, but I mention it so the filmmakers will know their work was not in vain. Our narrative today is of a modern P.T. 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. Actions lie louder than words. by Carolyn Wells. Yes they were cheap, but it was a proper car, built properly. 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