Just passing thru after a long absence. I well remember the Yugo and it
WAS closest to the worst car ever imported as my daughters husband bought
one.
But I did not expect much else as it was Russian Copy of a Fiat and they
made some very bad cars on their own for the common man.

tom Walker
> 
>      Just wondering if any of you out there in BBS land remember the
good old 
> Yugo.
> 
>    I fix up old and odd ball cars to pass time over the winter months.
As a 
> mechanic I try and find cars that I don't see or work on in my day to day 
> life.
>   A few years back it was a VW Rabbit, Then an datsun 610, this year its a 
> 1988 Yugo GV.
>  I found it a few hours away in need of some serious work, and decided the 
> time was right to see for myself if the Yugo really was the worst car ever 
> built.
>   I'm about 70% back together with it, and I can tell you already... IT IS 
> NOT!
>    It its a funky little car with the bare essentials needed to function.
> 
>   If I had to critisize it for anything it would be that they decided
to use 
> old school vacum switching valves to control everything in 1988! This car 
> sould have had an o2 sensor, ect, map sensor, and at least a electronicly 
> controled carb if not fuel injection. 
>   But to save money they installed one heck of a convoluted air 
> pump/egr/thrmostatic control system that looks like it was thought up by a 
> grade schooler.
> 
>   Still it seems well built, and for a 30 year old car its in good overall 
> shape.
> 
>  So any former Yugo owners out there? Any first or second hand stories to 
> share?
> 
>   Next year I was thinking about tracking down a Dihatsu charade,
another rare 
> flop.
> 
> take care.
> 
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