He was rather sad that after 170,000 miles it had The only car known to have been blown off of the Mackinac Bridge. \"Drowning Mona\" is bad . I dont buy junk to begin with, maintain them, and only have minimal issues with them. Finallywith a new clutch 400 miles oldit tossed the alternator belt. As I understand it, Zastiva had the Yugo designed that way as its plan was, from the beginning, to export the car. Dispose of the rest of the car. Comments are property of their authors. Id love to hear what they thought a year later. Very entertaining. From the start, Zastava resented the profit dealers made, and thought their expenses exorbitant. Bricklin wisely took the first offer and netted about $20 million for his trouble. Also in that time, poor workmanship wasnt exclusively Yugos problem. I would like to add that once money was in short supply, it was easy to lay a blame on the other side, to stir old misunderstandings and conflicts, send kids to London or USA and start profiting from the war. Membership also saw a similarly sharp increase, with over 1,800,000 in the same year (300,000 more than in 1970). Parts are no problem, because it is basically a FIAT. readyGEO = true; Sales ended in the U.S. that year when a recall was ordered by the feds over emissions issues related to faulty carburetors. People who took care of some basic maintenance and corrosion protection could see 10 to 15 years of service without too much trouble. 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. Bricklins old nemesis Consumer Reports weighed in on the cars many shortcomings in its February 1986 issue and refused to recommend it at any price. So, they set about seeing what was what with a road-trip around Romania in three cars they would be testing. My BIL and I popped out the axles, but that was more of a preventative move, rather than a necessity. The car was a modest success with just under 8000 sold in the first year, but when the 360 was pilloried by Consumer Reports as being unacceptable because of its numerous safety issues, the bottom dropped out of the venture and the last few cars sat on dealers lots for years before they were practically given away. So, with connections, he was brought to Japan for a series of lectures; and if America wasnt interested, Japan was very much so. Bette Midler chops off son's hand. If possible, the FSO 125p was even worse. 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. Had Bricklin given the tooling to the Koreans, and had it built to their standards under contracthed have had what he wanted. A Rolls-Royce Ghost, a Mercades S-class, and a Bently Mulsane. Kind of reminds me of a first generation Rabbit/Golf, which Ive always considered the gold-standard for the best styled small car. I also have to say that state ownership does not always lead to poor business. (function waitGEO() { She was given a Yugo that wouldnt runthe fix was nine dollars. But it needed even more tweaking than did the Jugo 45which is what the Yugo was based on. (Italy) 1989 Chrysler TC 1983 Dodge Omni 1991 Dodge Ram 1980 Ford F - 350 Ford Ranger 1993 Ford Ranger GMC C / K - Series 1992 Honda Civic i found this article about the space: Early oil changes, followed maintenance schedule. 2) My wife (an engineer like yourself) has been to Dubrovnik and says that the beaches are incredible. The problem here was, first, poor management, as I noted; second, a workplace culture and a national culture that was absolute authoritarianism. Casey Affleck has gone on record saying that both this film and Soul Survivors (2001) were his two least favorite films that he has worked on. In fact, as it became evident that the Yugo was heading toward failure, Bricklin tried to modify and import the Proton from Malaysia to take advantage of low wage rates and favorable exchange valuations that would have made that car an asian version of the Yugo. Two cars are in the driveway of a glorious but faded Victorian mansion: The Bertone and a Yugo. (not that I cared that much about it I was in my mid-twenties and during summer season beaches were full of naked girls.) 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? English tongues tended to read it JUG-oh not a saleable name. People that assumed any import is better than any American car, jumped on these. Jeff might have wanted to kill her. If youre familiar with the descent of that once-vaunted company into its current sorry state, appears as if they had too many of this type in management. But youre right that would mean being a business man and not a con-artist. While poor Yugo certainly was not the best car made, but it was hardly the worst either. Later I also replaced steering rack under warranty because of some slack inside. )that I spotted a For Some Thematic Elements, Language and Brief Sexuality, Berlinale 2023 Highlights, Part Two: Reality, Manodrome, The Adults, Inside, Golda, Angela Bassett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Brendan Fraser, Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson Feted at SBIFF 2023, Revisiting Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Tragically Common: Jamie Dack, Lily McInerny and Jonathan Tucker on Palm Trees and Power Lines. I know there were folks who collected Yugos for nothing, for running and parts cars. She picked them up for virtually nothing and was content with bare-bones transportation. Drowning Mona | 2000 | PG-13 | - 5.5.5. It was amazing (to me) how they found a solution so quickly. I think I remember this! As a rule, Chrysler got worse as the 70s progressed where Ford and particularly GM got better. The country was communist, but with good relations with the US and a cosmetically overhauled version of socialism, the idea was the Yugoslavia would compete in Western markets and as a result, the country took on a lot of debt throughout the 70s to update its capacity for making consumer goods, among other projects. The first year all those repairs were paid for, so it wasnt as miserable then. Whats good- quad headlights You are right.I found it here: No argument with the political details of your well made point. (At the same dealership on the window sticker above,actually). Then again, Ive always had a liking for the odd car or two over the years. The civil war in the former Yugoslavia was the finishing blow, but wasnt the reason it wasnt brought over. I remember the lights were tied to the ignition switch so if you left the light switch on, theyd go off when you shut down the car, and back on when you started it back up, and that meant headlights and all, ala SAAB. That's not who I am. Generally what kills them is the cost of major systems repairs, to where its not economically justifiable. Ladas were, and are, shite. I presume the folding roof is there just in case the doors jam shut because of a sagging body! 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. I recall taking my younger brother out to teach him how to drive. Also, familiarity is important in servicing a car.Lots of American mechanics wouldnt bother to learn the finer points of working on Yugos because there were so few of them and parts were slow to arrive when needed. They would swap in the drivetrain from the Fiat X1/9 and put on the wider wheels tires from the X1/9 also. But outside of regular tourist routes and specially on the outer islands, unofficial nude beaches were everywhere. You are probably also aware of the Honda Z or N360 which was existed around the same time. I was unaware of the Bricklin connection at the time, and in fact learned about it here on CC, but I remember seeing some Bricklins as a kid, thinking that they were cool looking cars, and wondering why there werent more of them. The ignition constantly gave out and so did the clutch. 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. Substandard seatbelt anchors, collapsing seats, hard starting, no starting, the list was endless. 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. Any idea where the Fiat 128 stopped and the 127 started in the Yugo? The battery required water to be poured into it. Actually, Perry did a much better job of it than I could have. It is difficult to overstate how rustprone 1970s Japaneese cars were. The faded red one in the piece is for sale- $750. Nevermind that their cars are horribly unreliable, people still buy them. Technically if its going downhill it wasnt moving on its own power. Our narrative today is of a modern P.T. In 1975, Subaru began offering AWD. My best friend had for a brief time, a rusted 1980 Civic DX hatchback that ultimately blew out its 2 upper gears in the 5spd manual tranny that did it in even though his mechanic could not get the bolts out to replace the clutch due to rust. The "Fetzer valve", when Lucinda the mechanic is giving the Sheriff her findings about Mona's car, she says the "Fetzer valve" had been punctured. I remember listening to Car Talk some 5-6 years ago and a caller came on and said that his Yugo (an 87 I think) died at 150,000 miles, not due to mechanical failure, but due to a Deer. Ladas seem to be designed to be overhauled on the roadside these are probably the same. No regrets and better than any $1500 alternatives at the time. Another factor was that Subaru managed to kick Bricklin out on the street and take over distribution and marketing before he ran it into the ground. Why did Yugos have standard rear defrost? Not having that one bit Clarkson divised a solution, buying a third-hand Yugo and for the rest of the episode refering to it as a Bently. The other Eastern European lemon sold in Australia at the same time as the Niki was the Lada Samara. Rona Mace (Jamie Lee Curtis) is an anagram for "a romance". I know another-a lifelong car nut, married to another can nut. Zastava Zastava made Yugos even after they stopped selling in America. Thus American drivers were introduced to the second worst car ever sold- the tiny, dangerously underpowered 360 from Subaru. It is my understanding the latter Yugos were much better than their earlier counterparts, but still not up to snuff with the worst(?) 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. The mechanical bits all seemed OK, and no obvious leaks or other damage. Critically, one of her co-workers loved Fiats, and he taught her their quirks-most of which the Yugo shared. Id notice the original Civic CVCC, I had one, loved it and sold it much too soon. 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 gave everybody in town one to have. Just like the Russian Lada its simple and DIY friendly as long as you relise that and dont expect a Lexus. The film also stars Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, William Fichtner, Marcus Thomas, and Peter Dobson. I pampered and took extremely good care of it and maintained it very well, it just couldnt hold up to being pampered either. http://www.observer.com/2010/culture/wannabe-warhol?page=0, I have two things to share concerning Yugos, Bette Midler drove one in the movie Drowning Mona. as long as you didnt try to get away with normal American car owner maintenance. 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. He was absolutely correct. 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. But who? DROWNING MONA 1/2 Tasteless but sporadically uproarious black comedy. What a story! The best part was they all had the same license plates on them to just have a semblance of legality! })(); Pictures are property of movie companies owner of the respective movies. But I was unprepared for the panoply of problems that came abouteverything from a latent short or current leak, that would kill the car and prevent starting without warning (to restart, the only way was to pull the battery terminal to let whatever relay was behind it, reset) to binding heater-control cables. Around the same time we had a similar thing in Australia the FSM Niki, which was a Polish-built Fiat 126, so a ~700cc rear-engined s-box. But then thats not what most folks are exactly looking for. The space efficiency was great too- it really is tiny- and is NOT a fiat. Ive got video somewhere. Every vehicle in town that is not a truck is a Yugo, except the police cruisers, which are Plymouth Horizons., And lastly, I recall seeing a comedian on TV talking about Yugos. I was scarred for her to be driving it. Every vehicle in town that is not a truck is a Yugo, except the police cruisers, which are Plymouth Horizons. Hell, he only paid something like $500 for a beater commuter car and this was in the late 1990s. So whats my point? Blue in color. Even those of us raised on rusting U.S. cars from the 60s were surprised by how fast the Japaneese stuff vaporized. var readyGEO; Saying that, it doesnt mean that people were particularly promiscuitive or anything like that. But the Japanese companies focused; and today its almost unheard of to find a Toyota or Honda ruined from corrosion. Of course not. Trivia: Frequently, that new model sets the status quo on its ear and forever changes the way we think about (and react to) our transportation needs. NO. An older Yugo, since the car hasn't been manufactured since its country went out of business. But the little Yugo turned out to be a lot less than the sum of its parts. I guess Ive been mispronouncing subaru all these years. 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. 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! It was mainly low used values (the proton badge had no snob appeal) and apathy that saw them scrapped rather than any major fault of the car. They had other third-world markets in mind. Soon we would have a whole line of Adams Family cars on the road! But recycled steel, for whatever reason, is overly prone to corrosion. 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. 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 . Barnum, Theres a sucker born every minute con-artist. At first glance, the car looked up to date- Front wheel drive, rack and pinion steering, decent mileage. That explains why everyone was driving them then. Only other thing it needed to be roadworthy was front tires. The Little SuBARu Wow!, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLPp-NFInXw. FSO 125P: Other folks I know routinely neglect maintenance on some very well regarded cars and wonder why they have such bad luck! Lack of an automatic would hamper the car during all but the final year in the states. 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. The problem is, there's not a single person in town who DIDN'T have a motive. Wyatt finds no shortage of suspects. This doomed script and conventional direction venture for Nick Gomez (" New Jersey Drive "/" Laws of Gravity "), results in a comedy that got by with a few mean-spirited jokes. i doubt they are still there. Now Rash has to decide who killed Mona Dearly. Going up hill was a struggle, it tended to roll back in reverse because it didnt have any power to go forward. I think it's worth keeping them separate because it's a in-joke of the film that almost everyone has a Yugo. "Drowning Mona" is a frustrating comedy. Its not too late! Further, it was the only small car of the era that could be genuinely fun to drive. Drowning Mona is one of my favorite comedies, and its currently available on YouTube for free. 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. I was only ten, but knew they were junk. The story involves a local police chief from New York state who is charged with . 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 chief is not rash, but fairly level-headed as he patiently sorts his way through a case that seems to reduce itself to a series of bar fights dimly remembered by drunks. Im affiliated with NECC Motorsports, a club that runs time trials at various sports car racing tracks in the eastern half of the USA. and lso two Horizon ? (France) Chi ha ucciso la signora Dearly? Director Nick Gomez Writer Peter Steinfeld Stars Danny DeVito Bette Midler Neve Campbell 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. Sloppy or ignorant engineering plays a part most times; but its MANAGEMENT thats supposed to identify problems and stop them as soon as possible. Also spare parts were inexpensive and any mechanic and his nephew would fix it. Required fields are marked *. His last notable brush with the automotive world (in 2004) involved a vague alliance with (uh-oh) Chinese auto maker Chery. Say what you will about Bricklin he is a man of action. Once I figured out what was happening to the carb, I developed an oil trap that kept motor oil from getting past the PC valve and being sucked into the carb. Gearboxes on the other hand well, its a Fiat after all, and it teaches you how to double clutch. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. The gravity powered it! Your email address will not be published. And that, sadly, is the point and the problem. During lunch the high schoolers came out and lifted it up so the front tires were up on the sidewalk. I would be *shocked* to see a single one moving under its own power in 2011. One of the sight gags is that everyone in town drives a Yugo, thereby using personalized license plates as a necessity more than anything else.) It was so bad we couldnt even get it to start, so we took a few parts off it and then the scrap yard came and took it away. parts are easy, I have a new driver side indoor handle ordered that will be here Tuesday. 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. Every vehicle in town that is not a truck is a Yugo, except the police cruisers, which are Plymouth Horizons. The place where I used to work was given a Yugo 45. Some dinosaur relic, Id never seen before. alignments. It wasnt four door Yugo, that was Chevy Citation, if I remember correctly. A "Fetzer valve" is a fictional part of an engine, introduced in the movie Fletch (1985). The cars in the movie were provided by Apple Motors in Denver, Colorado. The early Japanese cars were not that different from the 360: Junk. 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. Ever notice how a lot of movie smokers seem to have just lighted their cigarettes? Privacy policy Those methods have contributed to rust resistance that we have come to expect from modern cars. There are, to be fair, other theories about how Jeff (Marcus Thomas) lost his hand, although in every scenario he was reaching for a beer. Re: Malcolm Bricklin I do not see him as a crook. Dubrovnik is kind of old fashion place with somewhat stricter rules about dressing on the beaches and elsewhere. State ownership is generally coupled to some sort of coersion, such as a penalty tax on other makes. The one thing that the Yugo shared with its Fiat ancestry, was the fact that these things were biodegradable in the midwest. But they were cheap! She put about 50,000 miles on it without a problem-it was scrapped when she got rear-ended by a Camry. As far as ethnicity goes, Im Russian by birth, Belarus to be exact, and have that somewhat stocky build to prove it! But Bricklin assured his erstwhile investors that the car could be made ready for the U.S. market with some minor tweaks. Here in Greece they are still around and not that rare. But they did. Its avoidable with regular replacement, true. Im guessing the sport badging is why the decimal point is so far to the right? I ask because I wanted to make a comment in the article about the C3 Audi 100/Audi 5000 about how much of a disaster my fathers ownership experience turned out to be, but I figured itd make an interesting point of comparison. [SOUNDBITE - clip from Drowning Mona trailer, 2000] Every car in the movie, save for the police vehicle and a main character's landscaping pickup, is a . I know of a 1979 Datsun pickup that completly rusted out in 6 years. Money was a problem; but not the root problem. Much embarrassment was caused to Toyota when it was found domestic panels had been mistakenly exported to NZ for local assembly we keep cars forever and these rusted out under a year on local limestone based and cowshit covered roads. We learn that Verplanck was selected as a test market when the Yugo was being introduced to the United States. See production, box office & company info, Siskel & Ebert: Drowning Mona/My Dog Skip/What Planet Are You From?/The Next Best Thing/Miss Julie. Yupand does anyone think Fiat or Yugo engineers thought to make the engine a clearance design? I did appreciate the way Yugo could make one part do what a western car needed three for. @EdDan: How do you double the value of your Yugo? . I cant recall reading anything positive about the vehicle, anywhere. First, salt as a melting agent on roads was relatively new. 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