I hope it still comes with the heated rear window for when you have to push it
YUGO is coming back!
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I believe you are correct. There was a sportier variant 128, perhaps an SL. That may have been a semi fastback sedan. The Ritmo, called the Strada in the US, was a hatchback. That followed the 128 in about 1978. Not much of a success here. The last Fiats that I recall on dealer lots were the 131, Strada and some Spiders. I successfully resisted a massive price reduction on a loaded (for a Fiat) 131 in about 1983.
Yeah, now let's see how much it will cost 
I had a friend that was on the county sheriff department’s dive team. After the Yugo went over the guard rails of the Mackinaw Bridge and into the Straits below, it kind of became a running joke of finding a Yugo on some of their dives.
He told me they were doing a dive in a pond in the middle of a wooded area that had no road access and that they had to hike there.
He came up from his dive and told the guys he found a Yugo down there. They rolled their eyes and laughed. He went down again and popped the VIN plate. He said he had no idea how it got there.
He told me they were doing a dive in a pond in the middle of a wooded area that had no road access and that they had to hike there.
He came up from his dive and told the guys he found a Yugo down there. They rolled their eyes and laughed. He went down again and popped the VIN plate. He said he had no idea how it got there.
Ah, the Yugo. I remember watching this scene in a movie theater while I was hopped up on Vicodin - an unfortunate set of circumstances following oral surgery.
After losing the two previous vehicles we had been issued, the only car the department was willing to release to us at this point was an unmarked 1987 Yugo: a Yugoslavian import donated to the department as a test vehicle by the government of that country and reflecting the cutting edge of Serbo-Croatian technology.
Or for those who couldn't afford a Yugo or a Hyundai Excel, there was the Adobe:
After losing the two previous vehicles we had been issued, the only car the department was willing to release to us at this point was an unmarked 1987 Yugo: a Yugoslavian import donated to the department as a test vehicle by the government of that country and reflecting the cutting edge of Serbo-Croatian technology.
Or for those who couldn't afford a Yugo or a Hyundai Excel, there was the Adobe:
One of the police departments I dealt with in towing, one of their seizure cars they had for undercover work was an Yugo. Only complaint I heard from their shop was that the timing belt had to replaced pretty much you did an oil change...
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Belt was every 45k as far as I remember.
They might of done it knowing how little of miles they ran on the car. I know they had some retrofitted parts due to some not existing anymore. Then something about an oil filter adapter....
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I did not own a YUGO here in the US. I owned a Zastava 101, YUGO's predecessor (a much better vehicle) and shortly YUGO. I did hill climb races in one that was kind of shared among several of us.
They were super cheap vehicles to do what is otherwise an expensive sport.
Uuuuuuuugly.....
That Yugo is a cross between a Hyundai Ionic 5 and a 1980 VW Sirocco!!
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Too bad it has horrid "performance" 0-60 NEW 12 seconds and 170 miles range, 4 years into ownership ???? 0-60 16 seconds and maybe 80 mile range??? Too risky to spend even $10,000 on.
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https://momentcar.com/images600_/volkswagen-scirocco-1980-2.jpg
Too bad it has horrid "performance" 0-60 NEW 12 seconds and 170 miles range, 4 years into ownership ???? 0-60 16 seconds and maybe 80 mile range??? Too risky to spend even $10,000 on.
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Beat me to it......
Fancy wheels on a Yugo is the new lipstick on a pig.
Fancy wheels on a Yugo is the new lipstick on a pig.
Still have the hand warmers on the rear window?
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