Which was worst;Yugo,FSO or Lada ??

[Craig the Princess]

I'm sure the Yugo 45 featured in an episode of the TV series Moonlighting driven by Bruce Willis! Craptastic! I have first hand experience of Rivas, Samaras and the Estelle/Rapid. Ladas were pants (parents owned a blue 1200L Riva), and I drove a few Estelles & rapids when working at a Skoda dealer. I must say the Skuds were better made than the Ladas, and Rivas, well... And that odd shaped gearnob that Samaras had....

 

A Yugo also stared in Die Hard with a Vengence, driven by Samuel L Jackson with Willis in the Passenger seat.

[dollywobbler]

Bizzarely, a Yugo 45 also starred in The Crow! Didn't even realise they'd sold them stateside until I saw that film.

[hennabm]

Moskovitch every time as the worst.

 

Makes Yugo FSO and Lada look good.

[Felly Magic]

I believe their sales were wiped out in the UK after a damning Nationwide report

[eddyramrod]

A Yugo 45 also appeared in the Tom Hanks/Dan Aykroyd movie Dragnet. In gold, IIRC. EastEnders went one better though: Arfur Fowler had a beige Riva estate, which Michelle and some boyfriend stole and tried to scarper on a ferry with!

[Felly Magic]

What about mental Maureen? Driving School....

[Pete-M]

 

"After losing the two previous vehicles we had been issued, the only car the department would release to us at this point was an unmarked 1987 Yugo...a Yugoslavian import donated as a test vehicle by the government of that country and reflecting the cutting edge of Serbo-Croatian technology."

[scooters]

I miss my yugo

 

The finance director won't let me run 2 cars until the business is in shape...even the tiny costs of a yugo!

[Barry Cade]

Moskovitch every time as the worst.

 

Makes Yugo FSO and Lada look good.

 

I got told a story once, from an old retired mechanic who used to work in a Moskvitch dealership in the early '70's.. One of the first cars to be fitted with a fag lighter, the spring action in it was just slightly too strong, and when they popped out, they flew across the car and ended up down the back seat... which was stuffed with horsehair... He says he remembers hauling in a few burnt out ones for warranty claims!

 

I've owned both 1300 and 1500 Riva's which were quite handy rally cars for an 18 year old more used to Manta's, and a 1300 125P Polski Fiat which was hilairiously crap, with the bounciest black vynil seats in the world, and a steering wheel so huge and slippery, that when going for an armful of opposite lock ( at 15MPH due to the Stomils) you'd punch yourself in the face.

 

I did, at one time, collect the little seperate square rev counters that were fitted to the bigger 125P's, which ended up being fitted to just about every car I had that didn't have one as standard.