After the death of Marshal Tito in 1980, long simmering Balkan feuds became a way of life and continue there to this day. http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_113306-Plymouth-Horizon-C2-1984.html The effort collapsed along with Yugo sales in America. The philosophy behind Drowning Mona is not good clean fun, or even intelligent nasty fun. Motor Trend reported that their hand picked press ringer broke down during testing. (Italy) 1989 Chrysler TC 1983 Dodge Omni 1991 Dodge Ram 1980 Ford F - 350 Ford Ranger 1993 Ford Ranger GMC C / K - Series 1992 Honda Civic In 1975, Subaru began offering AWD. The 4 door one was a dodge omni, think it was a glh. as long as you didnt try to get away with normal American car owner maintenance. Chief Wyatt Rash: My mother always used to say, "When life hands you potatoes, make potato salad!". Its hard to pinpoint a weak spot on a Yugo because every system in the car was so badly designed and assembled that the whole car was a no contact accident. Only with the threat of armed intervention by Nato and the UN is an uneasy peace maintained. Japanese rust problems are designed in the cars are only meant to last 6-7 years and were poorly protected in the factory. Even those of us raised on rusting U.S. cars from the 60s were surprised by how fast the Japaneese stuff vaporized. Ford 2000 Diesel Cold-Blooded and Worn Out, http://www.observer.com/2010/culture/wannabe-warhol?page=0, http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_113306-Plymouth-Horizon-C2-1984.html, https://chrisoncars.com/yugo-victim-or-victimizer/, https://www.carkeys.co.uk/news/the-story-of-the-yugo-the-worst-car-in-the-world, https://www.ocregister.com/2017/01/03/the-best-worst-cars-ever/, https://blastmagazine.com/2014/05/13/truth-10-cars-never-hit-road/, https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/jan/14/cover/#, https://jalopnik.com/the-yugo-is-not-the-worst-car-ever-and-anyone-who-says-1830229976, 1987-91 Ford F-Series Bustruck Monster Mashup, COAL 2010 Subaru Forester Green, Its What Makes A Subaru, A $ubaru, Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: 1963(?) I heard a version on Car Talk of a deer that a priest hit and it had 150K on the clock when he hit it in his Yugo. There are many causes for poor management. But what about quality disasters in a different scenario? Whats good- quad headlights 2004-2023 IMCDb.org Managed by Controgest SPRL Ah yes, I can see it now. As played in flashbacks by Midler, Mona is a ferocious harridan who may have hacked off her own son's hand just because he was trying to snatch her beer. (https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/jan/14/cover/#) The salesman was vaguely aware that they were built somewhere in Europe,but he was cagey about just where. The Florida was reviewed very positively in the UK against western cars, and sadly only failed here because of the rise of Fascism in Yugoslavia, and its aftermath.. Wyatt finds no shortage of suspects. Retrospective - 2000's "Drowning Mona". https://jalopnik.com/the-yugo-is-not-the-worst-car-ever-and-anyone-who-says-1830229976, The Yugo Is Not the Worst Car Ever and Anyone Who Says That Is a Lazy Hack So Lets Prove It, Your email address will not be published. VW, in its first days, had all the same problems as Zastavabut with a product that was continually improved, they overcame it inside of five years. There are like 100 YUGOs in the movie, which I think came out around 1998. There was a cheap-o daily rental car company that had a fleet of them, and they were in the process of changing out the Yugos for Hyundai Precis. Sales ended in the U.S. that year when a recall was ordered by the feds over emissions issues related to faulty carburetors. @Jeff Nelson: I think youre a bit dismissive of Zastava, they have been around for quite some time. and lso two Horizon ? Im guessing the sport badging is why the decimal point is so far to the right? But, its a tough sell to have someone take a car thats running fine, and pay $500 for a maintenance replacement and maybe screw something up in the process. You know, we have a joke here in ex-Yugoslavia about Yugo: depends 100% on very cheap parts and lots of mechanics around that know the car inside out. The Bricklin SV-1 was remembered for several interesting features: lurid (safety) colors , no cigarette lighter (Bricklin was a rabid non-smoker) , and most importantly, the ability to vacuum piles of money from the gullible government of New Brunswick, Canada. I know this is hardly the point of your blog entry, but as someone with a passionate interest in the region, Im compelled to mention that Yugoslavia broke apart mainly due to its heavy debt burden. Bricklin used franchise fees to run the company (a major accounting no-no) while the car was being modified for safety and emissions certification in the U.S. and dealerships were sold, territories assigned. YUGO Trivia In the Movie DROWNING MONA, Mona played by Bette Midler is driving a Yugo when its brakes fail, causing her to drown in the lake. Ironically, if he had stuck it out with Subaru for the long haul, he might have done a whole lot better for himself. Barnum and the circus freak show that he brought to America in the twilight of the Reagan years. Saw a lot of Datsuns with the box off, and the tiny size of the frame on those thingsthey were half-ton trucks only by extreme optimism. Could not resist seeing what a piece of crap would look like with no tin on the top. He regaled us with stories of his work at Yugo and claimed that the factory started to develop (or adapt) an automatic transmission for the market in the USA. Money was a problem; but not the root problem. Director Nick Gomez Writer Peter Steinfeld Stars Danny DeVito Bette Midler Neve Campbell Sales quickly slowed when word of the myriad problems began to circulate in the media. It is a measure of the local intelligence that when the car and driver are dragged to shore some hours later, the doctor checks her pulse. However, the 67 cu inch motor had plenty of power if you kept it revved, and I never really had a problem keeping up with traffic. About two years ago there was a Wall Street Journal article about a guy who drag races a Yugo. W. Edwards Deming was key in Japans metamorphosis from a backwards exporter of trinkets and junk to a source for amazingly-high-quality automobiles and electronics. My dad is a bit of a FIAT nut so he would wrench on it from time to time. Had Bricklin been a true industrialist instead of a con-man, the winning idea might have been to buy out the Yugo tooling (Zastava was setting up for the Florida at the time, they might have been open to this) and moved the whole plant to a place where workmen were conscientious and quality control accepted. Or inherrent underdog status? The local news interveiwed some and they were going for $4000 Id end up with used junk, but now I got a new import!. The accident I referenced in my earlier post has adversely affected my overall health (lumbar damage), and Im nowhere near as ready to slide under a car as I used to be. They dumped em, too, as soon as they could afford something, anything, better. (A former test site for the Yugo car company, we're told. or all of the Ladas.As has been mentioned already this kind of cheap car ownership Contact us But theres a difference between an easily-repaired car, and one that needs frequent repairs. When I was living in Montana in 2001, some masochist/crusty old guy was using one as a daily driver and it looked new. But of course, a parking lot fender bender would be enough to total these cars. I think that was true of most of the Japanese automakers the early passenger cars evolved from tiny commercial trucks and three-wheelers, sharing engines with motorcycles. A "Fetzer valve" is a fictional part of an engine, introduced in the movie Fletch (1985). But like so much of his other stuff, the deal fell through. It was as if the Yugo was being promoted as crap, but SUPERIOR crap. And was thus more expensive. Theres a fellow in the NorCal chapter of The Fiat Club first names Dan, I think who owns a pristine Yugo in a burnt orange color. The car is the Yugo. The Yugos bait was a stunningly low MSRP of just $3990. The faded red one in the piece is for sale- $750. Im affiliated with NECC Motorsports, a club that runs time trials at various sports car racing tracks in the eastern half of the USA. Ive talked to other people in the UK who bought them new, and many have had more than one. Our narrative today is of a modern P.T. With just 25 horsepower (at a cacophonous 5500 RPM), the elfin 360 was the type of cynical exercise that would define Bricklins career in the car business. I had always known these to be license-built versions of the 128. Our Mr. Bricklin also had an idea to start up another company fed by Zastava, this time to be called ZMW. Just started slipping, on a highway as flat as a calm oceanand over the next five hours I had to shift into lower and lower gears just to minimize slippage. Whats terrifying is that a convertible version of this thing the flimsiest vehicle imaginable was sold in the U.S. No flimsier than the Toyota Paseo or Geo Metro convertible. Drowning Mona (2000) Trivia Showing all 16 items The first thing to appear onscreen is a little blurb about the Yugo car company using the town of Verplanck as a test area for their new model years ago. Bette Midler chops off son's hand. The 360 fit in with the type of Japanese car that was (or would become) the Kei car class, which continues to this day within tightly-defined parameters. I started to work in 1985 as a young engineer in the factory producing electrical equipment for the industry, and was very aware about problems we faced at the time. The place where I used to work was given a Yugo 45. He soon discovers that her death was no accident. But then my wife (of all people) found a Yugo for $800. In the end, its poor management. The other Eastern European lemon sold in Australia at the same time as the Niki was the Lada Samara. Before we wrap, lets sort them out. At our Year 2000 track day at Lime Rock, one of the entries was a race-prepared Yugo. 5 Yugo i know its a rare thing but should we park them together ? The "Fetzer valve", when Lucinda the mechanic is giving the Sheriff her findings about Mona's car, she says the "Fetzer valve" had been punctured. Why Fiat? She was given a Yugo that wouldnt runthe fix was nine dollars. My mother drove it to work at the high school one time. I think it's worth keeping them separate because it's a in-joke of the film that almost everyone has a Yugo. That said, the most maintenance I did on the car(s) were oil changes and other mundane regular maintenance. A lot of Wehrmacht occupation troops went home in tiny little pieces because Zastava knew what they were doing. A girl I hung out with in college had a Yugo. It had become commonplace in the 1950s; and manufacturers first tried ignoring the problem; then dealing with it with superficial fixes like Zincrometal body panels. You are right.I found it here: It was 10 years old in Japan at the time. if (window['UnicI'] && window['UnicI'].geo && window['UnicI'].geo !== '-' ) { its a beautiful nineteenth century townhouse that was redesigned combining the 19th century iron front with a modern glass setback. It has been a while since I have seen a Yugo on the road, but a local car wash has one with signs mounted on it. (Eagleburger had been U.S. ambassador to Yugoslvia and had spent almost all of his foreign service career in southeast europe. With the pullout of Fiat, Renault and the British makes just a few years before, there was a general sense that room existed in the market for any european nameplate that could build a reasonably priced car that returned good fuel economy and high build quality. As for the first gen Civics and to a lesser extent, the second gen Civics, I would guess where we dont have rust to deal with, it was 30+ years and many accrued miles that ultimately were their demise, ie, 200K-300K+ and a head gasket finally blows are what killed them off eventually if not an accident or some other mechanical failure due to age/mileage. And often wins. It would take about eight years from apparent problem to engineered fix to failure of the fix and another engineered solution. The carpet was very loose fitting and curled up in spots along the edges. The gravity powered it! You mentioned this before; itd make a great article. The Renault Alliance and 18i were still being sold in 1984-85 when the Yugo debuted. In the moviedrowning MonaI remember there was among the many regular Yugos one that had four doors (a black one).Was it This was enough to keep them afloat (even with such strange offerings as the BRAT and XT) until 1989, when they really hit their stride with the introduction of the Outback and the successful Paul Crocodile Dundee Hogan marketing campaign. I dont buy junk to begin with, maintain them, and only have minimal issues with them. He got two large import operations going and he launched the SV-1. When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect. Bricklins old nemesis Consumer Reports weighed in on the cars many shortcomings in its February 1986 issue and refused to recommend it at any price. Bricklin had formed Yugo of America to import the car and as was his custom, financial shenanigans were part of the mix. Actually, Perry did a much better job of it than I could have. I knew a guy in the 90s, who was very smart (the grandson of a Nobel Prize winner in fact!) LIkewise, Yugo UK supported its dealers well. It was not much bigger than a homeless persons shopping cart and similarly stocked. Hers are always burned down precisely half an inch, and then we see her lighting a new one from the old one, and realize, yeah, she smokes them only for the first two puffs. Always. After Mona Dearly (Bette Milder) dies in the movie's opening moments when her Yugo plows through a guardrail and into the Hudson River far below, Wyatt begins investigating her death. Unpaid claims included some warranty work done by dealers on Yugos before sales collapsed. There was nothing inherently wrong with the 360, and all the other Japanese manufacturers had a car at the time with more or less similar features. Install shift knob on replacement car. When they all disappeared, I surmised it was because he had been caught by the police for driving unregistered vehiclesmore likely they all just died from their terminal junkiness. A minor investment bank salvaged Bricklins investment in the venture in a complicated deal that settled some of his stale old debts and sent him far away from Yugo America. I think youre a bit dismissive of Zastava. To keep your hands warm while you pushed. Of course, being that these cars were manual transmissioned cars, Im sure they didnt rented out nearly as much as the Ford Escorts and Hyundais that had automatics. Trouble for him was, the rest of America wasnt interested in postwar America. I have NEVER burned out a clutchexcept on a Yugo. I have often wondered why Bricklin didnt try to make a ploy for the tooling to be set up in a higher quality shop. Yugo Cars in Drowning Mona 4,507 views May 7, 2014 19 Dislike Share Save The NZ Yugo 1.65K subscribers Oh such a crack up movie and it involves my favorite thing YUGOS! State-owned auto companies or assembly plants, tend to have little to no feedback from end-user to management. Why did Yugos have standard rear defrost? if(document.getElementById("unic-gdpr")) { Bricklin wisely took the first offer and netted about $20 million for his trouble. From the Subaru 360, to the SV1, to the Yugo, up to Chery, he followed the time-honored scammers credo of taking as much money as he could through charm and charisma, and when the going got tough and his shell-game started coming unraveled, he bailed with his loot and moved on to his next scam. I assume some were worse than others, but Ive heard this complaint levied against such a broad range of cars (American, Japanese, Italian, British, even German) of that era that I have to wonder if there was some sort of fire sale on water-soluble steel. (At the same dealership on the window sticker above,actually). I think the other reason they were more successful out of the US is that in Europe, people have driven OHC cars since the 60s. The Yugo was based on a mash up of models 127 and 128 built under license by a wildly unproductive workforce in an obsolete factory with assembly quality that made real mid 70s Fiats look hand built. if(document.getElementById("unic-ccpa")) { The engine in mine was the old fiat 903 engine that dated back to the Fiat 600 of the 50s. I guess Ive been mispronouncing subaru all these years. I actually checked out a Yugo about the same time I was looking at Sundances, Colts and similar vehicles and decided: No, I didnt have the time for the do-it-yourself maintenance it mightve required my current cars took care of that at the time! Zastava Zastava made Yugos even after they stopped selling in America. Wikipedia says that the Yugo quality was satisfactory at the start but went downhill fast and the factory refused to do anything about it. . I dont know if I was lucky (twice) or if my mechanical aptitude allowed me to save the cars I owned. After Mona Dearly (Bette Milder) dies in the movie's opening moments when her Yugo plows through a guardrail and into the Hudson River far below, Wyatt begins investigating her death. LOL The old fashioned radio was a piece of crap, and the speakers cracked and gave out after very little use. It WAS a simple-to-work-on car; and in that regard I appreciated it. Ive never felt safe in any car that light so would never have considered owning one, no matter how cheap, even if they had been decently made vehicles. The story involves a local police chief from New York state who is charged with . Also in Drowning Mona's favor, at the heart of the movie, is a genuinely positive character, Verplanck Police Chief Wyatt Rash (Danny DeVito).He's possibly the only principled citizen in town. When I got there, my promised job had fallen through and my wife and child still needed a car, and I needed one for working. Later I also replaced steering rack under warranty because of some slack inside. in Pasadena a couple of years ago. People's spotty memories and clumsy lies complicate the investigation, and the . @Zackman: No the real experience was driving that thing in Atlanta rush hour traffic at 80+ MPH. Screenwriter Peter Steinfeld says the film was originally going to be set in a mythical north. Too many people in this country have this mentality that if its cheap, treat it as such and yes, a fulfilled prophesy. Various ancillaries like alternators were replaced with real FIAT parts. Childrens toys are more dependable. I cant think of another car that disappeared off the roads faster. The possibility upsets Ellen, who explains in some of the movie's best dialogue: "I can't marry a murderer. As the pride of Serbo-Croatia hit the streets of America, reports of slipshod assembly began flooding back to the companys Upper Saddle River , New Jersey headquarters. Actually, the GM B body starting in 1977 was very, very resistant to corrosion. Two YUGO watches, new. Yeah, theres no question on really poor build quality. My problem was that I didn't care who killed Mona Dearly, or why, and didn't want to know anyone in town except for Chief Rash and his daughter. The Yugo was based on a mash up of models 127 and 128 built under license by a wildly unproductive workforce in an obsolete factory with assembly quality that made real mid 70's Fiats look hand built. The process, alone, of a car manufacturer as a unit of government, is suspect. They didnt always start, and they DID always rust away. } In The Film, for some inexplicable reason, everyone who lives in the Catskill area towns seems to drive a YUGO. It's a movie that has an attitude problem it couldn't resolve as easily as it did the mystery to Mona's death. Mine was an 86 and a half Yugo. They would swap in the drivetrain from the Fiat X1/9 and put on the wider wheels tires from the X1/9 also. The best part was they all had the same license plates on them to just have a semblance of legality! Drowning Mona, Movie, 2000 Pictures provided by: garco, antp, ahight Display options: Also known as: Todos la queran muerta (Spain) Mais qui a tu Mona ? My little red Yugo was dead. The interior squeaked everywhere that it didnt rattle. The characters this time could be lightened up and dumbed-down versions of the confused drunks in "Laws of Gravity," their social lives centered on bars, their center of gravity the bartender. console.log(window['UnicI'].geo); And the A/C system on the Yugo was an add on! [SOUNDBITE - clip from Drowning Mona trailer, 2000] Every car in the movie, save for the police vehicle and a main character's landscaping pickup, is a . Drowning Mona Trailer - Yugo Cars 7,448 views May 7, 2014 The NZ Yugo 1.66K subscribers 26 Dislike Share In Drowning Mona everyone drives Yugo Cars and one day Mona borrows her sons. They took in much more foreign revenue and as the economy began to fail more and more fundamentally, the leaders of those republics decided theyd be better off independent of Yugo. @ahight: I think there is no need to put the location square in every screenshot, only the ones with more than a single car visible. 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The country was communist, but with good relations with the US and a cosmetically overhauled version of socialism, the idea was the Yugoslavia would compete in Western markets and as a result, the country took on a lot of debt throughout the 70s to update its capacity for making consumer goods, among other projects. She put about 50,000 miles on it without a problem-it was scrapped when she got rear-ended by a Camry. Everyone in Verplanck, N.Y., drives a Yugo. Kind of reminds me of a first generation Rabbit/Golf, which Ive always considered the gold-standard for the best styled small car. Lack of an automatic would hamper the car during all but the final year in the states. Second occurred during 1994-95, having changed employment by then, while driving the 50+ miles each morning, Id notice Yugos of different colors pass me on the four lane driven by the same fellow. Say, `` when life hands you potatoes, make potato salad! `` problem engineered... 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