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made its mark far and wide. when i see you over how i feel like, oh, they do 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 these are sold and ronald reagan's america americans have voted this car, the worst part of the millennium, the worst car in the world that became a scar. and hollywood movies and that's where it came in. i caught up in a pop icon for failed the. it's boring when everything works.

that you go. the tragic hero of history invented in yugoslavia before the multi ethnic countries but intonation states and descended into war lighting. so all 6 republicans were working on the same it's maybe a simple often country who doesn't exist anymore the. this is the story, but we need the new story. the story if you're able to go on and check it 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 in a over how i feel like cold we always get the medium, our family when the war was even in our farm or country with lobby. a my mother with us in our hugo that was 3 years old and and the me and my brother and

my mother we came to the serbia, 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 that run, you know, of course and yet still fails to it's concert halls today. you know, 451 of the most successful hits in the history of bulk and pub, is an anthem to us simply timeless car before a like you're driving. so i think that that was the. busy first major, you mean the early eighty's? so and then there they were, they were always the same. you know, there was like a small changes that they were produced for 3 years about hugo is a possessive of plants. incorrectly gave us had been producing fee since 1953

cars 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 yes it but it was tito from 1945 because the communist country wanted to build a successful independent economy. a research and development center was found it possessed of a factory at the start of the 1970s. we understood that the effect today must be form in depended fleet, having its own r a d. that's why all 1st got xyz to 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 horse power and a very special driving experience because it needs to be as noisy and, but that, that's, that's all the, all the parts of the experience with the. busy 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 some exterior over you, your shift to do everything manually. that 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 chains. if you need to pause because you have a car in a wheel, it works. and of course you have

a lights are too light up a cigarette and the context of these car interior seats a small carter, but each has 3 x rays. so everybody needs to smoke. but the heart of the hugo is under the hood of a hugo 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 to keep them in things, the damage chevy. it's regularly takes part in the outings organized by the exhaustive of fan club in bel. great. anyone who owns the 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 as in the database and look at anything. so he'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, as in victor, when i was a child, i want to capture, you know, the feeling of some cell just, but i want to make new humanities visit if you the car that really made my life the way these now because the me and my brother we, we do somebody vacations 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 daughter did it goes without saying that using tools is part of every hugo owners, daily life. you needed to love them to take good care of them in order for them to take care of you and to serve you properly. smart cut me off pivots from

the dust of a bank that works as a tour guide for the hugo verse agency in belgrade to in his festival. 101 which was sold under the name you go scala. he takes taurus on a tour of the former yugoslavia scars. this is simply something unique that you have to experience, especially while we're driving and you're looking at those buildings that were built in communist period in utah ism, you can simply, it's like a sign machine. a highlight of every one of marco's tours is the genex tower. the 36 dori skyscraper, which opened in 1980 was one of president tito's pet projects to establish the communist system in yugoslavia that was very open to the capitalist west and also had successful trade relations with it. i would say this is peter wanted to

show how big and strong we are. so he made of buildings in new bells a big so this is the biggest building that you can see in you will slide here is the, this building symbolizes the. the was fabio, and it's also happening with hugo as i saw $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 trip in 1985, malcolm bricklin, a philadelphia born entrepreneur, founded the hugo america company to bring the compact to 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 answer seems obvious. but americans,

again has no idea where you this 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 its the model t, the volkswagen and 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. i'm 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, a non feasible deal. you know, like any new bad people rush to look at it in the by it may be kind of it'd be the 1st person on their street to show their neighbors. you know, i'm on the crazy guy with his cheap car. i don't care about, you know, a, you know,

consumer culture in 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 and 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 you go 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 and it may be viable that hyundai jumped in. i had to jump back in suzuki came back in the, you know, all of a sudden there was, you know, an american journalist who covered automobiles called that a race to the bottom. but then more and more american car experts began to take a closer look at the cheap car from you best lab. yeah. it became clear it couldn't

always keep up with us. standards and america's most important consumer organ is ation. also turns a spotlight on the 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 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, romania 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 you go became a media star with sales plus that was partly due to developments back home and

yugoslavia with a 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 when 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 off 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 will does they? exactly 16 years ago, the us the will be very sought and very emotional. but even if you go so no longer being built, they are 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 live? it's not the car this got to you, but allow me to sorry say 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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