Youd have to go from fourth to first gear to come down. Though set in Verplanck, "Drowning Mona" was shot entirely within an hour's commute of Los Angeles. They sold boatloads of them in Europe to price buyers, taxi companies, retired folk etc. Nevermind that their cars are horribly unreliable, people still buy them. By third world standards, the Yugo was not a terribly bad car and sales continued even after its mother country began breaking up in the early 90s. When they all disappeared, I surmised it was because he had been caught by the police for driving unregistered vehiclesmore likely they all just died from their terminal junkiness. Could not resist seeing what a piece of crap would look like with no tin on the top. The base GV had a 1.1L, SOHC motor that originated in the Fiat 128 and the GVX had the 1.3L\, SOHC, motor, also from the Fiat 128 and I think it had the 5spd manual in it but the base GV got the 4spd manual. A lot of Wehrmacht occupation troops went home in tiny little pieces because Zastava knew what they were doing. What do you call a Yugo with twin exhausts? They were incredibly simple mechanically. I presume the folding roof is there just in case the doors jam shut because of a sagging body! It had become commonplace in the 1950s; and manufacturers first tried ignoring the problem; then dealing with it with superficial fixes like Zincrometal body panels. . @Jeff Nelson: I think youre a bit dismissive of Zastava, they have been around for quite some time. But there was one area that, frankly, I was impressed with, and that was the basic two-box design. It broke down like a Yugo. I must admit that I own a Yugo. That explains why everyone was driving them then. But they were cheap! Drowning Mona is one of my favorite comedies, and its currently available on YouTube for free. In the small, white-trash town of Verplanck, N.Y., a loathsome woman named Mona Dearly (a dour and ugly Bette Midler) drives her car over a cliff and into the river. the building is used several times a month for exclusive private hip-hop dance parties. But of course, a parking lot fender bender would be enough to total these cars. As it turns out, the same rental car place was STILL selling surplus Yugos, and I bought a blue one this time. 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 cars were not labor or maintenance intensive at all, and in fact some things worked better on that car than did my dear old Lancer, like the A/C system. It was owned by a gentleman named Dave Benton who claimed to be the former engineering manager for Yugo North America. Source for information on Drowning Mona: VideoHound's Golden Movie . The Birdcage - Features a yellow Yugo Cabrio in Miami. Found it! Bricklin had formed Yugo of America to import the car and as was his custom, financial shenanigans were part of the mix. It helps to understand that everyone in Verplanck is dim to one degree or another, except for the Rash family. I also have to say that state ownership does not always lead to poor business. Also in Drowning Mona's favor, at the heart of the movie, is a genuinely positive character, Verplanck Police Chief Wyatt Rash (Danny DeVito).He's possibly the only principled citizen in town. Japanese cars generally started out small, usually around 800cc in the mid 1950s and grew with the prosperity of the country and desire to chase export markets. 2. *cough cough*, Malcolm is now wanting to import Chinese cars. I mean, cmon, its an Eastern Bloc car. Every vehicle in town that is not a truck is a Yugo, except the police cruisers, which are Plymouth Horizons. Yugoslavia The Land Of The Southern Slavs went to war with itself in late 1991 and essentially spent the next 17 years shooting, ethnically cleansing and generally behaving like it had before World War I. Those methods have contributed to rust resistance that we have come to expect from modern cars. 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. Kathleen Wilhoite (Lucinda) and Melissa McCarthy (Shirley) appeared on Gilmore Girls (2000). The 4 door one was a dodge omni, think it was a glh. When the coroner first jumps into the water to check Mona's dead body, he is neck-deep in water. I remember the lights were tied to the ignition switch so if you left the light switch on, theyd go off when you shut down the car, and back on when you started it back up, and that meant headlights and all, ala SAAB. Our narrative today is of a modern P.T. TRUCKEE, Calif. 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. Im trying to remember, she actually, may have owned two of them. I remember, as a teenJapanese cars had fit-and-finish second to none; they started and ran smoothly with the primitive emissions controls of the time; but boy, did they rust. Jason Vuic details this in his book The Yugo of how management refused plans for premiums for top-grade work or extra effort; of how primitive and shoddy were the paint booths, of how design goofs went uncorrected for years. The car is the Yugo. Of course, as pointed out, it was more probable that hed have put the company out of business, too. Soon we would have a whole line of Adams Family cars on the road! If possible, the FSO 125p was even worse. In this black comedy, everyone in a small town becomes a suspect when a much-despised woman not-so-accidentally drives her Yugo off a cliff. See production, box office & company info, Siskel & Ebert: Drowning Mona/My Dog Skip/What Planet Are You From?/The Next Best Thing/Miss Julie. It just flat refused. This was before the deal with Chery. I shut it down to call a dealerand it wouldnt leave the parking spot under its own power. They obviously do not run. The Yugos bait was a stunningly low MSRP of just $3990. 459 tweaks (and 18 months) later, the Yugo was almost ready for launch. How do explanations of Zastavas lack of quality control compare to, say, one which could be made to illustrate the reasons of Audis numerous failures? An accident has happened - the Yugo of one Mona Dearly has careened off the highway and plunged into the Hudson. It cut costs, and as was the concern then (as now) it was Green using the parlance of today. (As you said JustPassinThru). When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect. (Fiat DID design the chassis, after all.). To see mine riding on a tow truck was so humiliating. Sorry, Jeff, but I dare to notice that you dont know so much about Zastava (factory and cars, their projects and people, its country and history) and dare to write about. The Kei cars, like European microcars in the 1950s and early 60s, made car ownership possible for the masses. Barnum, Theres a sucker born every minute con-artist. An older Yugo, since the car hasn't been manufactured since its country went out of business. Perhaps they were sabotaged so the poor workers wouldnt have to slave to make them for america? But then thats not what most folks are exactly looking for. What kind of car is in the movie Drowning Mona? What he saw was an operation that turned out a car designed (and abandoned) by Fiat years before. Which together would have theoretically allowed the Yugo to be more successful. Generally what kills them is the cost of major systems repairs, to where its not economically justifiable. parts are easy, I have a new driver side indoor handle ordered that will be here Tuesday. 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. All in all, Monas jaunt into the river could have been described as a pretty fortuitous accident for everyones lives she touched, or in Monas case, bludgeoned. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. The worst of the Japaneese cars would rust in structural places that would make the car unsafe. At my brothers wedding this weekend, what did I see right across the street from the Germanic-American Institute on Summit Avenue in St. Paul, Minnesota? The seats were quite comfy too- firm enough but still soft- and with a cotton upholstery that was miles away from the nylon stuff put in other cars of the era. Two YUGO watches, new. As my old profesor of economics said: War is the best economic valve Unfortunately, Ive learned that from personal experience. 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. I was listening one Saturday to Car Talk and one of the callers that day to the show was a Catholic priest who drove a Yugo and commented on all the flak he received for his choice of automotive transportation. (https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/jan/14/cover/#) I was unaware of the Bricklin connection at the time, and in fact learned about it here on CC, but I remember seeing some Bricklins as a kid, thinking that they were cool looking cars, and wondering why there werent more of them. I actually grabbed a brochure on the convertible as a joke, it was only a single page. A Mitsubishi in all but name, Proton wisely didnt fiddle around with it much meaning you got a reliable Pseudo-Japanese car for your money, not a cobbled together lash up like the yugo was. 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. Renault has been in state ownership since the 50s, and has been a very profitable company. . Bette Midler chops off son's hand. They found slipshod handling of stamped body panels, and the assembly lines using dirty, even dented panels; he found painting in dusty areas, not the clean, dust-free booths required for good paint covering and adhesion. At inopportune times. Sales quickly slowed when word of the myriad problems began to circulate in the media. As for the FloridaBricklin was itching to bring it in. The civil war in the former Yugoslavia was the finishing blow, but wasnt the reason it wasnt brought over. I know of no explanation for the garbage experience my dad had with his Audi, which broke down regularly. It was a nightmare. FSO 125P: The next Yugo we were to get in the US, the Sana/Florida, showed even more independent development of a Fiat design by the Yugoslavs. Ah yes, I can see it now. I owned two. So on the line, a worker would have to cut and install and tape it, with about a 25 percent failure rateincorrectly re-connected. Thanks for your first hand account ! Also, the GM Colonades from 73-77 were pretty rust resistant as well. Bowfinger - The main character produced a documentary called The Yugo Story. There are like 100 YUGOs in the movie, which I think came out around 1998. i found this article about the space: "Drowning Mona" is a frustrating comedy. Parts were cheap due to the exchange rate, so there was not the pressure on dealers to deny problems and warranty claims, like Ford and Vauxhall put on their dealers. But with enough TLC (something the average American consumer wasnt high on), maybe they werent so bad (at least a few of them, anyway). Before I moved to Atlanta in the early 90s, we sold off our other cars before moving. } He was scarred sh*tless and begging me to not make him drive it. Also in that time, poor workmanship wasnt exclusively Yugos problem. Quality (or a lack of same) would ensure that the car could not survive in a competitive marketplace. } To this day I have never felt a more imprecise,balky shifter. if(document.getElementById("unic-gdpr")) { Her brake lines had been cut. Just finished Drowning Mona and came here for background. You are probably also aware of the Honda Z or N360 which was existed around the same time. Had a Datsun King Cab twenty-odd years agoand I went parts-shopping in boneyards. Its avoidable with regular replacement, true. Screenwriter Peter Steinfeld says the film was originally going to be set in a mythical north. I was sure youd have had one. Film Focus: Drowning Mona. The only car known to have been blown off of the Mackinac Bridge. Although it shares some similarities with the Fiat 127, it is actually based on the much more advanced Autobianchi. Had the car been screwed together properly, and had there been an engineering department to iron out the bugs, it could have had a long run. The interior was fading right from day one. Amazingly, someone got in it, started it, and it ran and drove (more or less) away. At only 20,000 miles it was worn out, fading, under powered, rusting, it wanted to die and be buried, it certainly didnt want to be a car! Very well-maintained. Very entertaining. What am I supposed to make outta that? I think it's worth keeping them separate because it's a in-joke of the film that almost everyone has a Yugo. My dad is a bit of a FIAT nut so he would wrench on it from time to time. Todays story, though, has nothing to do with anybody like that. 5 Yugo i know its a rare thing but should we park them together ? 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. 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. Of course not. I havent seen one on the road in at least 15 years. Visit Dealer Website. Competing econoboxes included the Chevy Chevette,. Assuming the gentleman was telling the truth, this has to be some kind Drowning Mona is a 2000 U.S. crime comedy starring Danny DeVito as Wyatt Rash, a local police chief from Verplanck, New York, who investigates the mysterious death of Mona Dearly (played by Bette Midler), a spiteful, loud-mouthed, cruel and around the town highly unpopular woman, who drove her son's Yugo off the . The body and car belonging to Kiely Rodni, a missing 16-year-old girl, may have been found in a Califronia lake on Sunday, according to a search and rescue group. Could you imagine if another country decided to do that? These are the kinds of people who don't like to be thrown out of bars because it's a loss of valuable drinking time. Yugo Cars in Drowning Mona 4,507 views May 7, 2014 19 Dislike Share Save The NZ Yugo 1.65K subscribers Oh such a crack up movie and it involves my favorite thing YUGOS! Zastava built some world class arms. 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. The gravity powered it! Its not too late! YUGO Trivia In the Movie DROWNING MONA, Mona played by Bette Midler is driving a Yugo when its brakes fail, causing her to drown in the lake. Knobs came off in your hand, the sliding radio marker on a string would get stuck and not move off of from where it landed. Doug DeMuro joyfully reviewed one a couple of years ago. And as any living myth, this one spreads into other areas as well: Also, this post made me curious: how did Subaru make the transition from dangerous sardine can to granola FWD/AWD family compact in the US? VW, in its first days, had all the same problems as Zastavabut with a product that was continually improved, they overcame it inside of five years. Well, as they say, two out of three aint bad. It would take about eight years from apparent problem to engineered fix to failure of the fix and another engineered solution. I probably still have it somewhere. As noted, Bricklin first noticed the subcompact Yugo on the streets of London and within a couple of months, he had set up his first meet and greet with the management at Zastava . Reading in Consumer Reports that the tester injured his toe when the front seat came crashing down on it. Required fields are marked *. One time the keys were out and the car was still on and would not turn off. But I was unprepared for the panoply of problems that came abouteverything from a latent short or current leak, that would kill the car and prevent starting without warning (to restart, the only way was to pull the battery terminal to let whatever relay was behind it, reset) to binding heater-control cables. What kind of sicko lives there? And management, often put there through politics, has little interest in learning of customer dissatisfaction. I would love to find one of those. The car she is driving is a Yugo, and the pic's locale is Verplanck, New York (north of New York City), that actually was a test market for the ill-fated economy car in the late 1970's. . Mine was 5 years old and had like 40K miles on it. With Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Neve Campbell, Jamie Lee Curtis, Casey Affleck, Peter Dobson, Will Ferrell, William Fichtner, Raymond O'Connor, Marcus Thomas and . During the time the clutch cable was dying, I broke the shifter mechanism, due to the clutch cable dying. His routine went something likeThe Yugo, what self respecting country would name a car that sorry after itself? 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. In a recent episode of Top Gear UK the trio were allegedly asked by an alleged high-ranking member of the alleged Romanian Mafia what would be the best luxury car for one of his stature. Technically if its going downhill it wasnt moving on its own power. If I remember correctly, the car was equipped with all the usual goodies a Fiat engine with dual Webers, full roll cage, sticky racing tires, etc. (At the same dealership on the window sticker above,actually). I wonder if he actually carried that threat out, and if his daughter ever forgave him if he did. of record for a Yugo. As far as ethnicity goes, Im Russian by birth, Belarus to be exact, and have that somewhat stocky build to prove it! Ive never felt safe in any car that light so would never have considered owning one, no matter how cheap, even if they had been decently made vehicles. Comments are property of their authors. Ever notice how a lot of movie smokers seem to have just lighted their cigarettes? Drowning Mona - An explanation informs viewers that the setting (Verplanck, New York) was a test market for Yugos. I did appreciate the way Yugo could make one part do what a western car needed three for. And it tanked with the critics. So, they set about seeing what was what with a road-trip around Romania in three cars they would be testing. My little red Yugo was dead. Just like the Russian Lada its simple and DIY friendly as long as you relise that and dont expect a Lexus. 500 Yugo cabrio were imported to the States. One time the shifter came off in my hand. (Cracked distributor cap, IIRC.) Most can be rectified by the shareholders or the Boards of Directors, the shareholders representatives. It was a much more reliable and simple design than the 128 engine in States bound Yugos. as long as you didnt try to get away with normal American car owner maintenance. Trouble for him was, the rest of America wasnt interested in postwar America. 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. Nobody had let management know that the wiring harness as made, wasnt usable in that part of the car. First, salt as a melting agent on roads was relatively new. Reviewed in . 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DROWNING MONA 1/2 Tasteless but sporadically uproarious black comedy. Id actually like to have another one, but beef it up with Fiat parts. Destination was Las Vegas; and by the time I got there the only way to get it to move was in First. What a story! Hell, I was 20 years younger, A lot can change in that time. I pampered and took extremely good care of it and maintained it very well, it just couldnt hold up to being pampered either. Danny DeVito (Chief Wyatt Rash) and Tracey Walter (Clarence) appeared in Matilda (1996). It's got an absolute star studded cast including Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Casey Affleck, William Fitchner, Neve Campbell, Jaime Lee Curtis, with a cameo, and even . I recall A caddy dealer in the Cleveland area who gave away a free Yugo with the purchase of a Cadillac! What is the purpose of door release handles if they break right away (they appeared to be bendable plastic molded around a paper clip), and how did they ever get installed in the first place if they didnt work to begin with? At Zastava, these were foreign. (not the 1st time Ive done this,haha). They did not have such a bad reputation,at least not as bad as the rear engined Skodas (A former test site for the Yugo car company, we're told. Only other thing it needed to be roadworthy was front tires. Its like almost any car; get to know its issues, and if you have the mechanical inclinations to deal with them, theyre pretty simple cars otherwise. People who took care of some basic maintenance and corrosion protection could see 10 to 15 years of service without too much trouble. In the beginning they had some brief text ( "Years ago, the Yugo Car Company chose Verplanck, New York, to test market its new breed of vehicle. This is the real reason that Yugo failed in the US- a poor dealer network. Someone wanted her dead. Audis have been headaches to owners at various times. Someone steeped in the maintenace required to keep something like a Trabant running would probably be right at home with a Yugo. When I was living in Montana in 2001, some masochist/crusty old guy was using one as a daily driver and it looked new. The displacement limit for kei cars was increased to 550cc some years ago. I had been driving a Datsun 200 SX and the 5 speed was like silk. 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. Which, actually, was a very good little car . I bought it in January because I figured it would be fun to see just how bad it could be. There was nothing inherently wrong with the 360, and all the other Japanese manufacturers had a car at the time with more or less similar features. Your experience was exactly what my suspicions were about these cars. Except that the belt managed to get into the TIMING BELT caseand pop THAT off. They had other third-world markets in mind. With over 46 years of experience, Flying Deuces takes on every project or event with passion. I really believe that the cars were treated as disposable, and in that way expectations were met. Since it had the potential to continue the well-regarded reputation of the Autobianchi A112 base car as a small model in markets like the US compared to the SWB Fiat 127 derived car that become the infamous half-baked small Yugo. You mentioned this before; itd make a great article. Cool Cruise CAR SHOW Cruisin' Brea CAR SHOW Cruisin' La Verne CAR SHOW Brea Holiday CAR SHOW Project Home America Flying Deuces is a production, marketing, booking and advertising company. That said, the most maintenance I did on the car(s) were oil changes and other mundane regular maintenance. 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. I had the car 18 months or so, when in traffic one day a DUI driver rammed his Ford Fiesta (of all things) into the back of my Yugo and pushed me into a Nissan Maxima. At that time, Bricklin was probably best known for the eponymous car that he launched amidst much fanfare in 1974. Having seen pics of the 127, I can relay that the Yugo body is a complete reskin no lines or panels are the same or interchangeable. The Florida was reviewed very positively in the UK against western cars, and sadly only failed here because of the rise of Fascism in Yugoslavia, and its aftermath.. Fuji was pretty well aware that the car wasnt suitable for America circa 1969. . Mine was an 86 and a half Yugo. It WAS a simple-to-work-on car; and in that regard I appreciated it. I may know the only satisfied Yugo owner in the U.S. The steel is much thicker than Fiat used, and although fit and finish wasnt great, it was no worse than on a Fiat. But for all that, and with weight today an even greater issueour Asian friends seem to have licked the corrosion problem. A minor investment bank salvaged Bricklins investment in the venture in a complicated deal that settled some of his stale old debts and sent him far away from Yugo America. But these Yugos aren't just a frivolous component of the storythey're essential to establishing the wacky tone of the film. Do not sell my data Ive been toying with seeing if I can find one thats been stored in a garage somewhere and buying it to replace my aging truck that leaks oil and coolant and tide the time before I can buy the new Fiat 500. It had nervousness built into it, it made people nervous and it was nervous. Jamie Lee Curtis' character looks like she has some colorful insights to share but isn't given the dialogue to do it--she's more a plot marker than a person. During lunch the high schoolers came out and lifted it up so the front tires were up on the sidewalk. Based on the slightly larger Fiat 125, it was everything bad about a lada, but somehow worse. I saw this movie. I also bought a new Yugo in 1989, and had to replace brake master cylinder immediately because brakes would fail after about 10 km on the road. I bought a used, year-old Yugo. Same thing was sold in the US as the Precis. Had Bricklin been a true industrialist instead of a con-man, the winning idea might have been to buy out the Yugo tooling (Zastava was setting up for the Florida at the time, they might have been open to this) and moved the whole plant to a place where workmen were conscientious and quality control accepted. } In the end, its poor management. 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. Not a bit ! Malcolm Bricklin was one of those guys who is the quintessential P.T. Disc #1 -- Drowning Mona Play Feature Chapters Setup 5.1 Surround Stereo English SDH Subtitles: On Subtitles: Off Extras - Trailers Drowning Mona Eye Of The Beholder . I guess Ive been mispronouncing subaru all these years. Danny DeVito and Neve Campbell appeared together again six years after the release of this film in another comedy "Relative Strangers "(2006). She had a habit of parking illegally, and, faced with a ticket and impound bill that exceeded her estimate of the value of the car, donated it to the towing company. I think as I said above in an earlier comment that I suspect a lot of these cars got treated badly due to owners assuming that because it was priced so low, its gotta be a POS and treated them as such so no wonder they didnt last and Ive had suspicions that they werent all bad as people tended to assume even if they were a bit crude in the refinement category. The Yugo became the default entry level car for people that knew the price of everything but the value of nothing. The Italian Government and the Unions forced Fiat to cooperate. The carpet was very loose fitting and curled up in spots along the edges. As the movie opens, a local woman named Mona Dearly (Bette Midler) speeds down a country road and directly into the Hudson River when her brakes fail. I guess the major issue in my favor was the relatively inexpensive parts when I did need them, and the fact that Georgia is semi-arid, so no rust issues. Dubrovnik is kind of old fashion place with somewhat stricter rules about dressing on the beaches and elsewhere. Diversity was their strength!!!!!!!!!!! . The Yugos are a literal running joke throughout the movie. Neve Campbell was also working on Party of Five (1994) and Scream 3 (2000) while shooting this film. During WWII, they built a few Jeeps. We learn that Verplanck was selected as a test market when the Yugo was being introduced to the United States. 5.0 out of 5 stars Drowning Mona music CD. Here in Greece they are still around and not that rare. The real reason why Crvena Zastava went into this adventure was that they were desperate to get some foreign currency to keep assembly lines alive. 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