After Mona Dearly (Bette Milder) dies in the movie's opening moments when her Yugo plows through a guardrail and into the Hudson River far below, Wyatt begins investigating her death. I also have to say that state ownership does not always lead to poor business. An accident has happened - the Yugo of one Mona Dearly has careened off the highway and plunged into the Hudson. 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. The 360 fit in with the type of Japanese car that was (or would become) the Kei car class, which continues to this day within tightly-defined parameters. Good account. 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. Not sure they sold very many. 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. What a story! After the 1973 oil shock and protracted period of economic stagnation globally, Western markets had less incentive to buy anything from Yugoslavia. 1. Back in another shop (an independent who specialized in Fiats) there was some general loose talk about popping a 128 engine in there; but given a verbal estimate, I cut it off. In my Country was make an attempt to import the Yugo Cabrio,rebadged as Innocenti Koral Cabrio,but homologation fiche wasn't approved for Italy,but if car was tested by Italian motor magazines(Italy will import Yugos twice,1986 to 1987 with origin name Zastava Yugo and 1990 to 1992 as Innocenti Koral 45 and 55--that rebadged for our Country), I like this movie. Anyway, the employee joked that it even had the rear window warmer to keep your hands warm when pushing it. Tracey Walter appeared in the original Tim Burton Batman, Danny DeVito appeared as The Penguin in Batman Returns and William Fichtner appeared in The Dark Knight. The sexy Marsha Brady girl with the bellbottoms in the Subaru commercials is unforgettable. Lack of an automatic would hamper the car during all but the final year in the states. 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. Well, when someone drowns Mona (Bette Midler), it's almost a cause for celebration in the quiet, upstate New York town of Verplanck, whose one claim to fame - except Mona Dearly - is that it's a hotbed of Yugos. Ironically, if he had stuck it out with Subaru for the long haul, he might have done a whole lot better for himself. But for all that, and with weight today an even greater issueour Asian friends seem to have licked the corrosion problem. A "Fetzer valve" is a fictional part of an engine, introduced in the movie Fletch (1985). The first year all those repairs were paid for, so it wasnt as miserable then. i found this article about the space: There are, to be fair, other theories about how Jeff (Marcus Thomas) lost his hand, although in every scenario he was reaching for a beer. It is a measure of the local intelligence that when the car and driver are dragged to shore some hours later, the doctor checks her pulse. 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. At first glance, the car looked up to date- Front wheel drive, rack and pinion steering, decent mileage. Film Focus: Drowning Mona. document.getElementById("unic-gdpr").style.display = 'inline'; I really believe that the cars were treated as disposable, and in that way expectations were met. Another example of the high cost of low priced objects. lol, Yugos were marketed in USA 1985 to 1990 by Malcolm Bricklin's vehicle imports Firm. 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. Drowning Mona - An explanation informs viewers that the setting (Verplanck, New York) was a test market for Yugos. An automatic wouldnt fit in the Yugo engine bay, so the only thing shiftless about the Yugo would be the Zastava workers that routinely drank on the job. Now, I live in the UK and have had three ladas, all of which were much better cars than many people give them credit for. I want to say she drove it, but I dont think she actually put many miles on it. Actually, Perry did a much better job of it than I could have. Or inherrent underdog status? Bette Midler chops off son's hand. The Yugo was not always viewed so favorably, although its $3,990 price ($9,900 in today's dollars) grabbed headlines on its introduction in 1985. Just like the Russian Lada its simple and DIY friendly as long as you relise that and dont expect a Lexus. *shakes tiny fist*. The place where I used to work was given a Yugo 45. NO. Vehicle used a lot by a main character or for a long time, Vehicle used by a character or in a car chase, Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene. FSO 125P: Almost everyone in town is a suspect. It was mainly low used values (the proton badge had no snob appeal) and apathy that saw them scrapped rather than any major fault of the car. . Install shift knob on replacement car. Yugo-mania also swept through Hollywood for a time and was the star car in movies such as The Birdcage, Drowning Mona, Die Hard 3, The Crow, Inspector Gadget and 101 Dalmatians. She wrote something like, How cute, Ill be Lelo in her Yugo.. With the pullout of Fiat, Renault and the British makes just a few years before,. Only other thing it needed to be roadworthy was front tires. (https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/jan/14/cover/#) Every vehicle in town that is not a truck is a Yugo, except the police cruisers, which are Plymouth Horizons. i cant imagine where bricklin would get the approximately $35k/mo rent. But the acquisition by Fiat in 2010 renders all of that as ancient history. My point is more that while suited for its home market, the Yugo was a cynical attempt by its promoter to make a quick buck by appealing to the most fickle, least loyal of all purchasers-the price shopper.It is only coincidental that the car was built in Yugoslavia. 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. I presume the folding roof is there just in case the doors jam shut because of a sagging body! 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. 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. Many wars (holocausts, massacres) are blamed on religion, I can understand why some people no longer believe. European manufactures give guarantee for lets say 50k-250k km (~30k-150k mi) and 5-10 years, whatever come first (in practice mileage is more important), but previous owner could use some product with shorter life thats why this saving of couple* Euros isnt worth a risk. Its hard to pinpoint a weak spot on a Yugo because every system in the car was so badly designed and assembled that the whole car was a no contact accident. They were true babes in the woods, and they lacked the capital to deal with the investment and the costs of distributing cars. My dad is a bit of a FIAT nut so he would wrench on it from time to time. In fact, if anything, Americas foreign policy in the 80s encouraged Yugoslavia to manufacture and export finished goods to pay its debts. 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). 5 Yugo i know its a rare thing but should we park them together ? } I actually grabbed a brochure on the convertible as a joke, it was only a single page. The two-door chassis is, I understand, a 127. The Proton is only a Malaysian Mitsubishi exactly the same awful car Hyundai built as trhe EXCEL. Why did so many Fiat designs get recycled and built behind the Iron Curtain? I test drove one of these brand new when they hit the market. Two YUGO watches, new. 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. To be said, Jasons book is 90% about Bricklin. 3. Here, it is well known that you change the timing belt every 40K miles. Yep, the N and Z360 from Honda, but when they made them for export, they dropped in a 600cc motor into what was essentially the same car so what we got as did Europe was the N and Z600 with a 600cc motor instead of the 360cc motor, which was the utmost limit in displacement for a Kei car then, and I think now. Retrospective - 2000's "Drowning Mona". 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. But before Bricklin made a virtue of safety, he all but made a mockery of same just a half decade before. Technically if its going downhill it wasnt moving on its own power. (France) Chi ha ucciso la signora Dearly? I must admit that I own a Yugo. And, with such an unsatisfying ending and its inability to capitalize on a potentially funny situation, it's a film that you probably shouldn't rush to see on DVD. 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. Modern kei cars are dimensionally similar to the old sidevalve english Fords tall and narrow hopefully they dont fall over as easily I see lots of elderly people driving used import keis here. I actually checked out a Yugo about the same time I was looking at Sundances, Colts and similar vehicles and decided: No, I didnt have the time for the do-it-yourself maintenance it mightve required my current cars took care of that at the time! The Yugos bait was a stunningly low MSRP of just $3990. Of course, being that these cars were manual transmissioned cars, Im sure they didnt rented out nearly as much as the Ford Escorts and Hyundais that had automatics. 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. 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). In the early 80s many of the domestics suddenly found they could use galvanized steel for body panels, and inner fender liners and other rust proofing methods, (better drains, etc.) Actually, from my experience with Yugo monocoque, four doors would have crushing effect on rigidity:). Ive always had a soft spot for these little cars from Yugoslavia. Its not too late! 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. 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. In the moviedrowning MonaI remember there was among the many regular Yugos one that had four doors (a black one).Was it Me and my friend Jerry (from Sam Bonds) drove a Yugo at a wrecker yard in Coburg some years back. Because he SAYS he has a new belt on there, doesnt mean its so. The faded red one in the piece is for sale- $750. . . Danny DeVito (Chief Wyatt Rash) and Tracey Walter (Clarence) appeared in Matilda (1996). And management, often put there through politics, has little interest in learning of customer dissatisfaction. The early Japanese cars were not that different from the 360: Junk. I havent seen one on the road in at least 15 years. Wheel barrow. Now that its privatized, products have risen in quality to what the buyer expects for his money. Serendipity! The Tipo 145 was developed in the early 1970s (IIRC), and it showed. Both were sold for more than I paid. GM had tried to buy Zastava in 2007, but the deal fell through. in Pasadena a couple of years ago. After highway driving the gear would refuse to shift, like it overheated being in gear so long, it refused to move. The interior squeaked everywhere that it didnt rattle. Jason Torchinsky of Jalopnik had an interesting take on it lately; Witness the fact that everyone's car of choice is a Yugo; each Verplanck citizen drives one ever since the company conducted a cheap sales test of the vehicle there some 10 years ago. 500 Yugo cabrio were imported to the States. Whats terrifying is that a convertible version of this thing the flimsiest vehicle imaginable was sold in the U.S. No flimsier than the Toyota Paseo or Geo Metro convertible. . Yes you read that right. The first thing to appear onscreen is a little blurb about the Yugo car company using the town of Verplanck as a test area for their new model years ago. Here is the text that opens Drowning Mona before we see the first shot: It was embarrassing, mother never drove it again. During lunch the high schoolers came out and lifted it up so the front tires were up on the sidewalk. Sales quickly slowed when word of the myriad problems began to circulate in the media. There were surely other goofs that were institutionalized. So on the line, a worker would have to cut and install and tape it, with about a 25 percent failure rateincorrectly re-connected. Every vehicle in town that is not a truck is a Yugo, except the police cruisers, which are Plymouth Horizons. Only the Italians could design a car to be so much fun to drive so slowly. 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? 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. There are like 100 YUGOs in the movie, which I think came out around 1998. One reason is that lots of people own and drive them and parts are a breeze. if (window['UnicI'].geo === 'EU') { Its not like Fiat designs were anything special, quite the contrary in many instances. It was a nightmare. After the wars, Zastava redesigned their cars with help from Fiat and Citroen, and gained new technologies to have them compete with other European cars. It was so bad we couldnt even get it to start, so we took a few parts off it and then the scrap yard came and took it away. The 4 door one was a dodge omni, think it was a glh. Since Yugo America was basically just a collection of cheap office furniture and unanswered phones, creditors received essentially nothing for their interests in the company. One time the keys were out and the car was still on and would not turn off. Amazingly, someone got in it, started it, and it ran and drove (more or less) away. It has interesting characters and situations and I found myself really enjoying the film--only to have it all fizzle at the end. Contact us With an estimated cost of $16,000 each to build against a selling price of around $5K, Bricklins SV-1 was a blast furnace that no amount of subsidy could fully quench.The maritime province had sunk over four and a half million taxpayer dollars into the scheme since its beginning, and slow sales (along with numerous engineering problems) cost no small number of politicians their jobs. Your email address will not be published. As for the FloridaBricklin was itching to bring it in. Actions lie louder than words. by Carolyn Wells. Nobody had let management know that the wiring harness as made, wasnt usable in that part of the car. But the proof of the pudding is the tasting; and I have YET to see a government-built car, or other product or service, which could stand head to heat with private competionstand on MERIT. Zastava only collapsed in 2008, and its decline was NOT due to mismanagement, but the trade embargo on Serbia, which starved them of devlopment funds. They did not have such a bad reputation,at least not as bad as the rear engined Skodas I cant imagine that anybody that test drove one like mine actually laid down real money for one. This was enough to keep them afloat (even with such strange offerings as the BRAT and XT) until 1989, when they really hit their stride with the introduction of the Outback and the successful Paul Crocodile Dundee Hogan marketing campaign. But they didnt have a CLUE. That said, the most maintenance I did on the car(s) were oil changes and other mundane regular maintenance. First, salt as a melting agent on roads was relatively new. Around the same time we had a similar thing in Australia the FSM Niki, which was a Polish-built Fiat 126, so a ~700cc rear-engined s-box. Maybe Bricklin had caught lightning in a bottle. Although I tested it in the summer, the car sputtered and hesitated like it was cold. 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. But they did. 2004-2023 IMCDb.org Managed by Controgest SPRL They were not standing still, by any means. "She's dead," he confirms to Chief Rash (Danny DeVito), who nods grimly and begins a murder investigation. 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. First of all, thanks to Perry Shoar for a very well written explanation of the events of the 70s and 80s that led to the meltdown of Yugoslavia. But recycled steel, for whatever reason, is overly prone to corrosion. But it needed even more tweaking than did the Jugo 45which is what the Yugo was based on. Kathleen Wilhoite (Lucinda) and Melissa McCarthy (Shirley) appeared on Gilmore Girls (2000). About a year or so into owning the blue one, the clutch cable snapped (in traffic, of course). Too many people in this country have this mentality that if its cheap, treat it as such and yes, a fulfilled prophesy. 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. No parts fell off of it, the car generally was in good condition (other than some stains on the seats that I didnt care to speculate about). The displacement limit for kei cars was increased to 550cc some years ago. finally blown up. My favorite memory was the NYC art exhibit where every sculpture was created from the remains of an old Yugo. . I recall A caddy dealer in the Cleveland area who gave away a free Yugo with the purchase of a Cadillac! Reading in Consumer Reports that the tester injured his toe when the front seat came crashing down on it. I really dont think that anyone has a competitive advantage in rust resistance any more. The New Brunswick government pulled the plug in September of 1975 and the Bricklin was finished. @Zackman: No the real experience was driving that thing in Atlanta rush hour traffic at 80+ MPH. As for the first gen Civics and to a lesser extent, the second gen Civics, I would guess where we dont have rust to deal with, it was 30+ years and many accrued miles that ultimately were their demise, ie, 200K-300K+ and a head gasket finally blows are what killed them off eventually if not an accident or some other mechanical failure due to age/mileage. The brakes appear to have been tampered with, making it murder. When the nastiest resident (Bette Midler) of a white-trash Westchester suburb is killed in a suspicious accident, everyone 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. By the 90s Japan had it totally nailed. 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. 1) Wise observation that Yugoslavia needed hard currency (without which it could not import needed consumer or industrial goods) during those years. My BIL and I popped out the axles, but that was more of a preventative move, rather than a necessity. However, these engines have been known to go 200K with little bearing wear if maintained appropriately. Most can be rectified by the shareholders or the Boards of Directors, the shareholders representatives. It wasnt ancient ethnic hatreds, it was more a perfect storm. He was rather sad that after 170,000 miles it had I saw one not long ago on the streets in Eugene, but couldnt catch it., Theres got to be a comeback there! I have NEVER burned out a clutchexcept on a Yugo. Yugo gave everybody in town one to have. About two years ago there was a Wall Street Journal article about a guy who drag races a Yugo. The car itself rattled and shook upon starting. They pronounce it yugo and Bricklins people realized a car called Jugo would have problems in marketing. Why did Yugos have standard rear defrost? } Enterior wall panels were thin cardboard with painted on carpet flecks. The biggest thing Ive heard was the timing belts were supposedly good for 30K miles and many owners were caught off guard, mostly due to not reading and/or heeding the maintenance intervals and boom, they croaked as they were not non interference motors like most OHC motors arent. She noted that while it wasnt much good past 65MPH (no overdrive), it never got less than 30MPG, and it handled beautifully. Found it! In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Yes, a Deer. 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. Since the film is set in modern, post y2k times, it may be the last one in running condition in the U.S. No, I dont know if they used an actual Yugo or just a skinned over FIAT prop, & if they did utilize a Yugo, how many production assistants were tasked with keeping it working ;-D. Also used for laughs in the Ackroyd/Hanks Dragnet movie. I dont buy junk to begin with, maintain them, and only have minimal issues with them. The best part was they all had the same license plates on them to just have a semblance of legality! I think it's worth keeping them separate because it's a in-joke of the film that almost everyone has a Yugo. -You know why Yugo drivers go to heaven? The problem is, there's not a single person in town who DIDN'T have a motive. Other than the time the clutch cable broke, and getting the electrical issues sorted out, the car spent no time in the shop. View 9 images It cut costs, and as was the concern then (as now) it was Green using the parlance of today. Childrens toys are more dependable. Whats bad. Purchased one year old cars for less than $1500 while attending college. What do you call a Yugo with twin exhausts? The Italian Government and the Unions forced Fiat to cooperate. The ignition constantly gave out and so did the clutch. Ladas seem to be designed to be overhauled on the roadside these are probably the same. Wikipedia says that the Yugo quality was satisfactory at the start but went downhill fast and the factory refused to do anything about it. With just 25 horsepower (at a cacophonous 5500 RPM), the elfin 360 was the type of cynical exercise that would define Bricklins career in the car business. Audis have been headaches to owners at various times. 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