Posted on 11/19/2008 7:30:26 AM PST by kronos77
Edited on 11/19/2008 7:32:49 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — 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.
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Ping!
Kinda odd that the Yugo was able to meet US safety and emissions standards (of the time) but today so many other great Euro cars (some made by GM and Ford) won’t be sold here.
My mom had a Yugo.
She did regular maintenance and took care of it and put over 300,000 miles on it before she got rid of it.
It was also featured in Drowning Mona"...................
Time to bail out Yugo?
Yugo is a derivative of a 1969 FIAT 128. The YUGO was bound to be a fine example of communism’s influence on the fine example of FIAT’s notorious quality control.
I had to drive a rental Yugo for two days. Sheesh....it was amazing that it could actually be classified as an “automobile.” Unbelievably gutless. Merging on the Freeway was a spiritual experience.
The funniest thing was that on the dash it had a tachometer next to the speedometer. Looked kinda cool. However, if you watched that tach, it never varied a bit from what the speedometer was reading. The tach was a dummy.....for looks only.
Heh.
I used to be acquainted with a Ukrainian priest who had to have been the best-natured man who ever lived. One evening before a church meeting some of us were standing outside as he drove up in his Yugo. We razzed him a little about his car, not just because it was a Yugo, but also because he was a huge man for such a small car. He laughed, “What a terrible car! I bought two of them!”
I’m guessing you don’t recall the first Subarus.
“The first U.S. Subaru is the 360. This very small rear wheel drive minicar had a 2-stroke, 25 horsepower 356 cc engine (thus the 360 name), weighed under 1000 pounds, got 66.3 mpg, went 0-50 in over 37 seconds. and cost $1,297. It came in a few models: 2 door sedan, then the “Young S” 2 dr sedan, minivan (that’s me in the white 5 door van below), a truck version, and even a mini race car too. There may have been as many as 6000 of these imported through 1969, though they weren’t exactly a best seller.”
www.cars101.com/subaru/subaru_history.html
I seem to recall that they were classified as motorcycles because of weight and engine.
Th last ime I saw a Yugo was last year. An old man with grey hair in a ponytail was driving it.
On the back was a Gore/Lieberman bumper-sticker.
I believe P.J. O'Rourke mentioned this in one of his books as an example of how screwed up Communist Russia was. They couldn't even pick the right stuff to plagiarize.
Good Bye to the Yugo, the worst piece of crap ever imported in modren history.
The video, “In a Yugo”....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz2eCFoafXk
Good Bye to the Yugo, the worst piece of crap ever imported in modren history.
The video, “In a Yugo”....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz2eCFoafXk
Later Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, while he was working for Kissinger & Associates in the mid-1980’s, was on the Board of the company that imported Yugos to the US.
Reinforces the idea that these cheap little cars needed regular maintenance to continue to run right, something most American consumers (including me) weren't interested in doing.
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