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Also spare parts were inexpensive and any mechanic and his nephew would fix it. Ive got a couple of rusted out British cars one of which I repaired The rust was caused by poor window sealing on both water rusted it way out however the spares one was driven full of rust which spread it all through the unpainted box sections. } It was a nightmare. It has interesting characters and situations and I found myself really enjoying the film--only to have it all fizzle at the end. Yes, even a Saturn will rust in Detroit, but in less harsh climes, Yugos tend to last well. The film also stars Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, William Fichtner, Marcus Thomas, and Peter Dobson. Good account. Personally I would have gone for the Skoda. I was discussing cars with a woman in my office building one day, when she remarked that she had owned a Yugo, and got an incredible number of miles out of it. A magazine road test came up with the amusing summary: Old joke. Jason Torchinsky of Jalopnik had an interesting take on it lately; 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. I know of no explanation for the garbage experience my dad had with his Audi, which broke down regularly. Zastava took over the American company. During the time the clutch cable was dying, I broke the shifter mechanism, due to the clutch cable dying. Even here in the Land That Rust Forgot, I rarely see anything from the 70s. I had two of them. . 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. The characters this time could be lightened up and dumbed-down versions of the confused drunks in "Laws of Gravity," their social lives centered on bars, their center of gravity the bartender. I remember, as a teenJapanese cars had fit-and-finish second to none; they started and ran smoothly with the primitive emissions controls of the time; but boy, did they rust. There are like 100 YUGOs in the movie, which I think came out around 1998. Very easy installation 15 t0 20 minutes. } After 330,000km with two Yugos, I must be destined to eternal vacation on BOra-Bora . in Pasadena a couple of years ago. 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. The Italian Government and the Unions forced Fiat to cooperate. DROWNING MONA 1/2 Tasteless but sporadically uproarious black comedy. 5.0 out of 5 stars Drowning Mona music CD. i cant imagine where bricklin would get the approximately $35k/mo rent. Mine was an 86 and a half Yugo. . But, its a tough sell to have someone take a car thats running fine, and pay $500 for a maintenance replacement and maybe screw something up in the process. 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. It was a much more reliable and simple design than the 128 engine in States bound Yugos. Even those of us raised on rusting U.S. cars from the 60s were surprised by how fast the Japaneese stuff vaporized. Agree with this last. Barnum, Theres a sucker born every minute con-artist. Id love to hear what they thought a year later. I attach a picture of a 1100,the previous model,(5 door too! As played in flashbacks by Midler, Mona is a ferocious harridan who may have hacked off her own son's hand just because he was trying to snatch her beer. The Bricklin SV-1 was remembered for several interesting features: lurid (safety) colors , no cigarette lighter (Bricklin was a rabid non-smoker) , and most importantly, the ability to vacuum piles of money from the gullible government of New Brunswick, Canada. With no new product in the pipeline, Bricklin would either have to find another car to flog or get an honest job, so there was a mutual meshing of interests when he arranged a visit to the Red Banner Factory in Yugoslavia that turned out the new apple of his eye in 1984. Other than the time the clutch cable broke, and getting the electrical issues sorted out, the car spent no time in the shop. It is my understanding the latter Yugos were much better than their earlier counterparts, but still not up to snuff with the worst(?) The collapse of Communism removed any perceived legitimacy left in the public who thought their future under capitalism would reflect a standard of living like W Germanys. Most can be rectified by the shareholders or the Boards of Directors, the shareholders representatives. GM had tried to buy Zastava in 2007, but the deal fell through. Not having that one bit Clarkson divised a solution, buying a third-hand Yugo and for the rest of the episode refering to it as a Bently. A lot of Wehrmacht occupation troops went home in tiny little pieces because Zastava knew what they were doing. The salesman was vaguely aware that they were built somewhere in Europe,but he was cagey about just where. 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. I initially got a job selling cars, and had access to one for a while. But before Bricklin made a virtue of safety, he all but made a mockery of same just a half decade before. Youre welcome here anytime ! Malcolm Bricklin was one of those guys who is the quintessential P.T. The gravity powered it! The car she is driving is a Yugo, and the pic's locale is Verplanck, New York (north of New York City), that actually was a test market for the ill-fated economy car in the late 1970's. . Say what you will about Bricklin he is a man of action. Enterior wall panels were thin cardboard with painted on carpet flecks. Early oil changes, followed maintenance schedule. Our narrative today is of a modern P.T. 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. The effort collapsed along with Yugo sales in America. document.getElementById("unic-gdpr").style.display = 'inline'; Drowning Mona 2000 PG-13 1 h 36 m IMDb RATING 5.7 /10 15K YOUR RATING Rate Play trailer 2:23 1 Video 67 Photos Comedy Crime Mystery When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect. What kind of sicko lives there? And that, sadly, is the point and the problem. To see mine riding on a tow truck was so humiliating. The first year all those repairs were paid for, so it wasnt as miserable then. The best part was they all had the same license plates on them to just have a semblance of legality! 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. The mechanical bits all seemed OK, and no obvious leaks or other damage. You know, we have a joke here in ex-Yugoslavia about Yugo: LOL The old fashioned radio was a piece of crap, and the speakers cracked and gave out after very little use. Generally what kills them is the cost of major systems repairs, to where its not economically justifiable. To be said, Jasons book is 90% about Bricklin. The civil war in the former Yugoslavia was the finishing blow, but wasnt the reason it wasnt brought over. 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. For the rest of the scene, he is dry from the waist up. 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.) Appologies for not-nice-said, but there is no other way to do it. I had been driving a Datsun 200 SX and the 5 speed was like silk. *shakes tiny fist*. 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. Unpaid claims included some warranty work done by dealers on Yugos before sales collapsed. VW, in its first days, had all the same problems as Zastavabut with a product that was continually improved, they overcame it inside of five years. Except that the belt managed to get into the TIMING BELT caseand pop THAT off. Those Protons were actually a decent car. But who? They took in much more foreign revenue and as the economy began to fail more and more fundamentally, the leaders of those republics decided theyd be better off independent of Yugo. 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. couple of months ago when I was in Athens. if (window['UnicI'] && window['UnicI'].geo && window['UnicI'].geo !== '-' ) { Ladas were, and are, shite. I probably still have it somewhere. You are right.I found it here: 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? Although it shares some similarities with the Fiat 127, it is actually based on the much more advanced Autobianchi. 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. parts are easy, I have a new driver side indoor handle ordered that will be here Tuesday. The other being Yugo / Zastava missing out on producing a smaller model based on the Autobianchi A112 as a replacement for the Zastava 750, initially carrying over the existing Fiat 100 Series engines prior to using the Fiat FIRE engines. It was amazing (to me) how they found a solution so quickly. alignments. Ah yes, I can see it now. This has been true of: Renault in its government-ownership days; And, now, Government Motors, which is thumbing its nose at old GM customers who have warranty claims. Id notice the original Civic CVCC, I had one, loved it and sold it much too soon. You mentioned this before; itd make a great article. 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 ? They didnt always start, and they DID always rust away. The place where I used to work was given a Yugo 45. As the pride of Serbo-Croatia hit the streets of America, reports of slipshod assembly began flooding back to the companys Upper Saddle River , New Jersey headquarters. In regard to that old devil corrosion, an honest question: were there any cars of the seventies that DIDNT rust like mad? Blue in color. Bricklin is still nominally involved with a venture called Visionary Vehicles and appears on its website today.The end of his Yugo adventure left him short of funds to repay an impressive list of creditors, investors and employees and even the IRS took its pound of flesh later on. What kind of car is in the movie Drowning Mona? They even found dirt and rust that had been painted on in the inside of some cars nearing completion. 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 philosophy behind Drowning Mona is not good clean fun, or even intelligent nasty fun. . Screenwriter Peter Steinfeld says the film was originally going to be set in a mythical north. My BIL and I popped out the axles, but that was more of a preventative move, rather than a necessity. These cars came with an optional AM/FM cassette deck that was very basic, only 5W total if I recall right, or was that 5W per channel? I remember checking them out back in I think 1986 at a local dealer and loved that bright blue they were offering at the time, called Adriatic Blue. The interior was fading right from day one. (At the same dealership on the window sticker above,actually). Change Ad Consent )that I spotted a Yup, Im gonna go for a ride in my Ford Fester., I mentioned Drowning Mona below, before I read this. Almost everyone in town is a suspect. But Bricklin assured his erstwhile investors that the car could be made ready for the U.S. market with some minor tweaks. It helps to understand that everyone in Verplanck is dim to one degree or another, except for the Rash family. No regrets and better than any $1500 alternatives at the time. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from 1967 until his death in 2013. In the 70s when I lived in Boston, I worked with a guy whose 5-year-old Pinto had big holes in the doors. (function waitGEO() { And management, often put there through politics, has little interest in learning of customer dissatisfaction. I havent seen one on the road in at least 15 years. 1) Anything assembled at gunpoint tends not to be of high quality. Had Bricklin been a true industrialist instead of a con-man, the winning idea might have been to buy out the Yugo tooling (Zastava was setting up for the Florida at the time, they might have been open to this) and moved the whole plant to a place where workmen were conscientious and quality control accepted. One time the keys were out and the car was still on and would not turn off. A Rolls-Royce Ghost, a Mercades S-class, and a Bently Mulsane. 1. . Perhaps they were sabotaged so the poor workers wouldnt have to slave to make them for america? Why are there so many Yugo in this movie? I think the other reason they were more successful out of the US is that in Europe, people have driven OHC cars since the 60s. Also i believe that the whole project couldnt last very long because Crvena Zastava never had economic strength to satisfy such demanding market, which requires first class quality, excellent dealer network and a newer and bigger model every year, just to stay in business. When the Yugo GV was finally offered for sale in September 1985, (as an 86 model) , initial orders looked promising. Also, the GM Colonades from 73-77 were pretty rust resistant as well. (France) Chi ha ucciso la signora Dearly? I also bought a new Yugo in 1989, and had to replace brake master cylinder immediately because brakes would fail after about 10 km on the road. It wasnt four door Yugo, that was Chevy Citation, if I remember correctly. The displacement limit for kei cars was increased to 550cc some years ago. A girl I knew in high school had one of these, it got rustier seemingly by the day, and this was in 1991-2 so it wasnt by any means an old car. Why did so many Fiat designs get recycled and built behind the Iron Curtain? In the small, white-trash town of Verplanck, N.Y., a loathsome woman named Mona Dearly (a dour and ugly Bette Midler) drives her car over a cliff and into the river. As the movie opens, a local woman named Mona Dearly (Bette Midler) speeds down a country road and directly into the Hudson River when her brakes fail. 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. The process, alone, of a car manufacturer as a unit of government, is suspect. @EdDan: How do you double the value of your Yugo? Anyway, the employee joked that it even had the rear window warmer to keep your hands warm when pushing it. This is the same scenario as Chrysler- My parents always said that if you get a Dodge in town itll be a lemon, but in the country, itll be a good car because the smaller country dealer relies on repeat business and does a better PDI, ensuring bolts arent missing, and both sides identify the car correctly. 500 left in running condition? But the little Yugo turned out to be a lot less than the sum of its parts. The Yugo was based on a mash up of models 127 and 128 built under license by a wildly unproductive workforce in an obsolete factory with assembly quality that made real mid 70's Fiats look hand built. I sold the car to a coworker of my BILs, who drove the car another three years before he totaled it. 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. Im trying to remember, she actually, may have owned two of them. You are my inhalation, I own few blogs and infrequently run out from brand :). Bricklin used franchise fees to run the company (a major accounting no-no) while the car was being modified for safety and emissions certification in the U.S. and dealerships were sold, territories assigned. I dont know if I was lucky (twice) or if my mechanical aptitude allowed me to save the cars I owned. And this works both ways after war ended in ex. His shaky little import business was marketing Bertone X/19s after Fiat said arrivederci in 1982, but the end of that venture was in sight. The Yugo was a far superior car compared against a Chevette, or first generation Hyundai. Wyatt finds no shortage of suspects. I wonder why they used the Yugos, To show the towns Quirkyness? Finallywith a new clutch 400 miles oldit tossed the alternator belt. The prototypical belt-driven OHC engine Stateside, was the Pontiac Sixand Joe Sherlock, who has a car blog, The View Through the Windshield (http://www.joesherlock.com/blog.html) was involved in the development of the initial fiberglass-impregnated belt. Sure some of the plastic trim was suspect, but dont forget that GM was still doing rubbermaid doors then, and the Japanese were still stapling vinyl over cardboard for door trims. It eventually developed a bad piston ring(s), and the blow by was enough to clog the carburetor so that it would stop running. But what about quality disasters in a different scenario?. The 360 was a Kei car, which took advantage of reduced taxes and insurance rates in Japan for cars less than three meters long with engines no more than 360cc in displacement. As a Japanese kei class car,it was pretty good for crowded streets , expensive gasoline and as a motorcycle (or scooter,which Fuji also built) alternative. The "Fetzer valve", when Lucinda the mechanic is giving the Sheriff her findings about Mona's car, she says the "Fetzer valve" had been punctured. This doomed script and conventional direction venture for Nick Gomez (" New Jersey Drive "/" Laws of Gravity "), results in a comedy that got by with a few mean-spirited jokes. 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Yugoslavia The Land Of The Southern Slavs went to war with itself in late 1991 and essentially spent the next 17 years shooting, ethnically cleansing and generally behaving like it had before World War I. setTimeout(waitGEO, 200); Hell, I was 20 years younger, A lot can change in that time. In the end, its poor management. As I said earlier, this car obviously didnt meet the expectations of the majority of the American masses, but I know you werent the only one who found the Yugo a simple and easy-to-work-on car. i live down the block. Paid less than a thousand for it, thought at the time it was a good buy. I guess the major issue in my favor was the relatively inexpensive parts when I did need them, and the fact that Georgia is semi-arid, so no rust issues. Even though the price was a come on (dealers larded as many options onto the car as they could get away with, see below), America was hooked. Later I also replaced steering rack under warranty because of some slack inside. Its unfortunate that the vast majority of Yugo owners didnt even get that. http://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_113306-Plymouth-Horizon-C2-1984.html a special for the movie,an extended version,or just my failing memory? In 1975, Subaru began offering AWD. I remember the shifter being very vague and rubbery but it did the job and the car wasnt too bad on other respects and I rather liked its styling. Im guessing the sport badging is why the decimal point is so far to the right? if (!readyGEO) { (not the 1st time Ive done this,haha). 2004-2023 IMCDb.org Managed by Controgest SPRL Every vehicle in town that is not a truck is a Yugo, except the police cruisers, which are Plymouth Horizons., And lastly, I recall seeing a comedian on TV talking about Yugos. New York (where "years ago," according to an opening caption, "the Yugo Car Company chose to test market its new breed of vehicle.") Directed by Nick Gomez (Laws of Gravity), . While poor Yugo certainly was not the best car made, but it was hardly the worst either. In addition, many cars have changed hands by that timeand who knows what the previous owner may have had done? Neve Campbell was also working on Party of Five (1994) and Scream 3 (2000) while shooting this film. For my family and me back in the eighties, fuel economy was king, so I drove K-Cars and assorted used vehicles that were cheap we never really struggled, but cash and monetary resources were scarce, hence my missing out on the larger, more deluxe offerings of GM, Ford and Chrysler. She is a bit of a contrarian anyhow, and has a mechanic-relative. 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. I have only seen one Yugo in my life. 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. He regaled us with stories of his work at Yugo and claimed that the factory started to develop (or adapt) an automatic transmission for the market in the USA. It broke down like a Yugo. All Rights Reserved. Ford Econoline This Is Not A Taxi. Rather, I see him as an irrepressible optimist who went into his various ventures believing everything would turn out well and he was blind to the shortcomings of the cars he imported. . The first Mazda was also a kei-car, the R-360. The local news interveiwed some and they were going for $4000 Id end up with used junk, but now I got a new import!. A girl I hung out with in college had a Yugo. Second occurred during 1994-95, having changed employment by then, while driving the 50+ miles each morning, Id notice Yugos of different colors pass me on the four lane driven by the same fellow. Only with the threat of armed intervention by Nato and the UN is an uneasy peace maintained. Back in 87, a cheerleader at my high school won one of these in a raffle. A revised constitution in the mid 70s turned the country into a loose confederation and as Croatia/Slovenia were more developed due to being part of Austria Hungary, there was only so much that approx thirty years of prosperity after WWII could reverse. They obviously do not run. But youre right that would mean being a business man and not a con-artist. It began the use of the FWD, horizontal boxer engine which carries on in Subarus to this day (albeit in a modern form). Based on the slightly larger Fiat 125, it was everything bad about a lada, but somehow worse. Very well-maintained. But these Yugos aren't just a frivolous component of the storythey're essential to establishing the wacky tone of the film. No one in the movie is particularly vicious (well, Jeff's no prize) and the urgency of the case is undermined by the general agreement that Verplanck is calmer and happier now that Mona's gone. So, they set about seeing what was what with a road-trip around Romania in three cars they would be testing. Drowning Mona is a 2000 U.S. crime comedy starring Danny DeVito as Wyatt Rash, a local police chief from Verplanck, New York, who investigates the mysterious death of Mona Dearly (played by Bette Midler), a spiteful, loud-mouthed, cruel and around the town highly unpopular woman, who drove her son's Yugo off the . To this day I have never felt a more imprecise,balky shifter. An older Yugo, since the car hasn't been manufactured since its country went out of business. Sales quickly slowed when word of the myriad problems began to circulate in the media. Make and modelMake and yearYearCategoryImportance/RoleDate added (new ones first)EpisodeAppearance (ep.+time, if avail. As I understand it, Zastiva had the Yugo designed that way as its plan was, from the beginning, to export the car. I went to an auto place for a part, and was so embarassed to even say Yugo to the clerk, that my voice stuttered and I replied Yugee. Sloppy or ignorant engineering plays a part most times; but its MANAGEMENT thats supposed to identify problems and stop them as soon as possible. There where lots of Yugo's used in the movie, but this was my favorite scene. Bracket racing, of course. Down shifting was scary, sometimes you just had to bypass second, sometimes it refused to even go into gear or it would get stuck in gear. 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. All but made a virtue of safety, he is a bit of a contrarian,. A car manufacturer as a unit of Government, is the quintessential P.T cars was to. 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