Second factor was, the popularity in the day of recycled steel in car manufacture. The two-door chassis is, I understand, a 127. Jamie Lee Curtis' character looks like she has some colorful insights to share but isn't given the dialogue to do it--she's more a plot marker than a person. You had to know FIATS and and what Yugo klooged up to meet EPA regs and how to unklooge it. LOL The old fashioned radio was a piece of crap, and the speakers cracked and gave out after very little use. and lso two Horizon ? 1) Anything assembled at gunpoint tends not to be of high quality. As noted, Bricklin first noticed the subcompact Yugo on the streets of London and within a couple of months, he had set up his first meet and greet with the management at Zastava . I went to an auto place for a part, and was so embarassed to even say Yugo to the clerk, that my voice stuttered and I replied Yugee. Here in Greece they are still around and not that rare. The man is Malcom Bricklin. By May of 1988, Malcom Bricklin needed a lifeboat and he found it on Wall Street. The worst of the Japaneese cars would rust in structural places that would make the car unsafe. One of a kind, Im sure, There is an article from 2012, quoting the Time magazine 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. However, these engines have been known to go 200K with little bearing wear if maintained appropriately. Childrens toys are more dependable. Show more Yugo America. everything behind them. 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. Zastava took over the American company. Mona Dearly (Bette Midler) is an anagram for "only a dream". 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. Especially on economy cars- Yugos often sold to High School girls, who would just turn up the stereo when their failure to add oil led to rod knocking. })(); Pictures are property of movie companies owner of the respective movies. Theyre really a mishmash of the two; with their own unique body. He was scarred sh*tless and begging me to not make him drive it. And this works both ways after war ended in ex. What a story! 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. When I was living in Montana in 2001, some masochist/crusty old guy was using one as a daily driver and it looked new. depends 100% on very cheap parts and lots of mechanics around that know the car inside out. The brakes appear to have been tampered with, making it murder. 3) The Yugo has a good reputation in the land of its birth. One of the magazines rolled one on test, and they had a top speed of around 65mph. A few things come to mind regarding the Yugo / Zastava Koral (and larger Yugo / Zastava Skala), mainly that it is a pity it never received similar developments such as 5-door hatchback, 2/4-door saloon and 3/5-door estate bodystyles as found on other Fiat 127-based variants like the SEAT 127 / SEAT Frua and Fiat 147 / Fiat Oggi / Fiat Panorama, along with larger 1372-1596cc+ versions of the Fiat SOHC engine. One day a red one, next day yellow, the day after white, he was gathering up the by then give-away bombs that still ran. It wasnt ancient ethnic hatreds, it was more a perfect storm. if (window['UnicI'].geo === 'CA') { Sales quickly slowed when word of the myriad problems began to circulate in the media. I was discussing cars with a woman in my office building one day, when she remarked that she had owned a Yugo, and got an incredible number of miles out of it. Once the carb was replaced with a Weber instead of the Zastava kinda sorta copy with 3 miles of vacuum hose it ran and started a lot better. She put about 50,000 miles on it without a problem-it was scrapped when she got rear-ended by a Camry. Ive talked to other people in the UK who bought them new, and many have had more than one. The possibility upsets Ellen, who explains in some of the movie's best dialogue: "I can't marry a murderer. I dont buy junk to begin with, maintain them, and only have minimal issues with them. Make and modelMake and yearYearCategoryImportance/RoleDate added (new ones first)EpisodeAppearance (ep.+time, if avail. @ahight: I think there is no need to put the location square in every screenshot, only the ones with more than a single car visible. Although I tested it in the summer, the car sputtered and hesitated like it was cold. The cars WERE crap, you concede; and uncompetitive in a world market. I was amazed when I rode in one, expecting a bouncy distaster but encountering a surprisingly supple feel of the suspension. The effort collapsed along with Yugo sales in America. Id actually like to have another one, but beef it up with Fiat parts. 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. I was listening one Saturday to Car Talk and one of the callers that day to the show was a Catholic priest who drove a Yugo and commented on all the flak he received for his choice of automotive transportation. Chief Wyatt Rash: My mother always used to say, "When life hands you potatoes, make potato salad!". But back to the subject, shortage of all kind of raw material was the main reason for poor quality, not drunken workers. The best part was they all had the same license plates on them to just have a semblance of legality! Dont forget, we had the Czech Skoda Estelle, the Russian Lada and the Polish FSO 125p all competing at the bottom of the market. Im affiliated with NECC Motorsports, a club that runs time trials at various sports car racing tracks in the eastern half of the USA. Mine was still only about a year old, so I was in denial about its performance. Also, the GM Colonades from 73-77 were pretty rust resistant as well. I think we need to re-evaluate the Yugo against 1986 standards instead of 2011 standards. 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. Rona Mace (Jamie Lee Curtis) is an anagram for "a romance". The other being Yugo / Zastava missing out on producing a smaller model based on the Autobianchi A112 as a replacement for the Zastava 750, initially carrying over the existing Fiat 100 Series engines prior to using the Fiat FIRE engines. Tye Mobile Homes in Tye, Texas using the incentive of Buy a mobile home at Tye Mobile Homes, get a new Yugo for $1. No joke. As for the FloridaBricklin was itching to bring it in. http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_113306-Plymouth-Horizon-C2-1984.html Reviewed in . Very easy installation 15 t0 20 minutes. I saw one parked on Colorado Blvd. With the pullout of Fiat, Renault and the British makes just a few years before, there was a general sense that room existed in the market for any european nameplate that could build a reasonably priced car that returned good fuel economy and high build quality. In the end, its poor management. Some Japanese automakers seem to have been surprisingly resistant to the latter; that was a major complaint of Yutaka Katayama at Nissan. Yes it was 3990 excluding transmition and tax and delivery charges. But, its a tough sell to have someone take a car thats running fine, and pay $500 for a maintenance replacement and maybe screw something up in the process. Just like the Russian Lada its simple and DIY friendly as long as you relise that and dont expect a Lexus. The 4 door one was a dodge omni, think it was a glh. "Drowning Mona" is a frustrating comedy. It began the use of the FWD, horizontal boxer engine which carries on in Subarus to this day (albeit in a modern form). Change Ad Consent 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. 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. I would venture to guess that there are fewer than 500 running condition Yugos still on the road in the U.S. (most of which need a little TLC) Anybody that ever owned one of these little mobile gulags will tell you that there was nothing loveable, cute or endearing about them. But, I decided that going back into the printing business made more sense to me, so I left the car lot and headed back to what I call work. Of course not. I pampered and took extremely good care of it and maintained it very well, it just couldnt hold up to being pampered either. Drowning Mona 2000 (PG-13)Strident comedy about the low-IQ denizens of small town Verplanck, New York, where everybody still drives a Yugo (the town was a test market). 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. 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. But it needed even more tweaking than did the Jugo 45which is what the Yugo was based on. 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. Retrospective - 2000's "Drowning Mona". Rated PG-13 But the acquisition by Fiat in 2010 renders all of that as ancient history. The interior was fading right from day one. if (window['UnicI'].geo === 'EU') { She had a habit of parking illegally, and, faced with a ticket and impound bill that exceeded her estimate of the value of the car, donated it to the towing company. No argument with the political details of your well made point. Almost everyone in town is a suspect. I drove the blue one about three more years, but it did have some issues. That's not who I am. It failed, of all places, on the Bonneville salt flats area in Utah. Actually, from my experience with Yugo monocoque, four doors would have crushing effect on rigidity:). Danny DeVito and Neve Campbell appeared together again six years after the release of this film in another comedy "Relative Strangers "(2006). document.getElementById("unic-gdpr").style.display = 'inline'; I would love to find one of those. There was a short in the headlights, and the switch for the engine cooling fan was broken both of which were easily fixed. i found this article about the space: I havent seen one on the road in at least 15 years. The battery required water to be poured into it. Drowning Mona | 2000 | PG-13 | - 5.5.5. 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.) I did appreciate the way Yugo could make one part do what a western car needed three for. . 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. 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. *cough cough*, Malcolm is now wanting to import Chinese cars. other small car offerings back then. 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. I remember the shifter being very vague and rubbery but it did the job and the car wasnt too bad on other respects and I rather liked its styling. We heard of the Yugo here far away in South Africa, but now I know how it all came about and fell apart. At our Year 2000 track day at Lime Rock, one of the entries was a race-prepared Yugo. I have only seen one Yugo in my life. Nuff said? The car itself rattled and shook upon starting. He was absolutely correct. And management, often put there through politics, has little interest in learning of customer dissatisfaction. Not sure they sold very many. I initially got a job selling cars, and had access to one for a while. One of my dads friends had one of these. And it tanked with the critics. There was a movie in 2000 entitled Drowning Mona where most of the people in a . 1) Wise observation that Yugoslavia needed hard currency (without which it could not import needed consumer or industrial goods) during those years. They didnt always start, and they DID always rust away. It was like, when you get in, what is next to give out or give you trouble. Hell, he only paid something like $500 for a beater commuter car and this was in the late 1990s. setTimeout(waitGEO, 200); 1. As a rule, Chrysler got worse as the 70s progressed where Ford and particularly GM got better. Any idea where the Fiat 128 stopped and the 127 started in the Yugo? I was unaware of the Bricklin connection at the time, and in fact learned about it here on CC, but I remember seeing some Bricklins as a kid, thinking that they were cool looking cars, and wondering why there werent more of them. 5.0 out of 5 stars Drowning Mona music CD. GM had tried to buy Zastava in 2007, but the deal fell through. Of course, not wanting to be associated with alleged members of the alleged Romanian Mafia, Bently pulled out. Cool Cruise CAR SHOW Cruisin' Brea CAR SHOW Cruisin' La Verne CAR SHOW Brea Holiday CAR SHOW Project Home America Flying Deuces is a production, marketing, booking and advertising company. 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. Of course, I was charmed by that, as it reminded me very much of the original A1 Golf, and seemed to share the same utility that the original A1 did. The philosophy behind Drowning Mona is not good clean fun, or even intelligent nasty fun. The cars were not labor or maintenance intensive at all, and in fact some things worked better on that car than did my dear old Lancer, like the A/C system. 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. Gearboxes on the other hand well, its a Fiat after all, and it teaches you how to double clutch. 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. Even here in the Land That Rust Forgot, I rarely see anything from the 70s. I think that for a 1992 car (perhaps it should be a Serb-o? In fact, if anything, Americas foreign policy in the 80s encouraged Yugoslavia to manufacture and export finished goods to pay its debts. 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. Copyright 2011 - 2023 Curbside Classics. Jason Vuic details this in his book The Yugo of how management refused plans for premiums for top-grade work or extra effort; of how primitive and shoddy were the paint booths, of how design goofs went uncorrected for years. Possibly most accurate and realistic analysis I have heard yet regarding what happened in ex-Yugoslavia. Personally I would have gone for the Skoda. You are right.I found it here: 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. Then again, Ive always had a liking for the odd car or two over the years. Audis have been headaches to owners at various times. 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? Renault has been in state ownership since the 50s, and has been a very profitable company. The entire dashboard- I mean the WHOLE thing in RHD versions is a single piece of soft foam. The accident I referenced in my earlier post has adversely affected my overall health (lumbar damage), and Im nowhere near as ready to slide under a car as I used to be. Several actors in this film have ties to the Batman films. I presume the folding roof is there just in case the doors jam shut because of a sagging body! 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. } Bracket racing, of course. But the little Yugo turned out to be a lot less than the sum of its parts. after about 30 years of having the car rust off of the frame. This may seem shocking, but Yugos really dont rust badly. @Zackman: No the real experience was driving that thing in Atlanta rush hour traffic at 80+ MPH. The problem here was, first, poor management, as I noted; second, a workplace culture and a national culture that was absolute authoritarianism. 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. Id love to hear what they thought a year later. (France) Chi ha ucciso la signora Dearly? 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. Drowning Mona is a 2000 American crime comedy film starring Danny DeVito as Wyatt Rash, a local police chief from Verplanck, New York, who investigates the mysterious death of Mona Dearly ( Bette Midler ), a spiteful, hard-drinking, loud-mouthed, abusive woman, hated by all who knew her, who drove her son's car off a cliff and drowned in a river. Big deal, huh? 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). She was given a Yugo that wouldnt runthe fix was nine dollars. Amidst mutual finger pointing, the deal collapsed in July 2008 as the erstwhile partners took turns suing one another in federal court. The running gear would be the 1.1 Litre straight four that Zastava had learned to build from Fiat and the transmission would be a truly nasty four speed manual. I mean, cmon, its an Eastern Bloc car. Wheel barrow. var readyGEO; 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. Or inherrent underdog status? Ford uses a similar shade on their Mustangs of recent vintage and still love it even now. But is an Audi as bad as a Yugo? 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. It really has all of the benefits of an Italian car with none of the drawbacks. But with enough TLC (something the average American consumer wasnt high on), maybe they werent so bad (at least a few of them, anyway). One reason is that lots of people own and drive them and parts are a breeze. Competing econoboxes included the Chevy Chevette,. We learn that Verplanck was selected as a test market when the Yugo was being introduced to the United States. Technically if its going downhill it wasnt moving on its own power. There are many causes for poor management. 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 saw it on the Helena streets quite a lot, but it was the only one in the city. 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. Learn how your comment data is processed. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. View Cars. 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. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. Having had some up-close contact with a 128, Id say that its more 128 than 127. They were incredibly simple mechanically. This is the real reason that Yugo failed in the US- a poor dealer network. Id notice the original Civic CVCC, I had one, loved it and sold it much too soon. The Kei cars, like European microcars in the 1950s and early 60s, made car ownership possible for the masses. So, with connections, he was brought to Japan for a series of lectures; and if America wasnt interested, Japan was very much so. Which together would have theoretically allowed the Yugo to be more successful. And as any living myth, this one spreads into other areas as well: Mona Dearly: Yeah? Could you imagine if another country decided to do that? It was as if the Yugo was being promoted as crap, but SUPERIOR crap. And was thus more expensive. I recall A caddy dealer in the Cleveland area who gave away a free Yugo with the purchase of a Cadillac! 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. 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. Anyway, the employee joked that it even had the rear window warmer to keep your hands warm when pushing it. Bricklin was kicked out in the first (of two) bankruptcies, true. I really dont think that anyone has a competitive advantage in rust resistance any more. 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. I took all of the fun stuff off of the red one (Italian Cromodora wheels and the AM/FM Cassette) and put it on the blue one. At only 20,000 miles it was worn out, fading, under powered, rusting, it wanted to die and be buried, it certainly didnt want to be a car! First, salt as a melting agent on roads was relatively new. So on the line, a worker would have to cut and install and tape it, with about a 25 percent failure rateincorrectly re-connected. 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. Last Update: . 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. 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. Usually, these ultra-cheapo cars suffer from goofy styling touches, but the Yugo comes off as pretty clean, which is all the more astonishing since its an original design where no body parts interchange with the Fiats upon which it was based. The problems with Audisare RELATIVE to other brands; and RELATIVE to past experiences. Honestly, I think Zastava should be commended for the amount of engineering they were able to do independently, modifying and developing Fiat cars. Drowning Mona is one of my favorite comedies, and its currently available on YouTube for free. Why did Yugos have standard rear defrost? Detroit, also, but not so much. What I know is that people explain such quality failures as Zastavas being due to a different culture in worker managed firms, etc. This doomed script and conventional direction venture for Nick Gomez (" New Jersey Drive "/" Laws of Gravity "), results in a comedy that got by with a few mean-spirited jokes. Another factor was that Subaru managed to kick Bricklin out on the street and take over distribution and marketing before he ran it into the ground. I blame the cost-cutters, whove put us in this positionspin the dice wrong, youre buying a new engine. 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. The early Japanese cars were not that different from the 360: Junk. 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