This particular 1986 Yugo may be a little worse for wear, but I'm sure most Yugos are nothing like this one. Most Yugos are probably perfectly adequate cars. Austin's Garage: / @austinsgarage Merchandise: teespring.com/stores/aging-wh...
Guy walks into an auto parts store and says "I'd like a rear-view mirror for my Yugo." Guy behind the counter thinks for a second, and say, "OK, sounds like a good trade to me."
I actually saw a Cadillac rear end a Yugo on the freeway. Due to the Yugo's high rear bumper the Caddy went right under the Yugo, so the Yugo wound up in the Caddy's engine compartment after going through the grill. The Caddy was pretty much trashed, the Yugo was perfectly intact. Funniest accident I've ever seen.
a similar thing happened to me with my 86 corolla, this KIA Sorento's rear bumper went over my the top of my hood when the guy backed into me practically tearing his plasticy bumper off. My car was mostly untouched lol
Well, they were made from 18 gauge steel. Seriously. If you couldn't make it to the gym, opening and closing the hood a few times was a good substitute.
Serbian driving instructors still use Yugo's, because if you can drive a Yugo, you can drive anything. How does Mercedes test for leaks in their cars? They leave a cat in overnight and the next morning if it's dead, the car is approved. How do they test Yugo's? The same way, if the cat is still inside the car the next day, the car is approved. What do you call a Yugo with airconditioning and airbags? A fantasy. If a Yugo is uniform in color, it's considered "new". If one door is a different color it's "slightly used". If a Yugo is literally two different Yugo's spliced together, it's "well cared for".
If you can drive a Yugo, you can drive anything. Except, that is, for another Yugo. They're all different in temperament, quirks and mechanical play. Not from model to model, no the same line of Yugo's are all individually different. I'm not joking.
@@Smilomaniac Exactly, and sometimes you got free tools, when the assembly worker had no time to finish (or he had boli kurac) and left it inside the cabin and got shipped like that.
"Not from model to model, no the same line of Yugo's are all individually different." That doesn't surprise me when Zastava was still using manufacturing techniques from WW1 and having dozens of people working on the car at the same time....increasing the possibility of errors.
How to double the price of your Yugo? Leave a today's newspaper on the back seat. Why is the Yugo the best car during the winter? When you push start it and you realize that the rear windshield has heaters. What came as standard equipment on a Yugo? Monthly bus pass. Why do Yugo drivers go to heaven? They've been thru hell. What are the two happiest moments in owning a Yugo? When you buy it and when you sell it. What do you call a Yugo on top of the mountain? A miracle! What do you call two Yugos on top of the mountain? Fiction. A guy goes to the car dealer: -Hey, i'm interested in the new Yugo. -Sure thing, have a look it's a beauty. -O i like it, does it come with air conditioning? -Yes as a matter of fact it does, and ABS, ESC, ASR, heating seats and a button that when you push at higher speeds poops two wings on the side and you can fly! -Are you mocking me?! -Well you started it.
The Yugo still has one feature that no Bentley or Rolls Royce has, and that’s a heated push starter!!!! It just happens to be located on the rear window.....
The cubby hole in front of the gear shifter was usually used to store cassette tapes of popular singer Šaban Šaulić. The one above it was used for a pack of cigarettes of your choice.
+Kamion King or cassettes of Lepa Brena & Slatki Greh , Dragana Mirkovic and Vesna Zmijanac. If you are a rock fan- Bijelo Dugme , Riblja Corba, Leb i Sol.
At the factory, the inventor explained to his boss the idea behind the new car. The boss just said to him, " Yugo" Almost as worse, The Japanese made a new car. The Germans were pressed to help with the name " We need it now" the Japanese said .." Datsoon ?" the Germans responded. ( My dad told me this one once.) Datsun.
From the movie Dragnet: (1987) "After losing the two previous vehicles we had been issued, the only car the department was willing to release to us at this point was an unmarked 1987 Yugo, a Yugoslavian import donated to the department as a test vehicle by the government of that country and reflecting the cutting edge of Serbo-Croatian technology.."
My mother, at 77, decided to enter her first local timed rally with her Yugo GV. Her navigator was an ESL Columbian woman who had no driver’s license and had never driven. They finished first, beating a BMW and a Jaguar. It is not the car, it is the driver and her navigator.
Most imports had that. What people forget is that every single Ford Ranger and Mazda B2000 were all carbureted, and every Datsun 720 had a 4 speed and a two barrel... In this same class, the next closest for price you could get would have been a Honda Civic or Toyota Corolla - both of which, their base models were 4 cylinder engines with two barrel carburetors. Many people say the 16 seconds 0-60 was "horrendously slow," but then again at the time... A brand new Honda Civic would have only just beaten that at around 14 seconds. Taking into account that this car cost nearly half of every other new car on the market... It wasn't that bad. You could get a Yugo GVX with air conditioning, an AM/FM/Cassette radio, and an automatic transmission for less than a base model Corolla.
@@Snubbs My Xsara Picasso doesnt have one. Its a boring car, boring cars dont need it. My Honda CBF 600 has one, but it doesnt need it, because you can feel those sweet 10000 RPM quite well. My Focus had one, it also didnt need it, because you noticed it quite fine when you hit the limiter. The one car that could have needed one but didnt have one was my old Fiesta. It took ages to hit the limiter, the Engine always was just making noise and at 140 km/h the wind speed was louder than the engine. Plus, it did reach top speed in 4th, not 5th.
Sir. I owed new in 1987 and 1988. The 1988 has air conditioning. We purchased for teen daughter's. The cars worked all the way into college years. No major driving issues. Thank you
@@triton4541 it was the same class of the car. Small European comute economy car. It lasted longer than most of French cars in that class. Citroens or Peugeots.
@@Patchuchan Yes. A friend of my mom gave me a ride in a tesla, and he had to take his eyes of the road for like 2 or 3 seconds to change the fan speed. To do that in my 99 F150, I just reach over and turn a knob. If I'm in 3rd or 5th, I don't even have to take may hand off the shifter.
As a mechanic I miss cars like this, quick and easy to fix, no BS. And don't forget this was made pre 92 and is based on the fiat 127 so most cars of that era had little else anyway. They may get a bad press but try doing a comparison with one of its contemporaries, i.e Polo, Metro, Fiesta, R5 there's not much difference.
I knew a guy in 1988 who was driving a Yugo he had gotten for free (or almost free). He bought it new, and about a week later a car in front of him stopped suddenly and while he was able to stop the car behind him wasn't and knocked him ito the car in front. The bodywork bent enough to puncture all four tires, and the insurance company totaled the car and paid off the loan. He used a tire iron to bend the bodywork back away from the wheels, bought new tires, and was back on the road.
No, worse actually. Can confirm from ownership it's a lot rougher and you wouldn't want to be sliding down it. Would burn a lot and would probably shatter under your weight and end you swiftly
I had the Yugo 45A, a UK version of this car. Ran it for a year and it never let me down despite me treating it like a go cart. I raced it everywhere. Made many trips to Ireland and trashed it with a full payload down the motorway at 100 mph, no speed cameras in those days!!! ! With hindsight that was fecking madness but still the car never let me down, nothing fell off it, and it did almost 45mpg round town and 55 on the highway. After a year on the road I sold it for the same as I paid for it. My memory of the car was fun if unsophisticated but still cheap cheerful driving. With the luxury of 20-20 hindsight nearly 30 yrs the Yugo 45a was truly appalling, but back then to get a 3 yr old car for £600 ($900) that never let me down was a gift. I loved it. I had a love for off beat East European cars at the time and owned a whole raft of bizzare vehicles. These included the Polish built Fiat 126bis, a 2 door hatchback version of the companies micro car. It was powered with a flat two 600cc engine, again another go cart that was incredible fun. Again it never let me down, did 60+ mpg and I sold it for what I paid for 12 months on. I owned another Yugo the 311, pure fun and topped out at an extraordinary high speed for the tiny 1100cc it employed. Another fun Eastern block car was the Romanian Dacia Duster, the 1980's military 4x4 with a Renault 1200cc engine, oh it was also a canvas top. Again great fun to drive especially given that London was having a heat wave for the time I had it... The list of bizzare cars I had is very lengthy, but what fun I had. The bottom line here is a cheap crapy car 30 years on is a cheap crapy car, but at the time if it was all you could afford they what fecking fantastic...
Yugo was a car, for poor Yugoslavian citizens. It could be bought on bank loan very cheaply, and with Yugoslavian pays, it could be payed off in 2-3 years, and if maintained properly it lasts 30+ years. It was used in all parts of Yugoslavia, from cities to mountain villages and it was cheap and easy to maintain and repair.
@@uroskostic8570 Vugo and Trabant like cars should be the cars going down our roads today. Electric or Ethanol / Bio diesel. It is not a matter of being cheap for poor country's. High income people should also be driving this basic low cost vehicles for 20-25 year until the machine is worn out from use an age. There is nothing a Tesla or a Toyota or any modern car is good for. They are a big waste of material and is people being lazy and selfish. How many SUV's are driving around with 1-2 people in them? Only family vans need to be bigger then a 2 door car. And they do not need entertainment screens and all modern trash. Only thing modern vehicles have going for them is safety and luxury. And really if there was some proper laws and rulers we could have solved safety by lowering the average speed where collision risk is high and put some real infrastructure in place to stop crashes to being with. It is simply going to be more dangerous on the road but it should dam be. The drivers should be careful and try and avoid killing themselves. We can not let big heavy SUV's and trucks drive around if anyone is going to be willing to drive a modern Vugo. Like a modern simple car without phone screens and self driving nonsense should be the future. We are walking around with phones in our pockets. Not saying a Vugo is a role model. But with some quality and safety improvements they basically are perfect. The car should at most have ABS and stability control. With a good modern suspension + modern fuel injection. And be cheap and made to last. Using less fuel and not cheat emissions rules simply by being light and minimalist. This are not Iphones. They are instead of community transport like buses. On the public roads it is going from A-B and safety/economics. Nothing more. RUELS NEED TO EXIST REFELCTING THIS. Even rich people should not be allowed anything but basic planet friendly vehicles. Laws exist for reasons like stopping the rich as much as stopping the dangerous people killing us. Abusing us. Yet we got stuff like self driving cars and all kinds of stupid stuff on the road. Only problem is heavy traffic lorries being a problem around "non protected" drives. But if drivers are told to be careful and brake that promise then they are killers and should be treated like killers. Traffic is just going to be slower = saving fuel and safer to even todays traffic. Like most cases of traffic accidents are down to people expecting stuff to be safe and end up becoming a deadly big heavy bullet. It is not the crash safety that is the problem. But the drivers and road conditions.
I am from a Bosnian family and these things are EVERYWHERE in ex-Yugoslavia, these are so common that my father even owned one of these. This car really is a successful car, it still has mostly been replaced by 90's VW Golfs as Zastava dissolved in 2006. The golf still looks quite similar on the outside and maybe on the inside and basically continues its legacy.
I loved my 91 Yugo. Didn't have all those problems. It had fuel injection which had it's own problems, but it was actually a pretty reliable little car. I enjoyed it!
hey I LOVED my Yugo! It was so simple I can fixed most anything by myself, no expensive car mechanic needed. It had pretty good power on flat roads (its utless on mountains and hills). It also had a fabulous heater! For poor people, this thing was great. You can even sleep inside it. It also had excellent gas mileage!
So Yugo was not designed for all Yugoslav citizens but only those living on flat lands :D So no Yugoslavian car for Slovens, Macedonians, Bosnians, Montenegrains and Kosovians; only for Croats and Serbs, but not all Croats and Serbs, but only those living in northern parts of Croatia and Serbia. xD Or it would be even better it the Yugo would never venture outside Vojvodina and maybe Belgrad. :D
My grandmother had one of these back in the mid 80's. Rode in it very often. It was a perfectly capable little economy box. And the price was right as she was on a fixed income.
So sorry. Grams are one of the hardest people in our lives to loose. Boy, I would have loved to have seen a 'lil' ol' lady' driving a Yugo! Must have been a sight:)
Shane Singleton But it was not NEAR as good as a half worn out Asian econobox for the same price, that's the problem. If you only had that much to spend it was about the worst choice you could make.
They had spare tires? Mine never had a spare tire but then I got it out of a junkyard and drove it for a year or so... I loved my little Yugo it was a lot of fun to drive
I remember seeing these new at the dealer lot in 1986. I think they were $5,000 new. I asked the salesman what people thought of the new Yugo. He said; "People love them.....until they drive one."
They were $4300 in Dallas. Later marketing had some dealers giving one away when you purchased a new Cadillac. A Chevy dealer talked me out of one when he admitted that there were many in their repair shop. I did not like the Chevette, so I went and bought a new 1987 Omni.
You put it in the 3rd gear when you started it ;) 1st gear requires that the gear shift sticks in your right knee (I'm more than 6,5 ft tall and I drove YUGO for almost 10 years). My was GVX model (more advanced one with 5 gears), and it was still good when I sold it.
@@VeraTheTabbynx H, 1 is left forward, 2 is left backwards, 3 is right forward, 4 is right backwards. He shifted from 3 to 2, then 3 again, and finally 4 :).
If I remember correctly, they were trying to build these during some kind of civil war. They were having all sorts of troubles with suppliers so they had to make do with what they had. I give them credit for trying.
I went with a car like this to the North Cape in Norway starting from Amsterdam the Netherlands. We had no problems. Lots of dirt roads up north. No problems. 50 mpg and a lot of fun. 6000 miles in two weeks during that vacation. No problem. Finally after 15 years it succumbed to rust. But the engine was still like new.
Folks in the Netherlands are the tallest in Europe; bigger than Serbs. Was it a comfortable drive? We used to see a good number of Yugos in England. They all seemed to disappear over about a year. Maybe they all failed test regulations when the government tightened up the standards?
Ik u're lieing @ the thing that gave it away is, u said u got 50 mpg, for one it's carberated, secondly u had to pull over give or take 50 times, because yugos r shit
I remember that my parents used to have one. It was between 1990s and 2000. I can also remember that we went up a mountain in the winter (with good amount of snow) and while most modern cars for the time were stuck on their way up we made it up there with no issues.
@@iro-huncarguy8367 Nah a well adjusted Trabant enigne will do 110 kph flat-out on flat and thanks to the freewheeling device your speed downhill is as high as you can stand without s***ing yourself. Know a guy that push his Trabant to 160 kph with a modified engine, at that speed it becomes basically an aeroplane.
@@iro-huncarguy8367 True, I always found Trabants fun to drive, especially the 60s examples that are well made, the years went on the quality got worst and worst because the government stopped almost all investments into the factory. I have seen few documents were the designers of the Trabant talked, they said that they had a modern four-stroke four-cylinder engine ready by the same time the 601 went into production but nobody would allow its production and the chief designer actually got into trouble with the police for trying to get it into production. How sad that such brilliant men were stuck in such a horrible situation. Even here in The Czech Republic (then Czechoslovakia) in '64 they introduced a new car, the Škoda 1000 MB a rear engined car with a alloy die-cast aluminium engine block and gearbox casing, a modern technology for that time. By '69 they prepared a completely new car, with engine in the front and RWD , with fully die-cast 1.6 liter aluminium DOHC engine and gearbox housing, fully independent suspension with semi-tralling arms in the back and five speed gearbox but thanks to the Soviet invasion of 1968 that car never went into production and the same rear engined design was used till the late 80s.
Strange because you had to work on these on a daily basis, most of the time on the side of the road...if, it didn't burn down before you got your tools out.
As much as I like the Yugo, fuel economy wasn't exactly spectacular. The lack of a 5th gear really hurt highway mileage and the lack of power hurt the city mileage. If the engine had it's power a bit lower and more torque, I'd bet that city economy would have doubled and it's been proven (existence of the GVX) that a 5th gear would raise highway economy. 25 city / 31 highway could have been 38 city / 45 highway with some slight improvements. Longevity was an issue because few people opted for the full undercoat and even fewer took these poor cars in for maintenance like they were supposed to. Hell, oil changes and all engine and vehicle maintenance for the first year of 25,000 miles were completely free! It's baffling that people *still* managed to neglect these cars. One of the biggest issues they faced was the use of a rubber timing belt, which would snap around 40,000 miles if not changed. They were recommended to be changed every 25,000 to 30,000 miles by every dealer I've talked to, the manual states it dozens of times, the parts catalogs have it in bold letters front and back, and the service manual recommends that if you even need to so much as THINK about changing tension or working on the valvetrain that you should replace it anyways, and that under no circumstances should one ever be re-used.
No reason...except: Mazda, Toyota, Nissan, Colt - these makes were always made outta decent materials and could be bought secondhand for a fraction of the new price of a Yugo. Even if one had to prepare such a car before using it, their value far exceeded this waste of a car. (Sorry...but cheap nasty things piss me off!)
When I was looking for a used car as my first I consulted my uncle, who did some work at a used car lot. There was a Yugo for sale in town and It was adorable. I was smitten with it. At mentioning it he SCREAMED no and refused to elaborate. I understand why now. I didn't give up on ugly cars. I've owned a 2005 Aveo, 2008 Cube, and a 2011 Cube. They are shaped like friends. Even the poor sweet Yugo is worthy of love. Just love. Not driving.
The Yugo was a car that met its design concept perfectly-it was cheap transportation-nothing more. What is wrong with that? the VW Beetle was the same concept-it did the job it was designed to do.
Exactly, and the Yugo was better than a number of imported cars on the market when it was sold in the US, but not as good as my Ford Escort Pony was ...
Well, it's perfectly fair to compare it to the Beetle in beeing designed for cheap transportation. And quite a good point. But there is a massive difference. The VW was an engineering masterpiece made to run for years, the Yugo just wasn't.
I drove a brand new one. It did NOT do the job it was designed to do. At least for American buyers. It was easily the worst car offered in the US market at the time. Imported or domestic. And there were a number of not very good cars on sale then. The Beetle is a great car in comparison. It did its job in a superior manner. The Yugo failed in almost every measure applied to it.
The didn't sell them long here in the US, cause they were junk. Numerous stories of them breaking down on the trip home from the dealer after some poor chump had just bought it new.
Considering they were aimed at people who had never owned a car before or wanted the cheapest transport possible I think they achieved their objective well. If the alternative was a bus (or worse) they are ok.
Well the 2nd World War impacted us the most and The Austro-Hungarians basaclly enslaving us before that.We got used couse we were generous to give some of our resources.
My dad got given one of these in the early 90s as a courtesy car when his was in the garage. It was one of the shoddiest driving experiences I've ever had, I felt like I was being driven around in a box of Tic Tacs.
Austin, I hope you see this. I bet you never expected this much attention from an old and forgotten cheap car from the 1980's! Congrats!! I remember when these cars were new, and actually had a friend whose parents owned one just like yours. These cars, as well as the Hyundai Excel/Mitsubishi Precis and Dodge Colt/Mitsubishi Mirage were some the cheapest little fun cars of the 1980's.
I've just recently discovered your channel thanks to a suggestion from YT. Love your stuff! I'm totally binge watching it all. Love these goofy cars you got
I had a yugo once, it lasted for 20 years. On the side of the tapashima-fugigoko highway. Fun fact, it ran for only 12 days after buying it for 20 yen. For comparison, a meal costs 500 yen. It still sits there as I couldn't bother less. I am thinking of making it a project car after all this time. More likely an engine swap, body panel swap, turbo, hydraulic PB, possibly a new transmission and it should be good to go.
I had a blue one. Got better mpg than any car I ever had. It would go 38 miles on a single gallon of gas. It had a 4 cylinder an a 3 speed standard shift transmission. I loved that car because it was cheap to keep goin as the parts from a Chevy Corsica an a Dodge Stratus would fit the car. It was a extremely simple car. Totally worth the $120 I paid fer her at a towing company auction. No one else bid on it. But me an everyone laughed an said it was weak. If I can pull a semi up an icy hill like I done did a many times before in the thing then I highly doubt everything bad ya gotta say bout my money saving car.
There's a steel tube under the car the jack fits into so the car can't fall off. The spare is under the hood so you don't have to empty the trunk to fix a flat. You can't lock the keys in. You can't leave the headlights on. You can't start it when it's already running.
All very good points, but you forgot to mention that it has a steering lock, an AM/FM/Cassette stereo was standard and air conditioning was optional, and that the air conditioning was massively overpowered for such a small car (the condenser coil is easily 3x the size of the engine's radiator), not to mention that the power assist brakes could stop the car in a shorter distance than any other car in the price range, and that it had heated rear window and rear wiper washer as standard. In standard configuration, the Yugo was better equipped than cars that cost twice as much.
@@TheOzthewiz I don't like how people label them "smokers windows", turn those things into the wind and you don't need AC. It's like an SJW way of implying that they're obsolete.
It is funny to hear people from the former Yugoslavia praising them. But when cheap used western cars became available they dumped them as fast as they could....
@@williamegler8771 "But when cheap used western cars became available they dumped them as fast as they could...." they dumped old cars to buy newer "old car" and it is not a prove that the car was bad. With the same logic new iPhones that have broken screan in no time are more reliable than old Nokia 3310?
@@williamegler8771 bullshit, YUGO cars still driven all around Serbia very much. And they stopped producing them 12 years ago. I drive Yugo Florida In 1.3 EFI, made in 2002, and still runs great without any malfunctions.
I had a new one when they came out. I put a little over 100K miles on it. It made quite a few 1,500-mile round-trips to and from my parents' house for visits. It was what is was, nothing more or less. Occasionally I still dream about driving that car. It had an American Frigidaire air-conditioning system in it. I did re-build its American Holley carburetor once. I did replace the brake shoes a couple times (drums all around). I think that the alternator might have been American, too. Not sure. Acceleration was okay up to about 30MPH but entering a highway required a little planning and care. Rear storage was actually quite good. I'm sure that modern highway speed limits would be harder on it than the late 1980's speed limits but it could do 80-90MPH when asked. Parking and city-driving was a dream. I used to hit my cement driveway at a nice clip when returning from work and I'd yank up hard on the hand brake, steer hard to the left, and slide to a stop sideways in the driveway. Fun times.
Yugo was a very common car here (in ex-Yugoslavia). It was quite good, when you only had Trabant to compare it too. You focus on the flaws too much, instead on focusing on how it's not Trabant. For example, it's not manufactured out of old communist pants. If that isn't a big plus, I don't know what is, yet you neglected to mention that...
Krešimir Cindrić Sure. If you were comparing it to a horse and buggy with half dead horses, it was quite good. Unfortunately we are not comparing to a laughable Trabant, we are comparing it to free enterprise options.
@-T-X-M- I'd argue that that could be altered in hieght with some common mods but widening the car would be ridiculously priced in comparison to the vehicle
During one model year, I can't remember which, maybe 1986 or 1987, the Yugo cabriolet was the only car with a powered convertible top sold in the US. NOBODY EVER BRINGS THAT UP.
The fact that you have yugo in what looks like mint condition is a testament of it's durability. Simple cars tend to be easier to maintain that why you see to this day Ladas in Russian, Georgia running. In 50 years I doubt I'll see F-150 from this year running around being an overly complicated car that only the dealers works with.
Old f150s though were super simple you still see tons of 80-97 f series around and many people prefer them as work trucks over newer f150s because they’re easy and cheap to maintain
Strange comparison because there are still many F150s from the same era as this Yugo still on the road here in the US because of that exact reason; they were much simpler than later gens... Makes me think you dont know what youre talking about or youre blowing smoke in order to force a talking point.
Brilliant!! I love your videos. The highest compliment I can pay is to say that I think you're the transatlantic cousin of the UK's own "Hubnut" (his rebuild of a 1970s Invacar is a classic).
I use a Zastava 1.1 as my daily driver, and while it is crude by today's standards, it's really very reliable if you do preventive maintenance. It's not the most comfortable, fast or even good looking, but it gets the job done, and then some. The biggest problem with these cars was poor quality control in later production years, and today the lack of adequate spare parts, since Zastava ceased production in 2008, and the remaining parts manufacturers aren't really providing the market with quality spare parts, so many people are forced to obtain good parts from scrapped cars. Anyways, l've been driving mine for 10 years, and apart from a total of three times (which was really my own fault), it has literally never left me stranded. I believe that we have the same carburettor setup, the Weber 7Y 2M-RA, which really is a fantastic carburettor when works properly, but the biggest drawback of it is the jet setup for the second venturi, which is really nonsensical 97/250(!?), and it really chokes the engine.
Plenty... RU-vid comment wouldn't cover it. It's best to head out to Zastava fan club forum, register there, there is a lot of good advice, and people are happy to help you choose your car. Long story short, you'd check anything on Zastava as with any other car: leaks, rust, spongy brakes, engine running, starting up, smoke on the exhaust, tires and how the treads are worn, does it pull on either side when driving, braking or accelerating... Where will you be buying your car?
1 thing you might not know. There was a version of the Yugo whit a electric engine back in 1998 xD So the Yugo was environmentally friendly before it was cool xD
Yugo GGGGVVVVV, when you say it like that it sounds expensive. We call it Yugo Tugo, which in translation means sadness, but it rhymes perfectly. The car is absolute crap, there is no denying ............ buuuuut. Where the hell you can buy a car for 200$ drive it, find parts on every corner, so when it breaks it cost you less than pack of cigarettes. And you can drive what the hell you want in it without care you can break or damage something.
My cousin bought two of these as totaled. One was wrecked in the rear, the other was smashed in the front. He cut them in half and welded the good ends together and sold the rest for scrap. He drove it for ten years and didn't even bother painting it, other than the primer over the welded seams. The front was Yellow and the rear was red.
Eh, that doesn’t look much worse than my Volvo. It’s not fast, it doesn’t have heated seats, power steering or a rear window wiper, you can’t shift it like a Honda, it pulls to the right when braking hard, it sounds like a tractor on steroids and it does a perfectly good job of getting me wherever I want.
That by definition makes it a good vehicle - a good vehicle does what it's supposed to do(A->B) and does it well. Whether that means that when it breaks it's dirt cheap and easy to fix, or that it simply doesn't break doesn't matter, but it's better than a new Mercedes that's for sure!
@@johnrickard8512 Let me ask you something. Do you have any standards at all when it comes to purchasing a vehicle? Or do you just simply need the absolute bare minimum in every way?
@@AiOinc1 Better equipped in what way? The engine was pure garbage, one of the weakest ever in an automobile. And as far as other features it basically had nothing as the video pointed out. And I suppose you're going to tell me it was as reliable as a Corolla or an Accord as well? And the build quality was just as solid? Yeah, you're correct. If you wanted a new car for around $5000 this was an option. I say, no thanks I'll keep saving and get something a little better. It's not worth it to me do drive around in something like that. Again, there's nothing wrong with having some expectations, even in a cheap car.
Awesome! A Yugo GV 1.1, in red was my first car! I did have 5 gears 😎! You didn’t mention a big feature, the adorable little Yugo toolbox that came with the car! Once, I was passing another car, in 3rd gear at around 75 mi/h the head gaskets broke 😢😄. It was a lightweight car with only 1600 lbs! I’m 6’6 and I had plenty of space in the driver seat! The fuel gauge stopped working in my Yugo, so I had to keep track of the miles 😂. Thanks for the video!
Bought one new in '88. $2625...a steal. Never had any issues. Drove it 75,000 miles and traded it in . Got $1900 in trade. That is $725 fro 75,000 miles in a new car. Financially, that was the best auto deal I have got...to date.
I'll never forget that my great, great uncle had one. And he was tasked with picking me and my little brother up from school. About 5th grade, I think. Once, on the way home I was making fun of his car. "Ha, you drive a Yugo. Blah blah. Whatever." And he said, "A sorry ride is better than a proud walk. Would you care to walk, instead?" So, I stfu after that. The Yugo is a perfectly adequate car! :)
@@calorus A to B sometimes. The terrible peddles and steering cause more danger than in a normal car. If you just want A to B, then you want a serviceable engine, good steering, and good pedals. The Yugoslav has an ok engine for around town, but it utterly fails in terms of the controls. If the controls were made to be better, then the car would be perfectly adequate starter car.
I remember sitting in one of these at a dealer in 1986.. The interior looked like a one piece plastic stamped out like a matchbox car . The clutch felt like it was connected to a rubber band. Sitting next to it was a new, first year 1986 Hyundai Excel at $4600. The Hyundai felt like a Cadillac next to the Yugo turd.... fun memories !
-T-X-M- actually, a friend of mine bought 2 of them in 1986. Both of them were very good quality wise and fuel efficiency was very good for it's time. He had no regrets even after several years.
you made me laugh so hard....bless you for you tongue-in-cheek commentary !! I had a Yugo....yes...in a long-ago life...it did a good job...traded it in for a Chevette !! Remember THAT car ??!!! Have a blessed a day !!!!
@@hillbillypeakgarage6797 No, it was never a good car. If it was 1986 and the price of a Yugo was all you could afford for a new car you were FAR better off with a good used car.
I had a Yugo 55A L (the model up from the GV) in the early 90's (i live in the UK) it was a 1985 car an was my first car - i had it for a year before i had to scrap it. Bear in mind i bought it in 1992, it was 7 years old had done 70k miles and frankly was on it's last legs. I replaced the clutch (which cost almost as much as i paid for the car) then replaced the shocks, and refurbed all the brakes. By the time i had finished i had spent more fixing the car than i did buying the car. But considering i paid £150 for it i wasn't complaining. Once the clutch, shocks (for cheap but stiffer units) and brakes were all refurbed it actually went quite well, it wasn't fast, it was scary to go over 60mph and terrifying to go over 70mph. One thing i do remember - my uncle had a 2 years old Ford Fiesta at the time and we had a cold winter in 1993 and in -5 degrees the Yugo started first time meanwhile his 2 year old Ford wouldn't start and needed a jump from my Yugo!!! As cheap transport they did the job and you need to remember they were cheaper that a Dacia is (by comparison) nowadays. My mate has a 2016 Dacia Sandero and it's hard to believe that a car that is one of the cheapest cars in the UK is literally light years ahead of what a Yugo was. he;s had his for 5 years and mainly uses it for short journeys and puts his 2 labradors in it and honestly it's never let him down and has required minimal maintenance
RiceFlavouredVTEC I agree I am an American and I love that car I have read much about it and seen some videos. Someone needs to show this to America NOW!!!
