The Yugo is no more

Is this a car? looks like 100 year old.

Question: 'Y u go?' Answer: 'Cos I'm going to retirement.' that's another joke...

For a joke car, it certainly lasted. Laugh well, but there aren't too many others from the class of 78 that made it this far.

Keep in mind it was already dated at launch, being based on the old Fiat 127. Funny that the plant will convert to making newer Fiats. I can't imagine who will buy the "technology" (ahem) from this plant. A Fourth World manufacturer? A car maker from another planet? The Amish?

how on earth did it last that long?!? and who would buy one today???

the only reason why they were still made was because they were for the post YUGOslavian market, for the few countries in europe which stayed in the same shape, essentially, since the USSR has collapsed, the separation of yugoslavia and the wars and genocide in the Balkans kept the area in a 3rd world country state up until just few years ago, and while other eastern block countries like Poland or Czech Republic moved on and now are pretty much up to the highest Western Europe Standards, the yugo nations are about as economicly and technologically advanced as Mongolia.

lol didnt even know this existed

i bought a yugo 10 years ago to have a secondary car for moving around the city and after 100.000km the engine still holds tight. The radio and the heater which are the only equipment almost never worked(lol...) but at least it didn't break down, unlike my peugeot 406 which is much worse in terms of reliability(i do mean it)!

Yugo, brand new costs 3500 euros, it's new spare parts are 10 times cheaper than any other. YUGO was able to make 300.000 km with little money spent to repair. Because of deepening economic chrisis in USA, a great export opportunity was missed.

Yugo, new one costs 3500 euros, it's new spare parts are 10 times cheaper than any other. YUGO was able to make 300.000 km with little money spent to repair. Because of deepening economic chrisis in USA, a great export opportunity was missed.

The last Yugo will be manufactured in December. What do you think, when the last GM will be manufactured? Maybe before that :)!

I agree, Yugo made profit, not a debt like GM

Janobr is right. And the reference to Mongolia was a figure of speech. A few words about such cars: uncomfortable, not environmental friendly, not reliable and oudated technology. It was the same with Romanian brand Dacia, which was the result of a co-operation with Renault (in fact, originally was a Renault model). After that, almost no development in decades. After the fall of the communism, Renault came back and bought Dacia plant. And built a brand new model: Logan. The difference between the old Dacia and Logan is huge, even if Logan is a low-cost brand. I hope what I said does not make me an idiot...

I'll miss these cars, but 250.000 of them are still on the streets :)

I am sorry but American cars aren't reliable, they aren't economic, and can't be compared to Yugo in terms of saving money. On the other hand American cars can't be compared to Japanese or German. So in reality, bankrupt US car industry and economy are what you deserve.

I never bought American crap cars, it was always Japanese or German, or even Yugo. I just can't see the reason American car industry to exist.

If Yugo had been profitable, it wouldn't have been bought by Fiat. It would have been otherwise. Or Zastava would have now made an offer to GM for buying Opel :-) I live in an Eastern European country bordering former Yugoslavia. But I have never heard of Yugo in my entire life. And I'm born in the late 60'. Comparing Yugo with Opel is like comparing former Yugoslavia with USA. Because I live in a former communist country I can understand such national feelings (and joy), especially when the car is named YUGO(slavia) and the most representative American car manufacturer is about to declare bankruptcy...

...this discussion gave me a good laugh but seriously...don't confuse national pride with an automakers profitability. Yugo were slightly above a horse and carriage. The Hyundai's of the 1990s were more reliable and we know they were crap. GM will not collaspe. No matter how much rhetoric the various american politicians spew the US simply cannot afford to allow it. GM has a measurable impact on the gdp of the US of A and allowing it to collaspe would cost far more than $25-$50 billion and cost upwards of 3 million in job losses and possible failure of the supply companies...which could then lead to the failure of at least 1 more American automaker. IF the supply companies fail their other clients including Ford, Chrysler, Nissan, Toyota and just about any automaker producing vehicles in the USA would also suffer collateral damage. I honestly wish the american politicians would stop the verbal nonsense and do what needs to be done to help GM, Ford & Chrysler...it's ridiculous that we authorized $750 billion to save Wall Street companies and we are squabbling over $ 25-$50 billion to save the Big 3.

Whats ridiculous is that the USA has so much control over the world! we are letting the american government decide whether to save what is basically the key to the world's economy. If GM crashes, and the supply companies follow suit, the car market wont just be ruined in america but will have repercussions in the rest of the world also!

I can't believe people still don't know that Yugoslavia never had any links with the USSR (a leftover from USSR technology hahah) Zastava was producing Fiat's models. Second, I don't think the world would "go down" if GM goes bankrupt. That is one of the things I was never able to understand, Americans think everything is on them, maybe it used to be, but the world changed. Yugo at least is world champion in saving money. As I said, I would never buy crap US cars, I have 3 cars, one is Yugo, Octavia and Mazda 3. A friend of mine bought 20 Yugo cars for his enterprise, he paid them arround 60.000 euro, instead of spending 200.000 euro for skoda roomsters. So he saved 140.000 euro, he likes it, but Fiat or Skoda doesn't. After 5 years they are working, doing the job. Repairing costs are cheapest in the world. He never had any major breakdown with any of them. So guys, it's wrong to write about things you know nothing about.