So you would think a name like “yugo” would be great in English, until people changed it to “yugo through the windshield”.
If the “no va” hadn’t been such a cheap pisosheeto they probably wouldn’t have mocked it, even with a funny name.
Well, The only Chevy I owned was an Impala and it worked well for me. Never drove the Nova, but it had definite branding problems.
As far as the Yugo is concerned it was great in that it made anything made in Detroit look high end!
“Although it was a communist-made car sold in Reagan’s America, dealers had customers lining up 10 deep to buy one. Yugo America sold an astonishing 1050 cars in a single day. But what goes up must come down. There were serious quality issues. The car was slow, crawling to 60 mph in 14 seconds and topping out at 86 mph. Then came the reviews. C/D’s then technical director, Csaba Csere, wrote, “It’s obvious to me that the Yugo GV is inferior to every other car sold in America.”” (More at link!)