Why Everyone Wanted the Worst Car in the World

So I definitely got a big part of this story wrong: the assertion that Yugoslavia was part of the Soviet Union. This Is incorrect. In the West, this assumption can be traced back to Yugoslavia’s formation in 1943. During WWII, the Allies: The US, UK and USSR supported Yugoslavia’s fight against the fascist Axis occupation. We just kinda assumed they stayed allied with the USSR, but that’s not what happened. After the war, relations between Yugoslavia and the USSR fell apart, with Yugoslavia denouncing Stalinism completely and forming its own socialist government. Yugoslavia was in fact on the Western edge of the Iron Curtain, and maintained a delicate balancing act between Western and Eastern bloc countries. According to globalvoices.org “its independence from both the Eastern and the Western blocs was a key feature of its national identity.” I sincerely apologize for the error and for any offense it may have caused; and I will be more diligent and discerning in my research moving forward. Thanks for your time. -Nolan

When trying to pronounce Balkan words with C at the end, just replace C with S so it would sound like C not a K

Yugoslavia also sold you your space program which was also partly developed by the same company yugo came from.

Yugoslavia was not part of USSR man

Man you suck...at least learn what you talk about....Your pronounce is comedy central....

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Yugoslavia wasnt part of soviet union wrong it was democratic comunistic state not to soviet union

Yugo is good

Also: The problem with driving a Yugo... ... is that the Czech engine light is always on.

Zastava makes a hell of an AK.

"YUGO - You Go but car doesn't"

0:31 "like a Lada... awful things..."

Kind of reminds of the Pepsi deal with the Soviets that ended up with Pepsi owning a bunch of Russian war ships. The Pepsi Cola Navy.

This looks like the 4x4 ADA in DayZ

Lear some history. Don't be dumb. Yugoslavia was never part of Eastern block. Also we all have cars, mostly German and French. There were car factory's for citroen, renault and vw...

What nonsense you speak smh

You are not from Balkan, you are not allowed to speak about Yugo. 😂

Again mistake, your American propaganda is wrong again. Yugoslavia was never Soviet. Communist yes but never in Soviet union. You had west (NATO today) And Soviet, and also there was a third party called independent or something like that, well we were in the middle and didn't belong to West or East. Tito was hanging out with African countries and that wasn't Soviet Union. Yugo was crappy but cost double here and was worst than version you got. We paid for your cheap import to balance the cost to factory. Also Kragujevac and Zastava have nothing with Croatia and Bosnia it's like you compare Detroit belong to California or Florida. We didn't have much but had enough factories and we had everything until your Democracy came here and that was the end of humanity here. you are the worst of the worst.

yugo 45 - yugoslavia in shits since 1945

Fact check before making a video. Yugoslavia was not aligned with the USSR.

Well, we know it in Mexico as a CARIBE.

Marshal Tito said to Soviet’s defined NO. *Soviet staged their tenks along side Hungarian border * people in Yugoslavia armed themselves to the teeth and were ready to die to defend their country *soviets turned around and went home This was in the 50s I believe’54 and I was born 1970 in Yugoslavia

We had a Zastava GTL55 in Europe, Hungary in the 90's. It was not so bad! It was even a higher level than a Lada. It was bad in the USA of course because you had a lot of bigger and better cars!

I still own and drive a yugo!

If you learn to drive Yugo you can drive anything 👊

Looks like a Maruti-Suzuki 800

Actually Yugoslavia was not in good relationship with SSR mostly. SSR try to rule it as Czechoslovakia and most of military resource of Yugoslavia was point to Soviet ruled country at that time.

Ima li brace iz Kragujevca

Jugoslavia was not in Soviet Union

Rear window heaters are installed so u can warm up when ure pusing it to start.

wow, talk about insider trading. one year after the release of the justy in japan. probably hurt his own company, but made a pretty profit for himself.

You don't know what you taking about , Yugo was my first car is Serbia , it's great vehicle .

Noah, it's still something great about yugo. When it need to be repaired, it's ultimately cheaper then any other car. So if you wanna made some compromisees it's more than fine. To do repairs just need to know what's wrong whit it, buy a spear part, and from tolls you need just screwdriver, 5 wrenches (8,10,13,17,19mm), few pieces of wire and job is done. Everybody know it's more than bad car but still love him because it's cheep and standard in Balkan is not great, speciali in the 1990s. It's simple people was happy because they can afford any car, that's the reason why is the great car. Just keep up whit nice content you are great.

I thought you know better Very disappointed in you specially with all this nonsense and mistakes Be a man and correct this rubbish or i guarantee you will loose followers

What do you call a four door Yugo? Wego

Dude... Yugoslavia was not in the Soviet Union. It had a communist regime, but not aligned 100% to the Soviet totalitarianism. That's why it was able to sell cars to the West. If you tell a Balkan person they were Soviet, you will have a lot to explain. Hehehe!

Nolan: the worst car ever yugo Reliant robin, trabant, pt cruiser: am i joke to you

Kragujevac lik citrus or cirkus idn

You did not try Yugo 65. I call it the beast. Ultimate poor people racing machine.

Yugo is actually very reliable car, and genuinely good fun with friends doing dumb stuff with the car. U can literally buy it for 150€

Kra-gu-ye-vats

1:24 KOSOVO IS SERBIA!!!

YUGOSLAVIA YUGO YUGO

I have quite a few problems with this video. First and foremost, Yugoslavia was never the part of the Soviet Union. It was socialist country, which played an important role in Cold war, so you two big shots wouldn't wreck the whole World. Please check your history facts. And that is such an important segment of this video, because much of your cultural understanding and presenting the Yugo comes from this misinformation. Moreover, it was cheaply built, but it wasn't that bad. That car is pure mechanics. You have no computer in the car, but you have a clutch and actual gearbox, something that, I have heard, Americans struggle with. Sorry for this, it may not be true. How you service Yugo is the answer how much it will serve you. You can ask that every single mechanic from the Balkans and pretty much everyone will tell you the same. Even today in Serbia we drive Yugo, and they stopped manufacturing it like 15 years ago. It is an ultimate car for rally here, many first drivers are driving it etc.

One more thing about YUGO you didn't tell: For Zastava to achieve the low selling price you mentioned, they had to reduce the quality of this car even further, so the cars you got in USA were even lower quality than the ones for home market. Also, at the time, most the production cars here were in 40-60bhp range, so lack of power wasnt so obvious as in USA. And two more things about Yugoslavia: Among those "other smaller counties" is Slovenia, which was the most developed part of Yugoslavia at the time. Yugoslavia was never Soviet (as a few other commenters pointed out). It was the only communist county that stood up against Soviet.

Yugo nowhere lol 😂

The Yugo is still such a common sight to see in Serbia. They're cheap but they never die.

Yugoslavia is not Sovet Union

I had a 1987 Yugo GV that I bought back in 2001 from a collector. I only paid like $300! I loved it! I wish I still had it.

So this is Mirage of the 80s?

They introduced the Yugo brand in Germany in 1990, but unfortunately the civil war in former jugoslavia stopped the production in 1992 and the importer went bust. I can´t even remember seeing one in the flesh and even after looking for years there is almost never one up for sale in Germany or its neighbours.

Yugo is not from the Soviet Union. Zastava is building Fiat 500L up to this date. I know a lot of pre 90'ies Zastavas that are still functional. I know there were some issues with sending cars to the US, but Zastava actually opened the doors of US market for VW and Audi and many other European manufacturers. For the Yugo, it and Škoda were the most innovative products from Eastern Block countries. In 1992, when you say Yugo closed, actually, the Yugoslavia collapsed in the four year war. And the title of the worst car ever, it was manufactured by the TopGear journalist as a sarcastic view of Balkan wars.

The one and only car that literally got blown off the Mackinac Bridge in an October 1989 gale storm.

The yugo in europe has 45hp 55hp and 65hp and its fun around the chorners

Thanks to this export business, domestic Yugos became somewhat better because, eventually, all tiny improvements for American market found their way here. Overall, main problems with Yugo were terrible build quality and lack of proper control in the factory. Concept and technologies were sound for cheap city car from that era.

I really like the the simplicity and purity of the Yugo. If it wasn't for it's poor quality and reliability, I would really buy one some day.

Well it seams like it had the same build quality as us cars back then :D

I LIKE "Tubthumping", dammit!

Yugoslavia wasn't part of the Soviet Union, not geographically, not legally and wasn't even allied with them. Not all communist countries were the Soviet Union😂

What do you call a 4 door yugo ? ... Yu all go

In Serbia we had even worse car called zastava 101. Both of them was made 40 years with minor changes. And the production ended 2008, I cant tell what was the reason for that 😂😂😂

I remember the Renault Le Car was pretty cheap, too. It's a wonder the hatchback stayed popular.

Kosovo je Srbija!!!!

It's a chick magnet especially in red

That engine was 55 ps, had engines also with 45, 60 and 65 ps, it was cheap, not quite that unreiable, easy to fix with 13 wrench and screwdriver and what else did u needed. And yeah why that country does not exit look up for "weight of chains" documentaries, jus sad, it wasnt greatest country ever but it was far better than this after war this just sucks

It's a 1971 Fiat 127 built REALLY cheap in a comunist country (not part of the soviet block by the way, Yugoslavia was a Non-Aligned Country) and sold in the eighties in a power loving car market. The result was a bit inevitable. I have to say that I grew up in a eighties small cheap FIAT, and it was made better for sure... but not any faster. Hell even TODAY best selling car in Italy isn't faster than that. Probably that's why I don't get how you are so upset by the Yugo speed: yeah, it's cheap and it goes from 0-60 in 14 and a bit seconds... what did you expect? 😅😂

I am heartbroken! This channel I love so much didn't take time to do the research on my home country and it's iconic vehicle... Does that mean that all of their videos are not well researched and false?

not only that you got your history wrong, not naming Slovenia, Montenegro and Macedonia is insulting. One has to assume, that your facts about the Yugo are just as right as those you brought up about Yugoslavia. Please Donut Media, try again. -.-

Interesting that it looks really similar to Polish FSO Polonez. Which was theoretically fully Polish design... hmm...

First you never own a YUGO so you don't know what is that car second yugo needs to be maintained like every other car, Americans didn't do that, third in America Yugos was shipped with crappy carburettors to fit yours emissions that make them not good and not fun to drive, so for conclusion on Balkan Yugo is still alive and it is still going strong if you maintain it

10:00 So, either your knowledge or your research encourage you to assess, what automotive standards were normal at the time, when the Yugo was offered in the US?! Getting upset about build quality, to be very honest, during that historic period, in the US... You'd rather not DARE a comparison here. NO! JUST DON'T! Mexicans build better "American" cars today, than these poor people in the SFRY, including cars built by AMERICANS (on an average base from 1985 to 2085 (roughly estimated))! Yes, Yugo's standards were poor, but just not covered up by a vegetable of a president and budgets for "mass media manipulation". How much of a car did you purchase in relation to its lifetime or average reliability/usability?!

The Yugo was a huge hit in Yugoslavia. Due to it being so cheap, they were everywhere. A lot of people drove them even in the early 2000s, including my parents, when i was like 3 years old. Greetings from Slovenia, former Yugoslavia member (one of rhe smaller countries).

6:00 Are you going to mention the Bricklin SV as a major accomplishment, or are you going to diminish it?! As people are expecting it from a capitalist American, zrying to prove the rest of the WORLD... whatever...

The worst car in the world was the East German Trabant!

“In the air tonight” is NOT a Genesis song!

Aj ne seri. Kad vi strancerosi uhvatite pricati o nasim industrijama... Yugo je ljepsi od fiata multiple, cvrsci od forda ka, sigurniji od opela rekorda, izdrzljiviji od pola novih skoda i trosi manje goriva od amer ili ruskih skula u to vrijeme. Plus ima povijenu haubu, sa skrgama i izgleda opako! 😜

You guys might wanna look into the trabant a car from East Germany it might be even worse than this also it produced about 26 hp and didn’t even reach 60 mph on flat land

Never owned or drove a Yugo. The worst car I ever owned was a 1981 Vauxhall Chevette, which was an Opel Kadett adapted to the masochistic British and Commonwealth market by being fitted with all the worst parts of the Viva: the engine, suspension, gearbox (the reversing light wires tended to fall off, and the gearbox had to be removed to refit them)the suspension and the electrical system. Not as bad as a Ural motorcycle I'd earlier made the mistake of buying, but close.

I would do anything to get my hands on one of these in the USA

The worst car? Trabant? Kispolak? Oh you are talking about a Yugo

Yugo, when the tires, or brakes, wore out, scrap the car.

3:40 its writen: "goodbye, there is no more, -LAST ONE- Yugo, from paintshot"

Shifter would come off in your hand.

Ah yugo...in Serbia we drive it still...and Kosovo is Serbia........

you didnt pronounce kragujevac nor zastava corrently lol, i suggest using google translate to see how to say it since idk how to explain it

In Serbia we say if haven't driven a Yugo then you don't know how to drive 😁

Yugoslavia was a comunist country but it was not a part of Soviet union or a Soviet sattalite state like the others. We could travel Visa free All over the world and euripe offcourse work there and had a much higher i come than Soviet Block countries. And Tito and Stalin hated each other so Yugoslavia turnd west soon.

"Whats the difference between a Yugo and a Jehovas witness? You can close the door on the Jehovas witness."

Balkans: *_Angery Intensifies_*

Jugo 45, a song by Zabranjeno Pušenje is actually about the period Yugo was made in, a nostalgic view on the last (good) years of Jugoslavija.

Why does it look exactly like a Maruti 800? That car broke sales records in India.

Mark my words though, this will be a rare collectors car before you know it.

Yugo good quality. Made from recycled beer cans

Let's make a communist version of an old fiat lmao that was a recipe for a car to practically fall apart 😂

Yugoslavia wasnt the sovjet Union but well..

Everything awesome was from 80s wtf

As someone who grew up in Serbia so many things are wrong with this history video it's not even funny. We were not communist county. We were communist - socialist. Also there was never Stalin in Serbia. We had Tito. Also we were never under the influence of Soviet Union. Check your fact's before videos.

Nikola Tesla was Serbian, and Zastava was Serbian. The ideal end to this would be that Elon Musk associates his company Tesla with Zastava factory in Kragujevac, and start building a new Tesla Ýugo

If you think a Yugo is bad you haven't driven a Dacia from the same era!

The only vehicle to actually blow over the side of the Mackinaw Bridge.