Goodbye Yugo
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- skwiotsmith0
"This is driving in its most natural form. You feel every bump, squeak and jolt, and one can enjoy the sweet smell of gasoline and exhaust fumes," he said. "No car can replace it."
- NotByHand0
I can't believe it was still in production.
About time that crap died.
- ukit0
- grunttt0
my father-in-law is a private pilot. He and some other pilots bought up a few yugos to leave at various airstrips that they frequent so they would have transportation whenever they flew in.
- ********0
I see them every once and a while here.
- ********0
that's mine tharr
- Point50
U.S. owners complained of frequent engine failures and transmission problems — with the manual gear sticks sometimes detaching and ending up in their drivers' hands — in addition to passenger doors and trim parts going awol.
When the U.S. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety conducted crash tests of 23 compacts in 1986, the car with the worst results was the Yugo, with $2,197 worth of damage in slow speed crashes against a flat barrier.
Still, over 100,000 Yugo GVs — standing for Great Value — were sold in the U.S. before Yugo America — the company that imported it — went bankrupt and Washington imposed economic sanctions on Belgrade for fomenting ethnic wars in the Balkans in 1992.
- caput580
dovidjenja!
- sputnik20
finally. thought that p.o.s. was retired ages ago.
- ********0
I'm in tears!
