You guys should come over and drive mine LOL

if it runs that is

Aaay jameskii's here, was just about to mention your Yogo, all I could think of while watching this video was your one LOL

@@PedroF9_ yeah about that...

yes i love you ive seen your videos about it

you go it stays

My uncle had one when I was a kid, living in rural Serbia in the 90's meant that this one Yugo basically kept 50-100 people and their homes provided with goods from the town. Flour, fruits and vegetables, sunflower oil - all of that in a Yugo, the little car that could. Hell, craziest memory was him transporting a couple of sheep in the back seat. I remember vividly how badly the car smelled, he just left it in his garage for a couple of weeks (garage was more akin to a shed) with windows down and the smell faded away. He also transported a fuckton of raspberries in baskets on top of the car, he had that extra thingy for transporting goods. Good stuff.

druze gde si ti ziveo leba ti hehehe vrh neke planine

@@muckiprovokator8496 u Vukovom Tršiću druže. 👍

ahahah. Top. Koja prica 😄

Didn't he pull out the rear seat prior to transporting the sheep? I transported a calf in my Datsun like that and my Mom and I did the same with a Dodge Colt. We pulled out the rear seat before hand, like four nuts, and then scooped out the poop with a shovel before putting the seat back in. Poor life is interesting that's for sure.

@@Parents_of_Twins i don't remember whether he did, but seeing a couple of sheep going "beeee" from a really small Yugo and my uncle in the front seat smiling like he had life all sorted out is a core memory. Poor life is interesting, that's a pretty good way of putting it. Cheers

Yugo got my mama through an old school “the woman has nothing when she leaves” divorce. It was the only vehicle she could afford. Got her to work and back, and got us to school and the sitter. I cant speak an ill word about it.

as opposed to today "women get everything and more when she leaves" :)

@@yngfljm2277 thats not even true lol

@@sebastiangorka200 many such cases

Well maintained Yugo’s were generally reliable cars. I usually see beaters in all these videos. The shift linkage was a common issue that was easily resolved with a couple bolts added to that problem and significantly improved shift feel. The 1.3L drivetrain in the later Yugo’s was highly superior in power and performance as well.

I’m building a 1.3L with ITB’s and 12.5:1 compression. These things like to rev like crazy

Something else about American Yugo was that the cars were rushed unlike the ones made for Yugoslavia. The orders for the US were bigger so big they had to double the total factory production every year making the quantity control abysmal, after a few years it got better but by then demand in the US was low.

I think the only Yugo that I've seen here that was maintained came from jalopnik.

Not as much reliable as easy to fix on the go, and it has to be said that most breakdowns were not drive-impeding. :) Heating, windows, various small bits... but the engine, suspension, brakes and other critical stuff was reliable enough for the short routes needed on the home roads.

I drove Yugo for 7 years with 0.904 L engine ...45hp ....it was always braking down but you can fix it yourself by the road....not like cars this days It was a crappy car but lots of fun. Thank you for this episode , cheers !

Ah yes, little mean 45! Loved mine so damn much!

yes and probably the transmission doesnt cost 12k$ like my pos toyota

@@retrocompaq5212maybe 50$ and couple of beers 🤷🏻‍♂️

I had it, it was ok

Today cars break down at random then you have to call and pay an dealer road assistant to unlock your car with a single click... f--k modern cars, they can go back to hell where they comes from. I have a Yugo and Sana, nothing wrong with them thanks to proper maintance. If you break you old cars that is on you. And yeah you can repair old cars on your own it's up to you to put effort in but like I said with proper usage and maintance you don't need to repair jack ...

Great video guys! Always fun to see cars from my country (Serbia). Here's a bit of local insight. Over the years the Yugo has become somewhat of a cultural icon over here, even though up until about 10 years ago you could see them very regularly on the street. Everybody is aware that it's objectively a very limited car to say the least, but on the other hand everybody knew how to work on them a bit or at least knew someone who did, spare parts were everywhere, fuel economy was fantastic, and when not pushed to 60mph 😂 they were very reliable. I completed my driving lessons on a Yugo in 2012 and even had a Yugo for a bit after that. That specimen was completely rusted, couldn't even get it into 5th gear, never drove it above 40mph, and during winter when coming to a stop I'd put in neutral and while breaking would pump the throttle until moving again, just so it wouldn't turn off from the cold. But mine was a truly horrific example, well maintained ones functioned without a hitch even after 35 years. And that's the beauty of it, it was something made here that everyone had the same trouble with, but something everyone was proud of. I have driven many different cars after this Yugo but nothing really captured the effort and connection needed to move a vehicle like the Yugo did. It has a very special place in my heart and thank you again for featuring it Donut. Greeting from Serbia!

Yugo je za yugoslavija nije yugo za srbija

Ikona? Nikada, ni na samom pocetku proizvodnje.

i love how someone managed to take care of the car for 30 years and donut fucks it up in ten minutes

So true

By not driving it 😂😂😂😂

Excellent point!

Can agree with this statement.

​@@killerdeamonkingI have a better way of making your comment with much less effort. Errrr drrrrrr

There is only one thing I need in my life now. A Super Yugo. A Yugo with as many flaws as possible corrected while looking as stock as possible with a 0-60 under 10 seconds.

This is immediately where my mind went to. I'd love to see one of these upgraded.

You could probably do that pretty easily, depending on your location. I'm from an ex-yu country and it's pretty common in the racing scene to trick out a yugo for the memes

A high school friend of mine, shout out to Tami S, had a blue Yugo. It was the worst! It had room for three in the back, but the bumper would drag on the ground if you put anybody bigger than a five year old back there. She was driving one day, and the shifter came right out. No noise or nothing. She looked at me like "what do I do?" That car got us all around town though, God bless it.

Your mom had room for three in the back.

what ive seen is that american yugos are generally worse quality than domestic ones. i live in belgrade and practically every 2nd car is a yugo, all look shiny and have yet to see one thats destroyed or broken down. and sometimes see abandoned ones that look like rally cars or racers

Great video, as usual! Just a small correction, it is not based on the 127, it only shares it's platform and some components with the 128.

I had an 87 Yugo for 10 years...NEVER broke down. Great little car IF you took care of it. Definately not fast but neither were the Ford Escorts and Chevettes of the same era...in fact my mom had an 85 Escort and it was a DOG compared to the Yugo.

There was no escort, that could be slower than yugo, it's only your imagination

I worked for Delta, there was a large YUGO following. They were cheap commuters. One of the guys needed to replace the exhaust. Party date was made. They threw down and old mattress. Pulled the mirror and rolled it on it's side.

This was my first car. I bought it for $175 in 1992. 😂 Everyone at school loved that car, too. I was a legend.

At that time you could point to the prestige of the Yugo having appeared in the 'Dragnet' movie with Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks driving it

really?! damn.. I mean I would be jealous as well ngl

I'm from Serbia (ex-YU). My father bought one in 1992, almost new. It was somewhere around 4000 DEM (DEM - German Marks, I don't know exactly how much that would be in dollars, probably about 3000-3500. Back then it was several average yearly salaries, so a huge money for the time). It was our family's first car so we loved it, but honestly it was junk, it spent more time at a repair shop than on the road, but at least parts were cheep and everyone could fix it. He got rid of it as soon as he could, then he got VW Golf 2, and lived happily ever after. In the early 2000s when I was in a high school, many of my friends had Yugos. You could have one for couple hundred DEM and many people bought them specifically for the teenage kinds to practice driving (not me, I drove dad's Golf, lol). Today they are quite a rare sight even here.

You played Dungeons and Dragons didn't you?

@eriklarson9137  Not directly. I hung out with folks who did. I was a comic book nerd. 🤓

it would be interesting to see comparison of few '80 cars in the same state of neglection and lack of maintenance. I think that yugo will score the same as others. and I can't comprehend how did you expected different outcome with that type of driving

yeah. I can admit that the car quality isn't great and the owner of this specific model may not be able to maintain it well, but come on, this car looks like someone pulled out out of a junkyard last week. It's basically impossible to make a review of a 30 years old car model based on one unit that look especially poorly maintained. I do have to say they pointed out a few time that the car target market was different and that it's and old car, but they simply should have asked or looked for at least a second car.

Gonna be difficult. Take the Chevette. Half of them were recalled and the other half dissolved in the rain

Not really, I own two completely neglegted OEM 1985 golf and 1986 Jetta which are far more reliable than newer cars I have.

When you learn to drive a Yugo good, you enter the professional ranks drivers . anyway, the car that gave me the most laughs with friends, every ride was adventure .

I've had the displeasure of working on a couple of these fairly extensively. The damned things never wanted to stay running. Between the carb trying desperately to fall out of tune, the fuel tank trying to feed the engine rust, the random electrical ghosts, and the body panels and interior literally falling apart for no reason, these things were a nightmare. 😂

I attended a consumer survey back when the Yugo first came out. We didn’t drive the cars but examined them in detail. Two things that stuck in my mind were the runs in the paint and the seats that seemed to be made out of cheap terrycloth beach towels. I did use some of the money from this gig to buy a copy of the very first issue of Automobile Magazine. I wish I still had that mag…

I had one of these in the UK in 1992 while at Uni. The worst part was the conversion to right hand drive, as the wipers were still set up for left hand drive. Otherwise I had no problems with it at all. It would sit on the UK motorway at 75mph quite happily. Also started in any cold weather, with a quick cold start spray into the air intake. Was an awful pea soup green colour though

There were TWO kinds of Yugos. Ones that fell apart and broke down all the time and ones that were of superior quality and rarely ever broke down. There was NO, "In Between". I owned one that practically never failed me, ever.

I had Yugo 45... Reliable, little one it was, tough as nut and with 0 big issues

I did as well! Never knew they were poorly reviewed. Great mpg, cheap, was a blast back in the day!

this thing much better than that vietnamese vf8 shit they drove earlier

Our was in the 1st category (those that love to be at the repairman's garage more then they love road), but I know a couple of Yugo owners who had no big issues (small issues were easily fixable at home anyway).

right, the difference was certainly down to some crews were better at building parts/assembly than others. If you got one inside the tolerances of the FIAT pattern car, you essentially have a FIAT. if not, well, you have this.

Can you make an episode where you make the Yugo into a great (handling, relatively fast and reliable) car? Would love to see that :)

Yep. By the late 90s there was a community of people who loved the Yugo because you could buy one for $50, fix it up, and have an adequate around town car

2JZ in the trunk . V-drive. Ford 9"

Considering they trashed this car in a video I doubt these clowns will make a part II ...

I think each Yugo was story on its own. Mine had problem with gear shifter, the stick was getting stuck. Couldn't change gear. Also was shutting down when it wanted, say on a upward piece of road, which was scary. Windows weren't really air proof. In winter, wind was blowing from multiple sides. Also, had a problem with starting up the engine. It didn't want to start... :) But was fun. Nice video. My father brought it to the junk yard, sadly. I really like the simple design of it, overall. If it had relieable enigine and transmision, and mehcanical parts, it would have been a hit!

I bought a cheap 45a in 1994. It was great. Bought a Yugo Sana second hand and almost new afterwards. The clutch was heavy so I used the Yugo 45 a cable from my old car and it fitted perfectly. Bought the Sana for £600 and sold it for £1200 in 1997

Fantastic and respectful coverage and history. Another great job

I wonder if they'll bring it back in another episode and beef it up with power Would love to see that Still, glad the ol' Yugo got some attention, great video!

The best bumper sticker I ever saw on a Yugo “If you hit me, we both die.” 😂

Are you sure that wasn't on a Pinto? 😂

@@robertfaulkner7152 I'd bet that sticker was created for Pintos

@@jamescarter3196 Goes to show that memes, like stickers, can be applied widely.

​@robertfaulkner7152 or a first gen Fiero?

@@jamescarter3196 it was... There was another bumper sticker back in the day and it said "It takes 1,836 bolts to hold this piece of shit together and takes one loose nut to scatter this all over the freeway" 🤣😂🤣

Not too proud to admit I knew em inside and out for a summer. A shop I worked at bought out the old yugo dealer and my summer job was to take 13 of em and make like 7-8 running cars. They actually had performance parts like cams and intakes listed in the back of the service manuals. And you can't forget Dave Yugo and his Underdog!

My dad had an USA market Yugo, but he tuned it, lowered the suspensions, tinted the windows and everything, and it drove up to 180kmh, and also many people had yugos in my country and they had even travelled with them, going to vacations to other countries so the yugos weren't that much of a fail, and as another guy in the comments said, you can fix it yourself on the side of the road😂

would love to see you guys make a sleeper build in the yugo.

Yugo is the quintessential DIY mechanic car. It WILL make a handyman of you, believe me😅

The yugo had an optional rear defroster which was really good for keeping your hands warm when pushing it

that joke is probably older than you are ;)

Instead of an owner's manual it's got a bus schedule...

You forgot to mention the option of a painted glove box !

Actually it was a standard equipment !!!

As a Serbian, who learnt to drive on this car, all I can say that experience was wery useful. I can basically drive any car after surviving 4 years in it. BTW- floppy transmision is a feature, not a bug. It is part of curriculum for construction workers. When you operate its stick shift like an ace, you also get a licence for all construction machinery handling 😂

We used to say the electric defroster element on the back window was to keep your hands warm while pushing it.

Very funny review. I did actually test-drive a brand new one in the 80's. The plus point was it made the Lada and Skoda(with rear engine) look really good. I did not buy one

I drove a Yugo in high school back in the early 90s. We beat the crap out of including driving from Carp to Compton at 3am. During the winter we cliff jumped it at the Jelie Bowl in Carp and drove in the old motocross course. I’m surprised it never blew up…the diver seat did break which required a milk crate to hold it up 😂

Somehow my grandparents got a Yugo, and gave it to my parents. I got my driver's license with that car. Great for parallel parking!

I’m from the Former Yugoslavia and this car got my family through the war, from 1991 all the way until we came to the United States. I will buy this car from you when you are done with your videos. Also, we were never under the influence of the USSR. We were a unique communist country where private companies still existed and social programs worked. We just didn’t know how to get along with each other.

Sadly many people these days still cant get along , not much has changed.

Yup

We absolutely were under USSR early in, but Tito said fuck that.

@@T3GMedia sorry brother, we never were. We were basically enemies while we had a king, and Tito took power in 1944. After that, the USSR had a huge issue with our relationship with the western countries. We didn’t get along with them during our growth period.

I remember reading a review of the Yugo in High School, late 80s. They described the exact pulling condition you experienced. They joked that you could do a slalom using only the gas pedal. Early 90s I was working for a flight school in the Bay Area. Our director for that location was just a total trip of a man, Fred. Despite his position, he drove a Yugo. Somehow it was left somewhere else, don't recall exactly. A couple executives from the main office in Chicago where in, they were going to where ever his car was left, but he was out of town or something. I was a lowly mechanic, asked me to ride along with to drive the Yugo back. I thought I was clever when I pointed out one of the executives going over could just do it because I didn't want to drive a Yugo. They agreed. Not many years had passed when I realized I regretted not taking the chance to drive a Yugo. Did know a guy when I was in high school that bought one, I think I rode it. He was in the Navy at the time. I recall asking how he could buy a car made behind the iron curtain.

I remember checking them out when they were new. And you could tell they were cheaply made. Funny thing is I remember one model had no radio but there were speakers and an antenna.

I remember when my brother owned and drove a Yugo haha. He modded it to have a motorcycle muffler just to make fun of all the guys who do that shit to compensate for what they don't have, which meant you could hear him coming from a mile away, LITERALLY. It was the funniest and coolest thing to me, because we'd be waiting for him to show up in our house, and you'd know when it was time to finish anything you needed to to get ready, so you could get outside and wait for a few minutes if you wanted to lol. Hell, I remember how excited and giddy I always got whenever I heard it from that mile away, and would sprint around the house yelling "Mario's coming!" Good memories.

I lived through that era. It was still a depressed time in the USA, a recession/depression was about, and I saw a family buy one of these new. The biggest problem we all saw was that they were in no way corrosion-protected. Total rust-through of body panels could be seen in just three to four years. In the Northeast, where salt was used on the roads, these cars corroded away (and were illegal to drive on the roads) before the engines failed.

In Michigan it would have lasted 15 minutes 😂

My mom had a gvx and it was a good car, rolled it in the snow and still drove fine, no glass was broken just knocked the mirrors off. She'd still be driving it if she could have gotten parts for it. Lasted 15years at least

I’m so proud that you actually reviewed a Yugo. As a Serbian, this warms my heart so much, generations used the Yugo and people loved it. Even today you can see people driving them, and you can buy them for $50 in some cases. Cheers guys!

wish i could find one here in the usa for $50 cause i would drive the snot out of it.

@@killerdeamonking importing one from Serbia should be like $200 bucks if you find a charter flight with enough empty seats hahaha

I’m surprised at this. I thought people told me Yugos are trash, at least in America… how the heck can they sill run in 2023?!

I think you should turn it into a sleeper - completely pimp it out but don't change the appearance.

My first car back in 1989. In 1992 drove it from Skopje to Athens and back roughly 1500 km 150-160 kph the whole way and never had a problem. I thrashed the shit out of it for 6 yrs and only replaced the clutch at 45000km. Great car. Bought i for 5000 USD and sold it for 4500 usd after 6 yrs with 80000km on the clock. By the way I've never driven a car without electronic stability that handles better on snow.

Yugo was my first car in high school. Was a hand me down from my sister's first car bought brand new in 1989. I LOVED my Yugo. Put a nice deck in it and had 2 10's in a box in the back lol. My dad had to install a manual switch to turn the fan on incase I was at a drive thru or something because it would over heat. The throttle would stick some times LOL and I'd have to turn it off and re start it. There is an electir yugo allegedly coming soon and I will likely buy one 😊

Y’all’s video quality is insanely good. Love you guys

There's so much jokes about yugo in our ex-yugo country that it's silly what imagination humans can have :D P.S.: Father had multiple of those, been in a crash when I was about 4 aand remember flying over the cabin into the dash :D

A guy goes into an auto parts store and asks "Can I get windshield wipers for my Yugo? The guy thinks for a second and says "That sounds like an even swap"

How are you verified?

This is an under appreciated comment

Auto parts guy got finesed

isn't that a Trabant joke?

​@Toydota yeah wtf 😂 are we the only ones questioning this lmao

My parents had the 65aglx. Bigger engine and sportier body kit. I loved that car. We used public transport before that and any car was an upgrade.

I had friends that bought these both new & used, and they really were bad even back then. The only redeeming quality they had was price. I had a friend that bought a 2 year old one in "Great condition" for $1600, she ended up selling it for $800 a few months later.

I would love to see and engine swap, upgraded breaks, exhaust and suspension upgrades done on the Hugo.

I learned to drive in a brand new 1988 Yugo. A dashboard light bulb blew on it and that caused the entire charging system to stop working. Yes, it was wired like an old string of Christmas lights. I could peel out by popping the clutch. I had myself and 3 other people in it and was able to get up to 80mph on the interstate.

My Yugo/Croat grandfather had a Yugo and my (Dutch) father can only tell the funniest of stories about it. That tiny car got my family sometimes 5 adults at the same times up and down steep mountain inclines, with my grandfather sweating profusely behind the steering wheel with a wet towel around his neck as AC. That car was as hard working as the person behind the wheel. Nedostaješ mi nonno

Now it needs to be tuned up, and kitted out, and made in to the best little Yugo that ever existed.

I was just saying that, waiting for a #2 episode of them doing just that.

would unironically love that. I'm all about them quirky cars.

To compete with AgingWheels. Donut "Tuned" heavily customized vs Robert's Superstock Yugo.

​@@NeojhunAWs Yugo has been sold eons ago.

If you liked driving the Yugo😂, you might also try a Dacia from the 80s. They weren’t sold in US, as long as I remember, but they were sold in Canada.

Ah, the "dracula's revenge"

Yugo away! FAR AWAY!!! LOL! I appreciate the lemon video fellas! I am especially happy to know y'all made it back safely.

The Yugo is quite amazing, especially if it has a couple twin v8's!

Could you guys please do an Up to Speed on the Subaru Justy you mentioned at 10:19? I’ve been waiting so long and you finally mentioned it. On top of being the last carbureted vehicle sold in the US it’s probably one of the rarest vehicles in America now and I’d love to see what you guys at Donut could dig up on it.

There is also one more Yugo category - extremely tuned Yugo with over 230hp!

Justin is slowly becoming my favorite presenter on Donut the dude is hilarious.

For sure!

They're all good, to be honest =)

Its a tough call they are all hilarious

@@fridaycaliforniaa236 I didn't say the others weren't, just saying he's becoming "MY" favorite

In the 80s, my neighbor had 2 Yugos. I recall seeing one get stuck on the curb when trying to go up the driveway. I also remember the commercials when they were about to go out of business and had a 2 for 1 sale ($3,990!). Good times

I had one for awhile in Croatia. It was shit, however, parts cost less than beer and you could work on them pretty drunk. Super simple to figure out and quickly figure it out. This one does seem to be rougher shape. In total over two years i was only into it like$400 Cad.

If your Yugo was idling at 3k RPM your carburetor choke was probably wide open. You have manual choke adjustment below the steering wheel.

You should get a Trabi and test it, the history behind the car is insane and somehow it can be driven

They could do the third season of Money Pit trying to solve the problems with this car, making a track day Yugo, with an engine swap using the 3-cylinder engine from the VW Up TSI (I don't know if you have this car in the USA).

Any car that was engineered in less than optimal conditions and allowed the average person a new found sense of freedom is in my opinion a success. If you look at the cars of Formula Easter and other various former Soviet Bloc countries they made something out of nothing which is quite impressive.

You guys should do a Yugo build. Engine swap, transmission, suspension etc.

Second.

i genuinely thought this is in their plan for the car. lol...

tbh I'd like to see some engineering improvements for the dash and crumple zones, but would that even be a Yugo at that point?

@@edherdman9973 The Yugo of Theseus?

Would love to see an LS swapped Yugo.

Hahahaha!! I bought a Yugo from my brother who needed the money. He ran it out of gas and couldn't afford the gas to get it back home, so I gave him $100 for it and parked it out back for a week and sold it for the same--- $100 cash. While he still had it, the starter quit and it had to be pushed to start it. All the guys he worked with called it the "Yabba Dabba Do car!!"LOL A bit of trivia for the movie buffs. In 2000 there was a movie with Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, and Jamie Lee Curtis called "Drowning Mona". With the exception of he tow truck, all the cars in the movie are Yugos including DeVito's cop car!!! It's hilarious and It can be seen on most of the steaming channels!!!

Bruce Willis and Samuel Jackson in "Die hard 3", Dan Aykroyd and Tom Hanks in "Dragnet"" :D

As ex owner of Yugo... i have to say that it was 7 years of fun owning that machine, and like 0 maintenance... It was my first car so it was learning car, then it grew to my heart, so i kept driving it mercilessly, carried heavy loads in it, went with friends on insane driving trips, camping and god knows what else... it was clockwork machine with 0 major issues, most of the fixes i did by myself... Those were the days. It was a car, and much more for the price of electric scooter

I bought a new blue one with ac in 1988. Never had any problems. Drove it for ten years.

The best reviews come from reviewing the worst products! Thank you for the laughter 😀😆😄😃🤣😂🤣😃😀

You guys should make an episode on putting small upgrade on the yugo to make it more reliable

Funny thing about the Yugo is that I take it to car shows and it gets more attention than any Ferrari or Lambo 🤣 EVERYONE wants to sit in it.

Because of Pinafarina design.

Well, Lamborghini and Ferrari are usually the first thing that comes to mind for fancy supercars, the Yugo ain't fancy, but I'd assume seeing one that runs properly is probably more interesting. There's over a 35% chance that if you talk to someone that has money, they have a Lamborghini, Ferrari, BMW, or Mercedes-Benz

​@@MarkoCiric I mean, it's not ugly. Certainly a pretty little box and I love those alloys, they're gorgeous.

If you've got a clean one you should take it to Radwood they'd go nuts for it.

HAHA NICE!

I would absolutely love to see you guys make that yugo into a race car

Let me explain something, I drove this lemon for 5 years, loved it really, firstly it runs on fumes,0 to 60 eventually, you could drive it with the second gear broken, the users manual came with the bus schedule because it broke like all the time, the back glass had warmers so you can push it in the winter, the car was made to rival wolksvagen golf, which the car failed miserably, but hey after you got to know your yugo you would be able to fix it yourself in no time, mine had a manual switch for the cooler because my thermostat broke and that was fine 😂

They still use them for rally races over here in Serbia, and with new engine,transmission and shock absorbers it can really be nice rally car when it's set up correctly.

My grandpa had 3 Yugos at one time. 1 he drove and 2 others for parts. The one he drove from what i remember wasnt horrible. He knew a guy in Florida that had 200k miles on one. I guess you got what you paid for when you bought a Yugo

Just like the machine from Contact: Why buy one when you have have three...for thrice the price?

It wasn’t horrible but you needed 2 cars for parts ? That’s an oxymoron

@@UTP_ENT he was also kind of a car hoarder. He never rly took anything from the other two from what I remember

Only car you'd wind the miles FORWARD before you sold it, to prove it had worked

To be fair, the warm Florida weather probably helped matters a bit. On the other hand, the humidity couldn't have helped.

Do you know why Yugo have rear windshield heaters? So you don't freeze your hands while you push Yugo down the road during winter. 😆

We were a family of four; mom, dad, sis (9), and me (11). Dad bought a Yugo in 1986 and we went from Long Island to Disney World Orlando and back with absolutely no problems...I don't even remember being uncomfortable in the back seat with my sis. A year later we went to Virginia, also from L.I. and back again in the same Yugo.

Drove these in the 80s when they were new. Can confirm that the build quality and ride quality issues where there from the start. That example is practically mint, compared to where it started.

I’ve never seen a Yugo with so many intact body panels, so that’s something

In the name of all Yugoslavia nostalgics, THANK YOU for this video! You guys in the US could never understand what this car meant for us, but I'm really thankful that you tried to put it into context.

The yugo wasn't a terrible first try. If Yugoslavia had survived, it might have been something to build from.

had a 88 yugo. great car never brook down. yes it was slow but it got you where you were going.

I belive a big problem with this review is the yugo you're review.

I think it'a safe to say that an $11,000 dollar car from the 80's and the late 2010's are VERY different. In the 80's, you got a Yugo. Now, you get a 2018 Chevy Cruze. (Which btw is a great car)

you are correct in not trusting the spare in the engine bay , the 2 times ive ever seen a yugo was back when i was a fire fighter and yep both were engine bay fires

I'll be honest - it _looks_ quite good. reminds me of a mk1 GTI from some angles.

Always wanted to get one, do some work, and make the definition of a sleeper car out of it

In high school, my good friend had one of these in white. One night, when taking a lefthand turn, his entire fuse box fell out from underneath the dashboard. Quality workmanship!

Tebra to se i meni desilo pre 20 godina na ns putu na krivini kod altine samo se ugasio🤣

My first car was a pumpkin orange '76 VW Rabbit with a broken speedo. I got pulled over by a stater on the freeway when I was behind a Yugo. He said he clocked me doing 82 in the 65. I told him that was impossible since I was drafting the Yogo in front of me, and science says there's no way a Yugo could reach that speed so his chrono was wrong. He actually considered this before ticketing me.

Yugo's fuse box is not under the dashboard, it's located in the engine compartment so you're full of s..t

That sounds like a British thing ....

You should fully rebuild the car and then test it. I actually owned one that was four years old. Super basic, but overall solid car. I did blow out the valves and nobody could get a set. They ended up using Fiat valves. It sounded like a sewing machine after that, but ran great.

6:18 this may actually be torque steer. If one tire is low it will spin faster causing a pull when getting on the throttle

This car was great and there are still cars which can be found in Belgrade, truly a long lasting car, over 30 years

I like the continuity of the broken speedo graphic! Nice work editors!

They should make another video trying to make the car actually good by giving interior mods, upgrades, maybe a body kit, wheels and other nice stuff just for fun.

I remember seeing a modded Yugo with a tube frame, tubbed rear slicks, a NOS'd 351 and a BIG shiny wing. Years later I still lol at the thought of it.

I saw one prepped for rallying in the early 90's on display in my local mall, for some reason. All my friend wanted the Countaches they saw on the posters. I wanted that Yugo.

Wait, I think I saw that myself at some point. Like in a magazine. I'm pretty sure that's what I saw cause my brain got all tingly when you said NOS and BIG shiny wing.

Sounds like a High Low challenge series to me. Except it's Low and Ridiculously Low

i can't even imagine the amount of time and effort that went into making that car. still the thought of that is hilarious

had a guy local to me with a tubbed, winged yugo with a roller 406 chevy in it. stoplight to stoplight you didnt wanna mess with it.

Hey Donut!!! Since it broke down, go crazy with it and do some wild build. I say an AWD or 4x4, turbo charged VR6, or some type of diesel swap and lift it. Call it the Yugostein (Frankenstein) and utilize different components from other brands to make this Yugo NOT SUCK!!! Just an idea for a build series. I’m sure you guys are brainstorming. Good luck!

A co-worker bought a new Hugo back in the day to save on gas for her 50 miles round trip to work every day. She said it hardly drank any gas, because the damn thing stayed broke down nearly all of the time. She sold it in less than 2 months after she brought it home. 😀

I drove one of these in the former Yugoslavia for 6 months, and it was actually an ok car for that region. One huge advantage It was dead-simple and CHEAP to maintain and repair, which was essential for that economy.

That particular Yugo doesn't look bad TBH. Maybe an entire drivetrain swap?

I remember when this car came out and they even had a super rare convertible version too. I think this car brand new was under 4k back in like 1987.

I was a Yugo certified mechanic. I would do a pre delivery inspection and have a complete page of problems to fix before we could even sell the car. The nice thing was I could push them in the shop without help because they were so light and two cars could fit in the bay at once because they were so short. The later gv plus model had Bosch fuel injection and ran a lot better.

yes...we didnt have gvx back home...greetings from Croatia

My neighbor is a very wealthy men and he still drives the same Yugo I remember him having 25 years ago. It's probably even older than that. Mad respect to the old guy.

I would love to see the inside of his house. Probably got the best television from like 1984 and a pop-top VCR. I used to have a neighbor who was like 65 in 1980, and he was active with fixing his house and keeping his yard nice, and the inside of his house looked like a prize gallery from an early-'60s game show.

Yugos have a timeline defined by their civil war. By 1992, they weren't sold in North American markets any more.

They're actually good cars if you properly take care of them. Communist cars are generally very simple so they're a joy to work on them and repair almost anything. I've owned a Dacia 1310 for some years and although some things broke down, I could fix them right on the road (considering I had spare parts in the trunk), so their reliability doesn't stand for their ability to not break down, but the ability to be able to fix it quickly anywhere with simple tools

​@@milesromanus7041well but this is not just an average communist country.. Yugoslavia was actually a mixed-economy state

@@jessebrook1688 oh hell nah you didn't just call it civil war 💀