Update A good find from friend and commenter Isophorone.
Whether it's ideas or cars: "Was the Yugo As Bad As Critics Said? Yes."
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Update A good find from friend and commenter Isophorone.
Whether it's ideas or cars: "Was the Yugo As Bad As Critics Said? Yes."
That’s the thing about commie engineers and commie industries ….. quality control was non-existent, and workers taking pride in their skills and products was unheard of.
ReplyDeleteI’m pretty sure the AK47 was successful because it’s so simple, you have to work at screwing it up (which I’m sure happened).
And let’s not forget how many failures (official and unofficial) the Soviet space program had. As Stalin once said, “One death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.”
Why focus just on the Yugo? Ask the same question of the Trabant or the Wartburg or the Lada.
ReplyDeleteAll Commie crap (in the case of the Lada it was a design copied from Fiat that the Commies made even worse).
There's a real Trabant at the Fort Lewis museum.
ReplyDeleteOh, wait, EXCUUUUSSSSEEEE ME! That's the "Joint Base Lewis-McChord" museum. My bad (not).
“140,000 Yugos were sold in the U.S.”
ReplyDeleteI wonder how many are still on the road? Or even more or less still in one piece?
There is a Yugo owners club headquartered in Kenosha, Wisconsin, so if each member has a Yugo....
I read for years that the Yugo was horrible, but I never knew they actually made it to our shores.
ReplyDeleteThey were cheap, cheap, cheap.
ReplyDeleteAs one comedian put it, it was like strapping on a lawn chair and hitting the highway.
Commies always make crap, look at the Mig-15, a direct copy of the Sabre, the ratio of shoot downs was something like 19-1. That wasn't just crappy, commie pilots.
I remember the Dan Aykroyd line in Dragnet '87 about "the cutting edge of Serbo-Croatian automotive technology."
ReplyDeleteOK, I found it!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1LxlZ8pTRg
Leave it to Dan Aykroyd! Always has great lines!
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