I guess that depends upon how liberal your definition
of "car" is. Basically it's the mechanicals of a Fiat
128 Sedan in an even cheesier body, assembled in
Yugoslavia by workers who evidently didn't take much
pride in their product. The genuine Fiat 128 wasn't
really a bad car in its day - the Sport Coupe and
Tri-Porte models had a better suspension by far, the
Sedans got a front suspension that makes a
SuperBeetle's look robust (good enough for a shitbox
but no performance-handling potential). The
Communist-built version had some major quality-control
issues, though. The 1116cc engine uses pressed-in
wristpins (larger variants of the same engine like the
1290 had full-floating pins like your VW) and that was
one of the more serious problems with the Yugo motors
- the pins weren't properly fitted and the engines
tended to self-destruct. They were also "interference"
engines, meaning that if the camshaft drive belt
breaks you can count on at least 5 bent valves even if
it was only idling in the driveway, and far worse
damage at high speed. Running one past 40-50,000mi
without replacing the belt was asking for trouble, but
the cheapskates who bought these cars seldom did
proper maintenance, so many of them died that way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_128
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugo
--- asad ishaque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
....Is Yugo a car??? Never made it to this part of
> the world....
>
> Asad
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