They were incredibly simple mechanically. The accident I referenced in my earlier post has adversely affected my overall health (lumbar damage), and Im nowhere near as ready to slide under a car as I used to be. Thank you for the history, it complements the story of the car well. ), it was quite good. Mona Dearly (Bette Midler) is an anagram for "only a dream". Wheel barrow. Edit: Gah! See production, box office & company info, Siskel & Ebert: Drowning Mona/My Dog Skip/What Planet Are You From?/The Next Best Thing/Miss Julie. its a beautiful nineteenth century townhouse that was redesigned combining the 19th century iron front with a modern glass setback. According to IMDBThe first thing to appear on screen is a little blurb about the Yugo car company using the town of Verplanck as a test area for their new model years ago. Personally I would have gone for the Skoda. His last notable brush with the automotive world (in 2004) involved a vague alliance with (uh-oh) Chinese auto maker Chery. But there was one area that, frankly, I was impressed with, and that was the basic two-box design. depends 100% on very cheap parts and lots of mechanics around that know the car inside out. And often wins. (Cracked distributor cap, IIRC.) I see one maybe twice a year. Beads of sweat formed on his forehead, it wasnt that he didnt want to learn, it was where he was sitting that had him scarred. A few things come to mind regarding the Yugo / Zastava Koral (and larger Yugo / Zastava Skala), mainly that it is a pity it never received similar developments such as 5-door hatchback, 2/4-door saloon and 3/5-door estate bodystyles as found on other Fiat 127-based variants like the SEAT 127 / SEAT Frua and Fiat 147 / Fiat Oggi / Fiat Panorama, along with larger 1372-1596cc+ versions of the Fiat SOHC engine. document.getElementById("unic-gdpr").style.display = 'inline'; People who took care of some basic maintenance and corrosion protection could see 10 to 15 years of service without too much trouble. This was not a design fault, but like the Corvair, the company seriously underestimated the ability of the American motorist to neglect even basic maintenence. Now that its privatized, products have risen in quality to what the buyer expects for his money. Actions lie louder than words. by Carolyn Wells. During WWII, they built a few Jeeps. Bette Midler chops off son's hand. Yes it was 3990 excluding transmition and tax and delivery charges. So whats my point? In fact every single person in town hated her. Copyright 2011 - 2023 Curbside Classics. Disc #1 -- Drowning Mona Play Feature Chapters Setup 5.1 Surround Stereo English SDH Subtitles: On Subtitles: Off Extras - Trailers Drowning Mona Eye Of The Beholder . I knew I wasnt buying a Lexus. Whats bad. Of course, not wanting to be associated with alleged members of the alleged Romanian Mafia, Bently pulled out. However, the 67 cu inch motor had plenty of power if you kept it revved, and I never really had a problem keeping up with traffic. I really believe that the cars were treated as disposable, and in that way expectations were met. after about 30 years of having the car rust off of the frame. After highway driving the gear would refuse to shift, like it overheated being in gear so long, it refused to move. Saying that, it doesnt mean that people were particularly promiscuitive or anything like that. Detroit, also, but not so much. . Yeah, theres no question on really poor build quality. Now Rash has to decide who killed Mona Dearly. Wait, how am I still driving 24,000 reliable miles a year on a 28 year old yugo, if this article is accurate? I was listening one Saturday to Car Talk and one of the callers that day to the show was a Catholic priest who drove a Yugo and commented on all the flak he received for his choice of automotive transportation. We had these in the U.K, I dont remember them being particularly bad, the main criticism was that it was seen as too expensive for what was clearly an Eastern European rehash of a cast off western design. That's not who I am. The gravity powered it! I owned one. Big deal, huh? In Spain it was called "Todos la queran muerta" (everyone wanted her dead), Too good of a movie not to be on this site in HD. Ever notice how a lot of movie smokers seem to have just lighted their cigarettes? In 1968, Bricklin thought that what America needed was an air cooled two cylinder car that could make zero to sixty in thirty seven agonizing seconds. In the 1970s the PCI (Italian Communist Party) reached its all-time maximum electorally: 34.4% in the 1976 general election (12,600,000 votes, 3 million more than in the previous election in 1972). It cut costs, and as was the concern then (as now) it was Green using the parlance of today. Needless to say, it wouldve been better if Bently had just gone ahead and let them have the Mulsanne. Going up hill was a struggle, it tended to roll back in reverse because it didnt have any power to go forward. Otoko wa tsurai yo: Torajiro wagamichi wo yuku, Otoko wa tsurai yo: Naniwa no koi no Torajir, http://www.highwayone.com/Classifieds/Yugo/GreenYugoCab.html, I'd like to own a yugo some day. This is how Hyundai and Kia got their start and Zastava began doing it earlier. Holy mackerel, Goe, what a story and experience! At least a Suzuki Samurai has a separate frame. An older Yugo, since the car hasn't been manufactured since its country went out of business. Very easy installation 15 t0 20 minutes. Bracket racing, of course. Or maybe Bobby (Casey Affleck), Jeff's landscaping partner, killed her to save the embarrassment of having her create a scene at his wedding to Ellen (Neve Campbell), Chief Rash's daughter. NEVER Give Up - NEVER Back Down After the death of Marshal Tito in 1980, long simmering Balkan feuds became a way of life and continue there to this day. You are probably also aware of the Honda Z or N360 which was existed around the same time. The movie was directed by Nick Gomez, who, in "Laws of Gravity" and "New Jersey Drive," brought a John Cassavetes touch to working-class crime and confusion. I remember seeing new Yugos at the (I think 1990) Chicago Auto Show. Even here in the Land That Rust Forgot, I rarely see anything from the 70s. What do you call a Yugo with twin exhausts? Having had some up-close contact with a 128, Id say that its more 128 than 127. Me and my friend Jerry (from Sam Bonds) drove a Yugo at a wrecker yard in Coburg some years back. A 2000 American crime comedy film directed by Nick Gomez that has a police chief ( Danny DeVito) investigate the death of a woman named Mona ( Bette Midler ), an abusive and spiteful woman who was hated by everyone who knew her. Its a Plymouth Horizon which,I guess,is the same as a Talbot Horizon. At the very least, Bricklin didnt end up in a hotel room trying to arrange drug deals. Show more Yugo America. Malcom Bricklin The twice bankrupt Bricklin has resurfaced periodically over the years, always pushing the latest crack brained scheme to sell a car that would occupy the place that his Yugo once did- the bottom rung of the American market. Sales quickly slowed when word of the myriad problems began to circulate in the media. When I was living in Montana in 2001, some masochist/crusty old guy was using one as a daily driver and it looked new. Fuji was pretty well aware that the car wasnt suitable for America circa 1969. The worst of the Japaneese cars would rust in structural places that would make the car unsafe. Its the manifestation of the postwar Japanese industrial culturepredicated on continuous quality improvement; and with the use of statistical controls to produce ever-higher quality items with fewer deviations from specification. In 1975, Subaru began offering AWD. With the pullout of Fiat, Renault and the British makes just a few years before, there was a general sense that room existed in the market for any european nameplate that could build a reasonably priced car that returned good fuel economy and high build quality. Yugo America The importer of the eponymous car that had been the talk of the industry just a few years earlier filed for chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation in 1991. I saw this movie. } As far as ethnicity goes, Im Russian by birth, Belarus to be exact, and have that somewhat stocky build to prove it! https://chrisoncars.com/yugo-victim-or-victimizer/: (Time Magazine said it best: The Yugo has the distinct feeling of something assembled at gunpoint), I found quite a few articles from later years, quoting the same sentence over and over again (https://www.carkeys.co.uk/news/the-story-of-the-yugo-the-worst-car-in-the-world, https://www.ocregister.com/2017/01/03/the-best-worst-cars-ever/ , https://blastmagazine.com/2014/05/13/truth-10-cars-never-hit-road/), And there you have it: everybody knows for fact that Yugo was actually assembled at gunpoint. I heard a version on Car Talk of a deer that a priest hit and it had 150K on the clock when he hit it in his Yugo. Another movie moment: Nick drives a Yugo in the film _Nick & Norahs Infinite Playlist_. Why did Yugos have standard rear defrost? Actually, from my experience with Yugo monocoque, four doors would have crushing effect on rigidity:). It's got an absolute star studded cast including Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Casey Affleck, William Fitchner, Neve Campbell, Jaime Lee Curtis, with a cameo, and even . When the coroner first jumps into the water to check Mona's dead body, he is neck-deep in water. Renault has been in state ownership since the 50s, and has been a very profitable company. Ironically, if he had stuck it out with Subaru for the long haul, he might have done a whole lot better for himself. Lack of an automatic would hamper the car during all but the final year in the states. At only 20,000 miles it was worn out, fading, under powered, rusting, it wanted to die and be buried, it certainly didnt want to be a car! Since it had the potential to continue the well-regarded reputation of the Autobianchi A112 base car as a small model in markets like the US compared to the SWB Fiat 127 derived car that become the infamous half-baked small Yugo. Privacy policy . I put about 20K miles on it per year. The brakes appear to have been tampered with, making it murder. (Italy) 1989 Chrysler TC 1983 Dodge Omni 1991 Dodge Ram 1980 Ford F - 350 Ford Ranger 1993 Ford Ranger GMC C / K - Series 1992 Honda Civic Also in that time, poor workmanship wasnt exclusively Yugos problem. Her brake lines had been cut. I could be wrong there; but a surprising number of parts, including the airbox and cables, the steering column, the drivetrain, are all direct or modified parts from the 128. I've owned so many other cars so why not? if(document.getElementById("unic-gdpr")) { Ah, the quintessential crap car. How do explanations of Zastavas lack of quality control compare to, say, one which could be made to illustrate the reasons of Audis numerous failures? Nasty Mona Dearly (Midler) drives her car into the Hudson River and drowns. if (window['UnicI'].geo === 'EU') { One reason is that lots of people own and drive them and parts are a breeze. It was owned by a gentleman named Dave Benton who claimed to be the former engineering manager for Yugo North America. 1) Anything assembled at gunpoint tends not to be of high quality. if (!readyGEO) { View 9 images )that I spotted a Two cars are in the driveway of a glorious but faded Victorian mansion: The Bertone and a Yugo. Drowning Mona is a 2000 American 'comedy' film starring Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, Melissa McCarthy, Brian Doyle-Murray, and box-office superstar Will Ferrell. As noted, Bricklin first noticed the subcompact Yugo on the streets of London and within a couple of months, he had set up his first meet and greet with the management at Zastava . (* 5-20 for older cars, up to 200 if they have to change water-pump and rollers, new models are more expensive, but 500 maybe for new BMW). Our Mr. Bricklin also had an idea to start up another company fed by Zastava, this time to be called ZMW. Sloppy or ignorant engineering plays a part most times; but its MANAGEMENT thats supposed to identify problems and stop them as soon as possible. I think that its important to remember that Subaru (Fuji Heavy Industries) itself didnt try to push the 360 into the American market-It was Bricklin looking for a lottery win and the little 360 was his ticket. But recycled steel, for whatever reason, is overly prone to corrosion. They would swap in the drivetrain from the Fiat X1/9 and put on the wider wheels tires from the X1/9 also. Not too long before I sold it, it had started to develop noisy CV joints, but by then the car was 8 years old and 100,000 miles. Always. Which together would have theoretically allowed the Yugo to be more successful. One of the sight gags is that everyone in town drives a Yugo, thereby using personalized license plates as a necessity more than anything else.) Ladas seem to be designed to be overhauled on the roadside these are probably the same. Much bigger players failed on this field, like Peugeot and Renault, while on the domestic market and in the whole EU they are doing just fine. But I was unprepared for the panoply of problems that came abouteverything from a latent short or current leak, that would kill the car and prevent starting without warning (to restart, the only way was to pull the battery terminal to let whatever relay was behind it, reset) to binding heater-control cables. Bowfinger - The main character produced a documentary called The Yugo Story. She was rather negligent about maintenance, so would have been tough on any vehicle, but her Yugo, like many of its kind, fell apart rather quickly, stressing a budget that was already tight. http://www.observer.com/2010/culture/wannabe-warhol?page=0, I have two things to share concerning Yugos, Bette Midler drove one in the movie Drowning Mona. These are the kinds of people who don't like to be thrown out of bars because it's a loss of valuable drinking time. Its unfortunate that the vast majority of Yugo owners didnt even get that. Of course a $800 car isnt worth shyte to the insurance company, so they gave me a token $1000 for my time and trouble (another story). -Because they have already been through hell. Frequently, that new model sets the status quo on its ear and forever changes the way we think about (and react to) our transportation needs. other small car offerings back then. . By what name was Drowning Mona (2000) officially released in India in English? Drowning Mona, Movie, 2000 Pictures provided by: garco, antp, ahight Display options: Also known as: Todos la queran muerta (Spain) Mais qui a tu Mona ? W. Edwards Deming was key in Japans metamorphosis from a backwards exporter of trinkets and junk to a source for amazingly-high-quality automobiles and electronics. Seem like this article is just a mishmash of old articles written by people who never owned a Yugo, dont know anything about yugos, or who designed its engine. Also spare parts were inexpensive and any mechanic and his nephew would fix it. Money was a problem; but not the root problem. I probably still have it somewhere. How quickly they developed larger cars was a product of how well capitalized each company was and how much their senior management (some of which was deeply conservative, even by Detroit standards) was willing to make the investment in export-specific products. He was rather sad that after 170,000 miles it had Many years later I saw it, and her, driving down a street near my house. This article, like many here, evoked some fond memories. Many wars (holocausts, massacres) are blamed on religion, I can understand why some people no longer believe. What kind of car is in the movie Drowning Mona? No regrets and better than any $1500 alternatives at the time. France, to use your example, had a protected market with tariffs on American cars (disguised as a horsepower tax). I dont buy junk to begin with, maintain them, and only have minimal issues with them. I remember the lights were tied to the ignition switch so if you left the light switch on, theyd go off when you shut down the car, and back on when you started it back up, and that meant headlights and all, ala SAAB. 2004-2023 IMCDb.org Managed by Controgest SPRL if (window['UnicI'] && window['UnicI'].geo && window['UnicI'].geo !== '-' ) { It had become commonplace in the 1950s; and manufacturers first tried ignoring the problem; then dealing with it with superficial fixes like Zincrometal body panels. That brochures more collectible than its car. The one thing that the Yugo shared with its Fiat ancestry, was the fact that these things were biodegradable in the midwest. The space efficiency was great too- it really is tiny- and is NOT a fiat. About a year or so into owning the blue one, the clutch cable snapped (in traffic, of course). She was given a Yugo that wouldnt runthe fix was nine dollars. We learn that Verplanck was selected as a test market when the Yugo was being introduced to the United States. The interior squeaked everywhere that it didnt rattle. The cars in the movie were provided by Apple Motors in Denver, Colorado. They start, get you to your destination in the dry, and thats about all you can saytheres no enjoyment in operating it and build quality was a joke. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. I had very good support for the Yugo as Atlanta is the home of Bayless, which is a big Fiat parts house. My little red Yugo was dead. Not sure they sold very many. I havent seen one on the road in at least 15 years. Danny Devito and Bette Midler starred together in "Ruthless People". There was a cheap-o daily rental car company that had a fleet of them, and they were in the process of changing out the Yugos for Hyundai Precis. Honestly, I think Zastava should be commended for the amount of engineering they were able to do independently, modifying and developing Fiat cars. Serendipity! Much embarrassment was caused to Toyota when it was found domestic panels had been mistakenly exported to NZ for local assembly we keep cars forever and these rusted out under a year on local limestone based and cowshit covered roads. The local news interveiwed some and they were going for $4000 Id end up with used junk, but now I got a new import!. They probably would have found a customer base in the U.S. This was before the deal with Chery. A magazine road test came up with the amusing summary: What am I supposed to make outta that? Of course not. But the Japanese companies focused; and today its almost unheard of to find a Toyota or Honda ruined from corrosion. I was enrolled in a community class marketing course and the teacher brought up the Yugo, and was joking about it. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. It turns out to be murder and Chief Wyatt Rash (DeVito) must investigate. Learn how your comment data is processed. Every vehicle in town that is not a truck is a Yugo, except the police cruisers, which are Plymouth Horizons. But theres a difference between an easily-repaired car, and one that needs frequent repairs. They pronounce it yugo and Bricklins people realized a car called Jugo would have problems in marketing. Its a tough call on the Yugo. What a story! It couldnt be trusted just sitting in the parking lot. Comments are property of their authors. In the moviedrowning MonaI remember there was among the many regular Yugos one that had four doors (a black one).Was it He was absolutely correct. It really has all of the benefits of an Italian car with none of the drawbacks. It broke down like a Yugo. Japanese rust problems are designed in the cars are only meant to last 6-7 years and were poorly protected in the factory. Lucinda (Kathleen Wilhoite), the local garage mechanic, checks out the death vehicle and confirms the sheriff's suspicions: The car was rigged. And the gas cap would not come off. My favorite memory was the NYC art exhibit where every sculpture was created from the remains of an old Yugo. Do not sell my data Yugoslavia was in the state of bankruptcy at that time, import of all goods and raw materials was practically halted. What I know is that people explain such quality failures as Zastavas being due to a different culture in worker managed firms, etc. 2. The last Yugo I saw was 12 years ago, parked by a gas station in Truckee oh, and a restored Yugo was for sale on Craigslist a bit ago but I figured that would be a bad idea on the Subaru front: I heard a rumor, years ago, that Fuji bought all the American 360s and had them crushed any truth to that? He was a priest for several small parishes in the mountains of a N. Eastern state, I forget which and came around a bend to get from one parish to another when he hit the poor animal and it was enough to total that car out but he got that many miles out of it. Bricklin often says that the first model year or so of production the cars were well assembled and then once Zastava saw the money they let things slip. Damn that X1/9 still looks beautiful just like mine the 81 behind the new Abarth. The early Japanese cars were not that different from the 360: Junk. In the 70s when I lived in Boston, I worked with a guy whose 5-year-old Pinto had big holes in the doors. The problems experienced with Yugos, were unknown to new-car buyers in that era; were entirely avoidable with better assembly and simple correction of design and process mistakes; and were connected to durability related to poor design or engineering. Actually, Yugos timing belt is ~10$, and pretty easy to change. Mine was 5 years old and had like 40K miles on it. Its like almost any car; get to know its issues, and if you have the mechanical inclinations to deal with them, theyre pretty simple cars otherwise. The displacement limit for kei cars was increased to 550cc some years ago. Tye Mobile Homes in Tye, Texas using the incentive of Buy a mobile home at Tye Mobile Homes, get a new Yugo for $1. No joke. It wasnt ancient ethnic hatreds, it was more a perfect storm. @EdDan: How do you double the value of your Yugo? I must admit that I own a Yugo. We learn that Verplanck was selected as a test market when the Yugo was being introduced to the United States. Once the carb was replaced with a Weber instead of the Zastava kinda sorta copy with 3 miles of vacuum hose it ran and started a lot better. Malcolm Bricklin was one of those guys who is the quintessential P.T. Mona, played by Midler, drowns when the brakes in her Yugo fail and she catapults through a guardrail into the lake below. Its avoidable with regular replacement, true. The running gear would be the 1.1 Litre straight four that Zastava had learned to build from Fiat and the transmission would be a truly nasty four speed manual. a special for the movie,an extended version,or just my failing memory? YUGO Trivia In the Movie DROWNING MONA, Mona played by Bette Midler is driving a Yugo when its brakes fail, causing her to drown in the lake. Casey Affleck has gone on record saying that both this film and Soul Survivors (2001) were his two least favorite films that he has worked on. To keep your hands warm while you pushed. I saw one parked on Colorado Blvd. But they didnt have a CLUE. There were surely other goofs that were institutionalized. The other Eastern European lemon sold in Australia at the same time as the Niki was the Lada Samara. I knew a guy in the 90s, who was very smart (the grandson of a Nobel Prize winner in fact!) Here is the text that opens Drowning Mona before we see the first shot: I remember that time very well, it was impossible to find coffee or bananas or laundry detergent etc in the stores, and the industry was struggling to get raw materials. Every vehicle in town that is not a truck is a Yugo, except the police cruisers, which are Plymouth Horizons. Anyway, the employee joked that it even had the rear window warmer to keep your hands warm when pushing it. If Germany had built it, would it have been called the Germ? Two Yugo episodes: The first while working on a construction crew in the 1987-88 period, at a project west of Rochester, NY one morning a Yugo rolls onto the lot, out pops a nervous, typical pocket-protector young engineering type, tells us he is out of gas, could anyone give him a ride to his job.at Kodak! Jamie Lee Curtis' character looks like she has some colorful insights to share but isn't given the dialogue to do it--she's more a plot marker than a person. *cough cough*, Malcolm is now wanting to import Chinese cars. When they all disappeared, I surmised it was because he had been caught by the police for driving unregistered vehiclesmore likely they all just died from their terminal junkiness. Zastava built some world class arms. The body and car belonging to Kiely Rodni, a missing 16-year-old girl, may have been found in a Califronia lake on Sunday, according to a search and rescue group. It took time, development, persuading of management that there WAS a problem (not an easy task in the Japanese culture) but bit by bit, the problems were resolved. Also, this post made me curious: how did Subaru make the transition from dangerous sardine can to granola FWD/AWD family compact in the US? The Birdcage - Features a yellow Yugo Cabrio in Miami. The poor gal, if I remember, was named Lelo. i live down the block. Screenwriter Peter Steinfeld says the film was originally going to be set in a mythical north. With Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, Peter Dobson, Will Ferrell, William Fichtner, Raymond O'Connor, Marcus Thomas and . (not that I cared that much about it I was in my mid-twenties and during summer season beaches were full of naked girls.) But the little Yugo turned out to be a lot less than the sum of its parts. Even in Western Europe, cars arent marketed as they are here. . I would like to add that once money was in short supply, it was easy to lay a blame on the other side, to stir old misunderstandings and conflicts, send kids to London or USA and start profiting from the war. Quality (or a lack of same) would ensure that the car could not survive in a competitive marketplace. 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