It's a movie that has an attitude problem it couldn't resolve as easily as it did the mystery to Mona's death. Once I figured out what was happening to the carb, I developed an oil trap that kept motor oil from getting past the PC valve and being sucked into the carb. An accident has happened - the Yugo of one Mona Dearly has careened off the highway and plunged into the Hudson. It is my understanding the latter Yugos were much better than their earlier counterparts, but still not up to snuff with the worst(?) So on the line, a worker would have to cut and install and tape it, with about a 25 percent failure rateincorrectly re-connected. What kind of sicko lives there? The faded red one in the piece is for sale- $750. I saw one on the F4 so they did sell one.Those were a Polish Fiat 500 updated Just rubbish. Since mine had been in a rental fleet, it was actually pretty well taken care of, it had an OK aftermarket radio and A/C. Competing econoboxes included the Chevy Chevette,. NEVER Give Up - NEVER Back Down The little cars--all Yugos--are almost identical; they only differ in color, and Rona's has a sunroof. The effort collapsed along with Yugo sales in America. Ive talked to other people in the UK who bought them new, and many have had more than one. Barnum, Theres a sucker born every minute con-artist. One of the sight gags is that everyone in town drives a Yugo, thereby using personalized license plates as a necessity more than anything else.) Like you can buy a car without a transmition. 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. I recall A caddy dealer in the Cleveland area who gave away a free Yugo with the purchase of a Cadillac! Other than the time the clutch cable broke, and getting the electrical issues sorted out, the car spent no time in the shop. 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. I attach a picture of a 1100,the previous model,(5 door too! Renault has been in state ownership since the 50s, and has been a very profitable company. } 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. 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. Well, as they say, two out of three aint bad. Only with the threat of armed intervention by Nato and the UN is an uneasy peace maintained. 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 owned two. One reason is that lots of people own and drive them and parts are a breeze. Thank you for the interesting history. 1) Wise observation that Yugoslavia needed hard currency (without which it could not import needed consumer or industrial goods) during those years. I saw this movie. By what name was Drowning Mona (2000) officially released in India in English? They were an object lesson in the old adage that you get what you pay for. IIRC, when hers finally died, she said that she tried to find another but couldnt. I mean, cmon, its an Eastern Bloc car. Holy mackerel, Goe, what a story and experience! She is a bit of a contrarian anyhow, and has a mechanic-relative. An automatic wouldnt fit in the Yugo engine bay, so the only thing shiftless about the Yugo would be the Zastava workers that routinely drank on the job. 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. Mona Dearly: Yeah? I was sure youd have had one. 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. Appologies for not-nice-said, but there is no other way to do it. I remember listening to Car Talk some 5-6 years ago and a caller came on and said that his Yugo (an 87 I think) died at 150,000 miles, not due to mechanical failure, but due to a Deer. and lso two Horizon ? 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. But they were cheap! Ford Econoline This Is Not A Taxi. Yugo Cars in Drowning Mona 4,507 views May 7, 2014 19 Dislike Share Save The NZ Yugo 1.65K subscribers Oh such a crack up movie and it involves my favorite thing YUGOS! Actions lie louder than words. by Carolyn Wells. 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. 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. Serendipity! 3. 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? Subaru was just a little behind the curve in terms of design and safetyas befits a smaller company. 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. This was enough to keep them afloat (even with such strange offerings as the BRAT and XT) until 1989, when they really hit their stride with the introduction of the Outback and the successful Paul Crocodile Dundee Hogan marketing campaign. We learn that Verplanck was selected as a test market when the Yugo was being introduced to the United States. One time the keys were out and the car was still on and would not turn off. I initially got a job selling cars, and had access to one for a while. 459 tweaks (and 18 months) later, the Yugo was almost ready for launch. He lost his house, his fortuneAnd the dozens of Yugo GVs that he received as part of his settlement with his bankers. I really dont think that anyone has a competitive advantage in rust resistance any more. I think I remember this! 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. who collected Yugos for pennies on the dollar and used the collection as a parts supply to keep ONE of them running. The Birdcage - Features a yellow Yugo Cabrio in Miami. It would take about eight years from apparent problem to engineered fix to failure of the fix and another engineered solution. Around the same time we had a similar thing in Australia the FSM Niki, which was a Polish-built Fiat 126, so a ~700cc rear-engined s-box. Damn that X1/9 still looks beautiful just like mine the 81 behind the new Abarth. Further, it was the only small car of the era that could be genuinely fun to drive. Dealers there are order-takers. Yugos are cars. 2) My wife (an engineer like yourself) has been to Dubrovnik and says that the beaches are incredible. Various ancillaries like alternators were replaced with real FIAT parts. So, they set about seeing what was what with a road-trip around Romania in three cars they would be testing. Why did so many Fiat designs get recycled and built behind the Iron Curtain? As far as ethnicity goes, Im Russian by birth, Belarus to be exact, and have that somewhat stocky build to prove it! Diversity was their strength!!!!!!!!!!! Even those of us raised on rusting U.S. cars from the 60s were surprised by how fast the Japaneese stuff vaporized. 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. Dont forget, we had the Czech Skoda Estelle, the Russian Lada and the Polish FSO 125p all competing at the bottom of the market. They initially started out as an arms manufacturer. Down shifting was scary, sometimes you just had to bypass second, sometimes it refused to even go into gear or it would get stuck in gear. Money was a problem; but not the root problem. Both were sold for more than I paid. He was scarred sh*tless and begging me to not make him drive it. I was worried that shed make it. 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. The philosophy behind Drowning Mona is not good clean fun, or even intelligent nasty fun. The poor gal, if I remember, was named Lelo. But there was one area that, frankly, I was impressed with, and that was the basic two-box design. 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. When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect. The gravity powered it! 1. The process, alone, of a car manufacturer as a unit of government, is suspect. The possibility upsets Ellen, who explains in some of the movie's best dialogue: "I can't marry a murderer. Which together would have theoretically allowed the Yugo to be more successful. 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. It seems a good use of them. Audis have been headaches to owners at various times. 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. Even so, Kei cars remain too small to be accepted by American consumers. Neve Campbell was also working on Party of Five (1994) and Scream 3 (2000) while shooting this film. The running gear would be the 1.1 Litre straight four that Zastava had learned to build from Fiat and the transmission would be a truly nasty four speed manual. English tongues tended to read it JUG-oh not a saleable name. Mine was an 86 and a half Yugo. (* 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). Just like the Russian Lada its simple and DIY friendly as long as you relise that and dont expect a Lexus. A girl I hung out with in college had a Yugo. The Mopar fuselage cars were not too bad, but the 71 on up B bodies were not so good. However, these engines have been known to go 200K with little bearing wear if maintained appropriately. 5.0 out of 5 stars Drowning Mona music CD. It eventually developed a bad piston ring(s), and the blow by was enough to clog the carburetor so that it would stop running. Drowning Mona | 2000 | PG-13 | - 5.5.5. Unpaid claims included some warranty work done by dealers on Yugos before sales collapsed. The Tipo 145 was developed in the early 1970s (IIRC), and it showed. Could you imagine if another country decided to do that? It was so bad we couldnt even get it to start, so we took a few parts off it and then the scrap yard came and took it away. I must admit that I own a Yugo. With an estimated cost of $16,000 each to build against a selling price of around $5K, Bricklins SV-1 was a blast furnace that no amount of subsidy could fully quench.The maritime province had sunk over four and a half million taxpayer dollars into the scheme since its beginning, and slow sales (along with numerous engineering problems) cost no small number of politicians their jobs. I would like to add that once money was in short supply, it was easy to lay a blame on the other side, to stir old misunderstandings and conflicts, send kids to London or USA and start profiting from the war. What I know is that people explain such quality failures as Zastavas being due to a different culture in worker managed firms, etc. It would be interesting to see how the rear suspension was beefed up. No one in the movie is particularly vicious (well, Jeff's no prize) and the urgency of the case is undermined by the general agreement that Verplanck is calmer and happier now that Mona's gone. 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. All Rights Reserved. The car itself staggered on until early 1992, with steadily declining sales and a dealer network that was slowly (and then quickly) going bankrupt. I cant recall reading anything positive about the vehicle, anywhere. } There was a short in the headlights, and the switch for the engine cooling fan was broken both of which were easily fixed. After we meet the local residents, we understand why they're driving them now: They can't afford to replace them. Two cars are in the driveway of a glorious but faded Victorian mansion: The Bertone and a Yugo. At inopportune times. In fact, if anything, Americas foreign policy in the 80s encouraged Yugoslavia to manufacture and export finished goods to pay its debts. Whats good- quad headlights 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. There were surely other goofs that were institutionalized. 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). Edit: Gah! })(); Pictures are property of movie companies owner of the respective movies. 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. I knew about their reputation, but I really needed a set of wheels that wasnt going to set me back a couple of thousand dollars. @Jeff Nelson: I think youre a bit dismissive of Zastava, they have been around for quite some time. Now Rash has to decide who killed Mona Dearly. Bracket racing, of course. State ownership is generally coupled to some sort of coersion, such as a penalty tax on other makes. Mona Dearly (Bette Midler) is an anagram for "only a dream". I had two of them. Which, actually, was a very good little car . Very entertaining. Wait, how am I still driving 24,000 reliable miles a year on a 28 year old yugo, if this article is accurate? AMC, in its last years, went so far as to have Ziebart license its procedure for use in the factory. 2) At the 2014 Route 66 Mother Road Festival in Springfield, Illinois there was a Yugo with a Chrysler 426 Hemi (with blower) in the rear of the car (Hemi under glass). In regard to that old devil corrosion, an honest question: were there any cars of the seventies that DIDNT rust like mad? Honestly, I think Zastava should be commended for the amount of engineering they were able to do independently, modifying and developing Fiat cars. Had Bricklin given the tooling to the Koreans, and had it built to their standards under contracthed have had what he wanted. 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. But they did. The story involves a local police chief from New York state who is charged with . Rather, I see him as an irrepressible optimist who went into his various ventures believing everything would turn out well and he was blind to the shortcomings of the cars he imported. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. This article, like many here, evoked some fond memories. Membership also saw a similarly sharp increase, with over 1,800,000 in the same year (300,000 more than in 1970). Someone wanted her dead. Why Fiat? But the little Yugo turned out to be a lot less than the sum of its parts. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators . I also started using Restore engine treatment, and that took care of that issue. In this black comedy, everyone in a small town becomes a suspect when a much-despised woman not-so-accidentally drives her Yugo off a cliff. Reviewed in . 1) Anything assembled at gunpoint tends not to be of high quality. Also, I think that first step after buying any used car in general should be changing of belt. 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. There was a movie in 2000 entitled Drowning Mona where most of the people in a . Its well nigh impossible to understand the Yugo episode without understanding the guiding hand behind what is generally considered to be the worst car ever offered for sale in the U.S. Malcom Bricklin had been knocking around the car industry for over a quarter century when he spotted a Yugo 45 on a London street in 1984. 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. Based on the slightly larger Fiat 125, it was everything bad about a lada, but somehow worse. Chief Wyatt Rash: My mother always used to say, "When life hands you potatoes, make potato salad!". And a failed clutchI have driven manual transmission cars my whole life. 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. 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. (not that I cared that much about it I was in my mid-twenties and during summer season beaches were full of naked girls.) In the early 80s many of the domestics suddenly found they could use galvanized steel for body panels, and inner fender liners and other rust proofing methods, (better drains, etc.) Drowning Mona 2000 PG-13 1 h 36 m IMDb RATING 5.7 /10 15K YOUR RATING Rate Play trailer 2:23 1 Video 67 Photos Comedy Crime Mystery When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect. Youd have to go from fourth to first gear to come down. The car is the Yugo. 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. The Yugo? That explains why everyone was driving them then. (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 But theres a difference between an easily-repaired car, and one that needs frequent repairs. Everyone in Verplanck, N.Y., drives a Yugo. Film Focus: Drowning Mona. 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. The battery required water to be poured into 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. But then thats not what most folks are exactly looking for. 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 . One of a kind, Im sure, There is an article from 2012, quoting the Time magazine A revised constitution in the mid 70s turned the country into a loose confederation and as Croatia/Slovenia were more developed due to being part of Austria Hungary, there was only so much that approx thirty years of prosperity after WWII could reverse. I knew I wasnt buying a Lexus. Beads of sweat formed on his forehead, it wasnt that he didnt want to learn, it was where he was sitting that had him scarred. Retrospective - 2000's "Drowning Mona". Like all good European cars used to do, it came with its own tool kit and (owner) service manual. Trivia: 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. The last Yugo that we would recognize rolled off the assembly line in November 2008. 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