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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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When I first saw the above clip from IFC's "Ha Ha White People" comedy Portlandia I was certain it was product placement (Subaru confirmed this), even if the universe of Portlandia is the kind of place where almost everyone has a favorite Ethiopian restaurant and drives a Prius or a Subaru. It's just a little too obvious with the new Impreza there. Yet, there's a subtle humor underlying the whole thing. More »
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We've reached the end of the automotive Internet, my friends. Someone switch off the lights on the way out. You see, what we have here is one ludicrous, but sort of apt pairing of vehicles. And I can't look away. More »
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(hat tip to acarr260!) [Craigslist] More »
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I'm coming out of NPOCP retirement for this one; sure, Graverobber's being doing a helluva job, but after reading The Rise And Fall Of The Worst Car In History, I feel compelled to put this dilemma to a vote. More »
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How badly do you want a Yugo? Not that badly? Would you take three for less than a thousand dollars? No? We wouldn't, either. Or maybe we would. Hell, they're all red. How can you say no to that? More »
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The biggest engine Yugo ever offered possessed 65HP. This one probably has significantly less but it managed nearly three minutes of burnout time before cording and blowing both tires. We're loving the open-differential one-wheel-peels too. More »
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Admit it: The Yugo is strangely fascinating. Jason Vuic's book Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History is equally fascinating. Wired.com recently spoke with Vuic about the car's legacy. —Ed. More »
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Remember the $500 Yugo-turned-whale from last summer? Sure, you wanted to buy it for daily-driver use, but the price was just too high. Avast on the poop deck, maties, because Queequeg done 'pooned the price tag! More »
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After finding a reference to this song by Sarajavo punk band Zabranjeno Pušenje in Jason Vuic's Yugo book, I just had to share it. Enjoy. More »
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As author Jason Vuic points out in The Yugo's introduction, the Yugo wasn't really the worst car in history. How did it capture the role of Worst Car Ever in the mind of most Americans? This excellent book explains all!
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Over the years, Nice Price or Crack Pipe has brought you pristine examples of some of the world's finest automobiles for your consideration. And today, breaking that trend, we have a Yugo. More »
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Do you want to vault into the ranks of the most insane Project Car Hell Poster Children, while spending only 500 bucks? We've got just the car for you! More »
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We get quite a few suggestions for EOTD honors and we try to get to all of them, but a tip from a Fiat X1/9 racer always gets jumped to the front of the line! More »
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Hacking up a hail-damaged car and turning it into a giant, highway-capable whale is one thing… but when your Whalemobile started live as a Yugo cabriolet, you're entering an alternate dimension of awesomeness! More »
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We were all pretty excited when a genuine, Marshal Tito-grade Yugo showed up to the track on Friday night and a crew started putting a cage in it right there in the parking lot. 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 »
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After seeing Evil Clint's numbers-matching Yugo yesterday, we have no choice but to watch a Yugo commercial today. Remember when you could get a brand-new Yugo for $4,525 or aHyundai Excel for $4,999? Remember, the Yugo's price was well under 9 grand in inflation-adjusted 2008 dollars, and you got a full one-year/12,000-mile warranty! Were cheapskate car buyers willing to pay a premium to avoid a Balkan-built Fiat? More »
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Last spring, we saw the '87 Yugo GV of Clint, the Evil Genius Racing welder who built the Black Metal V8olvo's roll cage. Back then, Clint had an idea he'd make the Yugo into a 24 Hours of LeMons car... but it was just too nice. Instead, he applied a few months of work and a bunch of parts, and now it's one of the nicest Yugoslavian cars in Northern California. We're disappointed that it won't be racing, but here's your chance to be the star of the Marshal Tito Cruise Night in your hometown! [Craigslist Sacramento] More »
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Can you believe it? Test-drive a new '87 Yugo and you'll get more than 1% of the purchase price in cash, even if you don't buy the car! That's because New England Yugo dealers know that one taste of that vaunted Yugoslavian build quality is enough to make you sign on the line that is dotted. Is it just us, or does Yugo's "Buy yourself a little freedom" theme song have ominous overtones of payoffs to the secret police? More »
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Those of us who appreciate a Turbo Yugo or a potential 24 Hours of LeMons Yugo know that the little Yugoslavian Fiat 127 shouldn't be considered a mere object of derision. However, Midas joined the Yugo-bashing brigade with this ad making light of a fatal-looking hubris-fueled Yugo wreck. Whatta ya gonna do? More »
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When we were at Evil Genius Racing to get the cage put in the Black Metal V8olvo, we couldn't help but notice the bright red Yugo GV parked by the shop. Turns out the little Balkan pseudo-Fiat belongs to laboratory assistant and expert welder Evil Clint, who picked it up for next to nothing and is contemplating turning it into a 24 Hours of LeMons car. If he does... well, a Yugo would be a likely shoo-in for the People's Choice award, but it's a good thing Evil Genius Racing builds such solid rollcages- just imagine being in a Yugo on the same track as, say, the Size Matters Fury! Make the jump for more photos. 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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With the assistance of his engineer son (named Igor, of course) Crafty Balkan Yugomeister Anton Peterka has converted his '85 Yugo to run on the combustion gases created by burning wood. This isn't exactly a new idea (plenty of wood-burning cars limped around Europe during World War II) but applying it to a Yugo just seems so right! Hey, think there's a way to make it run on burning tires? [Zastava Yugo Page] More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=280336&view=rss&microfeed=true A fifty-dollar Zastava product. Some inspired back-40 mayhem. A fire. And in the first half, the clip features the smooth vocal stylings of San Francisco's karaoke king, Iron City's own Spike Slawson — the only man we know with a Heinz ketchup bottle tattooed on his forearm. What more could we realistically ask for? More »
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Mental_floss explores the automobile as metaphor, aligning the Edsel with failure, the Pinto with volatility, the DeLorean with spastic hype, the Yugo with shoddiness and the Corvair with a lack of safety. Which is all well, good, fine and dandy. But there are other, more obscure vehicular metaphors out there. And it is your mission, dear readers of tha Jalop, to find and explain them. So get to 'splainin'. [mental_floss] More »
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The diminutive Zastava was endearing enough to earn the nick name Nicia, which means Little Fiat in Serbian. As was its Fiat 500 cousin to the west, the compact Zastava was endlessly modified and by way of engine swaps and other creative mechanical mayhem. The final version of the car packed a very close to Fiat 850 engine which belted out 39 horsepower. A glorious day Comrade! We ended up with the slightly more powerful Yugo here in the states, also known as the 2CV of the Americas. – Mike Bumbeck More »
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It had to happen. Mix together a junkyard stew of Yugos, Fiats, turbocharging bits and pieces, and a big helping of ingenuity, and you get: TURBO YUGO! This gentleman took an '87 Yugo GV, dropped in an X-1/9 powerplant, then rigged up a blow-through turbocharging setup with gear torn from a '91 Saab. It's a bit disappointing that he considered a Megasquirt fuel-delivery system but stuck with the stock carb instead, but no matter. Just being able to say you roll in a Yugo Turbo is enough. – Murilee Martin More »
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What in holy hell would we do without our valued man inside the chintz aftermarket, JC Whitless? Well, we suppose we'd find something else to do, but life's better with ol' JC, especially when he sends us brilliant quotes like this: More »
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If one thinks about it, the only truly great thing Malcolm Bricklin ever did was bring Subarus to America. Other than that, Yugo? The Bricklin? Entirely amusing vehicles, but only if other people own them. So who really expected his venture with Chery to succeed? Well, we kind of did. At least for a while. But now that the Cheries are possibly on board to build the Dodge Hornet, Bricklin's holding the bag, calling the cars' quality not up to snuff, and deciding that Visionary Vehicles is going to design their own automobiles and find a producer in China to build them. We're suddenly feeling like this just won't end well. [Thanks to Kevin for the tip.] – Davey G. Johnson More »
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God save you, Zastava. You took the notoriously shoddy Fiat 128 and added Eastern Bloc quality control. And then you turned it into a pickup. When reader Alex sent this in, we nearly messed ourselves with glee. He reports that most of the Skala Poly Kombis featured a camper shell, but some went around topless, daring everyone to ogle the glory of their craptacular, Caminoized beauty. One question remains: would Yugo have survived if Bricklin had brought this Zastava to the US? Well, we'd like to think that it would have. 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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I sit at Rittenhouse Park and see a guy from Time Cycle give the finger to a passing motorist, and it kind of makes me smile/This is the city of brotherly love and crime/And we only bombed our own city once, one time. More »
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