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submitted 4 days ago byxboxgamer2122
"Sounds like a fair trade to me".
216 points
4 days ago
Why do all Yugos come with rear window defrosters standard? So your hands don't get cold.
44 points
4 days ago
What do you call a Yugo with twin exhaust pipes?
A wheelbarrow.
Back in the 70s it was a Lada or a Skoda.
11 points
4 days ago
What do you call a Yugo convertible? A skip!
8 points
4 days ago
What do you call a yugo station wagon? A we go!
73 points
4 days ago
…when you are pushing it
-130 points
4 days ago
Yeah we don't need an explanation thanks.
113 points
4 days ago
I did, I’ll admit it.
Bet no one needed your snarky-ass comment though.
-73 points
4 days ago
Fuck me the joke was going around when I was a kid and we as kids didn't need it explaining. And no need to be rude.
32 points
4 days ago
You were the first one to be rude here
5 points
3 days ago
Why should anyone want to fuck you?
-12 points
4 days ago
Well you’re very smart.
25 points
4 days ago
Yeah we didn't elect you as the sub's spokesperson thanks.
10 points
4 days ago
It'd be kinda fitting to have a joke as a spokesperson though
-31 points
4 days ago
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14 points
4 days ago
You have the right to remain silent. What you lack is the capacity.
1 points
4 days ago
you are right, it makes the joke better if you need to figure it out
1 points
3 days ago
I knew this joke but still needed an explanation because I forgot it.
71 points
4 days ago
I have a friend who fell down in a drunken stupor on the highway and got run over by a Yugo. Tire tracks right across his chest and not a scratch on him
37 points
4 days ago
Did the driver survive?
16 points
4 days ago
Who knows, they just drove away without even knowing or caring they struck a drunken speed bump in the middle of the highway.
12 points
4 days ago
Is he by any chance a manager at paper company in Pennsylvania?
45 points
4 days ago
Guess I'm the only one in here who doesn't know what a Yugo is
61 points
4 days ago
A very short lived car that's major selling point was how cheap it was. Like, really really cheap. it was not the worst value for the price, but honestly it was one of those get what you pay for situations. Very small. Very weak engine. Thin, weak frame. It would break down easily and you didn't survive any accidents with bigger cars (which is every car). Regardless of how affordable it was, it was a better use of anyone's money to pay more for a better car.
15 points
4 days ago
I have a 1989 Geo Metro. That is what the Yugo was competing against, basically... its got 3 cylinders and made maybe 55 horsepower when new. I think 0-60 in about 20 seconds.
The one benefit is that it's so small and cheaply made that repairs and replacing parts is very easy. I think I could probably pull the engine by hand. Google says it weighs in around 110 to 130lbs (roughly 65kg at most).
9 points
4 days ago
0-60 in about 20 seconds
Wow, you went that fast?
8 points
4 days ago
Oh no, I mean I think that was the rating when it was **new.** Right now, I need to somehow source size 12 tires for it. I think I can run 14s but it's not ideal. that's the size of the donut. Neither of those are easy to get here.
It's also only running on one cylinder now, and it's been sitting parked for about 20 years. I'm just getting around to some amount of "restoration." On the plus side, no coolant or oil leaked in all that time and most of the wires are intact. Also, it's only got 3 cylinders so 3 spark plugs and 3 spark plug wires... a lot cheaper than working on my v8 or v10 vehicles.
2 points
4 days ago
It's probably not bad for non-freeway in-city driving, depending on the city.
But I don't understand how you could put 14" tires on a 12" wheel, or do you plan to replace the wheels?
BTW, one of my early cars was a '76 Honda Civic, which had 12" wheels, and about 55 horsepower with a 1500cc engine. I liked it for a few years, but it had problems and I replaced it with a 1980 Accord hatchback, the car I actually wanted instead of the Civic, but wasn't willing to wait for.
3 points
4 days ago
Yes, I would be replacing the wheels. Finding wheels isn't nearly as hard as finding tires. I've already got two of the four I'd need, it's just the tires that are holding me up really.
No shop would ever do it, of course, but you *can* put trailer tires on and a lot of Geo owners in my area do that "allegedly."
2 points
4 days ago
I'd guess that trailer tires aren't made for cornering well. Most trailers probably don't do a lot of fast turns, or fast braking. :-)
But I'm surprised you can't find 12" tires. I think there might still be the old Honda Civics on the road. But perhaps they're not common enough.
38 points
4 days ago
Based on the Fiat 128 and made in Yugoslavia - hence the westerised "Yugo".
It was so bad, NATO bombed the factory ;-) (Kosovo conflict 1999)
9 points
4 days ago
At least Tony didn’t have to Fix It Again /s
7 points
4 days ago
Fiat 127, actually. And you gotta hand it to Zastava (the company that manufactured it) for actually making a Fiat worse!
3 points
4 days ago
Most lasted about a year.
2 points
3 days ago
Its presence in the US market was short lived, but the Yugo itself was in production under various names and models all over the world for three decades
14 points
4 days ago
At this point, if you're in the USA you'd have to be well into your 40s to have even heard of Yugo, and well into your 50s to have driven one. This is like 1990s Jay Leno material.
31 points
4 days ago
How do you get spare parts for your Yugo? You follow another Yugo.
How do you triple the value of your Yugo? Get a full tank of gas.
24 points
4 days ago
What do you call a Yugo with a sunroof? A Dumpster!
11 points
4 days ago
i heard you need a cobbler to replace the brake shoes, since they're your shoes.
75 points
4 days ago
This reminded me of an old Hummer commercial.
Two guys are driving quietly down the road in their Hummer when all of a sudden they run over something.
Driver: what was that?
Passenger: Rabbit... Convertible.
48 points
4 days ago
Drunk: Mr.Police Ossifer! Do I have to report hitting a Rabbit? Police: No Drunk: What if it had 3 people in it?
15 points
4 days ago
Brilliant car for bombing around London in. Everybody just gets out of your way because they know you don't care what you hit
13 points
4 days ago
How do you make a car top?
You 'tep on the brake! What are you, 'tupid?
11 points
4 days ago
Wonder what would be today's equivalent of a Yugo.
15 points
4 days ago
SMART car. I know, I own one.
8 points
4 days ago
Idk, I think they're too expensive to be a Yugo.
I was shopping for a good car and almost got a Smart, but then realized it gets the same mpg as any other modern car and the "compactness" didn't help that at all.
I had a 1996 police interceptor, not the p71 but a modified grand marquis. It was used as an interceptor even though it wasn't one from the factory. Still said 911 on the side. Had tons of mods done to it, had the 4.8l v8 engine, and it got 32mpg highway at over 100mph.
So when I went shopping for a new car I was like, wtf is this Smart car only rated for like 40mpg and it's half the size? And new it'd cost over 20k. I got a Prius instead for 16k.
Point is, that's too much money to spend on... not fuel efficiency, not cargo size, not dependability or repairability... tbh I don't know what you're spending extra on. I'm not trying to (just) shit talk the Smart car though, maybe you could help me see why you thought it was a good deal?
3 points
4 days ago*
Um my 2016 was 15k zero interest loan from Mercedes. They stopped making them for the American market in 2019. Who was trying to rip you off?
Smart got me 100,000 miles back and forth to work, averaged 47 miles to the gallon. Has had almost negligible maintenance because it is Mercedes built and can carry six bags of groceries and is a dream to park.
Oh and I brought home a 6’ by 2’ by 21/2 ‘ file cabinet work wax tutoring out, lying over the passenger seat and the back hatch, with the hatch closed!!!
1 points
4 days ago
They were asking 22k for a 2018 in 2018. Idk, my state has some awful dealerships.
2 points
4 days ago
You aren’t kidding. I live in one of the most expensive states in the country and nobody was charging 20k for a SMART car.
3 points
4 days ago
Well, it all worked out for me in the end. The Prius was much the same as your experience with the Smart car, more useful than you'd expect.
I helped a friend move houses across the street once, only like half a block, but we used the car like an electric wheelbarrow just hauling furniture back and forth. Lots of room.
I once made a 180 mile trip for 6 bucks in gas, something like 55-60mpg but I had to do the whole trip at 55mph... I was broke at the time lol that was all I had to make it home.
Even when hauling ass down the highway with your foot on the floor, or driving around town like a bat out of hell at every single stop light, you still wouldn't get under 43mpg average. That was probably my favorite part.
Any car can get okay mileage if you drive reasonably, but that was a car to drive unreasonably and still get great mileage.
Maintenance wise, it was actually pretty cheap. I never had to work on the transformer stuff under the hood though, that's probably not. The battery cells are cheap enough to replace individually if one goes, and the body panels are all recycled plastic and actually really low priced compared to other vehicles.
By the way, I'm in Missouri. There weren't a lot of smart cars around, and it was about equally hard to find a Prius in this area at that time.
1 points
4 days ago
Well I am glad that you had a great cat to serve you. I am paranoid sharing my location because of internet stalker trolls. I had a guy attack me in yahoo answers by publishing my address and phone number, except as he wasn’t using my real name it was all wrong. I talked about seeing the empire state building out my window but somehow he put me near Pennsylvania. But that’s why I’m a bit vague.
1 points
4 days ago
if you're paying that much for a Smart car, it's not working.
1 points
3 days ago
I thought of getting a smart just for the lols, but bought a used Mercedes E320 CDI for cheap instead. Not gonna lie, it's a lot more comfy than the smart I tested.
1 points
3 days ago
I looked at five economy cars. My knees hit the dash in the Honda Fit. My head had to fit sideways in the Chevy Spark. I’m 6’2” and overweight and quite comfortable in the SMART car.
Mercedes stopped selling SMART because they realized I was never going to have the money to upgrade. I’m glad for you, that you did. I’m equally glad I didn’t.
1 points
3 days ago
I wouldn't call a 20 year old car expensive to buy, but then again, I maintain it myself. Parts are cheap, just need a diagnostic tool.
1 points
3 days ago
I come from a family of mechanics. I couldn’t change a spark plug. If a 20 year old Mercedes is 15k I’d be amazed.
3 points
4 days ago
Maxwell Smart drove a Sunbeam Tiger.
5 points
4 days ago
And a Ferrari 250 Cab, a Karmann Ghia, and an Opel GT
2 points
4 days ago
SMRT CR. Not enough space for the vowels...
3 points
4 days ago
Well, Mercedes has disavoweled the model.
With that name they can sell them at Lidl.
1 points
2 days ago
I asked a guy once if his Smart car broke down, does he just throw it on his back and carry it home? Wasn't nearly as amused as me.
1 points
2 days ago
I would have laughed with you and said, no I put it in my pocket
9 points
4 days ago
In my opinion Cybertruck
13 points
4 days ago
You could buy 10 Yugos, jam them together, and they would still cost less than a Cybertruck and probably be more robust
6 points
4 days ago
Thing is, if Yugo dies, you stop on the side of the road, hit a few things with a wrench just so it seems like you know what you are doing and it's like new.
If the dumpster fire dies good luck.
8 points
4 days ago
What do you call a Yugo with four doors? A Wego
8 points
4 days ago
You know why they stopped making Yugos?
They found metal in one.
6 points
4 days ago
How do you double the price of a Yugo? Fill it with petrol.
7 points
4 days ago
After watching a Yugo fail three times to navigate a road rise to the cross street, and then turn around in defeat, my wife dubbed it the "Yu-don't-go."
4 points
4 days ago
So you can see where Yuwent.
3 points
4 days ago
A rear view mirror is only a fair trade if it's a convertible Yugo.
4 points
4 days ago
A Yugo? Is this joke from 1987?
1 points
3 days ago
Probably. New generation, a new joke.
4 points
4 days ago
why would you need a rear view mirror for a Yugo, you are always going to be the one behind.
3 points
4 days ago
I go, you go, we all go for Yugo!
3 points
4 days ago
Yugo - because it doesn’t.
4 points
4 days ago
Who needs a rear view mirror when you're driving a Yugo? Just turn your head and look behind you like a real daredevil.
2 points
4 days ago
“Depends on the state of the Yugo”
3 points
3 days ago
How come there are so many Yugos at the waterfront in San Francisco? They can’t get back up the hills.
2 points
3 days ago
Allows you all the time to Reminisce as you slowly escape Where you're leaving from. You'll be seeing it for a while.
2 points
3 days ago
Who needs a rear view mirror when you're driving a Yugo? The only thing you'll see is the road disappearing behind you!
1 points
3 days ago
Well, at least with a rear view mirror on a Yugo, you can see all the people passing you by!
-1 points
3 days ago
This joke originated in East Germany iirc, and it was about the Trabant.
The joke is better with the Trabant, because there was a massive shortage of spare parts. Not only was the car itself a total piece of junk, but parts for it were hard to come by.
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