[C19fan]

If you are my age and watched SNL you should remember the skit about the Adobe (I hope I remember the name currectly).

[Pollster1]

Obama takes over GM and Chrysler, and there is renewed interest in the Yugo. Coincidence? I think not.

[arthurus]

Rush used to play a haunting melody called, I think, “In a Yugo” by maybe Melvin Presley? Any way it was the best of Rush’s Update songs.

[Proud2BeRight]

The Yugo has to be better than Toiletas. LOL

[Peter W. Kessler]

Paul Harvey once said that, if you wanted to double the value of your Yugo, all you had to do was fill the gas tank.

[massgopguy]

Ho Ho it’s Adobe
The little car that’s made out of clay!

[envisio]

ha... Yugo

We had 5 guys (all over 200lbs) piled in a Yugo.
I’m 6’4” and I ended up curled up in the hatch. We somehow ended up stuck in the middle of a football field with a stripper asleep in the backseat.

[Jersey Republican Biker Chick]

My mom had a Yugo, she took care of it and changed the oil regularly and put over 300,000 miles on it before she sold it to someone.

[ShadowAce]

I bought a brand new Yugo as a second car to get around town.

Six months after purchase (best thing I ever did was to purchase the extended warranty) the engine failed, and I got a brand new one for free.

Never had serious issues--the driver's window crank kept breaking off, but that was it.

Got it up to 90 once. :)

[montyspython]

The Yugo is the bomb bro! Literally....

This is the Bosnian version

[Jack Hydrazine]

The GT version has a louder motor.

[montyspython]

I read the article this morning on the train ride in a had to contain myself as I was laughing my ass off.

Being son of Serbian immigrants and personally knowing individuals who purchased this fine piece of communist engineering, I had a greater appreciation for the content of this article.

[montyspython]

Oh so funny in so many ways.

[Jack Hydrazine]

I wonder how the Yugo compared to the LeCar?

[montyspython]

"The briskness of the initial Yugo sales was the good news. The bad news was that Zastava's factory in Kragujevac, Serbia, was not ideal for the manufacture of automobiles. It had previously been used for making hand grenades, which might explain some of the Yugo's eccentricities. Morale at the plant was high, elevated by a copious supply of plum brandy, which the workers began drinking at eight in the morning and continued drinking during breaks, on the assembly line, and in spontaneous toasts. The brandy made for happy employees but unhappy customers."

Fantastic, this paragraph had me doubled over.

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[Oatka]

I remember when they first came out and immediately thought “Who in the world would buy a car made in a Communist society?”, thinking of the old joke “They pretend to pay us and we pretend to work.”

My brother was an insurance adjuster in the Eglin AFB in Ft. Walton, FL. He’d tell me how the dealership would load the Yugos up with “optional extras” and really sock it to the young airmen. On one car, when he lifted the hood, the wiring just hung loose everwhere - no harness, no nothing. Slovenly workmanship everywhere. A piece of crap fom the getgo.

[cyclotic]

I have a cousin who was such a failure that her Yugo was repossesed.