Tiny "Yugo" Car Set for a New Try at U.S. Market

DPA via BalkanPeace ^ | April 30, 2002 | Deutsche Presse-Agentur

[Ditter]

Thats it! I can't believe you found a picture! I could remember what it looked like but not the name. We had a dealership near our house & while out rideing my horse & stopped to look. They let me test drive it & I remember I tied my horse to a fence & drove it home to show my mother. It was not a big seller, as I recall. LOL

[bob808]

Who's it manufactured by?

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I think it's a BMW. The character Urkel drove one in the show "Family Matters".

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Yes, it's BMW. Click here for the webpage.

[The South Texan]

At last, the new Algore mobile is finally going to make it to showroom floors.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

So, who's making the motors for these things nowdays ? Briggs and Stratton ?

[RightWhale]

That had 4 wheels, no maglev. The rear wheels were set close together.

[Willie Green]

Yeah, the picture is a four-wheeler,
but they came in 3 wheel versions as well.
4 wheels = "deluxe" model
3 wheels = "economy" model
(Can't bring myself to describe any of them as "standard".)

[Kate22]

Thanks for the bump - it would be good to see the little Yugo come back into popularity again. I'm amazed at some of the comments on this thread because so many people seem obsessed by size. What's wrong with a small car? The only reason for increased size is if you need increased capacity. You can still get the power with many smaller cars. Just personal opinion.

The thing that really gets me about this article is that nothing is even mentioned about the bombing of the Yugo factory in Serbia.

There was no reason for this act of aggression designed to terrorise the population (which is exactly what it was), thousands of jobs were lost and one of the best-known industries in the Balkans demolished. It would have been respectful to at least mention this.

Incorrigible, apparently according to the BBC (Aug 1st 2001):

"The sale of the company is a key part of an IMF-sponsored privatisation and economic restructuring package for the Yugoslavian countries, particularly Serbia.
The Zastava group, made up of 45 businesses, will now be broken up into separate companies, but the Yugo car unit and related industries will remain as one entity.
What a surprise... the IMF swarms round bombing sites like flies round... honey.

[ABrit]

They didn't make weapons there as well, by any chance?

[flying Elvis]

Only car I ever saw with dead bugs on the REAR glass.

[epow]

The early model Isettas didn't have a reverse gear, and quite few people became temporarily trapped in them. The front (and only) door opened outward, and if you pulled up too close to a wall or another car you couldn't open the door and you couldn't back it up. My dad's neighbor sat with his wife in their Isetta with it pulled up to a concrete wall in a parking lot until someone came by and pushed the car back enough to open the door.

If I remember correctly, I believe Isetta added a reverse gear on later models.

[Kate22]

No A'Brit', they didn't make weapons. This was a functioning car and tractor making factory. Even Nato has not said that weapons were being made there. They just bombed it 'just in case' and ended the entire industry. This was despite the fact that the workers had communicated directly with Nato to try and stop their factory being bombed and stressed that all of the workers there had protested against Milosevic for many years (not that this should be any criteria for being bombed).

Now why don't you just do your research before coming out with ill-informed statements like that and try and actually answer any of the other questions put to you by so many people on other threads?! For example, as an 'expert' on the Balkans, how you visited Yugoslavia and never met a single Serbian person? Perhaps you just didn't bother looking up from your lager and Daily Mirror?! Or perhaps you're just full of it.

[Kate22]

Well it can't be a height thing because I've seen 6' 'plus-ers' unfurling themselves regularly from these little cars in the Balkans. What were those little bubble cars called with the door on the front?

[Tijeras_Slim]

Forget Kosovo and ethnic cleansing.
This is a true crime against humanity!
Contact the World Court!

[Kate22]

Please don't laugh at this - 160 people were injured and an important regional industry shattered. Bombing civilian targets is a war crime and Clinton and his pals will one day be held fully accountable for it. It wouldn't be funny if American citizens had been in there, and these Serbian workers were innocent civilians.

"The people in Novi Sad know what happened to the Zastrava car and tractor factory, where the workers staged a sit-in [to protect their jobs]. They faxed the co-ordinates to NATO and Clinton, but NATO still went ahead and sent 25 cruise missiles to bomb that factory. If hon. Members visited the factory, as I did, they would think it a miracle that nobody died--160 were injured--and they could still go into the centre, where the sit-in was, to see the blood splattered over the makeshift beds and chairs."
[Alice Mahon MP, UK Parliament April 19th 1999]

[Tijeras_Slim]

No arguement here. As I recall, one of the Nazi's hung after WWII was the one who ordered the bombing of Belgrade.

[ABrit]

You said, "No A'Brit', they didn't make weapons. This was a functioning car and tractor making factory. Even Nato has not said that weapons were being made there. They just bombed it 'just in case' and ended the entire industry. This was despite the fact that the workers had communicated directly with Nato to try and stop their factory being bombed and stressed that all of the workers there had protested against Milosevic for many years (not that this should be any criteria for being bombed).

Now why don't you just do your research before coming out with ill-informed statements like that and try and actually answer any of the other questions put to you by so many people on other threads?! For example, as an 'expert' on the Balkans, how you visited Yugoslavia and never met a single Serbian person? Perhaps you just didn't bother looking up from your lager and Daily Mirror?! Or perhaps you're just full of it."

To: ABrit

care to know why Zastava factory boasted the best SKS and AK's? Serbs made a vast majority of their personal weapons and later, hvy weaponry.

51 posted on 4/1/02 6:30 PM Pacific by SKS SnajperiLink

Kate, you don’t know much do you?