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Playdrv4me @ Dec 27th 2007 11:38AM
Oh this should be good...
MUSASHI66 @ Dec 27th 2007 11:53AM
I know I am going to get flamed for this one... but here it goes. I am from Serbia, and back there, in the 80's and 90's, Yugo's were good cars to own. They were cheaper than anything else on the streets, save for Zastava 750 and 850 (versions of Fiat 600). My uncle back home still owns one, with some 130.000 miles on it, and it runs good. He can rebuild the engine with less than $200. Its converted to use LPG, so it is super cheap to run considering high cost of gas in Europe. You can squeeze 4, or even 5 people inside, if you must. You can fix pretty much anything on that car alone.
Now, Zastava makes Zastava 10, which is based on Fiat Punto, and it is a nice little car for eastern europe markets. Any car is better than no car :)
In Serbia, there are plenty of new cars these days, but taxes and customs on imported vehicles are sky high, in the neighborhood of 40% on the price of the car. For a price of Golf in Serbia, you can easily buy a Passat in states.
psarhjinian @ Dec 27th 2007 12:18PM
The problem with Yugo is, quite frankly, that they were benchmarking (or outright copying) Fiat. That's not exactly starting with a solid foundation.
Cool as the Punto is, it's also afflicted by typical Italian engineering; older models are worse. Much worse. Yugo probably ought to have knocked off the Honda Civic, Toyota Starlet or anything by Daihatsu. That might've at least put them on a decent footing.
Yugos weren't great, but I think you have to remember that they're period pieces. A European-native Daihastsu, Fiat, Renault or VW from the same era isn't much better.
MUSASHI66 @ Dec 27th 2007 12:24PM
Every car that Zastava ever made was a Fiat - licensed car. There are hundreds of thousands yugos/101/128/ models still running in ex-yugoslavia. Zastava is now making Zastava 10, for less than 8000 euros, which is a great price for a car in that part of the world.
I hope that someone like Honda buys them, but it is not going to happen. They made 10000 cars last year, and they used to make 250.000 car per year. Sad ending for a once good company.
At least they still make great weapons :)