The Yugo was born to be joke fodder:
Man to car dealer: "I'd like a gas cap for my Yugo." Dealer: "Sounds like a fair trade." And my personal favorite- Why does a Yugo have a defroster on the rear window?
To keep your hands warm while you push it.
To keep your hands warm while you push it.
"Of course, Yugo was never a BMW or a Cadillac, but I think most Americans did not know how to appreciate it," said Momcilo Spajic, a proud Serbian owner of a Yugo รข one of the nearly 800,000 produced by the Zasava, or Flag, factory since 1980.
"This is driving in its most natural form. You feel every bump, squeak and jolt, and one can enjoy the sweet smell of gasoline and exhaust fumes," he said. Further he says,"No car can replace it." World News Feed At last, he said something we can both agree on.
"This is driving in its most natural form. You feel every bump, squeak and jolt, and one can enjoy the sweet smell of gasoline and exhaust fumes," he said. Further he says,"No car can replace it." World News Feed At last, he said something we can both agree on.
There are two things I remember about the Yugo: the trim, door handles and window cranks would practically fall off in your hands if you so much as touched them and toward the end of their run in the US real car dealers would give one away with the purchase of a higher end car to get them off their lots.
Actually, there are three things I remember: there was a notorious case of a girl being blown off a bridge in one and falling to her death.
The Yugo started production in 1980 and will be replaced by a Fiat who has acquired the company.
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