we met with hamas, if it goes ahead, the deal would end more than 15 months of slicing. and with that news you up today, thanks so much for watching the w and use me if you can at the top of the hour. familiar international headlines. the sheets advise the honda accord is oh no flushing illustrates as a 2 year old. the it was only much nation that you day to confront to deal with me to embark on that journey. i survived our thoughts, january 24th on d w. the machine you go a car from the coming this world that even one over hollywood it

made its mark far and wide. when i see it and i over how i feel like the whole thing you have sold like the they were not the just regular cars. say you go the socialist volkswagen from yugoslavia. not the best. but these are the maybe they, you go a car that socialism concord, america with the 12 months i mean is, are sold. and ronald reagan's america americans have voted this car the worst part of the millennium, the worst car in the world became a scar. and hollywood movies and that's where it came in. i caught it in a pop icon for failed the. it's boring when everything works to

hey, hugo, the tragic hero of history invented in yugoslavia before the multi ethnic country split into a nation states and just send it into war united. so all 6 involvements were working on the same this might be a simple, often country who doesn't exist anymore the, this is the story, but we need the new story. the story, if you will, go on. never and chat each from the serbian capital build. great is a die hard fan of the solid, affordable people's car from the bulk for decades, he's only driven, you goes what i see. and i over how i feel like cold. we always get the meaning of our family when the war was even in our farm or country with fabia. my mother with us in our hugo that was 3 years old in and me and my brother and my

mother we came to the survey and then it was a more time and we were shot sound. busy busy the wrong side of the board with a song that describes leading the yugoslav wars of the 1990s in a you go, the band does that run, you know, of course and yet still fails, huge concert halls. today you go 451 of the most successful hits in the history of bulk. and pub, is an anthem to a simply timeless car. right? before you like you're driving. so i think that that was the 1st major you mean the early eighty's? so and, and there they were, they were always the same. you know, there was like a small changes that they were produced for through the years. but hugo is a disaster of, of plants incorrectly gave us had been producing fee on since 1953 because like

possessed of a $7050.00, a version of it, the $600.00 were intended to make the people immobile. the goal of yugoslavia led by your ship rose tito from 1945 because the communist country wanted to build a successful independent economy. research and development center was founded f as asked of a factory at the start of the 1970s. we understood that the effect today must be for independent fleet, having its own r a d. that's why, oh, 1st got xyz to what one full one was j t. then simular jewel. and finally, the 40, the model that you go became, is asked of as most successful products in 1980. the 1st you go to roll off the production line was presented as a gift to you. this lab president t 2 in

a festive state ceremony. the to this day the hugo is a spots and car within the $45.00 horsepower and a very special driving experience. and you feel via the floor. yeah. because the, the, somebody of noisy and, but the that's, that's all the, all the parts of the experience with that these are the points of the car. i like the feeling that you have always engaged when you desire these type of cars because you always have to take something serious over here. you have to do everything manually, but the you go did get a few small look serious details. very simple. inside here we kept the back, the rear defroster, where you can just the warm up your hands if you need to pause to call your chemical or in a wheel. it works and of course use of a lights are too light up

a cigarette and the context of discard interior is the, it's a small counter but each has 3 x rays. so everybody needs to smoke. but the heart of the you go is under the hood. uh, reset. uh you go engine 9. 0903 cubic centimeters. also the, the transmission is also here so you can fix it on every parking lot. it's a very cheap got a chip to maintain the image. chad, it's regularly takes part in the outings organized by the exhaustive effect club in bel. great. anyone who owns a car produced at this asked of a plant is welcome. thank left members, loved the balkan style of car construction makes it good that i would have since you don't have the a, b, and c like a database and look at anything. so it's basically you and the costs, and you need to feel it's on the status from the beginning. i was in love

with these cars. these cars bring together all generations means a lot to me because the, to the same model that because of the, as a, a big the when i was a child, i want to capture, you know, the feeling and of themselves. but i want to make new a new memories really if you the car that really made my life the way it is now because the me and my brother, which we did somebody's vacation and we had a great time. how so i met my husbands this way, so i always say that this is the reason why my doctor exists. it goes without saying that using tools is part of every hugo owner's daily life. you need is a lot them to take good care of them in order for them to take care of you. and so the soon of you, properly the smart coming out of it from the dust of

a bank that works as a tour guide for the hugo verse agency in belgrade in his festival, one o one which was sold under the name hugo's scholar. he takes taurus on a tour of the former yugoslavia the scar, this thing please something unique that you have to experience. especially while we're driving and you're looking at those buildings that were built in common this period in virtually as you can uh simply it's like a time machine. i highlight it every one of marco's tours is the genex tower. the 36 story skyscraper, which opened in 1980 was one of president tito's pet projects. he had a stablish to come in a system in yugoslavia that was very open to the capitalist west and also had successful trade relations with it. i would say this is the to wanted to show how

big and strong we are. so keep me old buildings and new bells a big so this is the biggest building that you can see in your slide. here is the, this building symbolizes the legal, flavio and it's also happening with hugo is also $100.00 once a year ago, has been exported to $74.00 countries, including the united states, introducing the new hugo paramount engineering achievement from yugoslavia. busy in 1985, malcolm rickland, philadelphia born entrepreneur, founded that you go america company to bring the compact. you go to market in the united states, dependability in his book, the rise and fall of the worst car in history. american historian jason view, it will tell us this exciting story in a communist car sold and ronald reagan's america that alone. you know, the, the answer seems obvious. but americans,

again has no idea where you just lobby was. so it was it the communist issue. but what drew everyone's attention to the car was the price. it was $3990.00. brand new. the 1st you go advertisements, it's the model t, the volkswagen in the you go and it says introducing the same old idea. the hugo was one of those people's car that we've had in our history. every body needs are used though, sometimes. online you go because now i can afford a brand new car. and the cars sold like hot cakes, non lines of people formed in front of every hugo dealership under $4000.00 and unbeatable deal. you know, like any new bad people rush to look at it and to buy it may be kind of to be the 1st person on their street to show their neighbors. you know, i'm, i'm the crazy guy with this cheap car. i don't care about, you know, uh you know,

consumer culture and america and the you go change the entire us automobile markets such a small and cheap vehicle had never been for sale there before and its 1st year in the us. the compact car from yugoslavia sold around $40000.00 units in the 1st year the hugo was the fastest selling european import in us history. so once the hugo entered the low end of the market, it showed you know, the car producers around the world that there still is a market there and it, it may be viable that hyundai, jumped in die hops who jumped back in. suzuki came back in. uh, you know, all of a sudden there was, you know, an american journalist who covered automobiles called that race to the bottom. but then more and more american car experts began to take a closer look at the cheap car from you. this love you, it became clear,

it couldn't always keep up with us standards and america's most important consumer organization also turns a spotlight on that. you go, the consumer reports can help you get better value and they review the you go and consumer report said, don't buy that, you go. the review alone was enough to be in the national news. you know the next morning, dear with the news, said you, you're at work and then pretty soon it's on david, letterman, and jay leno and, and from there it, it, it went from, you know, you go mania and consumer fad to national icon and national joke, j how do you get a you've or to go 0 to 60 in 10 seconds. i don't know to drive the class, she's wanting freight but well the hugo became a media star with sales fleming. that was partly due to developments back home and

yugoslavia with his strong personality president. tito had always managed to unite the different peoples and religions in the country. but after his death in 1980 more and more tensions and conflicts flared in yugoslavia leading to war in 1991 this lobby was starting to france and we use lobby with serbia goes under un sanctions as a business you will, america is sanctioned. and now was really b. s. and finally, and in, in 1999, a nato bombed the hugo plant, the soft of a plan. it was a arms manufacturer. and so, you know, this is like, the final question though, of my, you go offer a, can you have it, you go without, you just lobby a. and the answer was no. the country split into 6 separate nations. the employees

of this asked of a factory, fought to continue producing a small series in newly independent serbia. but on november, 11th, 2008, the last hugo rolled up the production line, the end of an illustrious chapter in european automobile history. with $800000.00, you goes bill to over almost 30 years. how did these 2 or this they? exactly 16 years ago. the us will be very sought and very emotional. but even if you go so no longer being built, they're more alive than ever in arts and culture. the story of fuel go on. it's, it's what is the story that's kept? you go live it. some of the car just kept you will likely to, sorry. you go to successful product in a communist country has won over the glove, played a role in creating a sense of identity and radiated charm through it's very flaws. the worst car in the world just keeps on going edit story, which already reads like the script for

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