The Yugo GV…that horrid, miserable little cube of a car that couldn’t get out of it’s own way. The mailbox with taillights. Rolling birth control. One could go on for ages about the car that Malcolm Bricklin was cheerfully ready to dump onto the American landscape in the late 1980s. They are miserable little penalty boxes and if any are still on the road, they should be eradicated except for no more than five non-running examples, which should be placed inside prominent museums as a warning to future generations.
In 1986, this car base-priced at $3995, which if were sold today, would come in at $8500 or so dollars. Which is $200 less than what the owner of this Yugo is asking…$8700 for one of the most derided vehicles to ever roam North America? Let’s see if there is any basis to the thought process here. On the surface, you have a clean body and a hood scoop for that vicious 1.3L four-cylinder.
This is what driving hell looks like, folks. While I’ll concede that it’s in better condition than it has any right to be, this interior is better suited for a child’s go-kart than an actual street-going automobile. So far the only true saving grace for this Yugo is that it’s a manual-transmission car. If you had found this for in running and driving condition for a couple of hundred bucks, it’d make a perfect car for an up-and-coming driver to learn how to run a manual transmission.
110 miles an hour. That isn’t a misprint, folks. Zastava, the company that was manufacturing the Yugo, genuinely believed that someone would try to drive over 100mph in this car willingly. So, once again, $8700 for one of the nicest Yugo GVs in the country. I wouldn’t give 1/16th of the cost for this thing and the first thing I’d do with it is figure out how much Semtex could fit inside the car before setting the explosives off.
Do not forget the sins of the past.
Ebay Listing: 1987 Yugo GV, $8700
The really scary part is that the seller seems to be serious.
You know, if I could pick it up for under a grand I would. I’d bomb around in it for laughs until it dropped dead from absolute neglect. It’s the kind of junk you haul trash, firewood, scrap metal, etc in with no remorse.
I could only drive it wearing a Putin mask with no shirt
At first I thought this was the same Yugo I sent you guys a few months back
http://bangshift.com/bangshiftapex/insane-maniac-stores-yugo-20-years-keeps-mint-wants-sell-twice-original-price/
But nope. It’s a different year, less miles, different wheels. Which means there are at least two crazy people out there who stash Yugos.
Y’all are a bunch of morons. If you can’t enjoy, no, have a BLAST driving a Yugo, you Simply. Aren’t. Car. Enthusiasts. They are like an original Beatle. Yiou can run the balls off them all day long and hardly anyone will notice you’re wringing it out. If you took the time to look at them like you’d look at virtually any other 2 door sedan you ever drove, ie, “how can I improve it”, and simply checked the cam timing, you’d find the vast majority of them came here with th ecam timing off! Fix that, and the little bastards will rip! OK, maybe just tear a little, but still, setting the cam timing properly does perk them up, a bunch! Yes, I owned one, a brand new one my wife bought me in ’91 so that I would stop riding my ZX10 Ninja to work in the snow and freezing rain and weather of winter.
I’m sorry, but all you haters…you ain’t real car people. These little rebadged Fiat 124 sedans were fun…
You are dead to me now.
Maybe I’m on the wrong site, but I’d gladly buy a cheap Yugo.
Not for this guy’s price, mind you, but a cheap one.
There’s a certain thrill to driving a car that simply replacing the air cleaner means a big kick to the ol’ butt dynamometer!
Actually, after posting that I’ve started daydreaming about Yugos with side-drafting Webers and zoomies.
That’s how it happens, alright! My brother always wanted me to drop a Mopar 2.2 turbo in mine!
That would be fantastic!
The 2.2 is a good mill, and the iron lung makes it better. And crammed inside a car that weighs only slightly more than a sack of potatoes…
Out! Both of you!
Okay, so…ummm… could do something with this….bear with me for a moment while I enlighten you to my vision for Yugo GV 2.0
I have two words for you “Legend Car” The wheel base is about the same. Modify a cassis to work on the Yugo add a wide body kit and a hot FJ1200 engine to get it moving….oh yeah, tell me you would not drive it then because I sure as hell would. Imagine that 4 carb’d 1200 screaming down the road at 7 grand, the sound would be glorious….GLORIOUS I SAY!…and it makes plenty of torque…oh lord would that be a blast.
A guy walks into a parts store and says to the guy behind the counter. “How about a locking gas cap for a Yugo?” The guy behind the counter thinks about it for a moment and says “Okay sounds like a fair trade”
I had thought that they were all recalled because people were burning their hands on the rear window defroster pushing them off to the side of the road.
You mean there’s a Yugo left that you can’t put though a sifter?
$8700? Did they even sell for that much new?
In ’86 I got a job at a Chevy dealer that sold YUGO’s as a second line. I was
amazed that the parts department had a stack of short block in stock. The castings
were so rough that you’d get cut just handling them. I was there about three months
when I got a better job offer, and in that time I didn’t meet a customer that was happy
with their new YUGO.
Rode in a brand new one (a “sport” model) from NW PA to Fort Myers, Florida back in 1988. What a turd machine.
I remember hearing about a guy getting a ticket in a Yugo, then getting out of it in court because every road test ever published said it would not go as fast as the ticket said he was going.
My dad had one in the late 90s he got for $20 he put a clutch in it and drove it for years from mi to Chicago it got around 50 mpg he loved it I drove it a few times, I still have it .
Even the scrap yards won’t take it, huh?