Torchinsky makes a very good point, the Yugo becomes even more modern for it's time when you take into consideration the fact that by 1987 it was already a 10 year old design. And when compared to the shitboxes made and sold in the US back in 1977, the Yugo becomes a forward looking innovation. Yeah, they're built out of poor quality materials, especially the interior and the fit and finish is sub-par because, well communism. It's quite possible actually, that the US Export version of the Yugo is the best car made by communism during the cold war. And, ultimately what rectifies the Yugo is it's price; it was cheap as hell. And not manufactured by a company that should've or even could've known or done better. And taking into consideration that there are still examples that work and run today despite nearly complete lack of maintenance over a thirty year life span, it can't be as shitty of a car as many like to contend it is. Far from the worst, or even worst built cars in the world. It's not great either by any stretch of the imagination either, but for what it is; a small licences built Yugoslavian version of an Italian city-car made near the end of the cold-war, it is actually an OK car. And an OK vehicle, for what it is. Ps. Both the owner and you guys are totally insane for driving on those grinding tires. You could've easily become a soccer ball for all the SUV's (the drivers of which can barely see you) about three to four times the Yugo's weight had you had a blow out. Which isn't far off with those fenders borrowing into the sidewall like that. Well, at least you were only a danger to yourselves. Still, recklessly negligent to drive like that on public roads.

I haven't clicked on it yet but I'm willing to bet it's that weird silver thing

I'm from Serbia,and my parents drive the yugo 45 for so many years,and i also enjoy in that little machine,it works very good...

@@draskoist naravno rodjo da radi ,ja imam jugo koral 55 iz '91 i 201000 predjenih km bez ikakvog rada motora ili karoserije uz redovnu zamenu ulja ,kaiseva i ostalih radnji na njemu samom .

@@sasaantic4461 samo redovno odrzavanje i nema zime.

that most be a prius

@@jorgejavierlaborde6623 or any Toyota

And I actually like how it looks

True, each one has it's on unique problems.

I just love the external design of Yugo. My dad use to own cherry colored one and it was like a pet to us. We all drove newer and better cars but Yugo parked in our driveway was always the sweetest sight. So sad dad let go of it .

Yep we are :)

Don’t let facts and statistics get in the way of a cringeworthy joke lol

Viktor Dimitrovski And today, literally the tallest people in the world are from Yugoslav lands (Dinarian Alps). Taller than the Dutch. Oh, and Slovenes are third.

@@borismarkov1141 No, we must use every opportunity to show americans that stupidity and lack of education can't be used as a basis for jokes, because that just makes them look stupid rather than making the joke funny. Unfortunately, they don't seem to realize that, so they keep doing it.

@@aleksandarmiloeski7637 Talking out of my ass because I can't be arsed to fish for deacade-old statistics, but I'd say the average height of those regions probably hasn't changed that drastically in the last 40 years.

Exactly

Nah that means that it basically meets expectations which were very low. Its still a trash car. Not a car you hate unless it was your only car and you relied on it, then you'd learn to hate it.

Where the hell did you find one? I've been trying to find one for years and I can never find them for sale in this country.

just put some lead additive while refueling and have fun!

I can't believe what I'm reading. 20 years in a field and you're going to drive it. 500 miles? Are you serious. Have you made sure of its structural integrity.?I speak from very personal experience using vehicles for parts that had sit in a field for that long. I use the motor out of one which was a 1980s Chev truck that at that point had the engine in it out of a Pontiac GTO. Believe it or not. She'd sit in a field for about 20 years. Part of the carburetor was broken and we still managed to get it to run and move within seconds of starting the vehicle. The exhaust system blew off completely, just behind the manifolds and fell on the floor. Only one wheel would turn out 0f 4 and it had nothing even remotely resembling breaks other than the factory wheels wouldn't turn anymore. Staring was almost nonexistent. Large portions of the body immediately began to rattle and falloff and basically fly everywhere's there was just so much rot on the main body of that truck. It wasn't even funny. From what I know of the yougo they like to rust at a accelerated rate. That is the one thing that concerns me greatly is the rust factor. Second thing that concerns me. For your safety is the condition of the brakes. Bear in mind I use the motor out of that truck replaced the carburetor with a carburetor that was still in the box and replaced all the gaskets spark plugs, plug wires and so forth as well as the fluids I'm also a little bit concerned about your fuel pump situation and what kind of condition your spark plug wires are probably going to be in. I want to express none of this has anything to do with the car being a yougo. In fact, I'd be even more concerned depending on what vehicle it was there are other vehicles that rust a lot worse depending on certain factors. I don't know if you've left by now for your trip, but hopefully the least of your problems would be breaking down along the way I'm more concerned about you becoming some truckers belt buckle because of something like a aging ball joint or crystallized brake pads

Dude good frickin' luck lmao seriously

here in my country you can buy tones of Yugo for 200-300 $

Not

😂😂😂👍

it can drive over 300K miles if you maintain them well. Not bad for such a cheap car. :)

I also have a GVX. Great car.

those 1300 EFI engines in Yugo, have records on passing one million kilometers, as vehicles in police and fire departments and taxis. extremly tough engines and reliable.

Tu smo ne brini, jebes ove nacionaliste sto ne odgovaraju Jugoslavija mora biti obnovljena.

Da

Hejlo!

Infinity Improvise hej :D

de nas nema

true, like what did you expect??

Ultra cheap is an understatement. It was 3999, like what did they expect? To get a car with premium buld quality, leather interior and an AC, that goes from 0 to 60 in 5s or less? :D

If the motoring media admitted a Yugo contained 95% the DNA of expensive cars, everyone would own one, dealerships would die and the system would break down. We should support the status anxious in their anxiety, tell them to keep making the payments, so there's more cars like the Yugo for the rest of us.

It's picks up when you floor it I think it's a great car

Not just you, if they fitted a better motor and coil overs and made a yugo GTI would look good.

Italian design my friend

Same, it's kinda cute

+Super_Slav it weighs very little so 67hp is plenty for it but more power definitely wouldn't hurt.

It’s because you are a hipster

4000? damn that's a lot, in serbia you get it for 200 euros

@@chainchomper27 no

Unsafe in case of a crash. I'd say it was an easy car to drive and surprisingly stable at motorway speeds.

So what was that handle in the back seat? Could one recline the rear seat or was it so one could just remove the whole rear seat?

So, you also checked the suspension of the YUGO.:P

​@@JackDanielsCHS08rear seat did not could be tilted forward, or removed completely, leaving a clean flat carpeted rear. That's what the bolts and hinges are for . 1) remove the bolts 2) take out the rear seat

for some reason they have Golf 7's in Belgrade

Because they weren't sold in Western Europe. :D

​@@Commentator541 Only in British.

OH yes they were sold!

@@goodpljeska2168 Again, false. I've seen them myself in Spain, very long ago. I could even get to see a Yugo Florida, which somehow looked like a copy of the Citroën ZX.

The countries that exported the most are Yugo, America, Britain and Egypt. They even sold in Australia We are talking here in the ordinary Yugo. Florida is the second model of Zastava factory (later changed its name to Yugo car factory).

It's a fact :)

Ja danas vozim Yugo Tempo iz '99 to mi je prvi automobil

@@v.j.5510 menjaj :D

@@LepiSladja Oću kad skupim pare

@@v.j.5510 ma samo se salio, ja isto kupio prvi auto pre 2 godine, ford probe 2gen usa import 1995 2.0

Ma de je bolji od fiata 125p jes ti prehladjen,pa pezejac ti je ladja ko mercedes

Bruce Willis never drove it in the third "Die Hard" movie. It was actually Samuel L. Jackson all the time. 😅

yugos can be sold for 300 dollars in serbia, pistons cost 40 dollars per piece, headgaskets cost 20 dollars, you can piss in the fuel tank and itll run

Normalno 😀

@@sasaantic4461 Ovamo ga voze normalnog. Kod nas ugradju mu turbinu točkove motor sine 1000 konjskih snaga hahahaha.

Was THE car of Balkan, not any more.

Ne lupetajte, najvece sranje.

@@ronvlaar2771 Nije jbt najbolji kad se nabudži

The same thing happened with Lada keys lol

It was like a new, improved fiat 127.

@@jmbpinto73 *but it's not improved at all and the 127 was better :)

@-T-X-M- 25 godina je rintao, ali ima još snage u njemu mogu da vidim. Ako budem imao sreće možda uradim oba tipa, pa kad zatreba jedno samo izmenim delove za priliku

@-T-X-M- bilo bi slažem se, videćemo šta će vreme doneti

Jbga rat je sjebo autoindustriju na balkanu danas bi se golfaje sklapale u Sarajevu i svi bi bili happy

To je moj zivotni san.

What did they change? I have plenty of Serbian buddies with Yugos...

I agree

not to mention those are not the original wheels.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n8pmic2kp87Kn4E.html 169hp yugo

It's because Americans are used to expensive cars and they didnt take car of YUGOs because of lack of service branches and will. It sold 800.000 times so it must have done at least something right and it did. It was cheap, but had all the basics.

@@Mastakilla91 True. But not only Americans. Basically everyone, including the Serbs in Serbia. If they had a better car than Yugo, then Yugo was garbage. Never mind they paid 3-4 times more for their car and never abused it as they'd abuse a Yugo. That's the difference. Cheers.

@@markonissweatshop1364 You have to abuse Yugo most of the times (after some time) because it won't accept gentle input. The shifter is the first to go. Then, if you have strong winters, it won't start easy during winter time (joke: rear back window heaters are for your hands, so they don't freeze while you push the Yugo), window handles and door locks break way too easy etc. You can see this in other cars as well, but Yugo was sold to over 2 million Yugoslavians initially and twice as much during the next 10 years. So naturaly a lot of people were making jokes. We drive these cars even today. You get one for 300€ and drive it until registration expires. Sell it for 200€...So, even back in say, 1999, we were driving Yugos that were over 10 years old. Of course they were all broken all over... :) But they did run, get you places etc.

@@Ludak021 It wouldn't accept gentle input because it was previously abused, lol. Shifters were easily adjusted with one or two bolts underneath. At least that's what my dad told me, as I was a kid then. I agree with the infamous door and window handles/cranks. They did break. I don't recall ours having much trouble starting in the winter, but since I lived in the building, I've heard many neighbours having problems starting their cars in the morning (other makes and models too). My dad bought a 1987 model in 1993 with not many km's on it. Before it got into my dad's hands, it was NEVER abused, and it showed. It looked and drove brand new. I learned driving on that car (besides other things we won't mention here, lol) and I dearly miss it. Even though, I kind of hated it back then...

I have the same engine in my 127!

Pisi srpski da te ceo svet razume 😀. Pozz

Prvi video da ne pljuje Yuga

Sorry we bombed your Zastava car factory :(

But much more fun, too! ;)

It aint bad we had one as kids traded 1000wat speaker for it it ran great the only thing that was weird thou was the shifter

They aren't exactly expensive... And if you want a good one import a '89 1.3 with EFI from Serbia.

I m from Serbia and my dad drive yugo

That is because you don't know worse cars. Trabant was way worse, some may argue is a much older design. First generation Seat Ibiza, was twice more expensive and not significantly better in any way than the Yugo. It was just a decent car for the money. They sold it new back then for the price you pay for the floor mats or tinted window option of a new car now.

I have one red fiat panda in my yard it hasnt been driven for years and has some plants growing on its motor

I only know that one from the east german Trabant :D

Ha ha ha

Oldest joke in the book...

What kind of gas is "will gas"? or you are a kiddo from elementery school ? You know that should not drive car in that age!

@@donvitocorleone3951 ma iznerviraju me kad seru jbt . Ovi kukavci sve od sebe dali a on se pametan nasao.

Carcaine The Rover James was pretty bad too.

It still got a better score than the gwiz

Geoff*

*best

sounds like the name of a porno

along with duct tape and wd40

I dropped a lada onto its engine once. It took 3 of us but we managed to do it in one go

*starts raining pianos*

VW Beetle is worst

@@homeofthemad3044 you obvioisly never droven one tho..

@@newjoflo6916 Correct, but I can still see it is a miserable, ugly, Nazi shitbox. If you want a classic economy car, you could get a Ford Falcon, Chevrolet Corvair, Fiat 500, etc. You don't need to indulge Hitler's ghost.

@@homeofthemad3044 why is every german car a nazi tho?

@@newjoflo6916 Not every German car is a Nazi car. Mercedes and BMW are not Nazis, they are just normal car companies in Germany. But, VW was founded by the Nazis before World War II. In 1945, the Nazi's lost control over Germany, so they just began making cars instead. In short, institutionally VW is a surviving component of the Nazi government of Germany.

I am 6.2, born in yugoslavia. i drove in yugo many times, but back then i was a bit smaller :)

@@Foxmang ...I have family members that were 7' tall it was very common.. I dont know wtf he is talking about .

What 150hp cars? I can think of only 1 communist car that would make that kind of power, KGB V8 Volga and possibly a Lada Niva.

My grandfather bought it in 1982 ,my father 1987 and finally they bought me my first car in 1989..off course Yugo haha...so almost off my car memories and trips from 80s childhood are from Yugo ... But we had one that was not Yugo but from same factory

as a eastern european, yes, there was no 150 hp cars for sale im afraid :) only soviet cars like volgas and zils had that power but you could not buy them

ExternalDomain what are you smoking?

@@DomWeselnyBrzozieLub he is not smoking anything, he is correct.

@@strah62 you guys are using any oportunity for political crap and blaming NATO for all your problems. Grew up. The thruth is Yugo and stojadin were among the worst cars ever produced. Period. There is not a single engineer from former so-called Yugoslavija working on development in any of mentioned factories, perhaps only on assembly line. And about Polonez this I agree, it was same crap as Yugo.

@@DomWeselnyBrzozieLub yup you have got it all figured out, want me to give you a like on you comment so you feel relevant?

@@strah62 pusti ga vidis da je govedo

Trabant is just weird and shitty. Yugo was an ordinary hatchback.

Why didn't he 'balance the tires' first - it's done on ALL cars regardless of price!

MIne was 1989 and was injected model ..same as in the video ...just with normal size tires...it lived until 2005

It also has rear quarter windows that open like a flap which your Rabbit never had

Yep. A friend of mine bought an export Yugo. It had electric windows, automatic transmision, higher quality metalwork and better engine.

nope, exact opposite of that.

@xcman then tell me why yugos in US rust all the time and fall apart but not here

Lada is brand not a model ;)

ne2i Says the lost idiot who up-votes his own comments. Also like Swietoslaw said Lada is a brand not a car model. And Lada cars in general are much realible and stronger then any other european shit in it's class. The comparison is night and day.

@@externaldomain8682 Not quiet true with reliability modern ladas are OK but from soviet era they are very random in quality :P But they in general are not super reliable, but repairs are easy and cheap. And BTW now PSA concern have about 50% of Lada so new Ladas will have older reanult and nissan tech