Yugo GV is a good car, only thing is they have a very strict maintenance schedule. If you don't follow it correctly (like most people) you end up with bad timing and a blown 1.1L motor that no american repair shop would touch. If you follow it, it'll run as long as a Honda..
I wonder if the reason Alfa Romeo decided to sell the 75 as the "Milano" was because American buyers would think a name such as "75" would imply that the car is slow or cheaply built. The 75 nameplate was used to commemorate Alfa's 75th Anniversary, actually.
I put over 100,000 miles on my 87 Yugo. I changed the oil every 2,000 miles and waxed it every year. It was the last car I had that was fun to drive. A low speed wreck was the only reason I quit driving it.
Last month I saw one Yugo for sale on Auto Trader. Looked like it was in mint condition. The seller wanted $7000 I wonder if it's the only running Yugo left in the world
@@AiOinc1 Oh yeah, cause NOBODY ever told that joke before the Yugo appeared cause NO cars had heated rear windows before the Yugo did. Try again smarta$$
Nothing worked right or for very long. I put in three ignitions, three clutches, and three radios, and only had it two years. I pampered it and only got 20,000 miles out of it. Door knobs and window cranks broke off right away, you never knew if it would strand you or whether it would be dead when you went to turn it on. Interior was already fading, no tinted glass, no glove compartment, out dated battery, low power, it was a nervous piece of crap that didn't want to be a car.
I always see this joke, but unfortunately it's nothing more than that. Last page of the manual is service information... Which was often ignored, and led to the car's demise. Funny how if you ignored the maintenance information you'd probably be wishing it was a bus table.
The rear defroster was so you would warm your hands pushing it in winter. If you find a used one, get antique plates for it and you can still get laughed at wherever yugo.
I've often wondered if the cars were purposefully sabotaged. Workers were making just around a dollar an hour, had second jobs, did they really want to be supplying america with cars? It wasn't just a poorly made car, the Yugo has to be one of the poorest manufactured objects ever. You don't know when installing door releases that the paper clip holding them won't work for long and that the plastic is too weak and will break in a few turns? I believe we bombed the factory because we knew that they made the cars to fall apart. What a waste of resources to make something so bad.
Ok, it is not a good car... I currently own yugo 55... bought it last year for around 500 bucks, it does not drive like a dream but it got me through last year without any problems... I might also add that before it, i owned a opel astra G, and yugo, so far is more reliable than it... Well it is simple, if you maintain it well it will serve you well , if not...
How fitting is that? The first glimpse of the Yugo on MW and it shows her opening the hood, trying to figure out what's wrong. It was a preview of what was to come for everyone who bought one.
The last year the Yugo was avail in the USA, I think it was 1992, they sold for about 2 grand. $2800 for a top of the line GVX. I wish I had known, would have bought one!
The "they didnt take care of it", running mantra is a lie, my yugo was pampered and maintenance was done early, it was extremely cheaply made, parts had to be replaced constantly. They were crap and dangerous as new. Every single facet of the car had problems, rear strut never held open the rear hatch, clutch gave out three times, door handles and crank omg, the door release was held together with a paperclip, ignition failed all the time, would not go in gear or come out of gear, shifter came off in my hand, hills, it rolled back often trying to get up them! speakers cracked as new and lasted maybe 3 months max, radio lasted a couple of weeks was replaced often, knobs fell off, stations got stuck, ate tapes, no alignment even after alignments, strain carrying more than two passengers, no tinted glass, seats began fading day one, trim paint peeled off, chemical oozed out of window seal, window seals allowed rainwater in to poor down cardboard door interior panels, foot pedal covers came off, one time the engine got cut off from the ignition and i could not turn the car off, i had to abandon and bail out of it on the side of the road, leaving on to run out of gas, the key out of the car, I could not turn it off, ignition disengaged from the key, battery was the old add water kind, no one told me to add water to the cells, heater knobs would stick and the foam was tearing, blinkers were erratic, wind shear made me swerve and you had to floor the gas pedal to fight the wind on the highway, odd sound turning front wheels, no glove compartment, yeah you can love the oddness but the Yugo did not want to be a car, mine only had 20,000 miles, it was a new and pampered car, every oil change, every filter change, which btw when you were getting close to due for you could feel the car actually dying down and then it would very noticably run smoother after a filter change and oil change, door hinges made to make the doors feel heavier cracked and broke off and on and on and on...Oh and on a dirt road, we have those in Santa Fe, smoothed city dirt roads, omg going a mile an hour you got shaken baby syndrome, the rattling, noise and vibration were enough to kill you, i thought the whole car was going to fall apart.
My friend it doesn't sound like you've even actually driven one. Even basic maintenance keeps these cars on the road considerably longer than most of their rivals at the time. How many 1986 Toyota Corollas do you see on the road that are still stock? A couple Honda Civics, maybe, but even then both of these cars cost over twice as much as a Yugo. A truly shitty car would be a Chevette.
I owned one in 93... Nobody told me to change the timing belt before 50,000 miles. Short story...bent the valves. Also the glove box spilled out onto the floor at random. Window cranks broke off. Replaced five times. The lug nuts broke as well. Although you can still drive it with only two lug nuts on. My friends used to pick the car up and move it around with no effort...lol.
the Yugo is like buying something from a department store you either get one that will last you forever or get one that will break down the 4th day you have it
Well if you wish they would make a $5000 dollar car you can forget it. Too many federally required safety features jack the price. But technically if you count for inflation you can come pretty close today. The Nissan Versa is $11990 and $5000 in 1986 is about $10660 in today's dollars. And I wouldn't call the Versa a bad car. And I'm pretty sure if you applied yourself instead of calling people fuckheads, you might be able to pull your cheap head out your ass and buy a real car. Just Saying.
LOL do you want to send you a picture of parking that you see Yugo as regular car on them :D. I have 1984 Yugo 45 (45 BHP) And it was not driven a lot 70 000 miles but engine start at -30 Celsius (-22 degrees Fahrenheit) with almost empty battery and preform on snow better than most new cars :) Honestly if you want Luxury, high speed you are missing whole point of this car :) It is not for high way driving but for city driving it is hell of machine :)
Should I trust Motorweek when they compare the Yugo to Italian sports cars and compliment the fit and finish and give kudos for a cheap tool kit in the trunk. I drove new Yugo in the late 80's. It squiled like a stuck pig!
actually ass I was there when they were new I knew people that had them and were taking them back the same week they bought them. Dosen't matter how cheap something is. It's not susposed to break the minute you get it. You aren't even living on the same planet as the rest of us. Nobody else here is talking about long term reliabilty these things didn't have it for the short term. they are simply one of the worst cars ever sold to the american public.
hahahaaha!! "looks like the people who built the yugo really put some effort into it" ha! thats funny! but the yugo was kinda cool in its own unique way!
I and my parents have Yugo 45 America X for 25 years. We only change gaskets, radio and filters. It's still running. Nowdays you have a Chinese and other asian or third world cars and something broke, especially wires, fuses are the worst problem at any asian car. If the cars are held regularly, your car will have no problem.
Not Desert Storm, Jesus, but what was it in 1999. And only because it was also asssult arms maker too. It WAS well built, for Dinaric conditions. Any serious industrial designer will tell you that for the same quantity of material he or she would concuct quite such car. Alternative, more evolved, result was Daihatsu Charade and it truly was one.
Yugo is far from worst car in the world. Any russian, East German or chinese car from that date is worse. Any of you seen any Trabant or Uaz ? Many of Yugo owners in USA did not even bother to change oil in that car. Yugo is not quality car bat it's not so unreliable as many of them say. Car was cheap and spare parts also. You could fix it yourself.
"We were impressed with the cars fit and finish too. It looks like the people who make the Yugo really put some effort into it." Wow. Yeah I'm sure all the owners were thinking that as the trim pieces fell off into their hands. When they tested this car in 1988 the seat wouldn't lock into place on the tracks and would slide on its own while driving. Also the carpet wasn't cut correctly and there was a large piece of it just sagging as well as a piece of the headliner on the A pillar wasn't glued correctly. Great fit and finish. Not to mention the car was brand spanking new and the alignment was horribly off center and the car veered to the right when you let go of the wheel.
This lady seems to be cautiously praising the Yugo. Funny because as a teenager I sat in a white Yugo in a dealership showroom and I knew it was an enormous piece of crap even then!
