UK Yugo dealers were often small garages in small towns, who really tried to do the prep work to get the cars out well. I also have to say that state ownership does not always lead to poor business. The Proton is only a Malaysian Mitsubishi exactly the same awful car Hyundai built as trhe EXCEL. 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. Handling is sharp and the engine loves to rev. To be sure, the car was primitive, even by 1980s standards. An accident has happened - the Yugo of one Mona Dearly has careened off the highway and plunged into the Hudson. (first posted 10/10/2011) Every once in a while, a visionary, iconoclastic automotive pioneer bursts on the scene and, bucking the long odds and naysaying conventional wisdom, delivers a disruptive new line of cars. Ive always had a soft spot for these little cars from Yugoslavia. At inopportune times. So whats my point? 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.. 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. Id notice the original Civic CVCC, I had one, loved it and sold it much too soon. 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. That brochures more collectible than its car. The displacement limit for kei cars was increased to 550cc some years ago. 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. 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. But the proof of the pudding is the tasting; and I have YET to see a government-built car, or other product or service, which could stand head to heat with private competionstand on MERIT. At the very least, Bricklin didnt end up in a hotel room trying to arrange drug deals. You had to know FIATS and and what Yugo klooged up to meet EPA regs and how to unklooge it. It helps to understand that everyone in Verplanck is dim to one degree or another, except for the Rash family. But youre right that would mean being a business man and not a con-artist. Holy mackerel, Goe, what a story and experience! The first Mazda was also a kei-car, the R-360. In a totalitarian state, such as was Yugoslavia, there is no political embarrassment because criticism is a criminal offense. Any idea where the Fiat 128 stopped and the 127 started in the Yugo? Here in Greece they are still around and not that rare. Its essentially a Fiat, and the same thing applied to them. With the pullout of Fiat, Renault and the British makes just a few years before,. I did appreciate the way Yugo could make one part do what a western car needed three for. if (window['UnicI'].geo === 'EU') { I dont know if I was lucky (twice) or if my mechanical aptitude allowed me to save the cars I owned. She was given a Yugo that wouldnt runthe fix was nine dollars. 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. The first year all those repairs were paid for, so it wasnt as miserable then. Secondly, I would be one of those people who had a good experience with a Yugo. Complete with opera lamps and padded roof. 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. Appologies for not-nice-said, but there is no other way to do it. 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. Very well-maintained. The Yugo? I guess the major issue in my favor was the relatively inexpensive parts when I did need them, and the fact that Georgia is semi-arid, so no rust issues. I also bought a new Yugo in 1989, and had to replace brake master cylinder immediately because brakes would fail after about 10 km on the road. Sure some of the plastic trim was suspect, but dont forget that GM was still doing rubbermaid doors then, and the Japanese were still stapling vinyl over cardboard for door trims. During WWII, they built a few Jeeps. Everyone in Verplanck, N.Y., drives a Yugo. Not too long before I sold it, it had started to develop noisy CV joints, but by then the car was 8 years old and 100,000 miles. 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. It took time, development, persuading of management that there WAS a problem (not an easy task in the Japanese culture) but bit by bit, the problems were resolved. I know of a 1979 Datsun pickup that completly rusted out in 6 years. They had other third-world markets in mind. The engine in mine was the old fiat 903 engine that dated back to the Fiat 600 of the 50s. 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.) I bought a used, year-old Yugo. This car didnt want to go into reverse at a standstill. Even those of us raised on rusting U.S. cars from the 60s were surprised by how fast the Japaneese stuff vaporized. Thanks for telling it. Only other thing it needed to be roadworthy was front tires. The car itself staggered on until early 1992, with steadily declining sales and a dealer network that was slowly (and then quickly) going bankrupt. They would swap in the drivetrain from the Fiat X1/9 and put on the wider wheels tires from the X1/9 also. But even in those circumstances, the car was not that bad as public opinion in USA about it. Too many people in this country have this mentality that if its cheap, treat it as such and yes, a fulfilled prophesy. Its unfortunate that the vast majority of Yugo owners didnt even get that. Our Mr. Bricklin also had an idea to start up another company fed by Zastava, this time to be called ZMW. Could you imagine if another country decided to do that? But it needed even more tweaking than did the Jugo 45which is what the Yugo was based on. They were an object lesson in the old adage that you get what you pay for. Yup, Im gonna go for a ride in my Ford Fester., I mentioned Drowning Mona below, before I read this. Nuff said? 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. The little cars--all Yugos--are almost identical; they only differ in color, and Rona's has a sunroof. To say that the 360 was unsuited to American driving norms is to wildly overpraise the car. 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. Drowning Mona | 2000 | PG-13 | - 5.5.5. She wrote something like, How cute, Ill be Lelo in her Yugo.. You mentioned this before; itd make a great article. It's a movie that has an attitude problem it couldn't resolve as easily as it did the mystery to Mona's death. It was amazing (to me) how they found a solution so quickly. Childrens toys are more dependable. . As the movie opens, a local woman named Mona Dearly ( Bette Midler) speeds down a country road and directly into the Hudson River when her brakes fail. Retrospective - 2000's "Drowning Mona". But what about quality disasters in a different scenario? There are like 100 YUGOs in the movie, which I think came out around 1998. I would be *shocked* to see a single one moving under its own power in 2011. 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. Mona Dearly: Yeah? 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. To keep your hands warm while you pushed. Well, as they say, two out of three aint bad. Agree with this last. 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. Mona Dearly (Bette Midler) is an anagram for "only a dream". You are my inhalation, I own few blogs and infrequently run out from brand :). 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. But outside of regular tourist routes and specially on the outer islands, unofficial nude beaches were everywhere. 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. 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. He was scarred sh*tless and begging me to not make him drive it. Mona, played by Midler, drowns when the brakes in her Yugo fail and she catapults through a guardrail into the lake below. 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. 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Even getting touring car legend Peter Brock to put his name to a Deluxe Limited Edition wasnt enough to help sales. How did Danny DeVito die in Drowning Mona? Warranty claims were dreadful. In fact every single person in town hated her. Hell, I was 20 years younger, A lot can change in that time. In Spain it was called "Todos la queran muerta" (everyone wanted her dead), Too good of a movie not to be on this site in HD. TRUCKEE, Calif. He was rather sad that after 170,000 miles it had 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. finally blown up. I frankly dont know how anything this poor could ever be made. But of course, a parking lot fender bender would be enough to total these cars. The Yugos bait was a stunningly low MSRP of just $3990. 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. Yes they were cheap, but it was a proper car, built properly. I guess Ive been mispronouncing subaru all these years. 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. Todays story, though, has nothing to do with anybody like that. First, salt as a melting agent on roads was relatively new. 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. Zastava only collapsed in 2008, and its decline was NOT due to mismanagement, but the trade embargo on Serbia, which starved them of devlopment funds. Old joke. 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. Now that its privatized, products have risen in quality to what the buyer expects for his money. Like all good European cars used to do, it came with its own tool kit and (owner) service manual. 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. 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. He lost his house, his fortuneAnd the dozens of Yugo GVs that he received as part of his settlement with his bankers. Once the carb was replaced with a Weber instead of the Zastava kinda sorta copy with 3 miles of vacuum hose it ran and started a lot better. *cough cough*, Malcolm is now wanting to import Chinese cars. I really dont think that anyone has a competitive advantage in rust resistance any more. In regard to that old devil corrosion, an honest question: were there any cars of the seventies that DIDNT rust like mad? 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. Going up hill was a struggle, it tended to roll back in reverse because it didnt have any power to go forward. Wait, how am I still driving 24,000 reliable miles a year on a 28 year old yugo, if this article is accurate? 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. The Yugo became the default entry level car for people that knew the price of everything but the value of nothing. The 4 door one was a dodge omni, think it was a glh. As for the FloridaBricklin was itching to bring it in. 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. Why Fiat? Substandard seatbelt anchors, collapsing seats, hard starting, no starting, the list was endless. A Rolls-Royce Ghost, a Mercades S-class, and a Bently Mulsane. if(document.getElementById("unic-gdpr")) { FWIWYugo wasnt named for Yugoslavia, but its a phonetic of the name Jugo which is what the Mediterranean wind is called in their language. If youre familiar with the descent of that once-vaunted company into its current sorry state, appears as if they had too many of this type in management. They didnt always start, and they DID always rust away. 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. Which, actually, was a very good little car . Or maybe Bobby (Casey Affleck), Jeff's landscaping partner, killed her to save the embarrassment of having her create a scene at his wedding to Ellen (Neve Campbell), Chief Rash's daughter. Damn that X1/9 still looks beautiful just like mine the 81 behind the new Abarth. I havent seen one on the road in at least 15 years. For the rest of the scene, he is dry from the waist up. (At the same dealership on the window sticker above,actually). I have NEVER burned out a clutchexcept on a Yugo. The problems experienced with Yugos, were unknown to new-car buyers in that era; were entirely avoidable with better assembly and simple correction of design and process mistakes; and were connected to durability related to poor design or engineering. We heard of the Yugo here far away in South Africa, but now I know how it all came about and fell apart. In the beginning they had some brief text ( "Years ago, the Yugo Car Company chose Verplanck, New York, to test market its new breed of vehicle. And the opening of China and competition from S Korea in a way ate Yugos lunch in the global market. 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. Maybe Bricklin had caught lightning in a bottle. [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 . Film Focus: Drowning Mona. Though set in Verplanck, "Drowning Mona" was shot entirely within an hour's commute of Los Angeles. 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. Two YUGO watches, new. Rona Mace (Jamie Lee Curtis) is an anagram for "a romance". I have only seen one Yugo in my life. 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 thing that I remember most was the shifter and the transmission. 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 70s Fiats look hand built. 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. We learn that Verplanck was selected as a test market when the Yugo was being introduced to the United States. I had two of them. The interior was fading right from day one. But, its a tough sell to have someone take a car thats running fine, and pay $500 for a maintenance replacement and maybe screw something up in the process. Zastava took over the American company. Its the manifestation of the postwar Japanese industrial culturepredicated on continuous quality improvement; and with the use of statistical controls to produce ever-higher quality items with fewer deviations from specification. I may know the only satisfied Yugo owner in the U.S. 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? 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. 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. I paid a lot of attention to new cars back then, and even then I dont know if I ever saw one. My favorite memory was the NYC art exhibit where every sculpture was created from the remains of an old Yugo. 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. Finallywith a new clutch 400 miles oldit tossed the alternator belt. } Unpaid claims included some warranty work done by dealers on Yugos before sales collapsed. The Italian Government and the Unions forced Fiat to cooperate. Several actors in this film have ties to the Batman films. I think that for a 1992 car (perhaps it should be a Serb-o? document.getElementById("unic-gdpr").style.display = 'inline'; Bricklin had formed Yugo of America to import the car and as was his custom, financial shenanigans were part of the mix. 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. 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. Id actually like to have another one, but beef it up with Fiat parts. Her brake lines had been cut. 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. 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. Those methods have contributed to rust resistance that we have come to expect from modern cars. There was a short in the headlights, and the switch for the engine cooling fan was broken both of which were easily fixed. I was scarred for her to be driving it. 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(?) The interior squeaked everywhere that it didnt rattle. This was before the deal with Chery. 1) Wise observation that Yugoslavia needed hard currency (without which it could not import needed consumer or industrial goods) during those years. My BIL and I popped out the axles, but that was more of a preventative move, rather than a necessity. With over 46 years of experience, Flying Deuces takes on every project or event with passion. With the pullout of Fiat, Renault and the British makes just a few years before, there was a general sense that room existed in the market for any european nameplate that could build a reasonably priced car that returned good fuel economy and high build quality. In fact, it was through the good offices of Lawrence Eagleburger that all of the political red tape was navigated in order to make the project feasible. It failed, of all places, on the Bonneville salt flats area in Utah. Visit Dealer Website. So there you have it. that stated this town was used as a consumer testing site for the cars. 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. 5.0 out of 5 stars Drowning Mona music CD. *shakes tiny fist*. The car is the Yugo. Of course, being that these cars were manual transmissioned cars, Im sure they didnt rented out nearly as much as the Ford Escorts and Hyundais that had automatics. He sat in the front seat once and never again! 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. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. The effort collapsed along with Yugo sales in America. 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. NEVER Give Up - NEVER Back Down I think we need to re-evaluate the Yugo against 1986 standards instead of 2011 standards. It was owned by a gentleman named Dave Benton who claimed to be the former engineering manager for Yugo North America. Danny DeVito and Neve Campbell appeared together again six years after the release of this film in another comedy "Relative Strangers "(2006). Pictures provided by: garco, antp, ahight, Display options: Display as images Display as list He was absolutely correct. The man is Malcom Bricklin. i found this article about the space: In 1969, Subaru started producing a larger, much more traditional (well, mostly) car, the 1000. lol, Yugos were marketed in USA 1985 to 1990 by Malcolm Bricklin's vehicle imports Firm. The biggest thing Ive heard was the timing belts were supposedly good for 30K miles and many owners were caught off guard, mostly due to not reading and/or heeding the maintenance intervals and boom, they croaked as they were not non interference motors like most OHC motors arent. Trivia: At least a Suzuki Samurai has a separate frame. 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. @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. Back in 87, a cheerleader at my high school won one of these in a raffle. I probably still have it somewhere. 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. The brakes appear to have been tampered with, making it murder. This may seem shocking, but Yugos really dont rust badly. Since my father was born in Vukovar and some of our family still lives in Croatia it was of great interest to me. Bracket racing, of course. or all of the Ladas.As has been mentioned already this kind of cheap car ownership And management, often put there through politics, has little interest in learning of customer dissatisfaction. Youre welcome here anytime ! This is the real reason that Yugo failed in the US- a poor dealer network. 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. Except that the belt managed to get into the TIMING BELT caseand pop THAT off. if (window['UnicI'].geo === 'CA') { Likewise the Toyotas and Datsuns. 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. Which together would have theoretically allowed the Yugo to be more successful. The film also stars Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, William Fichtner, Marcus Thomas, and Peter Dobson. (France) Chi ha ucciso la signora Dearly? 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. But the acquisition by Fiat in 2010 renders all of that as ancient history. Nude beaches usually are deprived of sexual context. I drove the blue one about three more years, but it did have some issues. English tongues tended to read it JUG-oh not a saleable name. Early oil changes, followed maintenance schedule. Almost everyone in town is a suspect. But Bricklin assured his erstwhile investors that the car could be made ready for the U.S. market with some minor tweaks. Contact us Also spare parts were inexpensive and any mechanic and his nephew would fix it. But before Bricklin made a virtue of safety, he all but made a mockery of same just a half decade before. @Zackman: No the real experience was driving that thing in Atlanta rush hour traffic at 80+ MPH. ), See all comments about this movie and its vehicles. \"Drowning Mona\" is bad . document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. 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. If Italy had built it, would it be known as the It??? Very entertaining. 2004-2023 IMCDb.org Managed by Controgest SPRL There was something wrong with every single facet of this car. 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. 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! The one thing that the Yugo shared with its Fiat ancestry, was the fact that these things were biodegradable in the midwest. There was a dealer in Denver Colorado, called Apple Motors, who used to sell warmed up Yugos. 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