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These are Yugos turned into race cars. Yes, Yugos. Yes, race cars. Raced by Serbians in Serbia, they are proper track cars with roll cages, and the action is positively ferocious. More »
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It's huge, it's the only one in America, and best of all it fits in a two car garage. Meet the massive TAM-110. Currently listed on Ebay, this rare monster sets a new standard of drool-worthiness and obscurity in the already awesome world of Armageddon-proof ex-military trucks. More »
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This Serbian man may have honked at these dogs to spare them becoming road kill, but they took it as a threat and sent him a message he's not soon to forget. "A Hyundai honked at me once... ONCE!" More »
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After 30 years of production, the last Yugo will roll off the assembly line in Kragujevac, Serbia this month. Built by Zastava, the lowly Yugo was the pride of the former Yugoslavian republic, representing the country's biggest automotive export. The car found its way to the US in the late 1980s and was an instant hit because of the sub $5,000 price and warranty. Built on a Fiat 128 platform, the Yugo wasn't exactly a great performer (though a Yugo GV ain't bad). Nor was it known for high quality. But with 794,428 units produced it represents a major achievement in low-cost engineering and design. The last model should be complete on November 20th and features a sticker proclaiming ćao, nema više. That roughly translates to "goodbye, no more" for non-Serbian speakers. The press release with a history of the Yugo below the jump. More »
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The Zastava Koral, better known in North America as the Yugo, has been the butt of jokes for 20 years (even in turbocharged form), but Zastava also made cars that weren't Fiat 127/128 clones. For example, the Zastava Florida, which boasts Giugiaro design and Peugeot running gear. Note the leading-edge use of timing lights, welding equipment, and garage doors in the Zastava factory. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5040982&view=rss&microfeed=true GM to build Opel Astra in Serbia. We're sure it'll be fine — but when we think "Serbia" we're not entirely certain we think "quality" in the same thought. [EuroNews] More »
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While the Opel Astra is finally hitting our shores as a Saturn model, Serbia's Zastava has inked a deal with General Motors to build an iteration of the automobile, known in par-for-the-course GM parlance as the Astra Classic. Currently, the former builders of the Yugo assemble a Fiat Punto known locally as the Zastava 10. The new deal will give the Serbian market a cheaper Astra Classic; Zastava intends to build 10,000 of the compacts by 2010. No word from Malcolm Bricklin whether he intends to import them to the States. [IHT] More »
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Make magazine found an automotive project whereby some enterprising souls in Serbia refitted a Yugo with a powerplant that uses wood-gas for fuel, likely in an attempt to improve the car's performance. The 125-year-old technology relies on incomplete combustion of wood to produce flammable gases hydrogen and methane that can be used to fuel the car. Ironically, even with all the extra hardware, the new powerplant shaved nearly two minutes off a stock Yugo's zero-to-60 time. More »
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