The legendary YUGO is back! (not a joke, no, really true, honest, NOT click bait)
...and not a Rick Roll either. Yes it is true, Yugo is trying to make a comeback. Manual tranny too! ...
Thanks a lot for sharing this 😊👍🏻
At the moment it’s a 1:5 sized design study and while apparently the people of Kragujevac are rejoicing, there is no factory designated to produce it - the previous Yugo production plant being a Fiat one nowadays. So while the designer hopes for a functio...
Details, details, details.... but when was the last time you thought about Yugo?
roflol.... Yugo, omg, such a bad idea.
It was the successor of the Zastava 750/850…
Itself an upgrade of / up engined version of the Fiat 600. In that context it was leagues ahead of the predecessor 😉
In the peak year 300.000 were made…
But the war killed all that. For the remaining 17 or so years production trickled at a very slow rate (a total of 794k were made over 28 years).
Not that long ago…
Maybe the 1.6 GTi version 😉 At the same time let’s not forget that it was the second most successful new automotive brand introduction into the US after Hyundai in spite of a product completely unsuitable to the market.
Like the Lada Niva better...
😊 Source: New Zealand Classic Car Notice the inspiration for the Color used by Nomos on their new limited edition Worldtimer Source: Nomos 😁👍 ...
Looks like a fun SUV to me. :-D
Swap in a few modern bits including lightweight turbo.... A guy down the road from where i live put an 8L into a tiny Chevy Spark(!).
Forget about it…
The chassis is not up to it - you would need to do drastic strengthening even for the 16V 136bhp version of the engine it has. But very good fun off road 🦾
New is relative…
Some years ago. It’s the Traveller, i.e. the most modern model but like the Chevy Niva beforehand it is based on the same platform and has the same oily bits as the original. But does offer a satnav, parking sensors and a parking camera, automatic AC, sea...
😂😂😂
At least it was enjoyable and entertaining. On the road you are hard pressed to reach 140kmh but off road it’s quite capable. It’s not a Land Cruiser 300, so requires a lot more manual effort but you can get quite far.
Don’t get your hopes up just yet…
Like the relaunch of the Trabant I do not see this having the basis to make it into serial production just yet 🤷🏻♂️ But looking fun for sure 👍🏻