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. Agree with this last. It had nervousness built into it, it made people nervous and it was nervous. The seats were quite comfy too- firm enough but still soft- and with a cotton upholstery that was miles away from the nylon stuff put in other cars of the era. Mine was still only about a year old, so I was in denial about its performance. For the rest of the scene, he is dry from the waist up. Jason Torchinsky of Jalopnik had an interesting take on it lately; (A former test site for the Yugo car company, we're told. That's not what I'm about." They pronounce it yugo and Bricklins people realized a car called Jugo would have problems in marketing. FSO 125P: 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. The writer of Drowning Mona thought it would be hilarious to fill a 2000 crime caper with Yugo vehicles. A Rolls-Royce Ghost, a Mercades S-class, and a Bently Mulsane. as long as you didnt try to get away with normal American car owner maintenance. 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. And often wins. I recall A caddy dealer in the Cleveland area who gave away a free Yugo with the purchase of a Cadillac! Except that the belt managed to get into the TIMING BELT caseand pop THAT off. I really believe that the cars were treated as disposable, and in that way expectations were met. You are right.I found it here: 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. She does figure in a quiet little in-joke. As to Bricklin, Ive always liked of liked the SV-1 and wish Id picked one up when they were really cheap, with the AMC 360 they could be made to really move! Now they are all scared by digital cameras and this are just some memories from the other side of the iron curtain. R/S AUTOLINE INC. (1.3 miles away) 1215 W IMPERIAL HWY, Suite 213, BREA, CA 92821. The 360 was a Kei car, which took advantage of reduced taxes and insurance rates in Japan for cars less than three meters long with engines no more than 360cc in displacement. I knew a guy in the 90s, who was very smart (the grandson of a Nobel Prize winner in fact!) The Bricklin SV-1 was remembered for several interesting features: lurid (safety) colors , no cigarette lighter (Bricklin was a rabid non-smoker) , and most importantly, the ability to vacuum piles of money from the gullible government of New Brunswick, Canada. It wasnt my intention to advocate poor workmanship on the Yugo, it was all too obvious but i wanted to show that there were also other circumstances involved. Comments are property of their authors. 500 Yugo cabrio were imported to the States. I saw one parked on Colorado Blvd. She was given a Yugo that wouldnt runthe fix was nine dollars. In fact, as it became evident that the Yugo was heading toward failure, Bricklin tried to modify and import the Proton from Malaysia to take advantage of low wage rates and favorable exchange valuations that would have made that car an asian version of the Yugo. Its so interesting to think of how things couldve been different if the country survived Communisms collapse in one peace. Good account. Ford was really hit and miss the Granada was horrible, but the Lincoln Town Cars and Mark Vs were pretty good against the tinworm. Wait, how am I still driving 24,000 reliable miles a year on a 28 year old yugo, if this article is accurate? 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! 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. Of course, being that these cars were manual transmissioned cars, Im sure they didnt rented out nearly as much as the Ford Escorts and Hyundais that had automatics. Actually, Perry did a much better job of it than I could have. 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). document.getElementById("unic-gdpr").style.display = 'inline'; But the little Yugo turned out to be a lot less than the sum of its parts. DROWNING MONA 1/2 Tasteless but sporadically uproarious black comedy. The last Yugo that we would recognize rolled off the assembly line in November 2008. Thus American drivers were introduced to the second worst car ever sold- the tiny, dangerously underpowered 360 from Subaru. and lso two Horizon ? . i cant imagine where bricklin would get the approximately $35k/mo rent. The Yugo was not always viewed so favorably, although its $3,990 price ($9,900 in today's dollars) grabbed headlines on its introduction in 1985. She noted that while it wasnt much good past 65MPH (no overdrive), it never got less than 30MPG, and it handled beautifully. I remember the lights were tied to the ignition switch so if you left the light switch on, theyd go off when you shut down the car, and back on when you started it back up, and that meant headlights and all, ala SAAB. Much bigger players failed on this field, like Peugeot and Renault, while on the domestic market and in the whole EU they are doing just fine. That's not who I am. Also, the factory refused to make design changes that were obviously needed and would have been simple to implement. I remember seeing new Yugos at the (I think 1990) Chicago Auto Show. I wonder if he actually carried that threat out, and if his daughter ever forgave him if he did. Its not like Fiat designs were anything special, quite the contrary in many instances. 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. Ladas were, and are, shite. 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. 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. But for all that, and with weight today an even greater issueour Asian friends seem to have licked the corrosion problem. The New Brunswick government pulled the plug in September of 1975 and the Bricklin was finished. I had always known these to be license-built versions of the 128. At our Year 2000 track day at Lime Rock, one of the entries was a race-prepared Yugo. One day I put the key in and nothing happened, it was dead and wouldnt turn on. In fact every single person in town hated her. Even in Western Europe, cars arent marketed as they are here. Ah, the quintessential crap car. 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. The cars in the movie were provided by Apple Motors in Denver, Colorado. People who took care of some basic maintenance and corrosion protection could see 10 to 15 years of service without too much trouble. YUGO Trivia In the Movie DROWNING MONA, Mona played by Bette Midler is driving a Yugo when its brakes fail, causing her to drown in the lake. There was a dealer in Denver Colorado, called Apple Motors, who used to sell warmed up Yugos. Danny Devito and Bette Midler starred together in "Ruthless People". Old joke. Every vehicle in town that is not a truck is a Yugo, except the police cruisers, which are Plymouth Horizons. Anyway, the employee joked that it even had the rear window warmer to keep your hands warm when pushing it. Yugo Cars in Drowning Mona 4,507 views May 7, 2014 19 Dislike Share Save The NZ Yugo 1.65K subscribers Oh such a crack up movie and it involves my favorite thing YUGOS! Why are there so many Yugo in this movie? The last ones left in my hometown got a stay of execution when the city received a good number of Bosnian refugees in the 90s; many of them bought Yugos and got mobile for next to nothing since they knew how to keep them running. in Pasadena a couple of years ago. Seem like this article is just a mishmash of old articles written by people who never owned a Yugo, dont know anything about yugos, or who designed its engine. Youd have to go from fourth to first gear to come down. The Renault Alliance and 18i were still being sold in 1984-85 when the Yugo debuted. Yeah, theres no question on really poor build quality. Danny DeVito and Neve Campbell appeared together again six years after the release of this film in another comedy "Relative Strangers "(2006). Now that its privatized, products have risen in quality to what the buyer expects for his money. I attach a picture of a 1100,the previous model,(5 door too! 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. Zastava Zastava made Yugos even after they stopped selling in America. But after a slow start because of supply problems, the car began selling in volume during year two. 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. Blue in color. About two years ago there was a Wall Street Journal article about a guy who drag races a Yugo. The ignition constantly gave out and so did the clutch. As my old profesor of economics said: War is the best economic valve Unfortunately, Ive learned that from personal experience. "She's dead," he confirms to Chief Rash (Danny DeVito), who nods grimly and begins a murder investigation. After the 1973 oil shock and protracted period of economic stagnation globally, Western markets had less incentive to buy anything from Yugoslavia. Both were good strong running vehicles and the only thing I remember having trouble with was remedied by tightening up the battery to starter connection on one of the cars. . It helps to understand that everyone in Verplanck is dim to one degree or another, except for the Rash family. I blame the cost-cutters, whove put us in this positionspin the dice wrong, youre buying a new engine. 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. In the beginning they had some brief text ( "Years ago, the Yugo Car Company chose Verplanck, New York, to test market its new breed of vehicle. Even so, Kei cars remain too small to be accepted by American consumers. At least until the inevitable head gasket problems caused by an Iron head and alloy block. I remember, as a teenJapanese cars had fit-and-finish second to none; they started and ran smoothly with the primitive emissions controls of the time; but boy, did they rust. And when longtime resident Mona Dearly (BETTE MIDLER) drove her Yugo into the river to her death, no one really seemed to care. 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. Nasty Mona Dearly (Midler) drives her car into the Hudson River and drowns. Also, I think that first step after buying any used car in general should be changing of belt. Personally I would have gone for the Skoda. It wasnt ancient ethnic hatreds, it was more a perfect storm. It was not much bigger than a homeless persons shopping cart and similarly stocked. Whats terrifying is that a convertible version of this thing the flimsiest vehicle imaginable was sold in the U.S. No flimsier than the Toyota Paseo or Geo Metro convertible. During the time the clutch cable was dying, I broke the shifter mechanism, due to the clutch cable dying. The entire dashboard- I mean the WHOLE thing in RHD versions is a single piece of soft foam. An accident has happened - the Yugo of one Mona Dearly has careened off the highway and plunged into the Hudson. I was scarred for her to be driving it. The Proton is only a Malaysian Mitsubishi exactly the same awful car Hyundai built as trhe EXCEL. Ive never felt safe in any car that light so would never have considered owning one, no matter how cheap, even if they had been decently made vehicles. https://jalopnik.com/the-yugo-is-not-the-worst-car-ever-and-anyone-who-says-1830229976, The Yugo Is Not the Worst Car Ever and Anyone Who Says That Is a Lazy Hack So Lets Prove It, Your email address will not be published. Ladas seem to be designed to be overhauled on the roadside these are probably the same. } The little cars--all Yugos--are almost identical; they only differ in color, and Rona's has a sunroof. Why Fiat? 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. My dad is a bit of a FIAT nut so he would wrench on it from time to time. Re: Malcolm Bricklin I do not see him as a crook. Almost everyone in town is a suspect. (Cracked distributor cap, IIRC.) Could you imagine if another country decided to do that? About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . In 1969, Subaru started producing a larger, much more traditional (well, mostly) car, the 1000. 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 . Yes, even a Saturn will rust in Detroit, but in less harsh climes, Yugos tend to last well. My favorite memory was the NYC art exhibit where every sculpture was created from the remains of an old Yugo. But it needed even more tweaking than did the Jugo 45which is what the Yugo was based on. I saw it on the Helena streets quite a lot, but it was the only one in the city. No argument with the political details of your well made point. So whats my point? 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. Frequently, that new model sets the status quo on its ear and forever changes the way we think about (and react to) our transportation needs. Just finished Drowning Mona and came here for background. Sloppy or ignorant engineering plays a part most times; but its MANAGEMENT thats supposed to identify problems and stop them as soon as possible. Zastava took over the American company. Complete with opera lamps and padded roof. 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 car she is driving is a Yugo, and the pic's locale is Verplanck, New York (north of New York City), that actually was a test market for the ill-fated economy car in the late 1970's. . 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. I probably still have it somewhere. All Rights Reserved. Mona Dearly (Bette Midler) is an anagram for "only a dream". There are like 100 YUGOs in the movie, which I think came out around 1998. It was 10 years old in Japan at the time. In the 70s when I lived in Boston, I worked with a guy whose 5-year-old Pinto had big holes in the doors. I would like to add that once money was in short supply, it was easy to lay a blame on the other side, to stir old misunderstandings and conflicts, send kids to London or USA and start profiting from the war. She was rather negligent about maintenance, so would have been tough on any vehicle, but her Yugo, like many of its kind, fell apart rather quickly, stressing a budget that was already tight. His routine went something likeThe Yugo, what self respecting country would name a car that sorry after itself? I have NEVER burned out a clutchexcept on a Yugo. 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. Retrospective - 2000's "Drowning Mona". I did appreciate the way Yugo could make one part do what a western car needed three for. Yup, Im gonna go for a ride in my Ford Fester., I mentioned Drowning Mona below, before I read this. The gravity powered it! 5 Yugo i know its a rare thing but should we park them together ? Bricklin wisely took the first offer and netted about $20 million for his trouble. So, they set about seeing what was what with a road-trip around Romania in three cars they would be testing. To see mine riding on a tow truck was so humiliating. As a rule, Chrysler got worse as the 70s progressed where Ford and particularly GM got better. Danny DeVito and Bette Midler appeared in Ruthless People (1986). View Cars. As the pride of Serbo-Croatia hit the streets of America, reports of slipshod assembly began flooding back to the companys Upper Saddle River , New Jersey headquarters. 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. By May of 1988, Malcom Bricklin needed a lifeboat and he found it on Wall Street. It failed, of all places, on the Bonneville salt flats area in Utah. Of course, not wanting to be associated with alleged members of the alleged Romanian Mafia, Bently pulled out. When the nastiest resident (Bette Midler) of a white-trash Westchester suburb is killed in a suspicious accident, everyone Some Japanese automakers seem to have been surprisingly resistant to the latter; that was a major complaint of Yutaka Katayama at Nissan. finally blown up. His last notable brush with the automotive world (in 2004) involved a vague alliance with (uh-oh) Chinese auto maker Chery. One time the shifter came off in my hand. if (!readyGEO) { She picked them up for virtually nothing and was content with bare-bones transportation. Yes you read that right. And as any living myth, this one spreads into other areas as well: Install shift knob on replacement car. Im affiliated with NECC Motorsports, a club that runs time trials at various sports car racing tracks in the eastern half of the USA. An older Yugo, since the car hasn't been manufactured since its country went out of business. 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. 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. 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. the building is used several times a month for exclusive private hip-hop dance parties. People's spotty memories and clumsy lies complicate the investigation, and the . But I was unprepared for the panoply of problems that came abouteverything from a latent short or current leak, that would kill the car and prevent starting without warning (to restart, the only way was to pull the battery terminal to let whatever relay was behind it, reset) to binding heater-control cables. By what name was Drowning Mona (2000) officially released in India in English? Ever notice how a lot of movie smokers seem to have just lighted their cigarettes? State ownership is generally coupled to some sort of coersion, such as a penalty tax on other makes. Required fields are marked *. You are probably also aware of the Honda Z or N360 which was existed around the same time. 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. He claimed the belt was good for 200,000-plus miles, often outlasting the pulleys. The cars WERE crap, you concede; and uncompetitive in a world market. Witness the fact that everyone's car of choice is a Yugo; each Verplanck citizen drives one ever since the company conducted a cheap sales test of the vehicle there some 10 years ago. 1. 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. 1) Anything assembled at gunpoint tends not to be of high quality. The story involves a local police chief from New York state who is charged with . Its a Plymouth Horizon which,I guess,is the same as a Talbot Horizon. They dumped em, too, as soon as they could afford something, anything, better. Your email address will not be published. Hers are always burned down precisely half an inch, and then we see her lighting a new one from the old one, and realize, yeah, she smokes them only for the first two puffs. After the death of Marshal Tito in 1980, long simmering Balkan feuds became a way of life and continue there to this day. They initially started out as an arms manufacturer. But before Bricklin made a virtue of safety, he all but made a mockery of same just a half decade before. 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? The last Yugo I saw was 12 years ago, parked by a gas station in Truckee oh, and a restored Yugo was for sale on Craigslist a bit ago but I figured that would be a bad idea on the Subaru front: I heard a rumor, years ago, that Fuji bought all the American 360s and had them crushed any truth to that? 500 left in running condition? I saw one not long ago on the streets in Eugene, but couldnt catch it., Theres got to be a comeback there! 3. 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. It's a movie that has an attitude problem it couldn't resolve as easily as it did the mystery to Mona's death. Before I moved to Atlanta in the early 90s, we sold off our other cars before moving. View 9 images This was before the deal with Chery. But then thats not what most folks are exactly looking for. 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. After we meet the local residents, we understand why they're driving them now: They can't afford to replace them. Here in Greece they are still around and not that rare. Chief Wyatt Rash: My mother always used to say, "When life hands you potatoes, make potato salad!". . 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