Someone steeped in the maintenace required to keep something like a Trabant running would probably be right at home with a Yugo. Had the car been screwed together properly, and had there been an engineering department to iron out the bugs, it could have had a long run. The writer of Drowning Mona thought it would be hilarious to fill a 2000 crime caper with Yugo vehicles. The Tipo 145 was developed in the early 1970s (IIRC), and it showed. Also in that time, poor workmanship wasnt exclusively Yugos problem. Gearboxes on the other hand well, its a Fiat after all, and it teaches you how to double clutch. The Yugos bait was a stunningly low MSRP of just $3990. I was amazed when I rode in one, expecting a bouncy distaster but encountering a surprisingly supple feel of the suspension. Very well-maintained. The character name, Wyatt Rash, was intentionally chosen by writer, Peter Steinfeld, to reflect the underlying premise of the movie -- said fast enough, it sounds like yup, White Trash! Whats good- quad headlights The Italian Government and the Unions forced Fiat to cooperate. Sloppy or ignorant engineering plays a part most times; but its MANAGEMENT thats supposed to identify problems and stop them as soon as possible. 5 Yugo i know its a rare thing but should we park them together ? All Rights Reserved. In The Film, for some inexplicable reason, everyone who lives in the Catskill area towns seems to drive a YUGO. NEVER Give Up - NEVER Back Down At least until the inevitable head gasket problems caused by an Iron head and alloy block. It was amazing (to me) how they found a solution so quickly. Even though the price was a come on (dealers larded as many options onto the car as they could get away with, see below), America was hooked. . 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. Amidst mutual finger pointing, the deal collapsed in July 2008 as the erstwhile partners took turns suing one another in federal court. You had to know FIATS and and what Yugo klooged up to meet EPA regs and how to unklooge it. @Jeff Nelson: I think youre a bit dismissive of Zastava, they have been around for quite some time. Hell, I was 20 years younger, A lot can change in that time. Back in 87, a cheerleader at my high school won one of these in a raffle. During the time the clutch cable was dying, I broke the shifter mechanism, due to the clutch cable dying. Yugoslavia, markets in new states opened for foreign cars and some of my friends bought American cars lured by size and luxury, but this love affairs usually ended quickly and costly. In 1968, Bricklin thought that what America needed was an air cooled two cylinder car that could make zero to sixty in thirty seven agonizing seconds. But back to the subject, shortage of all kind of raw material was the main reason for poor quality, not drunken workers. Purchased one year old cars for less than $1500 while attending college. I was sure youd have had one. Or wasting half a grand. Because he SAYS he has a new belt on there, doesnt mean its so. But then thats not what most folks are exactly looking for. But the Japanese companies focused; and today its almost unheard of to find a Toyota or Honda ruined from corrosion. 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. Visit Dealer Website. Its not too late! Those methods have contributed to rust resistance that we have come to expect from modern cars. "She's dead," he confirms to Chief Rash (Danny DeVito), who nods grimly and begins a murder investigation. It was only later, when the bean-counters bid out the belts on a cost basis, that they developed a much shorter lifespan. A girl I knew in high school had one of these, it got rustier seemingly by the day, and this was in 1991-2 so it wasnt by any means an old car. Ive got a couple of rusted out British cars one of which I repaired The rust was caused by poor window sealing on both water rusted it way out however the spares one was driven full of rust which spread it all through the unpainted box sections. I think as I said above in an earlier comment that I suspect a lot of these cars got treated badly due to owners assuming that because it was priced so low, its gotta be a POS and treated them as such so no wonder they didnt last and Ive had suspicions that they werent all bad as people tended to assume even if they were a bit crude in the refinement category. who collected Yugos for pennies on the dollar and used the collection as a parts supply to keep ONE of them running. So there you have it. or all of the Ladas.As has been mentioned already this kind of cheap car ownership At that time, Bricklin was probably best known for the eponymous car that he launched amidst much fanfare in 1974. Edit: Gah! 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. I saw one parked on Colorado Blvd. And it tanked with the critics. The Yugo became the default entry level car for people that knew the price of everything but the value of nothing. Those brave revolutionaries almost single handedly redefine their market segment and leave an indelible mark on the industry itself. (France) Chi ha ucciso la signora Dearly? My cell phone was apparently assembled at gunpoint by drunk Yugoslavians in the year 1984 . 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. Youd have to go from fourth to first gear to come down. It wasnt four door Yugo, that was Chevy Citation, if I remember correctly. Once the carb was replaced with a Weber instead of the Zastava kinda sorta copy with 3 miles of vacuum hose it ran and started a lot better. Bricklin was kicked out in the first (of two) bankruptcies, true. Any idea where the Fiat 128 stopped and the 127 started in the Yugo? This was almost $1100 lower than the cheapest Chevy Sprint and lower than even the Hyundai Excel. (As you said JustPassinThru). The body and car belonging to Kiely Rodni, a missing 16-year-old girl, may have been found in a Califronia lake on Sunday, according to a search and rescue group. In 1975, Subaru began offering AWD. Yeah, theres no question on really poor build quality. In a totalitarian state, such as was Yugoslavia, there is no political embarrassment because criticism is a criminal offense. You know, we have a joke here in ex-Yugoslavia about Yugo: We heard of the Yugo here far away in South Africa, but now I know how it all came about and fell apart. Mine was still only about a year old, so I was in denial about its performance. It is difficult to overstate how rustprone 1970s Japaneese cars were. Theyre really a mishmash of the two; with their own unique body. Ive always had a soft spot for these little cars from Yugoslavia. That salty New England slush had its way with everything. Re: Malcolm Bricklin I do not see him as a crook. I remember that time very well, it was impossible to find coffee or bananas or laundry detergent etc in the stores, and the industry was struggling to get raw materials. Yugo America The importer of the eponymous car that had been the talk of the industry just a few years earlier filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation in 1991. They found slipshod handling of stamped body panels, and the assembly lines using dirty, even dented panels; he found painting in dusty areas, not the clean, dust-free booths required for good paint covering and adhesion. To keep your hands warm while you pushed. Audis have been headaches to owners at various times. I knew about their reputation, but I really needed a set of wheels that wasnt going to set me back a couple of thousand dollars. Introduced at an offer price of just under $1300 , the little Subaru made much of its over 60 MPG fuel economy and low cost of ownership. 3) The Yugo has a good reputation in the land of its birth. The problems with Audisare RELATIVE to other brands; and RELATIVE to past experiences. Based on the slightly larger Fiat 125, it was everything bad about a lada, but somehow worse. My mother drove it to work at the high school one time. I have only seen one Yugo in my life. 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. Membership also saw a similarly sharp increase, with over 1,800,000 in the same year (300,000 more than in 1970). Why are there so many Yugo in this movie? If possible, the FSO 125p was even worse. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . if (window['UnicI'] && window['UnicI'].geo && window['UnicI'].geo !== '-' ) { Im guessing the sport badging is why the decimal point is so far to the right? Or maybe not. It cut costs, and as was the concern then (as now) it was Green using the parlance of today. Now, I live in the UK and have had three ladas, all of which were much better cars than many people give them credit for. Although I tested it in the summer, the car sputtered and hesitated like it was cold. 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. 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. Drowning Mona is a 2000 American 'comedy' film starring Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, Melissa McCarthy, Brian Doyle-Murray, and box-office superstar Will Ferrell. Critically, one of her co-workers loved Fiats, and he taught her their quirks-most of which the Yugo shared. As a Japanese kei class car,it was pretty good for crowded streets , expensive gasoline and as a motorcycle (or scooter,which Fuji also built) alternative. Ford Econoline This Is Not A Taxi. alignments. Drowning Mona is a 2000 American crime comedy film starring Danny DeVito as Wyatt Rash, a local police chief from Verplanck, New York, who investigates the mysterious death of Mona Dearly ( Bette Midler ), a spiteful, hard-drinking, loud-mouthed, abusive woman, hated by all who knew her, who drove her son's car off a cliff and drowned in a river. Since the film is set in modern, post y2k times, it may be the last one in running condition in the U.S. No, I dont know if they used an actual Yugo or just a skinned over FIAT prop, & if they did utilize a Yugo, how many production assistants were tasked with keeping it working ;-D. Also used for laughs in the Ackroyd/Hanks Dragnet movie. Barnum and the circus freak show that he brought to America in the twilight of the Reagan years. During WWII, they built a few Jeeps. The thing that I remember most was the shifter and the transmission. By May of 1988, Malcom Bricklin needed a lifeboat and he found it on Wall Street. It seems a good use of them. To see mine riding on a tow truck was so humiliating. It's got an absolute star studded cast including Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Casey Affleck, William Fitchner, Neve Campbell, Jaime Lee Curtis, with a cameo, and even . Zastava built some world class arms. They had other third-world markets in mind. My dad is a bit of a FIAT nut so he would wrench on it from time to time. Very entertaining. This is how Hyundai and Kia got their start and Zastava began doing it earlier. *cough cough*, Malcolm is now wanting to import Chinese cars. 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. His shaky little import business was marketing Bertone X/19s after Fiat said arrivederci in 1982, but the end of that venture was in sight. Its avoidable with regular replacement, true. Drowning Mona 2000 PG-13 1 h 36 m IMDb RATING 5.7 /10 15K YOUR RATING Rate Play trailer 2:23 1 Video 67 Photos Comedy Crime Mystery When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect. Witness the fact that everyone's car of choice is a Yugo; each Verplanck citizen drives one ever since the company conducted a cheap sales test of the vehicle there some 10 years ago. Director Nick Gomez Writer Peter Steinfeld Stars Danny DeVito Bette Midler Neve Campbell Me and my friend Jerry (from Sam Bonds) drove a Yugo at a wrecker yard in Coburg some years back. Here in Greece they are still around and not that rare. One time the shifter came off in my hand. 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. Substandard seatbelt anchors, collapsing seats, hard starting, no starting, the list was endless. (We also wanted to stick a finger in the eye of the USSR, which was at odds with Yugoslavia anyway). I have known folks like that too. I would suggest you read Jason Vuics book on the Yugowhat he described the Yugo America advance men as finding, had little to do with shortages of raw materials. UK Yugo dealers were often small garages in small towns, who really tried to do the prep work to get the cars out well. A girl I hung out with in college had a Yugo. The best part was they all had the same license plates on them to just have a semblance of legality! I cant think of another car that disappeared off the roads faster. } The first year all those repairs were paid for, so it wasnt as miserable then. )that I spotted a This car had one genuine asset: ride quality. As the movie opens, a local woman named Mona Dearly ( Bette Midler) speeds down a country road and directly into the Hudson River when her brakes fail. 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. The real reason why Crvena Zastava went into this adventure was that they were desperate to get some foreign currency to keep assembly lines alive. At Zastava, these were foreign. . Chief Wyatt Rash: My mother always used to say, "When life hands you potatoes, make potato salad!". I went to an auto place for a part, and was so embarassed to even say Yugo to the clerk, that my voice stuttered and I replied Yugee. 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. The Birdcage - Features a yellow Yugo Cabrio in Miami. if (window['UnicI'].geo === 'EU') { There was something wrong with every single facet of this car. There are like 100 YUGOs in the movie, which I think came out around 1998. I wonder if he actually carried that threat out, and if his daughter ever forgave him if he did. But they didnt have a CLUE. Diversity was their strength!!!!!!!!!!! And the A/C system on the Yugo was an add on! (At the same dealership on the window sticker above,actually). The first Mazda was also a kei-car, the R-360. The Yugo was a far superior car compared against a Chevette, or first generation Hyundai. Bricklin is still nominally involved with a venture called Visionary Vehicles and appears on its website today.The end of his Yugo adventure left him short of funds to repay an impressive list of creditors, investors and employees and even the IRS took its pound of flesh later on. Sure some of the plastic trim was suspect, but dont forget that GM was still doing rubbermaid doors then, and the Japanese were still stapling vinyl over cardboard for door trims. The philosophy behind Drowning Mona is not good clean fun, or even intelligent nasty fun. Id actually like to have another one, but beef it up with Fiat parts. Yep, the N and Z360 from Honda, but when they made them for export, they dropped in a 600cc motor into what was essentially the same car so what we got as did Europe was the N and Z600 with a 600cc motor instead of the 360cc motor, which was the utmost limit in displacement for a Kei car then, and I think now. And when longtime resident Mona Dearly (BETTE MIDLER) drove her Yugo into the river to her death, no one really seemed to care. Anyway, the employee joked that it even had the rear window warmer to keep your hands warm when pushing it. With no new product in the pipeline, Bricklin would either have to find another car to flog or get an honest job, so there was a mutual meshing of interests when he arranged a visit to the Red Banner Factory in Yugoslavia that turned out the new apple of his eye in 1984. Having had some up-close contact with a 128, Id say that its more 128 than 127. It really has all of the benefits of an Italian car with none of the drawbacks. At least in the old days I could see why the industry that does not want a cheap car to succeed, but whats the point now? They even found dirt and rust that had been painted on in the inside of some cars nearing completion. } He got two large import operations going and he launched the SV-1. The film also stars Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, William Fichtner, Marcus Thomas, and Peter Dobson. I remember the shifter being very vague and rubbery but it did the job and the car wasnt too bad on other respects and I rather liked its styling. I bought a used, year-old Yugo. The blue one had seen much more use than the red one, but it was still a good runner. Wikipedia says that the Yugo quality was satisfactory at the start but went downhill fast and the factory refused to do anything about it. But even in those circumstances, the car was not that bad as public opinion in USA about it. Not too long before I sold it, it had started to develop noisy CV joints, but by then the car was 8 years old and 100,000 miles. I cant recall reading anything positive about the vehicle, anywhere. Malcom Bricklin The twice bankrupt Bricklin has resurfaced periodically over the years, always pushing the latest crack brained scheme to sell a car that would occupy the place that his Yugo once did- the bottom rung of the American market. In my Country was make an attempt to import the Yugo Cabrio,rebadged as Innocenti Koral Cabrio,but homologation fiche wasn't approved for Italy,but if car was tested by Italian motor magazines(Italy will import Yugos twice,1986 to 1987 with origin name Zastava Yugo and 1990 to 1992 as Innocenti Koral 45 and 55--that rebadged for our Country), I like this movie. 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. I saw it on the Helena streets quite a lot, but it was the only one in the city. Kei cars still exist, but the engine size and dimensional standards have been increased somewhat, and the newer Kei cars tend to be very tall, boxy affairs to create the maximum possible cubic footage of interior room within the package limits. That's not who I am. The salesman was vaguely aware that they were built somewhere in Europe,but he was cagey about just where. The only car known to have been blown off of the Mackinac Bridge. How do explanations of Zastavas lack of quality control compare to, say, one which could be made to illustrate the reasons of Audis numerous failures? But after a slow start because of supply problems, the car began selling in volume during year two. Every vehicle in town that is not a truck is a Yugo, except the police cruisers, which are Plymouth Horizons. Always. Bette Midler chops off son's hand. Zastava took over the American company. Thanks for your first hand account ! A 2000 American crime comedy film directed by Nick Gomez that has a police chief ( Danny DeVito) investigate the death of a woman named Mona ( Bette Midler ), an abusive and spiteful woman who was hated by everyone who knew her. Found it! I owned two. I think that for a 1992 car (perhaps it should be a Serb-o? The movie was directed by Nick Gomez, who, in "Laws of Gravity" and "New Jersey Drive," brought a John Cassavetes touch to working-class crime and confusion. This article, like many here, evoked some fond memories. The early Japanese cars were not that different from the 360: Junk. Actions lie louder than words. by Carolyn Wells. Worse, it was not just fenders and rocker panels that looked bad but did not affect the way the car drove. One of a kind, Im sure, There is an article from 2012, quoting the Time magazine By the 90s Japan had it totally nailed. Hell, he only paid something like $500 for a beater commuter car and this was in the late 1990s. Complete with opera lamps and padded roof. I want to say she drove it, but I dont think she actually put many miles on it. Ive got video somewhere. Everyone in Verplanck, N.Y., drives a Yugo. She wrote something like, How cute, Ill be Lelo in her Yugo.. Most can be rectified by the shareholders or the Boards of Directors, the shareholders representatives. Mona, played by Midler, drowns when the brakes in her Yugo fail and she catapults through a guardrail into the lake below. Kathleen Wilhoite (Lucinda) and Melissa McCarthy (Shirley) appeared on Gilmore Girls (2000). State-owned auto companies or assembly plants, tend to have little to no feedback from end-user to management. I took all of the fun stuff off of the red one (Italian Cromodora wheels and the AM/FM Cassette) and put it on the blue one. Also i believe that the whole project couldnt last very long because Crvena Zastava never had economic strength to satisfy such demanding market, which requires first class quality, excellent dealer network and a newer and bigger model every year, just to stay in business. It just flat refused. Seem like this article is just a mishmash of old articles written by people who never owned a Yugo, dont know anything about yugos, or who designed its engine. About two years ago there was a Wall Street Journal article about a guy who drag races a Yugo. On the side fixed windows was lettered YuGo BIG or YuGo HOME. Almost everyone in town is a suspect. I attach a picture of a 1100,the previous model,(5 door too! Drowning Mona is a 2000 American 'comedy' film starring Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, Melissa McCarthy, Brian Doyle-Murray and box-office superstar Will Ferrell . Vehicle used a lot by a main character or for a long time, Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase, Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene. https://chrisoncars.com/yugo-victim-or-victimizer/: (Time Magazine said it best: The Yugo has the distinct feeling of something assembled at gunpoint), I found quite a few articles from later years, quoting the same sentence over and over again (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/), And there you have it: everybody knows for fact that Yugo was actually assembled at gunpoint. Mona Dearly: Yeah? and lso two Horizon ? The U.S. stuff was bad enough in that era, but the European cars were (by and large) even worse and the Japaneese were worse by orders of magnatude. I may know the only satisfied Yugo owner in the U.S. Two Yugo episodes: The first while working on a construction crew in the 1987-88 period, at a project west of Rochester, NY one morning a Yugo rolls onto the lot, out pops a nervous, typical pocket-protector young engineering type, tells us he is out of gas, could anyone give him a ride to his job.at Kodak! 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. Sales ended in the U.S. that year when a recall was ordered by the feds over emissions issues related to faulty carburetors. Every vehicle in town that is not a truck is a Yugo, except the police cruisers, which are Plymouth Horizons. Also, the factory refused to make design changes that were obviously needed and would have been simple to implement. But is an Audi as bad as a Yugo? Dan beat me to it. It turns out to be murder and Chief Wyatt Rash (DeVito) must investigate. I also have to say that state ownership does not always lead to poor business. As the movie opens, a local woman named Mona Dearly (Bette Midler) speeds down a country road and directly into the Hudson River when her brakes fail. 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. Yes you read that right. Yugo gave everybody in town one to have. Mine was an 86 and a half Yugo. Further, it was the only small car of the era that could be genuinely fun to drive. . There was a guy that was racing a Yugo in SCCA competition, but thats been a long time ago. He lost his house, his fortuneAnd the dozens of Yugo GVs that he received as part of his settlement with his bankers. that stated this town was used as a consumer testing site for the cars. Honestly, I think Zastava should be commended for the amount of engineering they were able to do independently, modifying and developing Fiat cars. But recycled steel, for whatever reason, is overly prone to corrosion. 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.. The other Eastern European lemon sold in Australia at the same time as the Niki was the Lada Samara. 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. Change Ad Consent a special for the movie,an extended version,or just my failing memory? Two cars are in the driveway of a glorious but faded Victorian mansion: The Bertone and a Yugo. But like so much of his other stuff, the deal fell through. By third world standards, the Yugo was not a terribly bad car and sales continued even after its mother country began breaking up in the early 90s. A revised constitution in the mid 70s turned the country into a loose confederation and as Croatia/Slovenia were more developed due to being part of Austria Hungary, there was only so much that approx thirty years of prosperity after WWII could reverse. other small car offerings back then. All in all, Monas jaunt into the river could have been described as a pretty fortuitous accident for everyones lives she touched, or in Monas case, bludgeoned. When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect. Its not unlike the relationship I have with my cockroaches of the road (TM). He was scarred sh*tless and begging me to not make him drive it. I saw one not long ago on the streets in Eugene, but couldnt catch it. The seats were quite comfy too- firm enough but still soft- and with a cotton upholstery that was miles away from the nylon stuff put in other cars of the era. There where lots of Yugo's used in the movie, but this was my favorite scene. } I see one maybe twice a year. Just as quickly as the Yugo ascended to number two in european import sales, the car plummeted back to earth and never rose again. Tye Mobile Homes in Tye, Texas using the incentive of Buy a mobile home at Tye Mobile Homes, get a new Yugo for $1. No joke. Just finished Drowning Mona and came here for background. parts are easy, I have a new driver side indoor handle ordered that will be here Tuesday. Whats bad. As a result, in mid-1986, Yugo America began selling cars at a starting price of $3,990 (equivalent to $9,863.56 in 2021) for the entry-level GV ("Good Value") hatchback equipped with the 1,100 cc overhead-cam five-main-bearing engine and four-speed manual transmission. It had nervousness built into it, it made people nervous and it was nervous. LIkewise, Yugo UK supported its dealers well. It began the use of the FWD, horizontal boxer engine which carries on in Subarus to this day (albeit in a modern form). And the opening of China and competition from S Korea in a way ate Yugos lunch in the global market. Initially, I had my eyes set on a mid 80s Toyota Celica as the cheapest car I could find. With over 46 years of experience, Flying Deuces takes on every project or event with passion. 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