Its like almost any car; get to know its issues, and if you have the mechanical inclinations to deal with them, theyre pretty simple cars otherwise. View 9 images 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. Wheel barrow. 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. if (window['UnicI'].geo === 'CA') { 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. Since Yugo America was basically just a collection of cheap office furniture and unanswered phones, creditors received essentially nothing for their interests in the company. 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. A revised constitution in the mid 70s turned the country into a loose confederation and as Croatia/Slovenia were more developed due to being part of Austria Hungary, there was only so much that approx thirty years of prosperity after WWII could reverse. Secondly, I would be one of those people who had a good experience with a Yugo. Ford Econoline This Is Not A Taxi. My cell phone was apparently assembled at gunpoint by drunk Yugoslavians in the year 1984 . In my Country was make an attempt to import the Yugo Cabrio,rebadged as Innocenti Koral Cabrio,but homologation fiche wasn't approved for Italy,but if car was tested by Italian motor magazines(Italy will import Yugos twice,1986 to 1987 with origin name Zastava Yugo and 1990 to 1992 as Innocenti Koral 45 and 55--that rebadged for our Country), I like this movie. . Competing econoboxes included the Chevy Chevette,. 3. It began the use of the FWD, horizontal boxer engine which carries on in Subarus to this day (albeit in a modern form). All Rights Reserved. An accident has happened - the Yugo of one Mona Dearly has careened off the highway and plunged into the Hudson. And if it WAS done, thats $500 WASTED. How did Danny DeVito die in Drowning Mona? 2. They initially started out as an arms manufacturer. At first glance, the car looked up to date- Front wheel drive, rack and pinion steering, decent mileage. I wonder if he actually carried that threat out, and if his daughter ever forgave him if he did. I may know the only satisfied Yugo owner in the U.S. Nuff said? People who took care of some basic maintenance and corrosion protection could see 10 to 15 years of service without too much trouble. var readyGEO; or all of the Ladas.As has been mentioned already this kind of cheap car ownership Install shift knob on replacement car. I think the other reason they were more successful out of the US is that in Europe, people have driven OHC cars since the 60s. Then again, Ive always had a liking for the odd car or two over the years. The displacement limit for kei cars was increased to 550cc some years ago. When the nastiest resident (Bette Midler) of a white-trash Westchester suburb is killed in a suspicious accident, everyone Unpaid claims included some warranty work done by dealers on Yugos before sales collapsed. "She's dead," he confirms to Chief Rash (Danny DeVito), who nods grimly and begins a murder investigation. The entire dashboard- I mean the WHOLE thing in RHD versions is a single piece of soft foam. 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. The problem here was, first, poor management, as I noted; second, a workplace culture and a national culture that was absolute authoritarianism. 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. The collapse of Communism removed any perceived legitimacy left in the public who thought their future under capitalism would reflect a standard of living like W Germanys. The Little SuBARu Wow!, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLPp-NFInXw. But they didnt have a CLUE. 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. His last notable brush with the automotive world (in 2004) involved a vague alliance with (uh-oh) Chinese auto maker Chery. } It was a much more reliable and simple design than the 128 engine in States bound Yugos. 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. 5.0 out of 5 stars Drowning Mona music CD. She put about 50,000 miles on it without a problem-it was scrapped when she got rear-ended by a Camry. Bracket racing, of course. 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. Also in that time, poor workmanship wasnt exclusively Yugos problem. I think we need to re-evaluate the Yugo against 1986 standards instead of 2011 standards. About a year or so into owning the blue one, the clutch cable snapped (in traffic, of course). Id love to hear what they thought a year later. There where lots of Yugo's used in the movie, but this was my favorite scene. lol, Yugos were marketed in USA 1985 to 1990 by Malcolm Bricklin's vehicle imports Firm. Having had some up-close contact with a 128, Id say that its more 128 than 127. Our Mr. Bricklin also had an idea to start up another company fed by Zastava, this time to be called ZMW. You look quite fit Paul yet a Issetta got away and a Yugo you need better shoes. Bricklin is still nominally involved with a venture called Visionary Vehicles and appears on its website today.The end of his Yugo adventure left him short of funds to repay an impressive list of creditors, investors and employees and even the IRS took its pound of flesh later on. 500 Yugo cabrio were imported to the States. They probably would have found a customer base in the U.S. Even on foot. It helps to understand that everyone in Verplanck is dim to one degree or another, except for the Rash family. Mona Dearly: Yeah? Everyone in Verplanck, N.Y., drives a Yugo. What do you call a Yugo with twin exhausts? You mentioned this before; itd make a great article. The steel is much thicker than Fiat used, and although fit and finish wasnt great, it was no worse than on a Fiat. Although it shares some similarities with the Fiat 127, it is actually based on the much more advanced Autobianchi. But theres a difference between an easily-repaired car, and one that needs frequent repairs. Very well-maintained. But youre right that would mean being a business man and not a con-artist. At that time, Bricklin was probably best known for the eponymous car that he launched amidst much fanfare in 1974. document.getElementById("unic-ccpa").style.display = 'inline'; In a totalitarian state, such as was Yugoslavia, there is no political embarrassment because criticism is a criminal offense. Its a Plymouth Horizon which,I guess,is the same as a Talbot Horizon. Danny DeVito (Chief Wyatt Rash) and Tracey Walter (Clarence) appeared in Matilda (1996). } 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). This may seem shocking, but Yugos really dont rust badly. 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. 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. Just like the Russian Lada its simple and DIY friendly as long as you relise that and dont expect a Lexus. On the side fixed windows was lettered YuGo BIG or YuGo HOME. Just finished Drowning Mona and came here for background. )that I spotted a He claimed the belt was good for 200,000-plus miles, often outlasting the pulleys. Further, it was the only small car of the era that could be genuinely fun to drive. I was sure youd have had one. In the 70s when I lived in Boston, I worked with a guy whose 5-year-old Pinto had big holes in the doors. There was a short in the headlights, and the switch for the engine cooling fan was broken both of which were easily fixed. This was almost $1100 lower than the cheapest Chevy Sprint and lower than even the Hyundai Excel. 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. 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. Money was a problem; but not the root problem. But the reason it hit the Japanese cars harderwas that while many American cars were still frame-on-platform, and had some beef in the underbellyand even the unibody models were over-engineered for rigiditythe Japanese models had pared weight and beef to a minimum. 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. Ford was really hit and miss the Granada was horrible, but the Lincoln Town Cars and Mark Vs were pretty good against the tinworm. FSO 125P: 2004-2023 IMCDb.org Managed by Controgest SPRL I was worried that shed make it. The prototypical belt-driven OHC engine Stateside, was the Pontiac Sixand Joe Sherlock, who has a car blog, The View Through the Windshield (http://www.joesherlock.com/blog.html) was involved in the development of the initial fiberglass-impregnated belt. The gravity powered it! 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.. Its avoidable with regular replacement, true. The interior squeaked everywhere that it didnt rattle. Bowfinger - The main character produced a documentary called The Yugo Story. setTimeout(waitGEO, 200); It took time, development, persuading of management that there WAS a problem (not an easy task in the Japanese culture) but bit by bit, the problems were resolved. Because he SAYS he has a new belt on there, doesnt mean its so. All four brake drums were tampered with, the brake fluid was drained, and the perp also drained some other fluids just to be on the safe side. I havent seen one on the road in at least 15 years. So we come to the end of the Yugo saga in America. 2. Paid less than a thousand for it, thought at the time it was a good buy. 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 would suggest you read Jason Vuics book on the Yugowhat he described the Yugo America advance men as finding, had little to do with shortages of raw materials. Possibly most accurate and realistic analysis I have heard yet regarding what happened in ex-Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia The Land Of The Southern Slavs went to war with itself in late 1991 and essentially spent the next 17 years shooting, ethnically cleansing and generally behaving like it had before World War I. @Jeff Nelson: I think youre a bit dismissive of Zastava, they have been around for quite some time. What kind of car is in the movie Drowning Mona? Ive got video somewhere. 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. 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. It was mainly low used values (the proton badge had no snob appeal) and apathy that saw them scrapped rather than any major fault of the car. In The Film, for some inexplicable reason, everyone who lives in the Catskill area towns seems to drive a YUGO. I had the car 18 months or so, when in traffic one day a DUI driver rammed his Ford Fiesta (of all things) into the back of my Yugo and pushed me into a Nissan Maxima. My mother drove it to work at the high school one time. 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. 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. how did Subaru make the transition from dangerous sardine can to granola FWD/AWD family compact in the US?. Now, I live in the UK and have had three ladas, all of which were much better cars than many people give them credit for. The ignition constantly gave out and so did the clutch. It cut costs, and as was the concern then (as now) it was Green using the parlance of today. 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. 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. With the pullout of Fiat, Renault and the British makes just a few years before,. Ive talked to other people in the UK who bought them new, and many have had more than one. Various ancillaries like alternators were replaced with real FIAT parts. Purchased one year old cars for less than $1500 while attending college. The Yugos are a literal running joke throughout the movie. 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. Amidst mutual finger pointing, the deal collapsed in July 2008 as the erstwhile partners took turns suing one another in federal court. 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. We heard of the Yugo here far away in South Africa, but now I know how it all came about and fell apart. There was nothing inherently wrong with the 360, and all the other Japanese manufacturers had a car at the time with more or less similar features. The Kei cars, like European microcars in the 1950s and early 60s, made car ownership possible for the masses. I paid a lot of attention to new cars back then, and even then I dont know if I ever saw one. Dubrovnik is kind of old fashion place with somewhat stricter rules about dressing on the beaches and elsewhere. That's not what I'm about." Sales ended in the U.S. that year when a recall was ordered by the feds over emissions issues related to faulty carburetors. It was like, when you get in, what is next to give out or give you trouble. Pictures provided by: garco, antp, ahight, Display options: Display as images Display as list [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 . It eventually developed a bad piston ring(s), and the blow by was enough to clog the carburetor so that it would stop running. The brakes appear to have been tampered with, making it murder. (Fiat DID design the chassis, after all.). All in all, Monas jaunt into the river could have been described as a pretty fortuitous accident for everyones lives she touched, or in Monas case, bludgeoned. Since the film is set in modern, post y2k times, it may be the last one in running condition in the U.S. No, I dont know if they used an actual Yugo or just a skinned over FIAT prop, & if they did utilize a Yugo, how many production assistants were tasked with keeping it working ;-D. Also used for laughs in the Ackroyd/Hanks Dragnet movie. You could disassemble the whole car with like 5 Allen keys, three sockets and two Phillips-head screwdrivers, if you were inclined. She noted that while it wasnt much good past 65MPH (no overdrive), it never got less than 30MPG, and it handled beautifully. 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. After the wars, Zastava redesigned their cars with help from Fiat and Citroen, and gained new technologies to have them compete with other European cars. Back in 87, a cheerleader at my high school won one of these in a raffle. This is the real reason that Yugo failed in the US- a poor dealer network. Drowning Mona (2000) is a never remembered black comedy that I absolutely love. Very easy installation 15 t0 20 minutes. Ironically, if he had stuck it out with Subaru for the long haul, he might have done a whole lot better for himself. I remember seeing new Yugos at the (I think 1990) Chicago Auto Show. The result is that the UK Yugo was a far superior car to the US one, with its dealership network out to make a quick buck. A girl I hung out with in college had a Yugo. Do not sell my data Id actually like to have another one, but beef it up with Fiat parts. Ive always had a soft spot for these little cars from Yugoslavia. Before I moved to Atlanta in the early 90s, we sold off our other cars before moving. In a recent episode of Top Gear UK the trio were allegedly asked by an alleged high-ranking member of the alleged Romanian Mafia what would be the best luxury car for one of his stature. Ah yes, I can see it now. A lot of Wehrmacht occupation troops went home in tiny little pieces because Zastava knew what they were doing. In the 1970s the PCI (Italian Communist Party) reached its all-time maximum electorally: 34.4% in the 1976 general election (12,600,000 votes, 3 million more than in the previous election in 1972). I bought it in January because I figured it would be fun to see just how bad it could be. Which together would have theoretically allowed the Yugo to be more successful. The car is the Yugo. Although I tested it in the summer, the car sputtered and hesitated like it was cold. Visit Dealer Website. I pampered and took extremely good care of it and maintained it very well, it just couldnt hold up to being pampered either. Anyway, the employee joked that it even had the rear window warmer to keep your hands warm when pushing it. During lunch the high schoolers came out and lifted it up so the front tires were up on the sidewalk. The car was a modest success with just under 8000 sold in the first year, but when the 360 was pilloried by Consumer Reports as being unacceptable because of its numerous safety issues, the bottom dropped out of the venture and the last few cars sat on dealers lots for years before they were practically given away. Whats bad. One day I put the key in and nothing happened, it was dead and wouldnt turn on. The U.S. stuff was bad enough in that era, but the European cars were (by and large) even worse and the Japaneese were worse by orders of magnatude. They obviously do not run. I think I remember this! if(document.getElementById("unic-ccpa")) { This, the paring of weight, was even evident in Japanese trucks. No one in the movie is particularly vicious (well, Jeff's no prize) and the urgency of the case is undermined by the general agreement that Verplanck is calmer and happier now that Mona's gone. . Why did Yugos have standard rear defrost? I know there were folks who collected Yugos for nothing, for running and parts cars. Dan beat me to it. 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. Knobs came off in your hand, the sliding radio marker on a string would get stuck and not move off of from where it landed. I see one maybe twice a year. They didnt always start, and they DID always rust away. Back in another shop (an independent who specialized in Fiats) there was some general loose talk about popping a 128 engine in there; but given a verbal estimate, I cut it off. Danny Devito and Bette Midler starred together in "Ruthless People". Bricklin was kicked out in the first (of two) bankruptcies, true. This car didnt want to go into reverse at a standstill. 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. Two cars are in the driveway of a glorious but faded Victorian mansion: The Bertone and a Yugo. Chief Wyatt Rash: My mother always used to say, "When life hands you potatoes, make potato salad!". It had nervousness built into it, it made people nervous and it was nervous. By May of 1988, Malcom Bricklin needed a lifeboat and he found it on Wall Street. Jason Torchinsky of Jalopnik had an interesting take on it lately; Ever notice how a lot of movie smokers seem to have just lighted their cigarettes? couple of months ago when I was in Athens. I think it's worth keeping them separate because it's a in-joke of the film that almost everyone has a Yugo. So it worked pretty well in the domestic market, but USA is another story. I actually checked out a Yugo about the same time I was looking at Sundances, Colts and similar vehicles and decided: No, I didnt have the time for the do-it-yourself maintenance it mightve required my current cars took care of that at the time! That explains why everyone was driving them then. Most can be rectified by the shareholders or the Boards of Directors, the shareholders representatives. Last Update: . That means that all Yugos in this movie are from 1986. The New Brunswick government pulled the plug in September of 1975 and the Bricklin was finished. Destination was Las Vegas; and by the time I got there the only way to get it to move was in First. 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. Complete with opera lamps and padded roof. Ive heard that by 1989, Malcolm Bricklin was kicked out and Zastava took over importing the cars to the US and made a substantial series of changes/improvements and the cars then came with fuel injection, the GV, GVL, GVC, and GVS and the sportier GVX were combined into one car, the GV Plus fitted with better seats (the fold and slide seats from the GVX), the larger 1.3L 4, the 5spd in a more basic interior and exterior trim package, adding the AC etc and Bosh fuel injection and I hear from Chris Vitale who runs Fiat 500 USA blog who owned a 1991 Yugo with FI until a couple of years or so ago that by then, their warranty claims were very good, but the war took its toll as did the emissions debacle in 1992 brought the cars run in the US to an end. In the early 80s many of the domestics suddenly found they could use galvanized steel for body panels, and inner fender liners and other rust proofing methods, (better drains, etc.) Yugo gave everybody in town one to have. (* 5-20 for older cars, up to 200 if they have to change water-pump and rollers, new models are more expensive, but 500 maybe for new BMW). Had Bricklin been a true industrialist instead of a con-man, the winning idea might have been to buy out the Yugo tooling (Zastava was setting up for the Florida at the time, they might have been open to this) and moved the whole plant to a place where workmen were conscientious and quality control accepted. His shaky little import business was marketing Bertone X/19s after Fiat said arrivederci in 1982, but the end of that venture was in sight. He got two large import operations going and he launched the SV-1. It has been a while since I have seen a Yugo on the road, but a local car wash has one with signs mounted on it. 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). Its not like Fiat designs were anything special, quite the contrary in many instances. Make and modelMake and yearYearCategoryImportance/RoleDate added (new ones first)EpisodeAppearance (ep.+time, if avail. Thanks for telling it. Except that the belt managed to get into the TIMING BELT caseand pop THAT off. 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. Too many people in this country have this mentality that if its cheap, treat it as such and yes, a fulfilled prophesy. I cant imagine that anybody that test drove one like mine actually laid down real money for one. Im affiliated with NECC Motorsports, a club that runs time trials at various sports car racing tracks in the eastern half of the USA. Which, actually, was a very good little car . 2) My wife (an engineer like yourself) has been to Dubrovnik and says that the beaches are incredible. Why are there so many Yugo in this movie? I actually grew to like winding the snot out of that motor. 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. The local news interveiwed some and they were going for $4000 Id end up with used junk, but now I got a new import!. They found problems in the assembly processone described was how the wiring harness to the rear liftgate and wiper, didnt fit the stamped holes allowed it. 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. And the gas cap would not come off. As my old profesor of economics said: War is the best economic valve Unfortunately, Ive learned that from personal experience. its a beautiful nineteenth century townhouse that was redesigned combining the 19th century iron front with a modern glass setback. My little red Yugo was dead. 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. 1) Wise observation that Yugoslavia needed hard currency (without which it could not import needed consumer or industrial goods) during those years. But they did. 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. The body and car belonging to Kiely Rodni, a missing 16-year-old girl, may have been found in a Califronia lake on Sunday, according to a search and rescue group. ), See all comments about this movie and its vehicles. She claimed that once you knew and understood them, they were not bad cars for what they were. GM had tried to buy Zastava in 2007, but the deal fell through. There was a cheap-o daily rental car company that had a fleet of them, and they were in the process of changing out the Yugos for Hyundai Precis. Nobody had let management know that the wiring harness as made, wasnt usable in that part of the car. Someone wanted her dead. if(document.getElementById("unic-gdpr")) { Second factor was, the popularity in the day of recycled steel in car manufacture. And as any living myth, this one spreads into other areas as well: Zastava built some world class arms. He drove them all fast and hard which no doubt shortened their operational life. But back to the subject, shortage of all kind of raw material was the main reason for poor quality, not drunken workers. Very entertaining. 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. No argument with the political details of your well made point. As it turns out, the same rental car place was STILL selling surplus Yugos, and I bought a blue one this time. At the very least, Bricklin didnt end up in a hotel room trying to arrange drug deals. Film Focus: Drowning Mona. A quiet little in-joke indeed, but I mention it so the filmmakers will know their work was not in vain. Having seen pics of the 127, I can relay that the Yugo body is a complete reskin no lines or panels are the same or interchangeable. He was absolutely correct. It seems a good use of them. They were incredibly simple mechanically. The story involves a local police chief from New York state who is charged with . Actually, from my experience with Yugo monocoque, four doors would have crushing effect on rigidity:). 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