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I'm surprised with the passing of Rush and the various memories being shared that I haven't seen any mention of the parodies Rush played. Looking through several of them brought back the laughter shared by our harmless little fuzz ball

Yugoslavian woman who lays out the detailed, step-by-step plot that's being used against America right now to take down our country and replace it with a communist regime.

DETROIT MainStreet) -- For me, it is the Chevrolet Vega. I was living in Toledo, Ohio, in the late 1970s and working as a reporter for The Toledo Blade. One day, I was preparing to drive a friend's Vega. I sat down in the driver's seat and put my foot on the floor in front of me, about to step on the gas. And guess what happened? It's not a tough question if you were ever in a Vega. My foot went right through the rusty floor. And for the ensuing three decades, I have had my own story about...

would seem to be an inappropriate reviewer for a book about "the worst car in history." I drive a BMW, after all. In my defense, it is a 26-year-old BMW. The window motors failed a decade ago, so I must chin myself up through the sunroof to collect my burgers at the drive-through. I hate driving in the rain because my ankles get wet, thanks to a hole in the floor. I now realize, though, that the rusty old wreck only buffs my reviewing credentials: It approximates the condition of a brand spanking new Yugo, the subject of Jason Vuic's...

BELGRADE, Serbia -- Why does a Yugo have a defroster on the rear window? To keep your hands warm while you push it. That's just one of the "Yugo jokes" about the cheap and much-maligned subcompact that won notoriety for being one of the worst cars ever exported to the United States. Today, the last Yugo, once the pride of communist Yugoslavia's automobile industry, will roll off its Serbian production line in Kragujevac. It will be missed here -- but probably not in America. Soon after it hit the U.S. markets in 1986, selling for the bargain-basement price of just...

<p>BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Why does a Yugo have a defroster on the rear window?</p> <p>To keep your hands warm while you push it.</p> <p>That's just one of the "Yugo jokes" about the cheap and much-maligned subcompact that won notoriety for being one of the worst cars ever exported to the United States.</p>

The last Yugo rolled off the assembly line at 9:00 a.m., November 11, 2008. With no more ceremony than factory worker’s hand-written paper sign reading “Cao, nema viša” (“goodbye, no more”) on the tailgate of Yugo number 794,428, production of the Yugo has ended. Earlier this year, Fiat purchased a 70 percent controlling interest in Zastava Automobili from the Serbian government and will begin production of the Fiat Punto in the company’s plant in Kragujevac, Serbia, by the end of 2008. Americans are familiar with the Yugo from its 1985 introduction in the United States by entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin (who...

RUSH: We had a discussion last week about all these hybrids. I have told people ever since I heard about it, I talked to a high-ranking automobile executive who said, you know, this hybrid stuff is crazy. He said, "If we could make every automobile in America a hybrid today, in five years we would be right back to using the same amount of gasoline and oil that we're using today. It's not going to save anything. So this little column appeared in the Wall Street Journal yesterday by Holman W. Jenkins, Jr. It's called "Dear Valued Hybrid Customer --...

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - Targeting elderly customers, a Czech company has started manufacturing extra large cellular phones, an official said Monday. advertisement The company, Jablotron, said it had noticed older people sometimes have difficulties when using cell phones, which tend to be smaller and smaller.

DETROIT (AP) - The man who brought the Yugo and Subaru to this country and built a gull-wing sports car bearing his name has a new project - selling low-cost Chinese-made cars in the United States. Chery Automobile Co., owned by the Chinese government, has signed a deal with the privately held Visionary Vehicles LLC of New York to sell Chery's cars in U.S., Malcolm Bricklin, Visionary's chief executive, said Sunday in a news release. It would be the first deal to import Chinese-made cars to this country, The Detroit News reported in Sunday editions. Bricklin was behind the selling...

RUSH: Dadelut dadelut dadelut dadelut! Trumpet fanfare. I bet you thought I forgot, but I never forget, my friends. It's time for an update. We have another SUV update. Here's Paul Shanklin with our theme. This is "In a Yugo." (Playing of In a Yugo.) As the snow flies At a used car lot on the edge of town A liberal guy and a liberal gal buy a Yugo (Chorus: Buy a Yugoooooooo) And they drive with pride 'Cause if there's one thing that this world needs It's environmental friends who will take the lead In a Yugo (Chorus: In...

John Kerry's $30 Billion, 10 year plan to eliminate the US dependance on foreign oil was announced today. The heart of the plan is the 'Two Yugos in every garage' by way of a tax incentive of up to $5000 for Americans who buys energy efficient cars....

WHY YUGO-NOSTALGISTS ARE WRONG The problem was not in Yugoslavia’s demise but in the way it was affected by Srdja Trifkovic A few weeks ago I shared the podium at Princeton with an unreconstructed adherent of the “Old Left” from New York. We were both opposed to last year’s NATO bombing of Serbia, and we were invited to speak at an event marking the first anniversary of that infamy. While our broadly similar conclusions on the war itself were reached from very different vantage points, one could say that this was a commendable case of moving “beyond the Left and...

Yugo Redux Doug Donovan, 04.23.02, 5:30 PM ET NEW YORK - A decade has passed since the Yugo was last imported to the United States. The much-ridiculed discount automobile was discontinued in the U.S. in 1992, but has forever remained an American icon of all things cheap. Now, the Yugo is back. Full article MORE PHOTOS: Yugo Tempo Yugo Florida Caravan Yugo Florida Caravan Yugo FL Sedan Yugo FL Sedan