There are like 100 YUGOs in the movie, which I think came out around 1998. Comments are property of their authors. But, I decided that going back into the printing business made more sense to me, so I left the car lot and headed back to what I call work. The Kei cars, like European microcars in the 1950s and early 60s, made car ownership possible for the masses. Ive been toying with seeing if I can find one thats been stored in a garage somewhere and buying it to replace my aging truck that leaks oil and coolant and tide the time before I can buy the new Fiat 500. At Zastava, these were foreign. Your experience was exactly what my suspicions were about these cars. There are lots of related legacies connected with Americas brief, mad affair with the Yugo. NEVER Give Up - NEVER Back Down He was absolutely correct. (As you said JustPassinThru). Which, actually, was a very good little car . I didnt mind helping friends and neighbor with problems they had with their cars. Cool Cruise CAR SHOW Cruisin' Brea CAR SHOW Cruisin' La Verne CAR SHOW Brea Holiday CAR SHOW Project Home America Flying Deuces is a production, marketing, booking and advertising company. Because he SAYS he has a new belt on there, doesnt mean its so. Whats terrifying is that a convertible version of this thing the flimsiest vehicle imaginable was sold in the U.S. No flimsier than the Toyota Paseo or Geo Metro convertible. It's a movie that has an attitude problem it couldn't resolve as easily as it did the mystery to Mona's death. Why did so many Fiat designs get recycled and built behind the Iron Curtain? At inopportune times. The Yugo was not always viewed so favorably, although its $3,990 price ($9,900 in today's dollars) grabbed headlines on its introduction in 1985. What he saw was an operation that turned out a car designed (and abandoned) by Fiat years before. This car had one genuine asset: ride quality. It helps to understand that everyone in Verplanck is dim to one degree or another, except for the Rash family. Drowning Mona is basically a comic murder-mystery. This has been true of: Renault in its government-ownership days; And, now, Government Motors, which is thumbing its nose at old GM customers who have warranty claims. Yugo-mania also swept through Hollywood for a time and was the star car in movies such as The Birdcage, Drowning Mona, Die Hard 3, The Crow, Inspector Gadget and 101 Dalmatians. Quality (or a lack of same) would ensure that the car could not survive in a competitive marketplace. Money was a problem; but not the root problem. } Had a Datsun King Cab twenty-odd years agoand I went parts-shopping in boneyards. Unscrew the shift knob. You know, we have a joke here in ex-Yugoslavia about Yugo: Handling is sharp and the engine loves to rev. But then thats not what most folks are exactly looking for. Serendipity! ), it was quite good. I probably still have it somewhere. Agree with this last. Neve Campbell was also working on Party of Five (1994) and Scream 3 (2000) while shooting this film. 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. 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. They had other third-world markets in mind. This is all fictional of course. 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. As noted, Bricklin first noticed the subcompact Yugo on the streets of London and within a couple of months, he had set up his first meet and greet with the management at Zastava . But what about quality disasters in a different scenario? Complete with opera lamps and padded roof. couple of months ago when I was in Athens. 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. (Cracked distributor cap, IIRC.) The gravity powered it! However, the 67 cu inch motor had plenty of power if you kept it revved, and I never really had a problem keeping up with traffic. I saw one not long ago on the streets in Eugene, but couldnt catch it., Theres got to be a comeback there! Various ancillaries like alternators were replaced with real FIAT parts. It WAS a simple-to-work-on car; and in that regard I appreciated it. Mona Dearly (Bette Midler) is an anagram for "only a dream". if (window['UnicI'] && window['UnicI'].geo && window['UnicI'].geo !== '-' ) { 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. The space efficiency was great too- it really is tiny- and is NOT a fiat. Screenwriter Peter Steinfeld says the film was originally going to be set in a mythical north. First of all, thanks to Perry Shoar for a very well written explanation of the events of the 70s and 80s that led to the meltdown of Yugoslavia. https://jalopnik.com/the-yugo-is-not-the-worst-car-ever-and-anyone-who-says-1830229976, The Yugo Is Not the Worst Car Ever and Anyone Who Says That Is a Lazy Hack So Lets Prove It, Your email address will not be published. Yes you read that right. She wrote something like, How cute, Ill be Lelo in her Yugo.. Danny DeVito and Bette Midler appeared in Ruthless People (1986). Even those of us raised on rusting U.S. cars from the 60s were surprised by how fast the Japaneese stuff vaporized. The accident I referenced in my earlier post has adversely affected my overall health (lumbar damage), and Im nowhere near as ready to slide under a car as I used to be. Danny DeVito and Neve Campbell appeared together again six years after the release of this film in another comedy "Relative Strangers "(2006). Likewise the Toyotas and Datsuns. I remember checking them out back in I think 1986 at a local dealer and loved that bright blue they were offering at the time, called Adriatic Blue. Wait, how am I still driving 24,000 reliable miles a year on a 28 year old yugo, if this article is accurate? Some Japanese automakers seem to have been surprisingly resistant to the latter; that was a major complaint of Yutaka Katayama at Nissan. I wonder why they used the Yugos, To show the towns Quirkyness? Re: Malcolm Bricklin I do not see him as a crook. Found it! Casey Affleck wore a blonde wig for this film. I shut it down to call a dealerand it wouldnt leave the parking spot under its own power. @ahight: I think there is no need to put the location square in every screenshot, only the ones with more than a single car visible. Zastava Zastava made Yugos even after they stopped selling in America. Kind of reminds me of a first generation Rabbit/Golf, which Ive always considered the gold-standard for the best styled small car. But who? He was a statistician in the War Department who became interested in using statistical controls to produce higher-quality manufactured goods. Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro wagamichi wo yuku, Otoko wa tsurai yo: Naniwa no koi no Torajir, http://www.highwayone.com/Classifieds/Yugo/GreenYugoCab.html, I'd like to own a yugo some day. FWIWYugo wasnt named for Yugoslavia, but its a phonetic of the name Jugo which is what the Mediterranean wind is called in their language. A Rolls-Royce Ghost, a Mercades S-class, and a Bently Mulsane. 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. Thanks for telling it. (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 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. For my family and me back in the eighties, fuel economy was king, so I drove K-Cars and assorted used vehicles that were cheap we never really struggled, but cash and monetary resources were scarce, hence my missing out on the larger, more deluxe offerings of GM, Ford and Chrysler. This may seem shocking, but Yugos really dont rust badly. The last Yugo that we would recognize rolled off the assembly line in November 2008. Film Focus: Drowning Mona. I was listening one Saturday to Car Talk and one of the callers that day to the show was a Catholic priest who drove a Yugo and commented on all the flak he received for his choice of automotive transportation. 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. I dont know if I was lucky (twice) or if my mechanical aptitude allowed me to save the cars I owned. Both were good strong running vehicles and the only thing I remember having trouble with was remedied by tightening up the battery to starter connection on one of the cars. I also started using Restore engine treatment, and that took care of that issue. The man is Malcom Bricklin. The collapse of Communism removed any perceived legitimacy left in the public who thought their future under capitalism would reflect a standard of living like W Germanys. What a story! So there you have it. Assuming the gentleman was telling the truth, this has to be some kind First, salt as a melting agent on roads was relatively new. The poor gal, if I remember, was named Lelo. One of the magazines rolled one on test, and they had a top speed of around 65mph. (rolls eyes). I mean, cmon, its an Eastern Bloc car. And the opening of China and competition from S Korea in a way ate Yugos lunch in the global market. So on the line, a worker would have to cut and install and tape it, with about a 25 percent failure rateincorrectly re-connected. Or inherrent underdog status? It had a three way folding back seat back that could make multiple level shelves out of itself, you could haul a lot of stuff in that car. Finallywith a new clutch 400 miles oldit tossed the alternator belt. 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. She is a bit of a contrarian anyhow, and has a mechanic-relative. Trivia: She does figure in a quiet little in-joke. And the gas cap would not come off. Also, this post made me curious: how did Subaru make the transition from dangerous sardine can to granola FWD/AWD family compact in the US? No parts fell off of it, the car generally was in good condition (other than some stains on the seats that I didnt care to speculate about). You are right.I found it here: Im guessing the sport badging is why the decimal point is so far to the right? A girl I hung out with in college had a Yugo. Well, as they say, two out of three aint bad. The local news interveiwed some and they were going for $4000 Id end up with used junk, but now I got a new import!. When the coroner first jumps into the water to check Mona's dead body, he is neck-deep in water. Drowning Mona is a 2000 U.S. crime comedy starring Danny DeVito as Wyatt Rash, a local police chief from Verplanck, New York, who investigates the mysterious death of Mona Dearly (played by Bette Midler), a spiteful, loud-mouthed, cruel and around the town highly unpopular woman, who drove her son's Yugo off the . Our Mr. Bricklin also had an idea to start up another company fed by Zastava, this time to be called ZMW. Ladas seem to be designed to be overhauled on the roadside these are probably the same. After the death of Marshal Tito in 1980, long simmering Balkan feuds became a way of life and continue there to this day. Rona Mace (Jamie Lee Curtis) is an anagram for "a romance". Anyway, the employee joked that it even had the rear window warmer to keep your hands warm when pushing it. The result is that the UK Yugo was a far superior car to the US one, with its dealership network out to make a quick buck. As I said earlier, this car obviously didnt meet the expectations of the majority of the American masses, but I know you werent the only one who found the Yugo a simple and easy-to-work-on car. Almost everyone in town is a suspect. Now they are all scared by digital cameras and this are just some memories from the other side of the iron curtain. Jason Vuic details this in his book The Yugo of how management refused plans for premiums for top-grade work or extra effort; of how primitive and shoddy were the paint booths, of how design goofs went uncorrected for years. The problem is, there's not a single person in town who DIDN'T have a motive. This, the paring of weight, was even evident in Japanese trucks. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. 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. At only 20,000 miles it was worn out, fading, under powered, rusting, it wanted to die and be buried, it certainly didnt want to be a car! There was a short in the headlights, and the switch for the engine cooling fan was broken both of which were easily fixed. I have often wondered why Bricklin didnt try to make a ploy for the tooling to be set up in a higher quality shop. Drowning Mona 2000 (PG-13)Strident comedy about the low-IQ denizens of small town Verplanck, New York, where everybody still drives a Yugo (the town was a test market). I drove it in Atlanta rush hour traffic, it got about 40MPG and I grew to really like the little beast. 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. Parts were cheap due to the exchange rate, so there was not the pressure on dealers to deny problems and warranty claims, like Ford and Vauxhall put on their dealers. I was sure youd have had one. Director Nick Gomez Writer Peter Steinfeld Stars Danny DeVito Bette Midler Neve Campbell 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. The 4 door one was a dodge omni, think it was a glh. That salty New England slush had its way with everything. The Yugo was a far superior car compared against a Chevette, or first generation Hyundai. Even so, Kei cars remain too small to be accepted by American consumers. They dumped em, too, as soon as they could afford something, anything, better. The Proton is only a Malaysian Mitsubishi exactly the same awful car Hyundai built as trhe EXCEL. At least until the inevitable head gasket problems caused by an Iron head and alloy block. They probably would have found a customer base in the U.S. 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. *shakes tiny fist*. The Yugos are a literal running joke throughout the movie. One day I put the key in and nothing happened, it was dead and wouldnt turn on. Actually, from my experience with Yugo monocoque, four doors would have crushing effect on rigidity:). I think the other reason they were more successful out of the US is that in Europe, people have driven OHC cars since the 60s. That said, the most maintenance I did on the car(s) were oil changes and other mundane regular maintenance. Actually, Perry did a much better job of it than I could have. He sat in the front seat once and never again! The only car known to have been blown off of the Mackinac Bridge. Competing econoboxes included the Chevy Chevette,. But theres a difference between an easily-repaired car, and one that needs frequent repairs. Lack of an automatic would hamper the car during all but the final year in the states. The writer of Drowning Mona thought it would be hilarious to fill a 2000 crime caper with Yugo vehicles. The Yugo got its biggest role in 2000, in Drowning Mona, starring Casey Affleck, Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Danny DeVito, and Bette Midler, with Will Farrell making a delightful cameo. But after that i didnt have much trouble with it, ride wasnt too bad for such small car, power was adequate for normal driving (in fact, compared to my fathers beetle with 1200 cc and 34 HP, Yugo with 55 HP and such goodies like 5-speed gearbox and brake booster feels pretty quick). Bricklin used franchise fees to run the company (a major accounting no-no) while the car was being modified for safety and emissions certification in the U.S. and dealerships were sold, territories assigned. After the wars, Zastava redesigned their cars with help from Fiat and Citroen, and gained new technologies to have them compete with other European cars. Jason Torchinsky of Jalopnik had an interesting take on it lately; Barnum, Theres a sucker born every minute con-artist. I think that was true of most of the Japanese automakers the early passenger cars evolved from tiny commercial trucks and three-wheelers, sharing engines with motorcycles. Yugoslavia The Land Of The Southern Slavs went to war with itself in late 1991 and essentially spent the next 17 years shooting, ethnically cleansing and generally behaving like it had before World War I. The ignition constantly gave out and so did the clutch. Wheel barrow. She had a habit of parking illegally, and, faced with a ticket and impound bill that exceeded her estimate of the value of the car, donated it to the towing company. I would venture to guess that there are fewer than 500 running condition Yugos still on the road in the U.S. (most of which need a little TLC) Anybody that ever owned one of these little mobile gulags will tell you that there was nothing loveable, cute or endearing about them. It was a nightmare. What is the purpose of door release handles if they break right away (they appeared to be bendable plastic molded around a paper clip), and how did they ever get installed in the first place if they didnt work to begin with? These cars came with an optional AM/FM cassette deck that was very basic, only 5W total if I recall right, or was that 5W per channel? No regrets and better than any $1500 alternatives at the time. They were true babes in the woods, and they lacked the capital to deal with the investment and the costs of distributing cars. (At the same dealership on the window sticker above,actually). This was before the deal with Chery. We learn that Verplanck was selected as a test market when the Yugo was being introduced to the United States. Which together would have theoretically allowed the Yugo to be more successful. if (window['UnicI'].geo === 'CA') { They were incredibly simple mechanically. When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect.When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect.When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect. 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. Hell, I was 20 years younger, A lot can change in that time. 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. Since it had the potential to continue the well-regarded reputation of the Autobianchi A112 base car as a small model in markets like the US compared to the SWB Fiat 127 derived car that become the infamous half-baked small Yugo. Going up hill was a struggle, it tended to roll back in reverse because it didnt have any power to go forward. 2. It is the cheapest person that spends the most. If Italy had built it, would it be known as the It??? But with enough TLC (something the average American consumer wasnt high on), maybe they werent so bad (at least a few of them, anyway). The car itself rattled and shook upon starting. I have known folks like that too. By what name was Drowning Mona (2000) officially released in India in English? } I guess Ive been mispronouncing subaru all these years. 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. 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. Doug DeMuro joyfully reviewed one a couple of years ago. She noted that while it wasnt much good past 65MPH (no overdrive), it never got less than 30MPG, and it handled beautifully. I also have to say that state ownership does not always lead to poor business. I think youre a bit dismissive of Zastava. To be sure, the car was primitive, even by 1980s standards. I know this is hardly the point of your blog entry, but as someone with a passionate interest in the region, Im compelled to mention that Yugoslavia broke apart mainly due to its heavy debt burden. The next Yugo we were to get in the US, the Sana/Florida, showed even more independent development of a Fiat design by the Yugoslavs. Two cars are in the driveway of a glorious but faded Victorian mansion: The Bertone and a Yugo. Then again, Ive always had a liking for the odd car or two over the years. ), See all comments about this movie and its vehicles. 2) My wife (an engineer like yourself) has been to Dubrovnik and says that the beaches are incredible. Bette Midler chops off son's hand. It was owned by a gentleman named Dave Benton who claimed to be the former engineering manager for Yugo North America. I knew I wasnt buying a Lexus. There was a movie in 2000 entitled Drowning Mona where most of the people in a . 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. He got two large import operations going and he launched the SV-1. So we come to the end of the Yugo saga in America. One time the keys were out and the car was still on and would not turn off. and lso two Horizon ? But these Yugos aren't just a frivolous component of the storythey're essential to establishing the wacky tone of the film. Im affiliated with NECC Motorsports, a club that runs time trials at various sports car racing tracks in the eastern half of the USA. 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. Or perhaps the murderer was her husband, Phil (William Fichtner), who is having an affair with Rona (Jamie Lee Curtis), a waitress at the local diner (who is also having an affair with Jeff, so maybe she killed Mona just because she was tired of hearing about her from both men). Bracket racing, of course. I really believe that the cars were treated as disposable, and in that way expectations were met. Its not like Fiat designs were anything special, quite the contrary in many instances. My mother drove it to work at the high school one time. From the Subaru 360, to the SV1, to the Yugo, up to Chery, he followed the time-honored scammers credo of taking as much money as he could through charm and charisma, and when the going got tough and his shell-game started coming unraveled, he bailed with his loot and moved on to his next scam. .Geo === drowning mona yugo cars ' ) { they were true babes in the driveway of a first Hyundai. 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