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. But with enough TLC (something the average American consumer wasnt high on), maybe they werent so bad (at least a few of them, anyway). In the end, its poor management. 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. 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. Old joke. There were surely other goofs that were institutionalized. 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. Money was a problem; but not the root problem. What he saw was an operation that turned out a car designed (and abandoned) by Fiat years before. Not a bit ! 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. One time the shifter came off in my hand. In regard to that old devil corrosion, an honest question: were there any cars of the seventies that DIDNT rust like mad? They were true babes in the woods, and they lacked the capital to deal with the investment and the costs of distributing cars. Id love to hear what they thought a year later. On the side fixed windows was lettered YuGo BIG or YuGo HOME. -Because they have already been through hell. 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. Found it! You know, we have a joke here in ex-Yugoslavia about Yugo: Im affiliated with NECC Motorsports, a club that runs time trials at various sports car racing tracks in the eastern half of the USA. What kind of car is in the movie Drowning Mona? 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. But outside of regular tourist routes and specially on the outer islands, unofficial nude beaches were everywhere. It wasnt ancient ethnic hatreds, it was more a perfect storm. The space efficiency was great too- it really is tiny- and is NOT a fiat. They had other third-world markets in mind. 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. Every vehicle in town that is not a truck is a Yugo, except the police cruisers, which are Plymouth Horizons. . Nevermind that their cars are horribly unreliable, people still buy them. Had a Datsun King Cab twenty-odd years agoand I went parts-shopping in boneyards. And the gas cap would not come off. 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. Its a tough call on the Yugo. Bracket racing, of course. There was a dealer in Denver Colorado, called Apple Motors, who used to sell warmed up Yugos. (not the 1st time Ive done this,haha). The characters this time could be lightened up and dumbed-down versions of the confused drunks in "Laws of Gravity," their social lives centered on bars, their center of gravity the bartender. 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. 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! Kathleen Wilhoite (Lucinda) and Melissa McCarthy (Shirley) appeared on Gilmore Girls (2000). 1. if(document.getElementById("unic-ccpa")) { 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. Mine was 5 years old and had like 40K miles on it. (A former test site for the Yugo car company, we're told. During the time the clutch cable was dying, I broke the shifter mechanism, due to the clutch cable dying. I bought it in January because I figured it would be fun to see just how bad it could be. I had been driving a Datsun 200 SX and the 5 speed was like silk. 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. Joe Friday (Dan Aykroyd) had a gold one in the Dragnet movie. But youre right that would mean being a business man and not a con-artist. Holy mackerel, Goe, what a story and experience! The Yugo? So, with connections, he was brought to Japan for a series of lectures; and if America wasnt interested, Japan was very much so. Around the same time we had a similar thing in Australia the FSM Niki, which was a Polish-built Fiat 126, so a ~700cc rear-engined s-box. Once I figured out what was happening to the carb, I developed an oil trap that kept motor oil from getting past the PC valve and being sucked into the carb. Its essentially a Fiat, and the same thing applied to them. Good account. Danny DeVito and Bette Midler appeared in Ruthless People (1986). 500 Yugo cabrio were imported to the States. After the death of Marshal Tito in 1980, long simmering Balkan feuds became a way of life and continue there to this day. One time the keys were out and the car was still on and would not turn off. To be said, Jasons book is 90% about Bricklin. 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 and the circus freak show that he brought to America in the twilight of the Reagan years. 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. of record for a Yugo. Early oil changes, followed maintenance schedule. 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. My mother drove it to work at the high school one time. I think I remember this! The possibility upsets Ellen, who explains in some of the movie's best dialogue: "I can't marry a murderer. 2004-2023 IMCDb.org Managed by Controgest SPRL Malcolm Bricklin was one of those guys who is the quintessential P.T. The interior squeaked everywhere that it didnt rattle. Several actors in this film have ties to the Batman films. It would be interesting to see how the rear suspension was beefed up. 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. Zastava only collapsed in 2008, and its decline was NOT due to mismanagement, but the trade embargo on Serbia, which starved them of devlopment funds. Regarding the rust: It was a myriad of factors. (Italy) 1989 Chrysler TC 1983 Dodge Omni 1991 Dodge Ram 1980 Ford F - 350 Ford Ranger 1993 Ford Ranger GMC C / K - Series 1992 Honda Civic 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 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. 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. . An older Yugo, since the car hasn't been manufactured since its country went out of business. Thanks for your first hand account ! Nevermind that their cars are horribly unreliable, people still buy them. By May of 1988, Malcom Bricklin needed a lifeboat and he found it on Wall Street. parts are easy, I have a new driver side indoor handle ordered that will be here Tuesday. couple of months ago when I was in Athens. 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 . They even found dirt and rust that had been painted on in the inside of some cars nearing completion. This car didnt want to go into reverse at a standstill. Bricklin was kicked out in the first (of two) bankruptcies, true. Wheel barrow. The salesman was vaguely aware that they were built somewhere in Europe,but he was cagey about just where. The chief is not rash, but fairly level-headed as he patiently sorts his way through a case that seems to reduce itself to a series of bar fights dimly remembered by drunks. Actually, the GM B body starting in 1977 was very, very resistant to corrosion. console.log(window['UnicI'].geo); It eventually developed a bad piston ring(s), and the blow by was enough to clog the carburetor so that it would stop running. There was something wrong with every single facet of this car. Its unfortunate that the vast majority of Yugo owners didnt even get that. 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. GM had tried to buy Zastava in 2007, but the deal fell through. And the A/C system on the Yugo was an add on! No tinted glass or glove compartment. Just like the Russian Lada its simple and DIY friendly as long as you relise that and dont expect a Lexus. I was worried that shed make it. I blame the cost-cutters, whove put us in this positionspin the dice wrong, youre buying a new engine. An older Yugo, since the car hasn't been manufactured since its country went out of business. LIkewise, Yugo UK supported its dealers well. 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. They initially started out as an arms manufacturer. 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. 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. Both were sold for more than I paid. (France) Chi ha ucciso la signora Dearly? And that, sadly, is the point and the problem. I have NEVER burned out a clutchexcept on a Yugo. Bricklin used franchise fees to run the company (a major accounting no-no) while the car was being modified for safety and emissions certification in the U.S. and dealerships were sold, territories assigned. its a beautiful nineteenth century townhouse that was redesigned combining the 19th century iron front with a modern glass setback. Why are there so many Yugo in this movie? 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. But they were cheap! 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. It is my understanding the latter Yugos were much better than their earlier counterparts, but still not up to snuff with the worst(?) 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.) At first glance, the car looked up to date- Front wheel drive, rack and pinion steering, decent mileage. The Yugo, new clutch, new exhaust, patched wiring and all, went into the trash. I mean, cmon, its an Eastern Bloc car. 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. There are like 100 YUGOs in the movie, which I think came out around 1998. Of course not. Retrospective - 2000's "Drowning Mona". I test drove one of these brand new when they hit the market. 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. Even here in the Land That Rust Forgot, I rarely see anything from the 70s. I have only seen one Yugo in my life. The 4 door one was a dodge omni, think it was a glh. They start, get you to your destination in the dry, and thats about all you can saytheres no enjoyment in operating it and build quality was a joke. I may know the only satisfied Yugo owner in the U.S. So it worked pretty well in the domestic market, but USA is another story. Lack of an automatic would hamper the car during all but the final year in the states. But theres a difference between an easily-repaired car, and one that needs frequent repairs. The other Eastern European lemon sold in Australia at the same time as the Niki was the Lada Samara. A magazine road test came up with the amusing summary: Yes you read that right. Here, it is well known that you change the timing belt every 40K miles. Casey Affleck wore a blonde wig for this film. 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. I think youre a bit dismissive of Zastava. A Rolls-Royce Ghost, a Mercades S-class, and a Bently Mulsane. Mine was an 86 and a half Yugo. I frankly dont know how anything this poor could ever be made. We learn that Verplanck was selected as a test market when the Yugo was being introduced to the United States. 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. Thanks for your detailed experience. 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. Now that its privatized, products have risen in quality to what the buyer expects for his money. Yugos are cars. 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. My BIL and I popped out the axles, but that was more of a preventative move, rather than a necessity. everything behind them. 1) Anything assembled at gunpoint tends not to be of high quality. Hell, he only paid something like $500 for a beater commuter car and this was in the late 1990s. Dont forget, we had the Czech Skoda Estelle, the Russian Lada and the Polish FSO 125p all competing at the bottom of the market. Childrens toys are more dependable. This car had one genuine asset: ride quality. . Bricklin had formed Yugo of America to import the car and as was his custom, financial shenanigans were part of the mix. What I know is that people explain such quality failures as Zastavas being due to a different culture in worker managed firms, etc. Enterior wall panels were thin cardboard with painted on carpet flecks. Perhaps they were sabotaged so the poor workers wouldnt have to slave to make them for america? 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. He sat in the front seat once and never again! 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). Privacy policy Mona, played by Midler, drowns when the brakes in her Yugo fail and she catapults through a guardrail into the lake below. Kind of reminds me of a first generation Rabbit/Golf, which Ive always considered the gold-standard for the best styled small car. Paid less than a thousand for it, thought at the time it was a good buy. after about 30 years of having the car rust off of the frame. That means that all Yugos in this movie are from 1986. . All Rights Reserved. I also have to say that state ownership does not always lead to poor business. View 9 images 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 is a bit of a contrarian anyhow, and has a mechanic-relative. The gravity powered it! Im trying to remember, she actually, may have owned two of them. 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.) 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. 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. Or maybe not. My favorite memory was the NYC art exhibit where every sculpture was created from the remains of an old Yugo. It was a nightmare. Drowning Mona 2000 PG-13 1 h 36 m IMDb RATING 5.7 /10 15K YOUR RATING Rate Play trailer 2:23 1 Video 67 Photos Comedy Crime Mystery When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect. The problem is, there's not a single person in town who DIDN'T have a motive. That's not what I'm about." . They probably would have found a customer base in the U.S. Ironically, if he had stuck it out with Subaru for the long haul, he might have done a whole lot better for himself. Why did so many Fiat designs get recycled and built behind the Iron Curtain? Do not sell my data Destination was Las Vegas; and by the time I got there the only way to get it to move was in First. Yugoslavia, markets in new states opened for foreign cars and some of my friends bought American cars lured by size and luxury, but this love affairs usually ended quickly and costly. It seems a good use of them. But then thats not what most folks are exactly looking for. There where lots of Yugo's used in the movie, but this was my favorite scene. 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. 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. The Mopar fuselage cars were not too bad, but the 71 on up B bodies were not so good. Like all good European cars used to do, it came with its own tool kit and (owner) service manual. Comments are property of their authors. 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. 1. I wonder if he actually carried that threat out, and if his daughter ever forgave him if he did. 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. there used to be a sign on the front that said visionary vehicles but that came down at least two years ago. The story involves a local police chief from New York state who is charged with . Show more Yugo America. That explains why everyone was driving them then. New York (where "years ago," according to an opening caption, "the Yugo Car Company chose to test market its new breed of vehicle.") Directed by Nick Gomez (Laws of Gravity), . But the acquisition by Fiat in 2010 renders all of that as ancient history. 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. We learn that Verplanck was selected as a test market when the Yugo was being introduced to the United States. . Of course, not wanting to be associated with alleged members of the alleged Romanian Mafia, Bently pulled out. A 2000 American crime comedy film directed by Nick Gomez that has a police chief ( Danny DeVito) investigate the death of a woman named Mona ( Bette Midler ), an abusive and spiteful woman who was hated by everyone who knew her. UK Yugo dealers were often small garages in small towns, who really tried to do the prep work to get the cars out well. Finallywith a new clutch 400 miles oldit tossed the alternator belt. Source for information on Drowning Mona: VideoHound's Golden Movie . 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. 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. As a Japanese kei class car,it was pretty good for crowded streets , expensive gasoline and as a motorcycle (or scooter,which Fuji also built) alternative. Personally I would have gone for the Skoda. But that's a whole other story.") I knew a guy in the 90s, who was very smart (the grandson of a Nobel Prize winner in fact!) Drowning Mona Trailer - Yugo Cars 7,448 views May 7, 2014 The NZ Yugo 1.66K subscribers 26 Dislike Share In Drowning Mona everyone drives Yugo Cars and one day Mona borrows her sons. I sold the car to a coworker of my BILs, who drove the car another three years before he totaled it. Pictures provided by: garco, antp, ahight, Display options: Display as images Display as list 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. Nobody had let management know that the wiring harness as made, wasnt usable in that part of the car. LOL The old fashioned radio was a piece of crap, and the speakers cracked and gave out after very little use. 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. 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. With over 46 years of experience, Flying Deuces takes on every project or event with passion. 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. But back to the subject, shortage of all kind of raw material was the main reason for poor quality, not drunken workers. 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. Membership also saw a similarly sharp increase, with over 1,800,000 in the same year (300,000 more than in 1970). Thank you for the interesting history. I presume the folding roof is there just in case the doors jam shut because of a sagging body! I saw one parked on Colorado Blvd. In the moviedrowning MonaI remember there was among the many regular Yugos one that had four doors (a black one).Was it NEVER Give Up - NEVER Back Down It's got an absolute star studded cast including Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Casey Affleck, William Fitchner, Neve Campbell, Jaime Lee Curtis, with a cameo, and even . Ah yes, I can see it now. Based on the slightly larger Fiat 125, it was everything bad about a lada, but somehow worse. 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! I pampered and took extremely good care of it and maintained it very well, it just couldnt hold up to being pampered either. https://chrisoncars.com/yugo-victim-or-victimizer/: (Time Magazine said it best: The Yugo has the distinct feeling of something assembled at gunpoint), I found quite a few articles from later years, quoting the same sentence over and over again (https://www.carkeys.co.uk/news/the-story-of-the-yugo-the-worst-car-in-the-world, https://www.ocregister.com/2017/01/03/the-best-worst-cars-ever/ , https://blastmagazine.com/2014/05/13/truth-10-cars-never-hit-road/), And there you have it: everybody knows for fact that Yugo was actually assembled at gunpoint. Ever notice how a lot of movie smokers seem to have just lighted their cigarettes? I know of a 1979 Datsun pickup that completly rusted out in 6 years. My guess is that many of his critics could not have done as much. 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. This was not a design fault, but like the Corvair, the company seriously underestimated the ability of the American motorist to neglect even basic maintenence. But even before then, Subarus had features that endeared them to snow-belt climates, like dual radiators that got the car to warm up quickly. Just finished Drowning Mona and came here for background. Everyone in Verplanck, N.Y., drives a Yugo. 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. 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