As for the FloridaBricklin was itching to bring it in. 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. 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. I havent seen one on the road in at least 15 years. They were an object lesson in the old adage that you get what you pay for. The New Brunswick government pulled the plug in September of 1975 and the Bricklin was finished. 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. Bricklin was kicked out in the first (of two) bankruptcies, true. a special for the movie,an extended version,or just my failing memory? Except that the belt managed to get into the TIMING BELT caseand pop THAT off. Drowning Mona is basically a comic murder-mystery. Barnum, Theres a sucker born every minute con-artist. 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. Since my father was born in Vukovar and some of our family still lives in Croatia it was of great interest to me. 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 also have to say that state ownership does not always lead to poor business. This was before the deal with Chery. Had the car been screwed together properly, and had there been an engineering department to iron out the bugs, it could have had a long run. 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. The collapse of Communism removed any perceived legitimacy left in the public who thought their future under capitalism would reflect a standard of living like W Germanys. This is the real reason that Yugo failed in the US- a poor dealer network. On the side fixed windows was lettered YuGo BIG or YuGo HOME. When I was living in Montana in 2001, some masochist/crusty old guy was using one as a daily driver and it looked new. 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? An older Yugo, since the car hasn't been manufactured since its country went out of business. I must admit that I own a Yugo. 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. Let me disillusion youI busted a piston crown and bent a valve badly enough to freeze up the camshaft. 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(?) 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. if (window['UnicI'] && window['UnicI'].geo && window['UnicI'].geo !== '-' ) { Trouble for him was, the rest of America wasnt interested in postwar America. These rear engined devices were a blast to drive, with tail-out shenanigans a-la Porsche 911 being easy to emulate. As I said earlier, this car obviously didnt meet the expectations of the majority of the American masses, but I know you werent the only one who found the Yugo a simple and easy-to-work-on car. What a story! Bowfinger - The main character produced a documentary called The Yugo Story. Going up hill was a struggle, it tended to roll back in reverse because it didnt have any power to go forward. 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. Also, familiarity is important in servicing a car.Lots of American mechanics wouldnt bother to learn the finer points of working on Yugos because there were so few of them and parts were slow to arrive when needed. FSO 125P: 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. http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_113306-Plymouth-Horizon-C2-1984.html 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. lol, Yugos were marketed in USA 1985 to 1990 by Malcolm Bricklin's vehicle imports Firm. She was rather negligent about maintenance, so would have been tough on any vehicle, but her Yugo, like many of its kind, fell apart rather quickly, stressing a budget that was already tight. But then thats not what most folks are exactly looking for. And if it WAS done, thats $500 WASTED. But these Yugos aren't just a frivolous component of the storythey're essential to establishing the wacky tone of the film. It would be interesting to see how the rear suspension was beefed up. Even here in the Land That Rust Forgot, I rarely see anything from the 70s. 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. Both were sold for more than I paid. The Yugos are a literal running joke throughout the movie. It had become commonplace in the 1950s; and manufacturers first tried ignoring the problem; then dealing with it with superficial fixes like Zincrometal body panels. And it was reasonably fast for a car with such a small displacement engine. Trivia: Visit Dealer Website. Also in Drowning Mona's favor, at the heart of the movie, is a genuinely positive character, Verplanck Police Chief Wyatt Rash (Danny DeVito).He's possibly the only principled citizen in town. The lovable numbskulls of Verplanck, New York, are all beside themselves with shock and quiet joy when town bully Mona Dearly dies in a freak accident involving her Yugo, some cut brake lines, and a plunge into the Hudson. Like all good European cars used to do, it came with its own tool kit and (owner) service manual. Required fields are marked *. 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. 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. And the opening of China and competition from S Korea in a way ate Yugos lunch in the global market. At that time, Bricklin was probably best known for the eponymous car that he launched amidst much fanfare in 1974. . setTimeout(waitGEO, 200); Ive been around big rigs all of my life, but they never looked bigger than when I was next to them on the freeway. You are my inhalation, I own few blogs and infrequently run out from brand :). Your email address will not be published. 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. -You know why Yugo drivers go to heaven? The Birdcage - Features a yellow Yugo Cabrio in Miami. Only other thing it needed to be roadworthy was front tires. 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. This is the same scenario as Chrysler- My parents always said that if you get a Dodge in town itll be a lemon, but in the country, itll be a good car because the smaller country dealer relies on repeat business and does a better PDI, ensuring bolts arent missing, and both sides identify the car correctly. @EdDan: How do you double the value of your Yugo? Fuji was pretty well aware that the car wasnt suitable for America circa 1969. I had very good support for the Yugo as Atlanta is the home of Bayless, which is a big Fiat parts house. When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect. Drowning Mona (2000) is a never remembered black comedy that I absolutely love. What kind of car is in the movie Drowning Mona? 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. I know there were folks who collected Yugos for nothing, for running and parts cars. It was embarrassing, mother never drove it again. Ah, the quintessential crap car. 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. 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 cut costs, and as was the concern then (as now) it was Green using the parlance of today. Im trying to remember, she actually, may have owned two of them. Witness the fact that everyone's car of choice is a Yugo; each Verplanck citizen drives one ever since the company conducted a cheap sales test of the vehicle there some 10 years ago. 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. Several actors in this film have ties to the Batman films. i cant imagine where bricklin would get the approximately $35k/mo rent. Yupand does anyone think Fiat or Yugo engineers thought to make the engine a clearance design? I spotted the ones in the picture while out on a bike ride a few years ago. He sat in the front seat once and never again! Also in Drowning Mona's favor, at the heart of the movie, is a genuinely positive character, Verplanck Police Chief Wyatt Rash (Danny DeVito).He's possibly the only principled citizen in town. Dispose of the rest of the car. The Mopar fuselage cars were not too bad, but the 71 on up B bodies were not so good. 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. Enterior wall panels were thin cardboard with painted on carpet flecks. 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. 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 think the other reason they were more successful out of the US is that in Europe, people have driven OHC cars since the 60s. An accident has happened - the Yugo of one Mona Dearly has careened off the highway and plunged into the Hudson. 459 tweaks (and 18 months) later, the Yugo was almost ready for launch. One reason is that lots of people own and drive them and parts are a breeze. 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. She noted that while it wasnt much good past 65MPH (no overdrive), it never got less than 30MPG, and it handled beautifully. A Mitsubishi in all but name, Proton wisely didnt fiddle around with it much meaning you got a reliable Pseudo-Japanese car for your money, not a cobbled together lash up like the yugo was. Danny DeVito and Bette Midler appeared in Ruthless People (1986). The steel is much thicker than Fiat used, and although fit and finish wasnt great, it was no worse than on a Fiat. Im affiliated with NECC Motorsports, a club that runs time trials at various sports car racing tracks in the eastern half of the USA. Actually, Perry did a much better job of it than I could have. I initially got a job selling cars, and had access to one for a while. 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. And the A/C system on the Yugo was an add on! Ford uses a similar shade on their Mustangs of recent vintage and still love it even now. 3. The 360 was a Kei car, which took advantage of reduced taxes and insurance rates in Japan for cars less than three meters long with engines no more than 360cc in displacement. Also, I think that first step after buying any used car in general should be changing of belt. As played in flashbacks by Midler, Mona is a ferocious harridan who may have hacked off her own son's hand just because he was trying to snatch her beer. Very well-maintained. It wasnt my intention to advocate poor workmanship on the Yugo, it was all too obvious but i wanted to show that there were also other circumstances involved. Just as quickly as the Yugo ascended to number two in european import sales, the car plummeted back to earth and never rose again. Yes, a Deer. Nevermind that their cars are horribly unreliable, people still buy them. Some dinosaur relic, Id never seen before. 2004-2023 IMCDb.org Managed by Controgest SPRL 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. Second factor was, the popularity in the day of recycled steel in car manufacture. Its not too late! He was absolutely correct. I recall A caddy dealer in the Cleveland area who gave away a free Yugo with the purchase of a Cadillac! Parts are no problem, because it is basically a FIAT. We had these in the U.K, I dont remember them being particularly bad, the main criticism was that it was seen as too expensive for what was clearly an Eastern European rehash of a cast off western design. 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. They were incredibly simple mechanically. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Re: Malcolm Bricklin I do not see him as a crook. "Drowning Mona" is a frustrating comedy. Having had some up-close contact with a 128, Id say that its more 128 than 127. if (window['UnicI'].geo === 'EU') { But they didnt have a CLUE. Jamie Lee Curtis' character looks like she has some colorful insights to share but isn't given the dialogue to do it--she's more a plot marker than a person. 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. What am I supposed to make outta that? But for all that, and with weight today an even greater issueour Asian friends seem to have licked the corrosion problem. Thanks for your first hand account ! The first year all those repairs were paid for, so it wasnt as miserable then. The local news interveiwed some and they were going for $4000 Id end up with used junk, but now I got a new import!. In the 70s when I lived in Boston, I worked with a guy whose 5-year-old Pinto had big holes in the doors. The interior squeaked everywhere that it didnt rattle. 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. if(document.getElementById("unic-gdpr")) { With over 46 years of experience, Flying Deuces takes on every project or event with passion. That's not who I am. After highway driving the gear would refuse to shift, like it overheated being in gear so long, it refused to move. (* 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). 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. 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. It is my understanding the latter Yugos were much better than their earlier counterparts, but still not up to snuff with the worst(?) 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. Drowning Mona (2000) Trivia Showing all 16 items 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. It was a nightmare. Even in Western Europe, cars arent marketed as they are here. I was only ten, but knew they were junk. It began the use of the FWD, horizontal boxer engine which carries on in Subarus to this day (albeit in a modern form). Privacy policy Appologies for not-nice-said, but there is no other way to do it. To this day I have never felt a more imprecise,balky shifter. Cool Cruise CAR SHOW Cruisin' Brea CAR SHOW Cruisin' La Verne CAR SHOW Brea Holiday CAR SHOW Project Home America Flying Deuces is a production, marketing, booking and advertising company. I paid a lot of attention to new cars back then, and even then I dont know if I ever saw one. Soon we would have a whole line of Adams Family cars on the road! The faded red one in the piece is for sale- $750. Ironically, if he had stuck it out with Subaru for the long haul, he might have done a whole lot better for himself. I test drove one of these brand new when they hit the market. It helps to understand that everyone in Verplanck is dim to one degree or another, except for the Rash family. 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. The battery required water to be poured into it. Those Protons were actually a decent car. During the time the clutch cable was dying, I broke the shifter mechanism, due to the clutch cable dying. Chief Wyatt Rash: My mother always used to say, "When life hands you potatoes, make potato salad!". I think youre a bit dismissive of Zastava. 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. Other folks I know routinely neglect maintenance on some very well regarded cars and wonder why they have such bad luck! The problems with Audisare RELATIVE to other brands; and RELATIVE to past experiences. 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? Yes, even a Saturn will rust in Detroit, but in less harsh climes, Yugos tend to last well. 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. This car had one genuine asset: ride quality. Purchased one year old cars for less than $1500 while attending college. Its unfortunate that the vast majority of Yugo owners didnt even get that. @Jeff Nelson: I think youre a bit dismissive of Zastava, they have been around for quite some time. 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. But like so much of his other stuff, the deal fell through. (not that I cared that much about it I was in my mid-twenties and during summer season beaches were full of naked girls.) Edit: Gah! document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. The Yugo became the default entry level car for people that knew the price of everything but the value of nothing. At the very least, Bricklin didnt end up in a hotel room trying to arrange drug deals. Nasty Mona Dearly (Midler) drives her car into the Hudson River and drowns. In regard to that old devil corrosion, an honest question: were there any cars of the seventies that DIDNT rust like mad? Id love to hear what they thought a year later. Early oil changes, followed maintenance schedule. I bought it in January because I figured it would be fun to see just how bad it could be. The car itself staggered on until early 1992, with steadily declining sales and a dealer network that was slowly (and then quickly) going bankrupt. Diversity was their strength!!!!!!!!!!! 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. I wonder if he actually carried that threat out, and if his daughter ever forgave him if he did. I've owned so many other cars so why not? Good account. There was a dealer in Denver Colorado, called Apple Motors, who used to sell warmed up Yugos. i find it interesting that visionary vehicles still lists 172 duane st. in tribeca as their headquarters. Say what you will about Bricklin he is a man of action. The car is the Yugo. I also have to say that state ownership does not always lead to poor business. The cars WERE crap, you concede; and uncompetitive in a world market. My guess is that many of his critics could not have done as much. That salty New England slush had its way with everything. Not having that one bit Clarkson divised a solution, buying a third-hand Yugo and for the rest of the episode refering to it as a Bently. The engine in mine was the old fiat 903 engine that dated back to the Fiat 600 of the 50s. 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. https://chrisoncars.com/yugo-victim-or-victimizer/: (Time Magazine said it best: The Yugo has the distinct feeling of something assembled at gunpoint), I found quite a few articles from later years, quoting the same sentence over and over again (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/), And there you have it: everybody knows for fact that Yugo was actually assembled at gunpoint. IIRC, when hers finally died, she said that she tried to find another but couldnt. I think that was true of most of the Japanese automakers the early passenger cars evolved from tiny commercial trucks and three-wheelers, sharing engines with motorcycles. What kind of sicko lives there? var readyGEO; Mine was an 86 and a half Yugo. 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. I really dont think that anyone has a competitive advantage in rust resistance any more. They are also heavily used rather than background or minor action vehicles. I was worried that shed make it. At first glance, the car looked up to date- Front wheel drive, rack and pinion steering, decent mileage. Hell, I was 20 years younger, A lot can change in that time. 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