Magazine Scan - Yugo 65A

[ProgRocker]

Thought I'd hook up my trusty Canoscan to the PC when I came across this Fiat 127 based Yugo in a 1989 issue of What Car? magazine.

 

Looks alright in sporty 65A GLX guise.

 

List price: £5295 in April 1989.

[pompei]

Blimey, nearly 6 grand in 1989! What would that equate to in todays coinage?

[ProgRocker]

Blimey, nearly 6 grand in 1989! What would that equate to in todays coinage?

 

I would probably guess £9,000 or thereabouts.

[Negative Creep]

Blimey, nearly 6 grand in 1989! What would that equate to in todays coinage?

 

 

£10,431.15

 

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/historic-i ... calculator

[Justin Case]

Blimey, nearly 6 grand in 1989! What would that equate to in todays coinage?

 

£10,277 according to the Office of National Statistics, or a little more than a basic Corsa

 

Is it reassuring or depressing to find out that I'm not the only one with nothing better to do on a Friday night than pore over inflation statistics

[Negative Creep]

Checking my 1980 Ford brochure, a poverty spec Fiesta would be £11443.64 whereas the Escort was £12585.02. A new Fiesta starts from £9,995 and the Focus is £15,545. If you count the Ka as the modern mk.1 Fiesta it would be £8,545. So the small car market has gotten cheaper at least.............

[boobydoo]

Blimey, nearly 6 grand in 1989! What would that equate to in todays coinage?

 

£10,431.15

 

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/historic-i ... calculator

 

Hey, that website is great!

 

That means a Talbot Solara Rapier that was £6995 new in 1986 would be £15598 now . And a Tagora SX £11445 in 1984 would be £28495. Bargain!!

 

My life is rather enriched by knowing that. Seriously!

[trigger]

Yugo 65A GLX Road Test 1988 1 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

Yugo 65A GLX Road Test 1988 2 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

Yugo 65A GLX Road Test 1988 3 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

Yugo 65A GLX Road Test 1988 4 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[ProgRocker]

Thanks for the scan, Trigger.

 

0 - 60 in 11.7 seconds?! That's quite respectable for the time.

[Gompo]

The thing that interests/amuses me most in that test (although fully appreciate you scanning it in, Yugos are great) is that at 90mph the speedometer was reading..

 

111mph!