Why The Yugo ISN'T The Worst Car Ever | Jalopnik
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- Опубликовано: 13 июн 2024
- Jalopnik's Jason Torchinsky and Erik Schilling put an ultimatum to every hack out there who wants to put the Yugo on their worst car lists.
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Torchinsky makes a very good point, the Yugo becomes even more modern for it's time when you take into consideration the fact that by 1987 it was already a 10 year old design. And when compared to the shitboxes made and sold in the US back in 1977, the Yugo becomes a forward looking innovation. Yeah, they're built out of poor quality materials, especially the interior and the fit and finish is sub-par because, well communism. It's quite possible actually, that the US Export version of the Yugo is the best car made by communism during the cold war. And, ultimately what rectifies the Yugo is it's price; it was cheap as hell. And not manufactured by a company that should've or even could've known or done better. And taking into consideration that there are still examples that work and run today despite nearly complete lack of maintenance over a thirty year life span, it can't be as shitty of a car as many like to contend it is. Far from the worst, or even worst built cars in the world. It's not great either by any stretch of the imagination either, but for what it is; a small licences built Yugoslavian version of an Italian city-car made near the end of the cold-war, it is actually an OK car. And an OK vehicle, for what it is.
Ps. Both the owner and you guys are totally insane for driving on those grinding tires. You could've easily become a soccer ball for all the SUV's (the drivers of which can barely see you) about three to four times the Yugo's weight had you had a blow out. Which isn't far off with those fenders borrowing into the sidewall like that. Well, at least you were only a danger to yourselves. Still, recklessly negligent to drive like that on public roads.
I haven't clicked on it yet but I'm willing to bet it's that weird silver thing
I'm from Serbia,and my parents drive the yugo 45 for so many years,and i also enjoy in that little machine,it works very good...
@@draskoist naravno rodjo da radi ,ja imam jugo koral 55 iz '91 i 201000 predjenih km bez ikakvog rada motora ili karoserije uz redovnu zamenu ulja ,kaiseva i ostalih radnji na njemu samom .
@@sasaantic4461 samo redovno odrzavanje i nema zime.
It basically boils down to what Clarkson said about bad cars in his DVD. The worst cars are those who fail to deliver or completely disappoint in their class and tend to be quite more expensive than a Yugo. Yugo was a cheap car meant for basic transportation and maintenance and the fact that people drive it 30+ years later shows that it isn't that bad.
Exactly
Nah that means that it basically meets expectations which were very low. Its still a trash car.
Not a car you hate unless it was your only car and you relied on it, then you'd learn to hate it.
I have found that the worst cars in the world are usually the most boring. Ones that just have no personality, and love it or hate it the Yugo certainly has personality.
that most be a prius
@@jorgejavierlaborde6623 or any Toyota
And I actually like how it looks
True, each one has it's on unique problems.
I just love the external design of Yugo. My dad use to own cherry colored one and it was like a pet to us. We all drove newer and better cars but Yugo parked in our driveway was always the sweetest sight. So sad dad let go of it .
Just bought one. Sat in a field for 20 years, cleaned the carb a little, put a new battery in it and it fired right up. 20 year old gas and oil. Did very basic maintenance and will be driving it to NYC, about 500 miles this month. Wish me luck!
Where the hell did you find one? I've been trying to find one for years and I can never find them for sale in this country.
just put some lead additive while refueling and have fun!
I can't believe what I'm reading. 20 years in a field and you're going to drive it. 500 miles? Are you serious. Have you made sure of its structural integrity.?I speak from very personal experience using vehicles for parts that had sit in a field for that long. I use the motor out of one which was a 1980s Chev truck that at that point had the engine in it out of a Pontiac GTO. Believe it or not. She'd sit in a field for about 20 years. Part of the carburetor was broken and we still managed to get it to run and move within seconds of starting the vehicle. The exhaust system blew off completely, just behind the manifolds and fell on the floor. Only one wheel would turn out 0f 4 and it had nothing even remotely resembling breaks other than the factory wheels wouldn't turn anymore. Staring was almost nonexistent. Large portions of the body immediately began to rattle and falloff and basically fly everywhere's there was just so much rot on the main body of that truck. It wasn't even funny. From what I know of the yougo they like to rust at a accelerated rate. That is the one thing that concerns me greatly is the rust factor. Second thing that concerns me. For your safety is the condition of the brakes. Bear in mind I use the motor out of that truck replaced the carburetor with a carburetor that was still in the box and replaced all the gaskets spark plugs, plug wires and so forth as well as the fluids I'm also a little bit concerned about your fuel pump situation and what kind of condition your spark plug wires are probably going to be in. I want to express none of this has anything to do with the car being a yougo. In fact, I'd be even more concerned depending on what vehicle it was there are other vehicles that rust a lot worse depending on certain factors. I don't know if you've left by now for your trip, but hopefully the least of your problems would be breaking down along the way I'm more concerned about you becoming some truckers belt buckle because of something like a aging ball joint or crystallized brake pads
Dude good frickin' luck lmao seriously
here in my country you can buy tones of Yugo for 200-300 $
The average person from Yugoslavia was 6ft tall lol
Yep we are :)
Don’t let facts and statistics get in the way of a cringeworthy joke lol
Viktor Dimitrovski And today, literally the tallest people in the world are from Yugoslav lands (Dinarian Alps). Taller than the Dutch. Oh, and Slovenes are third.
@@borismarkov1141 No, we must use every opportunity to show americans that stupidity and lack of education can't be used as a basis for jokes, because that just makes them look stupid rather than making the joke funny. Unfortunately, they don't seem to realize that, so they keep doing it.
@@aleksandarmiloeski7637 Talking out of my ass because I can't be arsed to fish for deacade-old statistics, but I'd say the average height of those regions probably hasn't changed that drastically in the last 40 years.
I'm still driving mine.... 346,549 miles on it. It still turns heads, and stomachs.
Not
😂😂😂👍
Had an 88 GV .Bought it new for $3995. Drove it all over the east coast from Canada to Key west. 111,000 miles in 5 years. I have no complaints.
It's picks up when you floor it I think it's a great car
I had a GVX I drove for 85000 miles....the neighbor who bought it drive it another 80000, and she sold it to someone be who continued to drive it. It's how you took care of them...that made them last if you wanted them to last.
it can drive over 300K miles if you maintain them well. Not bad for such a cheap car. :)
I also have a GVX. Great car.
those 1300 EFI engines in Yugo, have records on passing one million kilometers, as vehicles in police and fire departments and taxis. extremly tough engines and reliable.
It is a bit unfair to say an ultra cheap car is the worst because of its minimalism and low cost materials.
true, like what did you expect??
Ultra cheap is an understatement.
It was 3999, like what did they expect? To get a car with premium buld quality, leather interior and an AC, that goes from 0 to 60 in 5s or less? :D
If the motoring media admitted a Yugo contained 95% the DNA of expensive cars, everyone would own one, dealerships would die and the system would break down. We should support the status anxious in their anxiety, tell them to keep making the payments, so there's more cars like the Yugo for the rest of us.
of course it isn't,but the media killed it. yugo was my first car and i will always remember it. yugo was my best and worst car i ever had,but it was so cheap and simple and funny it just brings smile on my face,rather than an angry grin. for instance any IDIOT can change something like a fuel pump,which costed like 5 bucks (original magneti marelli) and could be swapped in like 2 minutes right on the spot. it was noisy,smelly,unsafe but it was also red and i banged my first chicks in it so i love it.
Unsafe in case of a crash. I'd say it was an easy car to drive and surprisingly stable at motorway speeds.
So what was that handle in the back seat? Could one recline the rear seat or was it so one could just remove the whole rear seat?
So, you also checked the suspension of the YUGO.:P
@@JackDanielsCHS08rear seat did not could be tilted forward, or removed completely, leaving a clean flat carpeted rear. That's what the bolts and hinges are for .
1) remove the bolts
2) take out the rear seat
It's a brand new car for $4000 with free service for a year Jesus what room do you have to complain about
4000? damn that's a lot, in serbia you get it for 200 euros
@@chainchomper27 no
Idk why but I think the yugo looks kinda cool
Not just you, if they fitted a better motor and coil overs and made a yugo GTI would look good.
Italian design my friend
Same, it's kinda cute
+Super_Slav it weighs very little so 67hp is plenty for it but more power definitely wouldn't hurt.
It’s because you are a hipster
Until recently (8-10 years ago) this car was driven on almost every license test... If you manage to drive without mistakes on Yugo, you were a real chauffeur!
for some reason they have Golf 7's in Belgrade
For the price back in the days when it was new it was way better value then all the others in the class.
fyi, an average ex-yugoslav is taller than an average american :)
It's a fact :)
It looks like nowadays it's easier to find Yugos in North America than in Western Europe.
Because they weren't sold in Western Europe. :D
@@Commentator541 Only in British.
OH yes they were sold!
@@goodpljeska2168 Again, false. I've seen them myself in Spain, very long ago. I could even get to see a Yugo Florida, which somehow looked like a copy of the Citroën ZX.
The countries that exported the most are Yugo, America, Britain and Egypt. They even sold in Australia
We are talking here in the ordinary Yugo. Florida is the second model of Zastava factory (later changed its name to Yugo car factory).
Vozio sam yugo 45 4 godine uz sitna održavanja jeftine dijelove samo je išao ima i gorijih od yuga . Npr moskvić ,trabant, Škoda 105 l ,tavria, vartburg,. Polonez , zastava 1500 ,zaporožac , Fiat 126p i našlo bi se još njih . Pozdrav iz Hrvatske !
Ja danas vozim Yugo Tempo iz '99 to mi je prvi automobil
@@v.j.5510 menjaj :D
@@LepiSladja Oću kad skupim pare
@@v.j.5510 ma samo se salio, ja isto kupio prvi auto pre 2 godine, ford probe 2gen usa import 1995 2.0
Ma de je bolji od fiata 125p jes ti prehladjen,pa pezejac ti je ladja ko mercedes
Compared to cars of similar size from that era the Yugo werent that bad. afaik it's a Fiat design. They were economic, easy to maintain and fix, spare parts were cheap. Build quality was perhaps not equal to Toyota or Mercedes, but certainly on par with similar Fiat models.
If you want crap cars from eastern europe take a look at the all plastic 2 stroke Trabant from DDR.
after 38 years of use and Bruce Willis Driving it ... i think it deserves at least a cheer !! I mean what do you want for 3999 $ ?
Bruce Willis never drove it in the third "Die Hard" movie. It was actually Samuel L. Jackson all the time. 😅
yugos can be sold for 300 dollars in serbia, pistons cost 40 dollars per piece, headgaskets cost 20 dollars, you can piss in the fuel tank and itll run
Yugosloveni , Ima li nas? :D
Tu smo ne brini, jebes ove nacionaliste sto ne odgovaraju
Jugoslavija mora biti obnovljena.
Da
Hejlo!
Infinity Improvise hej :D
de nas nema
I'm pretty sure someone that comments "this car doesn't have airbags" isn't a gearhead by any stretch of imagination.
I'am from Serbia, and we are teach drive on the Yugo xD who know drive Yugo, he know drive Tank. 😂
This car is THE car here on Balkan
Normalno 😀
@@sasaantic4461 Ovamo ga voze normalnog. Kod nas ugradju mu turbinu točkove motor sine 1000 konjskih snaga hahahaha.
Was THE car of Balkan, not any more.
Ne lupetajte, najvece sranje.
@@ronvlaar2771 Nije jbt najbolji kad se nabudži
I am from ex Yugoslavia, actually my father had one when I was a kid. Such a funny car and indestructible!
Yugo.. pretty nostalgic, I learned how to drive in that thing, and the few different Yugos I tried all had very different brake sensitivity - horrible thing for a beginner. Funny enough, what they did have in common is the key: you could open different Yugos with the one key you had. People would go into someone elses car by accident, or to play a prank on them :)
The same thing happened with Lada keys lol
As someone who passed his driving exam on a Yugo, I can tell ya, once you become King of the Yugo, you can drive tank, trunks, nuclear warheads easy
Izgledao je baš mali
To veče naš
Jugo četrespet.
This brings tears to my eyes as a Yugoslav :)
I bought a Yugo in the early 2000's at an auction for.....$35. Pop started it with a push from a friend & drove it home.
My grandparents got a Yugoslavia spec Yugo Koral 55 bought brand new in 1992. It was used as car for everything, had it's own trailer that they sold a while ago, over the years rust has been eating some parts of the car. Due to recent changes in registration laws in Serbia, it's not road legal. My grandpa would like to restore it, I would rather use the body, get rid of rust, swap its original 1.1L I4 for a 1.6L Fiat 95hp I4 and turn it into a rally/slalom racing car. While the grandma is still on her "yOu wIlL nEvEr FiX iT" phrase. I've got 200€ saved atm, untill summer I should have 300€ so we will see what will happen. All in all, stock and cared for Yugo is a great little daily driver that's economic, reliable and easy to fix
@-T-X-M- 25 godina je rintao, ali ima još snage u njemu mogu da vidim. Ako budem imao sreće možda uradim oba tipa, pa kad zatreba jedno samo izmenim delove za priliku
@-T-X-M- bilo bi slažem se, videćemo šta će vreme doneti
Jbga rat je sjebo autoindustriju na balkanu danas bi se golfaje sklapale u Sarajevu i svi bi bili happy
To je moj zivotni san.
What did they change? I have plenty of Serbian buddies with Yugos...
We had a 1987 Yugo 45A (America) producing 45hp. It had a 4 cyl carbureted engine with less than 1L displacement (.903 cm3).
That car was used for everything, and a lot of times was used as a pick up truck. Hauling firewood, heavy steel pieces for my dad's business, etc. It was also used on mountain and dirt roads, driving over curbs, pot holes and what not.
What I don't understand is how people can call it a bad car? Chose any western car and treat it like the Yugos are treated, and then tell me how long they will last.
Also, a Yugo Cabrio (convertible) had the most sophisticated roof for that time. Both electric and hydraulic. If, for some reason, the electric motor didn't work, you were still able to open/close the roof manually. It also had a real glass back window, unlike some other cars that had some plexiglass that turned yellow over the years.
Take a look at the Golf Cabrio of that era (3-4 times more expensive). When it drove on the highway, its roof looked like a bubble. Terrible.
ruclips.net/video/id6VjsBhfoM/видео.html 169hp yugo
It's because Americans are used to expensive cars and they didnt take car of YUGOs because of lack of service branches and will.
It sold 800.000 times so it must have done at least something right and it did. It was cheap, but had all the basics.
@@Mastakilla91 True.
But not only Americans. Basically everyone, including the Serbs in Serbia. If they had a better car than Yugo, then Yugo was garbage. Never mind they paid 3-4 times more for their car and never abused it as they'd abuse a Yugo. That's the difference.
Cheers.
@@markonissweatshop1364 You have to abuse Yugo most of the times (after some time) because it won't accept gentle input. The shifter is the first to go. Then, if you have strong winters, it won't start easy during winter time (joke: rear back window heaters are for your hands, so they don't freeze while you push the Yugo), window handles and door locks break way too easy etc. You can see this in other cars as well, but Yugo was sold to over 2 million Yugoslavians initially and twice as much during the next 10 years. So naturaly a lot of people were making jokes. We drive these cars even today. You get one for 300€ and drive it until registration expires. Sell it for 200€...So, even back in say, 1999, we were driving Yugos that were over 10 years old. Of course they were all broken all over... :) But they did run, get you places etc.
@@Ludak021
It wouldn't accept gentle input because it was previously abused, lol.
Shifters were easily adjusted with one or two bolts underneath. At least that's what my dad told me, as I was a kid then.
I agree with the infamous door and window handles/cranks. They did break.
I don't recall ours having much trouble starting in the winter, but since I lived in the building, I've heard many neighbours having problems starting their cars in the morning (other makes and models too).
My dad bought a 1987 model in 1993 with not many km's on it. Before it got into my dad's hands, it was NEVER abused, and it showed. It looked and drove brand new.
I learned driving on that car (besides other things we won't mention here, lol) and I dearly miss it. Even though, I kind of hated it back then...
5:37, dash moving like that means someone tangled with it, maybe has to do something with those custom buttons added but out from factoru no, it didnt move like that. Edit: 5:45, no not factory bolts.
I agree
not to mention those are not the original wheels.
I rented one of these in Yugoslavia in 1988/9 and for the time it was ok. It was based on the Fiat 127 and the handling was quite nervous but it was also quite fun.
It was like a new, improved fiat 127.
@@jmbpinto73 *but it's not improved at all and the 127 was better :)
A good feature of Yugo is that you can double its value by filling the fuel tank all the way.
Hurrah! Finally, genuine, unbiased evaluations of just regular cars! Bravo, Jalopnik!
hahaha I love your positive attitude, yugo was an ok, cheap city car. We have many jokes about it here in Serbia. Also imagine the other versions, US export one is the most powerful, 65hp. There were also Yugo 45 and 55.
Thank you for the funny and overall positive review :)
I just drove my Yugo 2500 miles down rt66 on a lemons rally and for 2,000 of those miles it worked :)
I had '89 Yugo 45
903cc with 45hp
Most fun I ever had
So cheap to maintain
I have the same engine in my 127!
Legends say if you use rakija as fuel in a Yugo it'll go faster than the speed of light.
Greetings from Serbia! :)))
Pisi srpski da te ceo svet razume 😀. Pozz
Prvi video da ne pljuje Yuga
Sorry we bombed your Zastava car factory :(
How do you double the value of a Yugo?
You fill it will gas.
I only know that one from the east german Trabant :D
Ha ha ha
Oldest joke in the book...
What kind of gas is "will gas"?
or you are a kiddo from elementery school ? You know that should not drive car in that age!
@@donvitocorleone3951 ma iznerviraju me kad seru jbt . Ovi kukavci sve od sebe dali a on se pametan nasao.
2:57 I almost stood up and put my right arm on my chest when I heard that background music. 😪💔
Trabant much worse
But much more fun, too! ;)
It aint bad we had one as kids traded 1000wat speaker for it it ran great the only thing that was weird thou was the shifter
Vlade Divac was driving yugo from backseat. He removed front driver seat.
For $3950 MSRP even if it had 3 wheels, it wouldn't be a BAD car. Long live Yugo!
This is by far not the worst car ever.
That is because you don't know worse cars. Trabant was way worse, some may argue is a much older design. First generation Seat Ibiza, was twice more expensive and not significantly better in any way than the Yugo. It was just a decent car for the money. They sold it new back then for the price you pay for the floor mats or tinted window option of a new car now.
I love his answer, somewhere between priceless and valueless.
It reminds me of my fiat panda from 2002 over here in the Netherlands, but sad enough has the yugo not only more power it also has more options.
I have one red fiat panda in my yard it hasnt been driven for years and has some plants growing on its motor
i sat in this car! i really realllllyyyy want one!
They aren't exactly expensive... And if you want a good one import a '89 1.3 with EFI from Serbia.
I m from Serbia and my dad drive yugo
It was my first car and it was decent at the time. It's kind of unfair to test drive it now, 30 years later. That car wasnt built to last a lifetime but you could drive it 10-15 years with not much issue. And, btw.. you dont just put wider tires on a car, that's just dumb
I can tell you what problems we had when we owned this car: the car wouldn't start when it was cold sometimes, when it rained severely the car would have electrical problems, the door handles snapped so you opened the window to open the door from the outside, dinars (Yugoslavian and now only Serbian coins) could open the trunk, it smelled of gasoline inside and was the worst in the summer (you smelled like gasoline after riding in this car), it would get nice and foggy inside when raining so every good Yugo owner had chamois leather to wipe the windshield, we also had a rust problem cause a garage was a luxury. On the other hand it had thin wheels so it was rather good in the snow and the suspension was just made for shitty roads, it would warm you pretty good in the winter time (and in the summer time), and lastly it was a car and it could go places. I loved that car like no other.
0:52 you don't need keys for yugo, you can use screwdriver, keys from other yugo, other cars...
Yugo is best period
It is basically an Autobianchi A112 from 1969 of which the Fiat 127 was derived. I once had an Autobianchi A112 base of 1970 that succumbed to rust after 15 years. Not bad and it was technically still very good with no major repairs in all those years. The A112 was produced until 1987-ish I think. 18 years. Not bad either. There were more derivatives from the Autobianchi. The Yugo 45, the Fiat Panda first gen and the Seat Marabella (and as said the Fiat 127). I crossed all over Europe with the A112. Even to the North Cape in Norway and the Alps in Austria. No big problems. I still long for the A112 Abarth. But I have no garage and a lot of other priorities.
My dad back in Yugoslavia got his hands on an American Export Yugo haha, it had neck rest and an electric antenna :D And that was seen as some "luxury"
Try driving a Seat Marbella, a nutshell on tires and less save then a Yugo :D It was my first car when I was 18. Cheers from Germany!
My first car. Boy it was fun :) Yugo 45 from 1989. Many miles driven in one year. But it was awful, transmission was very bad, stearing also. But I learned how to fix problems that car had in basically every situation easily. :D
The most rugged and worst car is PT Cruiser.
Had one as a teenager. Parents got it for me as a birthday gift.....i cried.......parents thought it was tears of happiness, it was tears of fear! Ended up having alot of fun with the car and alot of memories. Hell i got laid in the front passenger seat....blew the engine parents made me put a new engine in, blew it again 6 months later. Got grounded everytime a part broke. I had shitty parents.
I always wanted one of the last ones, a -45 GLS-X-Q....- 65 with the twin choke Weber and 1,300 Fiat 'Fire' engine ;0)
You tip the rear backrest forward then the whole seat rolls forward giving a flat floor the door lock buttons are left over stock period Fiat, I'm showing my age . That door card material looks like they now use it in i3s.
I agree...many cars of the 1980s were worse..this car got a bad rap mostly from the auto rags who crucified it due to silly fit and finish issues.
Meanwhile, most of those top rated 80s civics, corollas ,and sentras which cost over twice a much, have long since crumbled to dust. Even the Hyundais of that era got more respect.
I havent seen a Yugo on the street in awhile, but its the same for its contemporaries as well.
That said.....even the Yugo doesnt have as bad a rap as the American cars of that era.
Ironically, nearly the only 80s cars left on the road (at least here in the Northeast) are those American cars everyone talks so much shit about. Funny, isnt it? The top rated Japanese cars are the ones that DIDN'T withstand the test of time. Basically Only German and American cars from the 1970s and 1980s lasted. And apparently the occasional Yugo....
You can find these in great condition for under 300€ in Serbia...
It's not a typo, every 10 year old can probably buy this with their birthday money.
Those 57 horses will take you to the moon and back and you're going to love every second of it!
I Really love those Jamex seats does anyone know where I can buy them or are they discontinued?
Good video :D Am I wrong, or you can actually hear the tyres scraping the metal the whole time?? :D Reeeealy bad decision to put these on :D Hint: The rear bench does work, you just need to fold the top part down first, don't tug the seat itself.
Side note: We actually have some of the world's tallest people here in the ex-Yugoslavia region. And I guess everybody's been on Yugo's rear bench at least once in their lifetime :D
The Hammerhead Eagle i-Thrust is the worst car ever made.
Carcaine The Rover James was pretty bad too.
It still got a better score than the gwiz
Geoff*
*best
sounds like the name of a porno
You should have seen when my friends mom used to pick us up from the club back in former Yugoslavia. 6 of us in there some of my friends were over 6ft tall.
Something that happened maybe you go the most dealers car in the world is what happened back in 1987. A woman drove a blue you go across the Mackinac Bridge Michigan USA. The Yugo went over the bridge.
Source:Detroit Free Press& MLive
Took Michigan State Police eight days to find her in the water under the bridge her hands are still in the steering steering wheel
You can fix a yugo with a 10mm and hammer
along with duct tape and wd40
My granpa had one wich he had bought brand new. 260k and some change been reliable since day one. He was left stranded only once and that was because of a flat tire.
I don't know why people hated theese cars so much... What did people expect from a 3995$ brand spankin new car
Jason, do not stop making these! You rule.
Guys this was a family car to about 10 years ago. I could a total engine overhall with brand new parts for 100 bucks and it would go another 100,000 miles (yes miles!). You could buy parts in a tobacco store. You could tune it for 200-300 bucks and double the horse power by installing a Lancia 1.6 100+ bhp engine. Swap the Lancia brakes and you got yourself a pocket rocket
My father once managed to pull 140km/h out of his old yugo. His description of the experiance was that it was shakeing so hard that he was fearing that it would start to disasemble around him like in cartoons.
Why didn't he 'balance the tires' first - it's done on ALL cars regardless of price!
That's why Eastern-eu people are so tough. They grow up on cars like this. You are scared from this puppy. Imagine their 150 hp cars.
What 150hp cars? I can think of only 1 communist car that would make that kind of power, KGB V8 Volga and possibly a Lada Niva.
My grandfather bought it in 1982 ,my father 1987 and finally they bought me my first car in 1989..off course Yugo haha...so almost off my car memories and trips from 80s childhood are from Yugo ... But we had one that was not Yugo but from same factory
as a eastern european, yes, there was no 150 hp cars for sale im afraid :) only soviet cars like volgas and zils had that power but you could not buy them
Can anyone tell me how much it cost back then in Yugoslavia? I can only ever find the US price.
Jalponik I love you please never die
Pants that fit!?
You're right. It isn't.
The Morris Marina is.
*starts raining pianos*
An instant fan, great review.
Great funny review, thanks.
1:53 uuu yugo is agressive btw YUGO IS THE BEST CAR EVER
The Trabant is much, much worse than this.
Trabant is just weird and shitty. Yugo was an ordinary hatchback.
My first car, YUGO 45 model 1990, had it from '91 to '95. Four cylinders engine with 903 ccm delivers 45 hp. Sooo much fun, so easy to drive. Loved that sound.
I had one 10 years ago. Served nice, fun to drive. I would like to take it for a ride now. Instead of these all new modern and boring cars.
Zastava cars were bashed in the media for politic reasons. It was a great seller and the opposition payed the media to bash it in the ground. Plus the wars didn't helped much either. NATO floored all the factories with the ground (among other things such as hospitals, schools, orphanages, basically random civilian targets since they couldn't do much damage the clever Serbian army.) If you really want to know the shittiest cars in the world are polonezi which are cars made in Poland, basically parts were falling off of it the moment you started driving it and it drove by itself no matter where you steer mostly it went into a first pole or ditch. It was that bad. You had to be a suicide masochist to love those type of cars. For me personally the Zastava Florida (Sana) was back then a true modern affordable easy to maintain and beautiful car. Too bad the company was destroyed they had lots of great concepts which later ended up in Germany most of the Zastava designers also work there today for Mercedes, Audi and BMW.
ExternalDomain what are you smoking?
@@DomWeselnyBrzozieLub he is not smoking anything, he is correct.
@@strah62 you guys are using any oportunity for political crap and blaming NATO for all your problems. Grew up. The thruth is Yugo and stojadin were among the worst cars ever produced. Period. There is not a single engineer from former so-called Yugoslavija working on development in any of mentioned factories, perhaps only on assembly line. And about Polonez this I agree, it was same crap as Yugo.
@@DomWeselnyBrzozieLub yup you have got it all figured out, want me to give you a like on you comment so you feel relevant?
@@strah62 pusti ga vidis da je govedo
*The Pinto and the PT Cruiser are 1 and 2 worst cars*
VW Beetle is worst
@@homeofthemad3044 you obvioisly never droven one tho..
@@newjoflo6916 Correct, but I can still see it is a miserable, ugly, Nazi shitbox. If you want a classic economy car, you could get a Ford Falcon, Chevrolet Corvair, Fiat 500, etc. You don't need to indulge Hitler's ghost.
@@homeofthemad3044 why is every german car a nazi tho?
@@newjoflo6916
Not every German car is a Nazi car. Mercedes and BMW are not Nazis, they are just normal car companies in Germany.
But, VW was founded by the Nazis before World War II. In 1945, the Nazi's lost control over Germany, so they just began making cars instead.
In short, institutionally VW is a surviving component of the Nazi government of Germany.
Never knew that this car was so good. Our first family car, 1993 Polo 1.0 had 45hp and was basically the exact same design, just a bit better materials, just a bit. This was an awesome video!
In our world, we use to say that the heating elements in the rear window were to keep your hands warm when you had to push it. Now the poor thing is a car without a country.
Yugo without problems with changing gears? That's not a real Yugo
They did not have 6'2" people in yugoslavia?? 😕
I am 6.2, born in yugoslavia. i drove in yugo many times, but back then i was a bit smaller :)
@@Foxmang ...I have family members that were 7' tall it was very common..
I dont know wtf he is talking about .
This car has a passenger's side mirror. My 84 Rabbit doesn't, and the Rabbit was one of the hallmarks for small car design at the time, and the Yugo beats it (in the mirror department anyway)!
It also has rear quarter windows that open like a flap which your Rabbit never had
Export versions of this car were built in far better quality and materials than domestic stuff which I think is where the bad reputation comes from.
Yep. A friend of mine bought an export Yugo. It had electric windows, automatic transmision, higher quality metalwork and better engine.
we can all agree that the Toyota Prius is worse than a Yugo right?
I'd say the Yugo did exactly what it was designed to do, and thus is actually a good car, within its original context at least.
In college, we pulled and replaced an engine in one of those, in the driveway, BY HAND.
Goofy little thing, it was kind of fun.
I dropped a lada onto its engine once. It took 3 of us but we managed to do it in one go
You go yugo!
Slow car fast is awesome
Did you know that Yugo for america was 2x better version of that car than in Balkans😂
nope, exact opposite of that.
@xcman then tell me why yugos in US rust all the time and fall apart but not here
Oh and one funfact:
the GV plus model that's been used in this video is one of the better equipped version of whole production line. It comes with a back seat seat belts 🤤 i think i've never seen one before.
Now lemme tell you a short story 'bout Yugo! Yugo was an a important part of our lives in Yugoslavia. It was considered as a "national car" and it was very affordable. We used to travel with him for over 30000km per year with out any big breakdowns. Yes - it was shitty interior and stuff but at least the engine was reliable and if you took a ONE regular car service per year, you had no problems afterwards. This little car was concessor of a Fiat 650 who was also considered as a national car but it was, waih a sec - an even smaller & cheapet car. When we was bored for some reason as a kids, we sometime used to do a complete repair of an engine that Fiat 650 had. And 650 stands for ccm (!?!). Yes, it was THAT small family car which was akso a car for about 20-30k km per year.
Hope you enjoyed this story. Be well. Stay safe. Keep the distance. Greets from 🇷🇸 Serbia 🤘🙋🏼♂️
It was based on a Fiat 128 which was a sound design and 67hp is about what a second generation Civic had.
Yugo and Lamborghini share something
Same fuel consumption