Yugo America - Sales training video - 1988
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- This is a Yugo America sales training video from 1988. I cam across this video online many many years ago...so I decided to share it with all the Yugo fans out there! Enjoy!
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Finally! A car with no expensive microchips to diagnose or replace!
it didn't have enough parts to need a computer and they all stopped working anyways.
Electronic ignition and partial electrically controlled carburator are about the closest you get, but even then there's only 3 circuits on that carb anyways!
People joke and whine about carburators on these cars but seem to forget that unless you paid top dollar you didn't get fuel injection on most models, either. I think the lowest priced fuel injected motor you could get at the time would have been a Honda Accord LXi or a Toyota Celica or something. Very high in the range and everything else below it was all carburators.
@@AiOinc1 Yugo produced its best 1300 DMB engine with Bosch motronic 4.6 computer injection. I have Yugo Florida 1.3 EFi car myself, and its best Zastava engine ever installed.
@@user-br6cu5jm1q Not really since I have a Fiat 127 and I have three Friends that have those cars too both with the 903cc and 1050cc (both engine were available in yugos) and they still works fine
@keith cunningham Wrong. The PROMs were permanently programmed. Furthermore, the carbureted models would run with the computer completely disconnected, despite at full rich mixture carburetion, no ignition advance and no lockup torque converter function.
I bought one in 1989 it was great with no issues at all excellence
It is made for no issues,today there are many of them on balkan roads
@@macak3140 not any more 😂 štoo lažeš ?? They are gone on Balkan too.
@@ratkomilutinovic829 rusted and twisted...
If you still have it, I bet it would be all issues and no excellence. LOL
Rlly?
I love how they emphasized that it's all analog and has no computer chips! Seriously, if only they knew how ahead of their time they were! These days being affordable and analog is a GOOD thing!
this was car that cost 3990 dollars brand new.So if you wanted fast car you bought Ferrari, if you wanted safe car you bought Volvo,if you wanted reliable car you bought something Japanese. But not one car of these ones didn't cost 3990 dollars. You can't expected dirt cheap car to have V8 engine, leather seats and mahogany dashboard and premium badge. Yugo was intended for students, poor people not for Golf club showoffs.
I agree completely. What some of the young readership don't realize is that many of the things pointed out, ten years before this car was sold actually were upmarket features. Not all cars of the '70s were fully carpeted, had dipping rear mirrors or halogen headlights. The 0-50 time is pretty quick actually, ten seconds and 65 bhp in a small car isn't bad at all. Front wheel drive means it's safer in the wet, and the tyre in the bonnet saves space in the back, or having to get under it to get it out. This Yugo reportedly sold over 140,000 models in the States. In real terms people who may have had no car at all, such as: teenagers getting to training or to see their girlfriends/boyfriends. Old people enjoying freedom to get about, and the housewife picking up the kids or getting away for some me time.
Hey....look at my....golf clubs, never been used
The only reason they got a bad name in the end was because of a recall in 1992 right before they left the US.
EPA forced a recall on every car they made before 1992 due to emissions concerns (of course) right before Yugoslavia went into civil war, and the UN imposed an embargo on all exports. The warranties on these poor cars became worthless and some cars were even bought back to provide spare parts for other cars as long as they could. Unfortunately, incredibly long wait times don't go down well with people, and the car got a bad reputation.
Another problem was people treating the poor cars as disposable and neglecting any and all maintenance where possible. Oil changes skipped and timing belts snapped, which killed these cars more than anything else. There are a few left on the road that still run very well, even after 100,000 miles because their owners simply treated them as you would any other vehicle.
Oil changes every 5,000 miles,
Timing belt inspected every 20,000 miles and changed every 40,000 miles,
Clutch plates every 75,000 miles.
Routine maintenance will keep any car on the road much longer, especially one designed from the beginning to be a very robust little communist car!
@@stuartwilkie4887 A good example of 70s engineering is the Chevrolet Chevette...
For example, a 1976 Chevrolet Chevette has:
1.4 liter Isuzu I4 making 52HP
4 speed manual transmission
Optional 1.6 liter Isuzu I4 making 62HP
Optional 3 speed automatic transmission
where a 1986 Yugo GV has:
1.1 liter DMB I4 making 52HP
4 speed manual transmission
Bench rear seats
Rear window wiper
Rear window defroster
Optional air conditioning
Optional 1.3 liter DMB I4 making 65HP
Optional 3 speed automatic transmission
Optional electro-hydraulic convertible top
A base model Chevette was $2899 in 1976, and a base model Yugo was $3990 in 1986.
Adjusting for inflation to 2018, a base model Chevette would have cost $12690, where the Yugo would have cost $9220.
A Yugo was better built, better designed, had more features, and better optioned than the previous domestic vehicles for sale. The only *real* competition would have come from the Honda Civic, Toyota Corolla, and Dodge Omni / Plymouth Horizon, all of which were only marginally better for a much higher cost.
Yugo GV for $3990 or Honda Civic for nearly $9000? The choice was simple for an awful lot of people.
Actually yes, it was the Vauxhall Chevette I was thinking about from a decade earlier. To a potential Chevette buyer ten years ago - the extras in a Yugo would be quite welcome.
One of the problems really for it was the intrusive drive tunnel. However, I would expect a Chevette to give a higher performance than the Yugo for say being hustled down bumpy, twisty country lanes. I had the experience of that near a place I used to live - in the three box version. With wider tyres, a better engine, about 85 bhp and 5 speed it really would have been a quite decent mover.
The Yugo definitely was better corrosion proofed, had more features and more interior space.
The interior on both cars was really basic though. I'm not a massive fan when I can see painted metal on the inside.
I think the Yugo was a better car for those on a tight budget (as you accurately pointed out with the adjusted price). And, if properly maintained it could run and run. I think it was ideal for a student or an older person with priorities of longevity, visibility from a higher driving position and space.
The Chevette to my mind was better as a family car that somebody with a need for better or safer driving dynamics would want. The Yugo I could potter about in, but the Chevette I think I'd feel more confident as a daily machine carrying my family around.
I bought a yugo 45 in 1990s for £50 it never let me down. I had it for two years.
And did you drive it or just left in garage
"the YUGO is a remarkably equipped hatchback which gives new meaning to the term: Basic Transportation"
Sean Ford Oh, it does, it does! :) It is probably the most remarkably equipped hatchback most of us have ever seen.
Citroën 2CV: Sup Kiddo
I bought new 1987 Red and 1988 Blue. The '88 had working Air conditioning.
If made today, I would by as a now older person. Yugo GVL was a very dependable and enjoyable automobile. Thank you
Whats the difference in engine power when you turn on airconditioner?
The fact they started with the hood release should tell you everything you need to know.
lol
This man has it spot on!
I wonder what the actual reason is for the placement of the hood release
The next thing they talk about is how easy the engine is to "maintain"
@@akishot6735 Many cars of the period had their hood release on the exterior which meant that spare tires and batteries and the like were often easily stolen.
Common problem in the 70s and early 80s before manufacturers started moving the release to the interior and this stopped.
Here I am at 1:19 am in the morning watching a yugo sales training video trying to justify buying one that's been sitting sense 1993
Did you?
Wow! I'm pumped! This car is gonna' be big! And that company is going far!
Rob's Randomness I laughed so hard !!
I feel the same way
Now they're producing the Fiat 500L for the whole world. It's not that bad of a future and the build quality is quite good. But yeah, it's a car even uglier than the Yugo xD
Bruv Zastava stopped producing vehicles 19 yrs ago
@@scar-l3043 no it didnt
This video makes me want to return to the 1980s!
@Roscoe Dogg thats because you are an asshole...
I had two of them. They ran ok up till 65k then the head gasket went bye bye. My first one shook so hard at 65 mph you couldnt hang on to the wheel. I got it with a salvage title. I figure a butterfly flew out in front of it and totalled it out. lol. Insurance companys just wrote them off if they even got into a minor fender bender. I bought another Yugo for parts .I ended up pulling the head from my first one and putting it on the second one. I then parted out the first one. The rocker switches failed. The fuel guage failed. It was a joint endeavor with Ford Motor company. The engine was a fiat 128. Parts were available and diet cheap. My mechanical fuel pump kept failing so I installed an aftermarket electric fuel pump mounted on the firewall. The second Yugo ran pretty ggod. I ended up selling it for a Ford 4 door Maverick. I owned that car for 7 years and got 280k on it. I sold it and the guy I sold it to drove it for many years after. That Yugo didnt last much longer after I sold it I guess.
"The Yugo's wiring is routed through plastic conduits" so that your feet and legs don't instantly short them out when they rub against them in the footwell.
Oh come on all the people slating the Yugo... You could get a brand-new car for little money with a warranty. What more would you want? Of course, I grew up in the UK, which could build cars just as lousy as any Eastern Bloc country! They sold Yugos here too - I remember them when I was a kid and would've quite happily had one as my first car.
Thanks for sharing. A friend of mine had one back in `92 and it was a surprisingly good little car providing basic transportation, something nobody does anymore.
The guy who started the import of the Yugo is the same guy who created the Bricklen car(Malcolm Bricklen)also was the first to import Subaru cars. My friends mom bought a Yugo brand new in 88'/89'and drove it for 200k+/miles no major issues. How I don't know guess she got LUCKY!
there's a fluke in every bunch.
It’s Bricklin, not Bricklen.
She definitely was lucky. Only thing that didn't suck on Yugo was the Fiat-derived engine. If you were okay with lack of power, that is. But that part was pretty well built.
I don't even begin to believe she got 200,000 miles out of that piece of crap motor. Not even to start with
Roger Lund
Yugo's engine was totally okay. It was robust and so simple there wasn't much to break, and repairs were dirt cheap anyway. It's the last thing which would force you to scrap the car.
I'm tempted to watch the video again and count the number of times I hear "safety", "comfort" and "looks". Hey, if you say it enough times, its true. LOL
If you do not ruin it. Yugo is actually more comfortable to drive than most New small cars... Renault Megane 20 years later has way less space and comfort for driver....
Just like : America is the land od the brave and free, more like AMerica is the land of the cowards and the poor, mentally deranged country.
@@tramvaj1271 no dude, its not, modern cars have low profile tires, thats it. Mosern chassis and suspensions are light years ahead of yugo
Theft? The thief would go 500 meters, realise their mistake and turn back to return the car
no, they would leave a note saying "I'm sorry for your situation, here's a $20 bill."
American people always preferred to be robbed by their own industry LOL
@@MIKIZAZPIKI 😂😂😂
And the car would die on the way back. The thief would have to get out and push it the rest of the way.
Bbss Bsbsb Sad but true. Having a manual transmission is a great anti-theft deterrent.
What an epic video! The background music fits perfectly. Yugos styling is actually rather nice and likeable.
0-50MPH ...now, if that doesn't say everything that needs to be said
Actually top speed was 45
"Without sacrificing performance, reliability, or comfort...." The Yugo is none of those things... They're lying straight through their teeth on the first point.
That's known as fluff in advertising. All of those things are subjective. You aren't necessarily "lying". He isn't saying "it out-performs a BMW in the quarter mile." Now THAT would be a lie.
Legend... Never forget
lol
This is a Yugo America sales training video from 1988. I came across this video online many many years...so I decided to share it with all the Yugo fans out there! Enjoy!
Thanks, I am just a car lover and I enjoy seeing retro reviews, information and commercials for all types of cars.
Sleek taillights? It’s a damn square for crying out loud
Welcome to world of marketing.
🤣
hey a square is the 2nd least areodynamic shape!
Loved my 1988 Yugo GVL. Had it for 5 years. Bought new. At 6ft. 7in. I had more leg room than my 1983 Cadillac Eldorado. Remember hearing that the body steel was thicker than Mercedes Benz body steel. It was an awesome back and forth to work car. I turned down on getting the a/c with it for fear that it would “bog down” the acceleration. When I traded it in for newer car there was no rust on it but really hated to get rid of it. Moved up to Plymouth Sundance (Duster) with all the bells and whistles.
It was an excelent car for it's value. What can you buy Today at an equivalent price? American people (USA people better said) always felt angry at discovering that they had been robbed for years by their own automobile industry which only could offer them a good bike and a coloured muffin at that cost... LOL
In my hometown the Dodge dealer sold Yugos as a sideline. They did a decent business in base GV models but I swear they kept a single loaded GVX around just to upsell prospects to an Omni America (which by 1988 had EFI and 7/70 warranty).
Notice on the video at 9 minutes and 35 seconds the gear shift knob is out of adjustment that's no standard shifting pattern I've seen
That's because the shifter flops all over the place.
There's a ton of play in the shift lever even WHEN you are in gear!
They mention a five speed manual transmission, but the video shows a four speed!
It had a heated rear window, so you can keep your hands warm while pushing it in the winter time. But seriously, I talked to people who owned them back then. Rotors cost $15 per set new back then (rotors costed more back in in day, even when computing inflation), great on gas, no computers ( they failed ALOT more in cars back then), and basic cheap transportation.
My ount have it. She sold it this year. It was made in 1990, no garage but no rust eather.
But it was a shock to drive it. No servo stearing, that means it heavy to turn the stearing wheel, the window mechanism was rusty because of poor sealing, the rain was leaking into the door, the rear mirrors are mounted in a very uncomfortable place on the door. But with regular maintenance it is a reliable car. These days those cars have the collectable value, at least in Slovenia.
Brilliant. Thank you.
I should be doing homework. . .
if I could find a little GVX with AC and in decent shape I'd want one, Zastava didn't make a bad car, it's just that people in USA abused them to hell so they seem like junk, they really weren't that bad nevermind in 2018 if you have one EBAY is your friend! you can get parts from Slovenia REALLY cheaply they made over five million of them in their home country so parts are easy to get!
And they are stupid easy to repair by yourself! like a lawn tractor but it's a car easy to fix...
I pampered mine, it was shit and falling apart new!
Yugo......to the mechanic .
To be fair, it was not a bad car. Just legends. People who own one today are very happy with them because they know how to take care of it.
It probably was not a bad car. It's just the mentality here in a America that any small car is bad. Then the worse thing is a foreign small car besides a Honda or Toyota does not stand a chance here in the U.S.
Yugo is so retro but we use it for transporting woods and other materials
90% of Yugos are still on the road! The other 10% made it home!
Yugoslavia!!!!!!! Ajmo ludi da zadriftamo sa YUGO!
2 ashtrays! Now I can smoke twice as much! Thanks Yugo
I wish there were still very affordable new basic cars like this in the US
There is. It's the Mitsubishi Mirage
Jebiga,svaki amer duguje Rotshildu cim se rodi. Kod nas svi kuce u vlasnistvu i niko nikome ne duguje. Nasih realnih 10e oni nikad ne mogu da zarade,toliko duguju...
That is like a joke video you would see on Saturday night live
Wow brake light, reverse and turn signal integrated into one unit for a sleek streamline appearance.... red stripe accents?!?!?! Shut up and take my money.
"Dependable"
This is definitely missing a bunch of the video, anybody know where to find it?
I love how they tried to fool us telling the car is a little bit faster than it actually is by showing the 0-50 time instead of the standard 0-60.
It was still faster from 0 to 60 than some diesel powered cars.
Wow i'm such a nerd. I can't believe I watched that whole thing.
Jeff Wheeler join the club ! I must have been bored too !!
+David Cooper me to lol
You have to admit, trying to sell a pig like the Yugo really put those sales folk to work! The interior hood release...was there any car outside of a Jeep Wrangler that didn't have that in 1988? I can't think of any.
It would have been a great sale if all the other companies in America weren't scared it would oversell and compromise their needlessly expensive maintenance prone cars. So they made a hoax that with the emissions as they did with the Golf. American marked, always afraid of cheap everlasting low maintenance cars!
Ummm, no. I don't think that is even close to right. The Yugo was not a quality car, and the American consumer may be a lot of things, but they know cheap and crude when they see it.
The girl loves running her hand over the seats
"And a meer quarter mile in 19.5 seconds." That's just hilarious
I like the tire placement next to the engine to absorb the force in an accident. For some reason that never caught on.... :)
Great stuff. Can I please upload this to my channel to share with many Yugo fans?
Love it!
I would love to see an MST3K of this
Why they emphasis stealing many times (three I guess)? I guess they intent to made this car garbage so no thief will be interested in stealing a Yugo
we rode this car in 1989 till 1997 on lpg gaz no problems and 210 000 miles untill we had accident with rear driving truck on parking place
I think that the clips of the car going up hill super fast are streghit and the camera is turned up
Pozdrav za naseg JUGA iz Srbije
..."there are no expensive computer chips to diagnose or replace"....Now THAT part, I like!
Computers in Yugoslavia costed more then Yugo..Yugo was like 5 000 german marks while IBM PC was like 10 000
Where can I get one???
The most effective sales point had been that this was the only car ever sold with an air condition without having one.
Theft Who would steal it Here you have a car even the car jackers wont steal!
Hahaha!
Or they would at least bring it back.
Hugo it the name of my Yugo
Well I'm sold! Where do I get one???
The gvx actually looks pretty cool
6:44 did the 4 way flashers actually stop working in the demo?
No it wasn't. 4 Way flashers failure is almost always indicated as Constant Light on On that button.
That's not the point, the demo proved its function in the first place, "temporary" was a regular feature that went without saying in that - thing.
Probably they stopped the video. If you notice, they had done it constantly in the whole add
Where can I get one? This sounds great!!
We are waiting remake❤😊
I want it so much!
Press F to pay respects to the poor bastards that had to sell this turd to the American consumer, then had to go home and face their families at night.
i heard 200,000 were sold in US... thats 1/4 of all Yugo produced cars.
I had YUGO 55 in '88,i was 20 yrs old, and life was great. Still is.
notice the gear knob pattern was on its side....
"Paint Standard! Tires standard! Windshield wipers standard" !!!!
break down standard, being stranded standard, towing and trips to repair shop weekly.
When I was a kid, and my dad was driving a used Yugo, he convinced a NYS inspection mechanic that a second windshield wiper was "an option"...because the original one had snapped off. Might as well have been true.
@@user-br6cu5jm1q your death standard!
Full size spare and never would rust. What could go wrong?
When will this be available?
I am starting to feel that the Yugo is a cute little car. But I still wouldn't want to push, I mean, drive it.
It was good deal wish I could get one now no BS/ I had a suzuki hatch back 550 motor same deal back in the 90's great cheap transport. Now you have to win the lotto. True
Must have a lot of thieves in Yugoslavia
There still are. It's just not called Yugoslavia anymore.
Wow 54 HP, where can I get one
Do they.... do they know how fast you have to go on the highway?
It is weird how a country, being mad at non western realities and that balkanized Jugoslavia, used to advertise this car (notice the fact they stress on reliability and durability which are the antonyms of consumerism)
I like how they showed 0-50 instead of 0-60
Uuu al ga nahvališe ali u to vreme ok
Lolol "0-50MPH" ... Hmm, wonder why there's no 0-60 times for the Yugo. Hmmm.
Yugo 65 could go roughly top speed 80mph... models from 2000s with 1,6i motor can go 120mph.
@@charlieharper2529 Oh please...my Yugo Skala with the 1.1 engine runs 91 mph
0-50 in 10.5 seconds or 10.5 minutes?
I want one now.
I had a yugo... Real death trap
I remember dealerships offering free Yougos with the purshase of conversion vans .
lol "new meaning to the term basic transportation" no I think this defines it.
I want one!!
YuuY
"You realize that customers want an economical new car, without sacrificing performance, reliability or comfort"---the Yugo struck out on all three
For the cost, it's about as economical as it gets. They're perfectly reliable as long as you keep up with the timing belt and oil changes. The cloth seats are actually pretty comfortable, and if you bypass the cold start actuator they run considerably better. Vacuum spark advance really gives these cars an awful lot more performance.
I remember when I was a kid hearing about the woman who flipped over a bridge in Michigan and drown in a Yugo. People blamed the car however the woman was driving at a high rate of speed and she was intoxicated as well. Her accident could have happened in any car. I remember thinking that is the beginning of the end for Yugo here in the states. Also I believe that Yugoslavia was in a civil war during that time as well which did not help.
2:08 Helpful map so that potential American customers know where the Yugo came from :-)
Americans can't find their private parts without satnav
Pozdrav za naseg JUGA
I wonder how a Yugo would stand up to a mode T Ford? I mean they are basically in the same category. Of course the model T does have better lines and doesn't break down as much.
Tampa Bumblebee That occurred to me, too. So I found these, indicating the wide appeal of the car with a Brit and an Aussie demonstrating them today: ruclips.net/video/8OjQlnE6zBg/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/ctvnQYJCUkI/видео.html
Although a challenge for us to drive with unfamiliar pedals and routines, Model Ts were built very well and appeared in many guises including as trucks, tractors, and farm generators. You could buy a kit and make Model Ts into many helpful machines. They were also used in WWI. They were in a sense the ancestor of the Jeep. They also had a version of cruise control. They were inexpensive (going from $850 in 1908 to less than $300 in 1925, or in our money $23,500 to under $4200, which was less than half, adjusted for inflation, of the price of a 1986 Yugo), but they were built to be reliable and were not cheaply constructed. They were also easy to fix and maintain and came with a tool kit. Edit: I just noticed the Yugo came with one, too! I'd like to see someone fix what breaks down on a Yugo with the kit. I think the parts most likely to break down on a Model T were the tires which got punctures often, but you could patch and reinflate them like a bike tire. Yugo had Goodrich tires, so ha ha, Model T!
I imagine it was no more difficult to learn to drive a Model T than it is to pilot the average airplane today. :) When the electric start was included it made the car a lot more popular among women. Cranking the car was hardly something a lady would want to do when dressed up.
Evidently you weren’t supposed to think too hard about what the dealer told you. But damn, look at that 0-50 time!
They never even mention the price so they either never expected to sell any, or it was so cheap that if you had to ask, you couldn't afford one.
People bitch now about the Versa and Mirage but dear god look how far we've come....
poor Yugo it really was not something you would want to sell in the USA
yugo fun fun fun nice italian style
I wonder if a Honda H22A and transaxle could shoehorn in the engine bay?
people were installing various engines inside of it...