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on: 02-03-2010
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1988 Yugo |
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2-03-2010 @ 09:55:52 PM |
| Posted By : Obsidian |
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#1, It's because of their history - even if it was shit - that makes them still interesting and why they're still remembered - sorta.
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12-27-2011 @ 12:58:27 AM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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#2, I got a book for Xmas this year that chronicles the whole Yugo saga, including all the key players who financed it, built it, imported it, etc. And truth be told, the Yugo's reputation as the worst car in the world is largely undeserved. Was it a poor car? By contemporary standards, arguably yes, but it wasn't WORST, as it got built unlike a lot of "dream" cars and survived for roughly 2.5 model years. It was based on a totally proven (if by the 80's, obsolete) Fiat model, it's engine (also Fiat-derived) was solid, and the car actually got either acceptable or above-average marks on Braking and general handling. What really let it down was not the design so much as very hit-or-miss build quality. The book spent a lot of time showing the culture clash between socialist ideas on consumer goods and how they were incompatible with western expectations that really disadvantaged things against the car, that, and it's reputation as "cheap" (cont)
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12-27-2011 @ 01:05:42 AM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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#3, car came along at a time (1986) when world automakers were starting to rediscover the idea of the compact or even sub-compact cars who's slim profit margins were never attractive and had largely been eliminated or price-bloated with features in the late 70's to early 80's. The Yugo in truth had only about 9months of time in which it was really viable as an 'alternative' until new models from more established car makers (the Justy, Fiesta, Pulsar, Excel, CRX, Colt, Horizon/Omni) came along that offered equal or better value for only a little bit more price ($5,000 - $8,000 for one of the above as opposed to the $3990 price tag for a base Yugo GV) ... (cont)
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12-27-2011 @ 01:12:08 AM |
| Posted By : Low-Tech Redneck |
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#4, And finally, the whole US-side of Yugo that did the importing/sales had a horribly bloated payroll that was top-heavy with executives and vice-presidents who did little except collect paychecks and what little profit there was quickly vanished to pay for said executives, their private planes and beachfront condos or the outstanding debts that company President Malcom Bricklin (of the failed Bricklin SV1 fame) had to pay off. The faults with the car were genuine, but, it's forgotten that most people who bought them were genuinely happy with them, 3/4ths said they'd consider or definately wanted to buy another, but that chance never came, as by 88' Yugo America was bankrupt, and by the turn of the century Yugoslavia itself was gone. (The factory was a casualty of a NATO air raid during the Kosovo War, ending any chance of anyone else making more)
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