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Last Yugo rolls off the assembly line
by Scott Gilbreath ~ November 20th, 2008
It’s the end of an era as the vehicle voted worst car of the millennium has gone out of production.
The Yugo, the car everyone — or almost everyone — loved to hate, is no more.
The last one has rolled of the production line at the Zastava factory in the Serbian town of Kragujevac.
Since it first appeared in 1953, almost 800,000 Yugos have been sold, but an attempt to sell it in North America in 1986 ended disastrously, despite having the lowest list price on the market.
[T]he boxy Yugo was derided by American car magazines “as barely qualifying as a car” and “an assembled bag of nuts and bolts.” U.S. owners complained of frequent engine failures and transmission problems.
The Yugo was the butt of some fine jokes:
- Why is the Yugo’s rear window heated?
To keep your hands warm while you push it.
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How do you double the value of a Yugo?
Fill up the gas tank.
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What takes up the last six pages of the Yugo users’ manual?
The train and bus timetables.
Yes, it truly is the end of an era.
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November 20th, 2008 at 05:43 PM
Hey that looks just like an iCar.
In all seriousness: When Road and Track magazine first tested the Yugo they as well were running a test on a Lamborghini Countach 5000 Quatrovalvole. The cost of the Yugo was listed at $3995. A few letters ended up in the next months issue saying that they would rather spend the extra $5 and have the $4000 Lamborghini optional rear wing in their living room, then have the Yugo in their driveway.
November 20th, 2008 at 10:03 PM
Remember the Lada? Was actually quite fond of them twenty odd years ago…