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. Like all good European cars used to do, it came with its own tool kit and (owner) service manual. I cant recall reading anything positive about the vehicle, anywhere. a special for the movie,an extended version,or just my failing memory? Only the Italians could design a car to be so much fun to drive so slowly. Danny DeVito and Bette Midler appeared in Ruthless People (1986). While poor Yugo certainly was not the best car made, but it was hardly the worst either. The car itself rattled and shook upon starting. @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. The Yugo was based on a mash up of models 127 and 128 built under license by a wildly unproductive workforce in an obsolete factory with assembly quality that made real mid 70's Fiats look hand built. They were incredibly simple mechanically. Subaru was just a little behind the curve in terms of design and safetyas befits a smaller company. I guess Ive been mispronouncing subaru all these years. Not a bit ! State ownership is generally coupled to some sort of coersion, such as a penalty tax on other makes. I actually checked out a Yugo about the same time I was looking at Sundances, Colts and similar vehicles and decided: No, I didnt have the time for the do-it-yourself maintenance it mightve required my current cars took care of that at the time! It is a measure of the local intelligence that when the car and driver are dragged to shore some hours later, the doctor checks her pulse. there used to be a sign on the front that said visionary vehicles but that came down at least two years ago. Like you can buy a car without a transmition. Everyone in Verplanck, N.Y., drives a Yugo. It is difficult to overstate how rustprone 1970s Japaneese cars were. . They probably would have found a customer base in the U.S. 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. Here, it is well known that you change the timing belt every 40K miles. Secondly, I would be one of those people who had a good experience with a Yugo. console.log(window['UnicI'].geo); By the 90s Japan had it totally nailed. The last Yugo that we would recognize rolled off the assembly line in November 2008. @Jeff Nelson: I think youre a bit dismissive of Zastava, they have been around for quite some time. The Little SuBARu Wow!, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLPp-NFInXw. I was discussing cars with a woman in my office building one day, when she remarked that she had owned a Yugo, and got an incredible number of miles out of it. if (window['UnicI'].geo === 'EU') { This car had one genuine asset: ride quality. Mine was an 86 and a half Yugo. Even those of us raised on rusting U.S. cars from the 60s were surprised by how fast the Japaneese stuff vaporized. You know, we have a joke here in ex-Yugoslavia about Yugo: Anyway, the employee joked that it even had the rear window warmer to keep your hands warm when pushing it. 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. For the rest of the scene, he is dry from the waist up. Thank you for the interesting history. To see mine riding on a tow truck was so humiliating. Also, I think that first step after buying any used car in general should be changing of belt. Having had some up-close contact with a 128, Id say that its more 128 than 127. It turns out to be murder and Chief Wyatt Rash (DeVito) must investigate. But after a slow start because of supply problems, the car began selling in volume during year two. . Its not too late! The interior squeaked everywhere that it didnt rattle. I also have to say that state ownership does not always lead to poor business. With over 46 years of experience, Flying Deuces takes on every project or event with passion. So whats my point? But like so much of his other stuff, the deal fell through. Learn how your comment data is processed. These are the kinds of people who don't like to be thrown out of bars because it's a loss of valuable drinking time. To be sure, the car was primitive, even by 1980s standards. 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. The only car known to have been blown off of the Mackinac Bridge. Wait, how am I still driving 24,000 reliable miles a year on a 28 year old yugo, if this article is accurate? Id love to hear what they thought a year later. In the small, white-trash town of Verplanck, N.Y., a loathsome woman named Mona Dearly (a dour and ugly Bette Midler) drives her car over a cliff and into the river. I didnt mind helping friends and neighbor with problems they had with their cars. They start, get you to your destination in the dry, and thats about all you can saytheres no enjoyment in operating it and build quality was a joke. Wheel barrow. Say what you will about Bricklin he is a man of action. Drowning Mona is one of my favorite comedies, and its currently available on YouTube for free. Worse, it was not just fenders and rocker panels that looked bad but did not affect the way the car drove. I pampered and took extremely good care of it and maintained it very well, it just couldnt hold up to being pampered either. From the start, Zastava resented the profit dealers made, and thought their expenses exorbitant. 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. Danny DeVito and Neve Campbell appeared together again six years after the release of this film in another comedy "Relative Strangers "(2006). During lunch the high schoolers came out and lifted it up so the front tires were up on the sidewalk. 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. Complete with opera lamps and padded roof. The prototypical belt-driven OHC engine Stateside, was the Pontiac Sixand Joe Sherlock, who has a car blog, The View Through the Windshield (http://www.joesherlock.com/blog.html) was involved in the development of the initial fiberglass-impregnated belt. 2) My wife (an engineer like yourself) has been to Dubrovnik and says that the beaches are incredible. I remember the shifter being very vague and rubbery but it did the job and the car wasnt too bad on other respects and I rather liked its styling. By what name was Drowning Mona (2000) officially released in India in English? alignments. Second factor was, the popularity in the day of recycled steel in car manufacture. After Mona Dearly (Bette Milder) dies in the movie's opening moments when her Yugo plows through a guardrail and into the Hudson River far below, Wyatt begins investigating her death. At my brothers wedding this weekend, what did I see right across the street from the Germanic-American Institute on Summit Avenue in St. Paul, Minnesota? Contact us If Germany had built it, would it have been called the Germ? 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? Of course, as pointed out, it was more probable that hed have put the company out of business, too. That's not what I'm about." I bought it in January because I figured it would be fun to see just how bad it could be. The body and car belonging to Kiely Rodni, a missing 16-year-old girl, may have been found in a Califronia lake on Sunday, according to a search and rescue group. The base GV had a 1.1L, SOHC motor that originated in the Fiat 128 and the GVX had the 1.3L\, SOHC, motor, also from the Fiat 128 and I think it had the 5spd manual in it but the base GV got the 4spd manual. The last Yugo I saw was 12 years ago, parked by a gas station in Truckee oh, and a restored Yugo was for sale on Craigslist a bit ago but I figured that would be a bad idea on the Subaru front: I heard a rumor, years ago, that Fuji bought all the American 360s and had them crushed any truth to that? I see one maybe twice a year. At the very least, Bricklin didnt end up in a hotel room trying to arrange drug deals. In addition, many cars have changed hands by that timeand who knows what the previous owner may have had done? Malcolm Bricklin was one of those guys who is the quintessential P.T. His routine went something likeThe Yugo, what self respecting country would name a car that sorry after itself? (* 5-20 for older cars, up to 200 if they have to change water-pump and rollers, new models are more expensive, but 500 maybe for new BMW). Although I tested it in the summer, the car sputtered and hesitated like it was cold. 1) Anything assembled at gunpoint tends not to be of high quality. Yes you read that right. See production, box office & company info, Siskel & Ebert: Drowning Mona/My Dog Skip/What Planet Are You From?/The Next Best Thing/Miss Julie. I did appreciate the way Yugo could make one part do what a western car needed three for. But youre right that would mean being a business man and not a con-artist. Yes, a Deer. One time the shifter came off in my hand. Someone steeped in the maintenace required to keep something like a Trabant running would probably be right at home with a Yugo. That said, the most maintenance I did on the car(s) were oil changes and other mundane regular maintenance. 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. I started to work in 1985 as a young engineer in the factory producing electrical equipment for the industry, and was very aware about problems we faced at the time. (https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/jan/14/cover/#) I frankly dont know how anything this poor could ever be made. An accident has happened - the Yugo of one Mona Dearly has careened off the highway and plunged into the Hudson. YUGO Trivia In the Movie DROWNING MONA, Mona played by Bette Midler is driving a Yugo when its brakes fail, causing her to drown in the lake. The writer of Drowning Mona thought it would be hilarious to fill a 2000 crime caper with Yugo vehicles. Usually, these ultra-cheapo cars suffer from goofy styling touches, but the Yugo comes off as pretty clean, which is all the more astonishing since its an original design where no body parts interchange with the Fiats upon which it was based. Im pretty sure that she kept her clothes on. 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. The Tipo 145 was developed in the early 1970s (IIRC), and it showed. "Drowning Mona" is a frustrating comedy. Its a Plymouth Horizon which,I guess,is the same as a Talbot Horizon. And this works both ways after war ended in ex. 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. I recall seeing the garage full of yugos being worked on when Id take mine in and I recall seeing them dead on the side of the road everywhere. Which, actually, was a very good little car . One of a kind, Im sure, There is an article from 2012, quoting the Time magazine But there was one area that, frankly, I was impressed with, and that was the basic two-box design. Youd have to go from fourth to first gear to come down. In 1969, Subaru started producing a larger, much more traditional (well, mostly) car, the 1000. As far as ethnicity goes, Im Russian by birth, Belarus to be exact, and have that somewhat stocky build to prove it! 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 Yugos are a literal running joke throughout the movie. Many wars (holocausts, massacres) are blamed on religion, I can understand why some people no longer believe. 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. Knobs came off in your hand, the sliding radio marker on a string would get stuck and not move off of from where it landed. 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. They had other third-world markets in mind. Source for information on Drowning Mona: VideoHound's Golden Movie . The film also stars Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, William Fichtner, Marcus Thomas, and Peter Dobson. All Rights Reserved. After the death of Marshal Tito in 1980, long simmering Balkan feuds became a way of life and continue there to this day. Since the film is set in modern, post y2k times, it may be the last one in running condition in the U.S. No, I dont know if they used an actual Yugo or just a skinned over FIAT prop, & if they did utilize a Yugo, how many production assistants were tasked with keeping it working ;-D. Also used for laughs in the Ackroyd/Hanks Dragnet movie. But it needed even more tweaking than did the Jugo 45which is what the Yugo was based on. Most can be rectified by the shareholders or the Boards of Directors, the shareholders representatives. Many years later I saw it, and her, driving down a street near my house. The steel is much thicker than Fiat used, and although fit and finish wasnt great, it was no worse than on a Fiat. I initially got a job selling cars, and had access to one for a while. No regrets and better than any $1500 alternatives at the time. But is an Audi as bad as a Yugo? Lack of an automatic would hamper the car during all but the final year in the states. Doug DeMuro joyfully reviewed one a couple of years ago. IIRC, David E Davis even tried to help move these things by stating in Automobile that he was going to send his daughter off to college in one. 1. After we meet the local residents, we understand why they're driving them now: They can't afford to replace them. With just 25 horsepower (at a cacophonous 5500 RPM), the elfin 360 was the type of cynical exercise that would define Bricklins career in the car business. In a recent episode of Top Gear UK the trio were allegedly asked by an alleged high-ranking member of the alleged Romanian Mafia what would be the best luxury car for one of his stature. But what about quality disasters in a different scenario? One day a red one, next day yellow, the day after white, he was gathering up the by then give-away bombs that still ran. Retrospective - 2000's "Drowning Mona". (We also wanted to stick a finger in the eye of the USSR, which was at odds with Yugoslavia anyway). Had a Datsun King Cab twenty-odd years agoand I went parts-shopping in boneyards. } Unfortunately, Bricklin was smitten by the cars simple mediocrity and, just like a cartoon character with outsized dollar signs for eyes, he began the process for bringing the homely little car to the states. Handling is sharp and the engine loves to rev. The car itself staggered on until early 1992, with steadily declining sales and a dealer network that was slowly (and then quickly) going bankrupt. During WWII, they built a few Jeeps. The brakes appear to have been tampered with, making it murder. We learn that Verplanck was selected as a test market when the Yugo was being introduced to the United States. Ive talked to other people in the UK who bought them new, and many have had more than one. Another example of the high cost of low priced objects. I havent seen one on the road in at least 15 years. With Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, Peter Dobson, Will Ferrell, William Fichtner, Raymond O'Connor, Marcus Thomas and . Had Bricklin given the tooling to the Koreans, and had it built to their standards under contracthed have had what he wanted. At least until the inevitable head gasket problems caused by an Iron head and alloy block. She was given a Yugo that wouldnt runthe fix was nine dollars. IIRC, they licensed Fiat designs in the mid 50s and in 2008 they signed a Memorandum of Understanding to buy the auto assembly plant from Zastava. I remember, as a teenJapanese cars had fit-and-finish second to none; they started and ran smoothly with the primitive emissions controls of the time; but boy, did they rust. I think that for a 1992 car (perhaps it should be a Serb-o? Theyre really a mishmash of the two; with their own unique body. When I got there, my promised job had fallen through and my wife and child still needed a car, and I needed one for working. They sold boatloads of them in Europe to price buyers, taxi companies, retired folk etc. The last ones left in my hometown got a stay of execution when the city received a good number of Bosnian refugees in the 90s; many of them bought Yugos and got mobile for next to nothing since they knew how to keep them running. He soon discovers that her death was no accident. if (!readyGEO) { To be said, Jasons book is 90% about Bricklin. 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. Anyway, you got 2 I think 6.5 door speakers standard and an option for 2 46 oval speakers, mounted in the rear cargo covers side panels for a total of 4 speakers and an optional AC unit that replaced the console stack, just below the heater and the floor and it I think augmented the weak heater in these things. Re: Malcolm Bricklin I do not see him as a crook. I owned one. But what about quality disasters in a different scenario?. They dumped em, too, as soon as they could afford something, anything, better. Rona Mace (Jamie Lee Curtis) is an anagram for "a romance". Yeah, theres no question on really poor build quality. 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! He drove them all fast and hard which no doubt shortened their operational life. This was not a design fault, but like the Corvair, the company seriously underestimated the ability of the American motorist to neglect even basic maintenence. 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. By May of 1988, Malcom Bricklin needed a lifeboat and he found it on Wall Street. As for the first gen Civics and to a lesser extent, the second gen Civics, I would guess where we dont have rust to deal with, it was 30+ years and many accrued miles that ultimately were their demise, ie, 200K-300K+ and a head gasket finally blows are what killed them off eventually if not an accident or some other mechanical failure due to age/mileage. . I could be wrong there; but a surprising number of parts, including the airbox and cables, the steering column, the drivetrain, are all direct or modified parts from the 128. Those methods have contributed to rust resistance that we have come to expect from modern cars. Actually, Yugos timing belt is ~10$, and pretty easy to change. After 330,000km with two Yugos, I must be destined to eternal vacation on BOra-Bora . 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 . Jeff might have wanted to kill her. The movie was directed by Nick Gomez, who, in "Laws of Gravity" and "New Jersey Drive," brought a John Cassavetes touch to working-class crime and confusion. In The Film, for some inexplicable reason, everyone who lives in the Catskill area towns seems to drive a YUGO. I spotted the ones in the picture while out on a bike ride a few years ago. Disc #1 -- Drowning Mona Play Feature Chapters Setup 5.1 Surround Stereo English SDH Subtitles: On Subtitles: Off Extras - Trailers Drowning Mona Eye Of The Beholder . Having seen pics of the 127, I can relay that the Yugo body is a complete reskin no lines or panels are the same or interchangeable. It cut costs, and as was the concern then (as now) it was Green using the parlance of today. They initially started out as an arms manufacturer. One of the magazines rolled one on test, and they had a top speed of around 65mph. I went to an auto place for a part, and was so embarassed to even say Yugo to the clerk, that my voice stuttered and I replied Yugee. Jamie Lee Curtis and Neve Campbell are both known as "Final Girls" or "Scream Queens", playing recurring heroines in their respective horror franchise films: Curtis in the "Halloween" franchise and Campbell in the "Scream" franchise--which is loosely based on the "Halloween" mythos. It was as if the Yugo was being promoted as crap, but SUPERIOR crap. And was thus more expensive. 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. Back in another shop (an independent who specialized in Fiats) there was some general loose talk about popping a 128 engine in there; but given a verbal estimate, I cut it off. 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. She does figure in a quiet little in-joke. *cough cough*, Malcolm is now wanting to import Chinese cars. Every vehicle in town that is not a truck is a Yugo, except the police cruisers, which are Plymouth Horizons. Another movie moment: Nick drives a Yugo in the film _Nick & Norahs Infinite Playlist_. The story involves a local police chief from New York state who is charged with . They found slipshod handling of stamped body panels, and the assembly lines using dirty, even dented panels; he found painting in dusty areas, not the clean, dust-free booths required for good paint covering and adhesion. Why did Yugos have standard rear defrost? R/S AUTOLINE INC. (1.3 miles away) 1215 W IMPERIAL HWY, Suite 213, BREA, CA 92821. 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. At least a Suzuki Samurai has a separate frame. In the 1970s the PCI (Italian Communist Party) reached its all-time maximum electorally: 34.4% in the 1976 general election (12,600,000 votes, 3 million more than in the previous election in 1972). FWIWYugo wasnt named for Yugoslavia, but its a phonetic of the name Jugo which is what the Mediterranean wind is called in their language. Ive always had a soft spot for these little cars from Yugoslavia. But they did. 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