Actually, Perry did a much better job of it than I could have. Danny DeVito and Neve Campbell appeared together again six years after the release of this film in another comedy "Relative Strangers "(2006). 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. I drove the blue one about three more years, but it did have some issues. 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. @EdDan: How do you double the value of your Yugo? For the rest of the scene, he is dry from the waist up. I attach a picture of a 1100,the previous model,(5 door too! But even in those circumstances, the car was not that bad as public opinion in USA about it. })(); Pictures are property of movie companies owner of the respective movies. Critically, one of her co-workers loved Fiats, and he taught her their quirks-most of which the Yugo shared. When they came unglued from rot, there was no there there to support the structure. He lost his house, his fortuneAnd the dozens of Yugo GVs that he received as part of his settlement with his bankers. 5.0 out of 5 stars Drowning Mona music CD. 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. I know of a 1979 Datsun pickup that completly rusted out in 6 years. I think I remember this! It turns out to be murder and Chief Wyatt Rash (DeVito) must investigate. Its like almost any car; get to know its issues, and if you have the mechanical inclinations to deal with them, theyre pretty simple cars otherwise. They initially started out as an arms manufacturer. 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. This article, like many here, evoked some fond memories. How quickly they developed larger cars was a product of how well capitalized each company was and how much their senior management (some of which was deeply conservative, even by Detroit standards) was willing to make the investment in export-specific products. Yes, a Deer. Bricklin often says that the first model year or so of production the cars were well assembled and then once Zastava saw the money they let things slip. 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. If possible, the FSO 125p was even worse. I test drove one of these brand new when they hit the market. Wyatt finds no shortage of suspects. 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. It was as if the Yugo was being promoted as crap, but SUPERIOR crap. And was thus more expensive. 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. Ford uses a similar shade on their Mustangs of recent vintage and still love it even now. 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. One of a kind, Im sure, There is an article from 2012, quoting the Time magazine I had very good support for the Yugo as Atlanta is the home of Bayless, which is a big Fiat parts house. And often wins. It had nervousness built into it, it made people nervous and it was nervous. (rolls eyes). } As a result, in mid-1986, Yugo America began selling cars at a starting price of $3,990 (equivalent to $9,863.56 in 2021) for the entry-level GV ("Good Value") hatchback equipped with the 1,100 cc overhead-cam five-main-bearing engine and four-speed manual transmission. How did Danny DeVito die in 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. Membership also saw a similarly sharp increase, with over 1,800,000 in the same year (300,000 more than in 1970). Ford Econoline This Is Not A Taxi. What he saw was an operation that turned out a car designed (and abandoned) by Fiat years before. 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. Actually, the GM B body starting in 1977 was very, very resistant to corrosion. So we come to the end of the Yugo saga in America. Bracket racing, of course. Had a Datsun King Cab twenty-odd years agoand I went parts-shopping in boneyards. I was sure youd have had one. Only with the threat of armed intervention by Nato and the UN is an uneasy peace maintained. setTimeout(waitGEO, 200); His routine went something likeThe Yugo, what self respecting country would name a car that sorry after itself? I didnt mind helping friends and neighbor with problems they had with their cars. You mentioned this before; itd make a great article. Because he SAYS he has a new belt on there, doesnt mean its so. Needless to say, it wouldve been better if Bently had just gone ahead and let them have the Mulsanne. (We also wanted to stick a finger in the eye of the USSR, which was at odds with Yugoslavia anyway). 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. I would love to find one of those. Ive always had a soft spot for these little cars from Yugoslavia. I initially got a job selling cars, and had access to one for a while. finally blown up. Assuming the gentleman was telling the truth, this has to be some kind Jason Torchinsky of Jalopnik had an interesting take on it lately; The blue one had seen much more use than the red one, but it was still a good runner. A 2000 American crime comedy film directed by Nick Gomez that has a police chief ( Danny DeVito) investigate the death of a woman named Mona ( Bette Midler ), an abusive and spiteful woman who was hated by everyone who knew her. Ive never felt safe in any car that light so would never have considered owning one, no matter how cheap, even if they had been decently made vehicles. 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. Thanks for your first hand account ! (https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/jan/14/cover/#) Paid less than a thousand for it, thought at the time it was a good buy. The best part was they all had the same license plates on them to just have a semblance of legality! Someone around my area with a perverse sense of humor drove a Yugo stretch limo for a few years, those being about 20 years ago. I sold the car to a coworker of my BILs, who drove the car another three years before he totaled it. My favorite memory was the NYC art exhibit where every sculpture was created from the remains of an old Yugo. According to IMDBThe first thing to appear on screen is a little blurb about the Yugo car company using the town of Verplanck as a test area for their new model years ago. If Germany had built it, would it have been called the Germ? 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. But the little Yugo turned out to be a lot less than the sum of its parts. He was scarred sh*tless and begging me to not make him drive it. 5 Yugo i know its a rare thing but should we park them together ? 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. Malcolm Bricklin was one of those guys who is the quintessential P.T. The Yugo became the default entry level car for people that knew the price of everything but the value of nothing. Two YUGO watches, new. Every character's automobile has personalized plates. How do explanations of Zastavas lack of quality control compare to, say, one which could be made to illustrate the reasons of Audis numerous failures? With Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, Peter Dobson, Will Ferrell, William Fichtner, Raymond O'Connor, Marcus Thomas and . Its unfortunate that the vast majority of Yugo owners didnt even get that. 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. But even before then, Subarus had features that endeared them to snow-belt climates, like dual radiators that got the car to warm up quickly. And the opening of China and competition from S Korea in a way ate Yugos lunch in the global market. Mona Dearly: Yeah? @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. They probably would have found a customer base in the U.S. Finallywith a new clutch 400 miles oldit tossed the alternator belt. But what about quality disasters in a different scenario?. 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. On the side fixed windows was lettered YuGo BIG or YuGo HOME. Privacy policy The Bricklin SV-1 was remembered for several interesting features: lurid (safety) colors , no cigarette lighter (Bricklin was a rabid non-smoker) , and most importantly, the ability to vacuum piles of money from the gullible government of New Brunswick, Canada. The steel is much thicker than Fiat used, and although fit and finish wasnt great, it was no worse than on a Fiat. I had the car 18 months or so, when in traffic one day a DUI driver rammed his Ford Fiesta (of all things) into the back of my Yugo and pushed me into a Nissan Maxima. I wonder why they used the Yugos, To show the towns Quirkyness? One of the magazines rolled one on test, and they had a top speed of around 65mph. I knew I wasnt buying a Lexus. This is all fictional of course. 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. I guess I should note that I owned the cars 20+ years ago, I was a lot more enthusiastic about getting underneath the car for just about any reason. that stated this town was used as a consumer testing site for the cars. Yugoslavia was in the state of bankruptcy at that time, import of all goods and raw materials was practically halted. 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. Very easy installation 15 t0 20 minutes. I have only seen one Yugo in my life. alignments. My BIL and I popped out the axles, but that was more of a preventative move, rather than a necessity. 459 tweaks (and 18 months) later, the Yugo was almost ready for launch. English tongues tended to read it JUG-oh not a saleable name. But before Bricklin made a virtue of safety, he all but made a mockery of same just a half decade before. Someone wanted her dead. Amazingly, someone got in it, started it, and it ran and drove (more or less) away. What do you call a Yugo with twin exhausts? I paid a lot of attention to new cars back then, and even then I dont know if I ever saw one. From the start, Zastava resented the profit dealers made, and thought their expenses exorbitant. I owned one. Fuji was pretty well aware that the car wasnt suitable for America circa 1969. I cant imagine that anybody that test drove one like mine actually laid down real money for one. Its hard to pinpoint a weak spot on a Yugo because every system in the car was so badly designed and assembled that the whole car was a no contact accident. Or inherrent underdog status? My little red Yugo was dead. Secondly, I would be one of those people who had a good experience with a Yugo. Although it shares some similarities with the Fiat 127, it is actually based on the much more advanced Autobianchi. 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. Japanese cars generally started out small, usually around 800cc in the mid 1950s and grew with the prosperity of the country and desire to chase export markets. The Renault Alliance and 18i were still being sold in 1984-85 when the Yugo debuted. @Zackman: No the real experience was driving that thing in Atlanta rush hour traffic at 80+ MPH. And the gas cap would not come off. The problems with Audisare RELATIVE to other brands; and RELATIVE to past experiences. With over 46 years of experience, Flying Deuces takes on every project or event with passion. Destination was Las Vegas; and by the time I got there the only way to get it to move was in First. Even though the price was a come on (dealers larded as many options onto the car as they could get away with, see below), America was hooked. Drowning Mona Trailer - Yugo Cars 7,448 views May 7, 2014 The NZ Yugo 1.66K subscribers 26 Dislike Share In Drowning Mona everyone drives Yugo Cars and one day Mona borrows her sons. Diversity was their strength!!!!!!!!!!! I was amazed when I rode in one, expecting a bouncy distaster but encountering a surprisingly supple feel of the suspension. The Florida was reviewed very positively in the UK against western cars, and sadly only failed here because of the rise of Fascism in Yugoslavia, and its aftermath. American Brands: AMC, Jeep and All Others, Tractors, Lawn Mowers, Off-Road Equipment, Automotive History The Jokes On U.S.- The Short, Wild Ride Of The Yugo In America, TOAL:1974(?) An older Yugo, since the car hasn't been manufactured since its country went out of business. I would be *shocked* to see a single one moving under its own power in 2011. 3. Gearboxes on the other hand well, its a Fiat after all, and it teaches you how to double clutch. The little cars--all Yugos--are almost identical; they only differ in color, and Rona's has a sunroof. *cough cough*, Malcolm is now wanting to import Chinese cars. They dumped em, too, as soon as they could afford something, anything, better. 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. How many remains ??? The one thing that the Yugo shared with its Fiat ancestry, was the fact that these things were biodegradable in the midwest. I know there were folks who collected Yugos for nothing, for running and parts cars. 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! 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. New York (where "years ago," according to an opening caption, "the Yugo Car Company chose to test market its new breed of vehicle.") Directed by Nick Gomez (Laws of Gravity), . 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. Worse, it was not just fenders and rocker panels that looked bad but did not affect the way the car drove. It really has all of the benefits of an Italian car with none of the drawbacks. But the acquisition by Fiat in 2010 renders all of that as ancient history. 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. Whats good- quad headlights I also have to say that state ownership does not always lead to poor business. The story involves a local police chief from New York state who is charged with . The last Yugo that we would recognize rolled off the assembly line in November 2008. A minor investment bank salvaged Bricklins investment in the venture in a complicated deal that settled some of his stale old debts and sent him far away from Yugo America. I frankly dont know how anything this poor could ever be made. Thanks for telling it. 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? AMC, in its last years, went so far as to have Ziebart license its procedure for use in the factory. Im affiliated with NECC Motorsports, a club that runs time trials at various sports car racing tracks in the eastern half of the USA. So, with connections, he was brought to Japan for a series of lectures; and if America wasnt interested, Japan was very much so. It began the use of the FWD, horizontal boxer engine which carries on in Subarus to this day (albeit in a modern form). 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. But recycled steel, for whatever reason, is overly prone to corrosion. That means that all Yugos in this movie are from 1986. The faded red one in the piece is for sale- $750. 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). Other than the time the clutch cable broke, and getting the electrical issues sorted out, the car spent no time in the shop. Various ancillaries like alternators were replaced with real FIAT parts. [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 . YUGO caps and shirts and other fun car show displays. Barnum and the circus freak show that he brought to America in the twilight of the Reagan years. It is difficult to overstate how rustprone 1970s Japaneese cars were. There are like 100 YUGOs in the movie, which I think came out around 1998. At first glance, the car looked up to date- Front wheel drive, rack and pinion steering, decent mileage. Ford 2000 Diesel Cold-Blooded and Worn Out, http://www.observer.com/2010/culture/wannabe-warhol?page=0, http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_113306-Plymouth-Horizon-C2-1984.html, https://chrisoncars.com/yugo-victim-or-victimizer/, 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/, https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/jan/14/cover/#, https://jalopnik.com/the-yugo-is-not-the-worst-car-ever-and-anyone-who-says-1830229976, 1987-91 Ford F-Series Bustruck Monster Mashup, COAL 2010 Subaru Forester Green, Its What Makes A Subaru, A $ubaru, Cohort Pic(k) of the Day: 1963(?) Just finished Drowning Mona and came here for background. His last notable brush with the automotive world (in 2004) involved a vague alliance with (uh-oh) Chinese auto maker Chery. I have NEVER burned out a clutchexcept on a Yugo. Childrens toys are more dependable. We learn that Verplanck was selected as a test market when the Yugo was being introduced to the United States. To this day I have never felt a more imprecise,balky shifter. It was 10 years old in Japan at the time. There was a guy that was racing a Yugo in SCCA competition, but thats been a long time ago. It was only later, when the bean-counters bid out the belts on a cost basis, that they developed a much shorter lifespan. } During the time the clutch cable was dying, I broke the shifter mechanism, due to the clutch cable dying. Of course not. )that I spotted a I had two of them. 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. All four brake drums were tampered with, the brake fluid was drained, and the perp also drained some other fluids just to be on the safe side. The interior was fading right from day one. 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. 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. 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. I actually grabbed a brochure on the convertible as a joke, it was only a single page. Soon we would have a whole line of Adams Family cars on the road! I've owned so many other cars so why not? The 360 fit in with the type of Japanese car that was (or would become) the Kei car class, which continues to this day within tightly-defined parameters. They had other third-world markets in mind. 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. 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? One time the keys were out and the car was still on and would not turn off. 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. In The Film, for some inexplicable reason, everyone who lives in the Catskill area towns seems to drive a YUGO. Good account. The interior squeaked everywhere that it didnt rattle. Vehicle used a lot by a main character or for a long time, Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase, Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene. This is the real reason that Yugo failed in the US- a poor dealer network. Retrospective - 2000's "Drowning Mona". Substandard seatbelt anchors, collapsing seats, hard starting, no starting, the list was endless. He drove them all fast and hard which no doubt shortened their operational life. Tye Mobile Homes in Tye, Texas using the incentive of Buy a mobile home at Tye Mobile Homes, get a new Yugo for $1. No joke. But they did. If I remember correctly, the car was equipped with all the usual goodies a Fiat engine with dual Webers, full roll cage, sticky racing tires, etc. So whats my point? 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). 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). 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. State-owned auto companies or assembly plants, tend to have little to no feedback from end-user to management. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. People who took care of some basic maintenance and corrosion protection could see 10 to 15 years of service without too much trouble. I took all of the fun stuff off of the red one (Italian Cromodora wheels and the AM/FM Cassette) and put it on the blue one. About two years ago there was a Wall Street Journal article about a guy who drag races a Yugo. Yes you read that right. Ive been around big rigs all of my life, but they never looked bigger than when I was next to them on the freeway. I think youre a bit dismissive of Zastava. 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. A few things come to mind regarding the Yugo / Zastava Koral (and larger Yugo / Zastava Skala), mainly that it is a pity it never received similar developments such as 5-door hatchback, 2/4-door saloon and 3/5-door estate bodystyles as found on other Fiat 127-based variants like the SEAT 127 / SEAT Frua and Fiat 147 / Fiat Oggi / Fiat Panorama, along with larger 1372-1596cc+ versions of the Fiat SOHC engine. VW, in its first days, had all the same problems as Zastavabut with a product that was continually improved, they overcame it inside of five years. document.getElementById("unic-ccpa").style.display = 'inline'; Those brave revolutionaries almost single handedly redefine their market segment and leave an indelible mark on the industry itself. It was owned by a gentleman named Dave Benton who claimed to be the former engineering manager for Yugo North America. The man is Malcom Bricklin. You are right.I found it here: He was rather sad that after 170,000 miles it had The two-door chassis is, I understand, a 127. No regrets and better than any $1500 alternatives at the time. My mother drove it to work at the high school one time. 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. That explains why everyone was driving them then. The 4 door one was a dodge omni, think it was a glh. View Cars. The local news interveiwed some and they were going for $4000 Id end up with used junk, but now I got a new import!. A magazine road test came up with the amusing summary: 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. 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. I spotted the ones in the picture while out on a bike ride a few years ago. He was a statistician in the War Department who became interested in using statistical controls to produce higher-quality manufactured goods. A Rolls-Royce Ghost, a Mercades S-class, and a Bently Mulsane. Found it! It has been a while since I have seen a Yugo on the road, but a local car wash has one with signs mounted on it. When the Yugo GV was finally offered for sale in September 1985, (as an 86 model) , initial orders looked promising. I guess Ive been mispronouncing subaru all these years. its a beautiful nineteenth century townhouse that was redesigned combining the 19th century iron front with a modern glass setback. 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