Yugo Car

Poorly engineered ugly and cheap it survived much longer as a punch line for comedians than it did as a vehicle on the roads.
Yugo car. 1986 yugo car commercial for the 1987 models. The yugo in question is the iconic car manufactured from 1977 to 2008 in the serbian city of kragujevac. The other part of the saying above refers to its questionable quality which led to the unfortunate reputation of the worst car in history. The best worst car ever revisited.
Ako kupiš yugo nećeš vozit dugo says a famous piece of croatian folk wisdom if you buy a yugo you won t be driving it for long. The yugo was a small car made in the former nation of yugoslavia that survives in the american consciousness as the ultimate automotive failure. To be the cheapest car in the united states. The car is now with a dealer called webber motors in jacksonville florida and it s in unusually nice shape.
Built in soviet bloc yugoslavia the yugo had the distinct feeling of something assembled at gunpoint. застава корал and yugo koral is a subcompact car hatchback formerly manufactured by zastava automobiles at the time a yugoslav corporation. Since we last featured it the car has made its way to spokane washington and found a very loving caretaker. Although it was a communist made car sold in reagan s america dealers had customers lining up 10 deep to buy one.
And indeed it was the cheapest car in the united states. The yugo pronounced also marketed as the zastava koral pronounced ˈzâːstaʋa ˈkǒraːl serbian cyrillic. Originally designed in italy as a shortened variant of the fiat 128 the first yugo prototype was manufactured on 2 july 1977. Interestingly in a car where carpet was listed as a standard feature the yugo had a rear window defroster reportedly to keep your.
To that end in 1985 he began importing the yugo gv which turned out to be the mona lisa of bad cars. The exterior looks nice for a yugo anyway and the original window sticker is included in the photos showing a base price of 4 499 plus two options a 99 appearance package and a 139 rear washer and wiper. Yugo america sold an astonishing 1050 cars in a single day.