Jeremy Clarkson is an idiot. WTF does he want for 1800€? If Zastava was producing top end bars like the Aston Martin, Brit(ck)s would be eating dust!

     by mAT on September 26, 2006 at 10:04 am

Ah well…. It might seem funny now, but it was so real once Does anyone remember that there were two versions of Yugo? Yugo 45A was meant for US market, whereas Yugo45E was meant for European (i.e.: Yugoslav) market. Appartently the “A” version was much better!

     by pengovsky on September 26, 2006 at 10:06 am

Well… Jeremy Clarkson is a funny guy. Even funnier is, that he is complaining about Yugo’s fuel consumption. Actually, he bought a 150.000 US$ worth Ford GT with a fuel consumption of a giant twister in the gas tank.

Despite the price, his Ford GT was delivered late, and had ongoing problems with its anti-theft alarm. According to Clarkson, the alarm would activate while he was in the car, and sometimes activating every 15 or so minutes for an extended period of time. This led Clarkson to return it to Ford for a full refund. And that didn’t stop him buying same car back two months later

And they awarded the car in the Top Gear show with “gas guzzler” award… Apparently it did during their tests 4 miles per gallon… and with its thank, that means it did approx. 110 km on one tank… (basically, official combined fuel consumption is 12,5 miles/gallon - thats around 320km with one tank, or better around 19l per 100km…), thats about critising Yugo…

And with UK prices, one drive from my home to my work would probably spend my monthly budget for fuel I would rather have a Yugo… and Yugo 45 was the car where I was learning to drive…

     by Matty on September 26, 2006 at 10:11 am

Yugo was a legend. It was my first car and it had a very very special feature no other car has. When you would start it up it would make a huge white cloud of smoke in the back - a kind of smokescreen like that British than has. Uau! For only 99.999 tolars! Anyway, British Rover was not, I am told, much better then Yugo anyway.

     by Odisej on September 26, 2006 at 11:10 am

Odisej reminded me of a Yugo owner, who boasted that his Yugo has a digital fuel injection. Upon my rather naive question “Digital? You’re pulling my led” he replied “No, seriously. It only has two modes: ON and OFF”…. go figure

     by pengovsky on September 26, 2006 at 2:48 pm

And which is Clarkson’s worst car? I hever managed to see that show. I heard Clarkson fired missiles at that car from an army helicopter… someone has a video link perhaps?

     by nik on September 26, 2006 at 3:46 pm

So this post does not belong to the category Things You Probably Won’t See in the US?

     by alcessa on September 26, 2006 at 5:12 pm

Nik, for your pleasure:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TzNeEHhARY

My mother once had a Yugo 55 - Koral. I still remember that sweet brown dashboard Uh, those were times.

     by abaris on September 26, 2006 at 5:19 pm

Oh, guys, don’t take such offence to Clarkson, he always criticizes cars that are cheap and not a single bit powerful. It’s his trademark “quality”. And with a couple of servings of British humour, Top Gear is actually pretty fun to watch. Oh yes, another thing those guys terribly hate are caravans. Destroying those seems to be their favourite pastime.

And mAT, good thing Zastava didn’t make cars like Aston Martin: Top Gear recently concluded you’re gonna get more looks with a 7-week old Golden Retriever puppy.

PS: For all the Clarkson haters in this world, something to make them feel better.

     by Matt on September 26, 2006 at 6:22 pm

Well, this Clarkson guy has always been far from boring.

However, this excessive tank use in the last video would somehow seem funnier if we hadn’t seen so many similar footages from ex-YU only a few years after this. So many more smashed Yugos followed, and it wasn’t just a show…

     by DamirK on September 26, 2006 at 7:32 pm

True, however this would’ve been considered offensive had he done this after the conflicts started. Quite frankly we can’t hold the guy guilty for not being able to predict the future..

     by Matt on September 26, 2006 at 9:58 pm

At the end of the day the Yugo was cheap and crap. A death trap, I remember driving it back in 91 and overtaking was impossible

     by paul on September 27, 2006 at 12:57 am

Matt… its well knows that Top gear has soft spot on caravans… so, that is why they did a test, why people love caravaning… one of the funniest videos from Top gear
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s6u-WQPhIs

     by Matty on September 27, 2006 at 9:30 am

Thanks abaris.

About Yugos - once I drove one and wished I never have to repeat the experience again. Where’s the fucking third gear… aah crap…

     by nik on September 27, 2006 at 12:04 pm

@ Matt:

Sure, his straightforward exaggerating both in terms of words and bullets was nothing but good fun.

Funny though - you could say he WAS in fact able to predict the future of many Yugos…

     by DamirK on September 27, 2006 at 11:35 pm

this is in every yugo joke, but - sometimes mom would start her cherry red yugo (interesting to see they had other colors too. as far as i can remember, ive alwoys associated yugo with being red :P) - and the windshiled wipers would come on it was quite a job turning them off. sometimes they would simply continue till engine shut down

     by ana. on September 29, 2006 at 2:50 am

But he ethnically cleanses the poor car! You have to give the Yugo some credit, it stood up pretty well to his first attack with the tank.

then there’s this from a favorite Sarajevo rock group

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sXaosmF1A8

     by Katja on September 30, 2006 at 5:30 pm

I learned to drive on a Yugo. After that, driving any car is piece of cake.

     by Viktor on October 11, 2006 at 3:53 pm

ok, here’s a joke (or maybe not) about the Yugo:

One morning I started that Yugo of mine…

     by Klemen on November 2, 2006 at 10:01 pm