Feb 18, 2025 · Buzz, Renault brought back the 4 and the 5, and now, the Yugo brand is unexpectedly rising from the grave. Prof. Dr. Aleksandar Bjelić, an engineer, economist, and professor with decades of experience in the car industry, is behind the project.

Feb 18, 2025 · Now the Yugo is coming back, this time built in a free-market country with a whole new look - and new engineering. Throughout its production life, the Yugo was a symbol of basic mobility, but in recent years, it has become an icon of pop culture.

Feb 20, 2025 · The Yugo is coming back! Maybe. Eventually. Probably not to America, though. Progress so far includes trademark rights and sketches of what a modern Yugo hatchback might look like.

Feb 17, 2025 · Now there are plans for it to make a comeback, but as an entirely new vehicle. The first sketches of the new Yugo have just been released, a scale model is set to be unveiled this year, and you should mark the 2027 Belgrade Expo to see the full-scale, running prototype.

It is a subcompact hatchback manufactured by Zastava Automobiles from 1980 until 2008, originally a Yugoslav corporation. Originally designed as a shortened variant of the Fiat 128, series production started in 1980.

Feb 18, 2025 · If you’re unfamiliar (or under the age of 25), the Yugo was a small supermini built by Zastava at a factory in former Yugoslavia (its factory is in what’s now Serbia) which was heavily derived...

Mar 8, 2012 · On September 22, 1989, Leslie Ann Pluhar died when her car, a 1987 Yugo, plunged over the 36-inch-high (91 cm) railing. High winds were initially blamed, which was not supported by recorded wind speed measurements taken …

Feb 22, 2025 · The Yugo as such never changed its platform, drivetrain or body shape significantly throughout its production run. There were slight styling changes made to appearance in terms of plastic add ons sometime around 2000., but the car never changed much.

Feb 20, 2025 · Back in the 1980s, a car manufacturer called Zastava Yugo began producing extremely economical compact cars commonly referred to as Yugo. In the U.S., these ...

Yugo is coming back! It was introduced in 1980, based on the Fiat 127, and was designed to offer economical and reliable transportation. And the truth is that it was widely accepted by the drivers of Eastern Europe and Balkans, recording 800,000 sales from 1980 until 2008 when its …