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Few cars evoke a sense of truly barebones motoring like a Yugo. Sometimes cited as the worst car in history and the most hated car ever sold in the United States, the fundamental philosophy of the ...
Along with Allen’s interview, I also premiered lots of new local music — particularly leaning in to indie-rock vibes with Zastava‘s “Truth,” a lead single from their forthcoming album; and Gloomco, ...
The car in question is the Zastava Yugo - widely considered one of the biggest automotive travesties ever sold in Britain. The Yugo was so bad that there's even a book dedicated to it called ...
If you’re unfamiliar (or under the age of 25), the Yugo was a small supermini built by Zastava at a factory in former Yugoslavia. Its factory is in what’s now Serbia, and the Yugo was a car ...
Fiat had signed a cooperation agreement with state-owned company Zastava in 1954, and the first 600s started rolling off the production line in Kragujevac by October of the following year. In contrast ...
Serbian manufacturer Zastava opened its U.S. subsidiary in 2019 to offer authentic firearms patterned after classic Yugoslavian Cold War designs. These include the AK-pattern M70 and the M91 ...
Yes, that’s Yugo – the brand named after its home nation of Yugoslavia (now Serbia) and built by the now-defunct Zastava Automobiles company. Opening the door for the new model is Dr ...
But get your punchlines ready, because the Yugo could be coming back. Properly, the original car's full name was the Zastava Yugo GV, Zastava being an automaker with a long history in the former ...
Rebooting a long-dormant carmaker is no small task, after all. In the meantime, Yugo will retrace the tire tracks of a 1975 expedition that took five teams each driving a Zastava 101 from Kragujevac ...
One great example of this phenomenon is the Zastava Yugo, better known as just the Yugo. It was a popular car throughout the former Soviet Bloc and other parts of Europe, as well. When it landed ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Tom Hanks visited Budapest, he fell in love with a communist icon: the tiny Polski Fiat 126p.