If you’re my age, you might remember Yugoslavia as a sort-of Communist country that was a nice place to go on holiday. But you’ll definitely remember it for the cheap, tiny hatchback thrust upon an unsuspecting public – the Yugo. It went from an amazing new inexpensive car to the butt of many a joke in a short space of time, then suddenly disappeared from sale. What were the Yugo’s origins, why did its meteoric rise end so suddenly, and what happened to the company behind it?

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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugoslavia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zastava...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zastava...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_128
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yugo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_127
https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%97%...
https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%88%...)
https://www.automobile-catalog.com/
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https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brickli...
https://web.archive.org/web/200710072...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiat_Pu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCA_Serbia

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