After all, it would be quite valuable to a...Yugo collector. If that's a thing.
We probably don’t have to
tell you what a complete disaster of a car the Yugo was. But it’s fun,
so we will anyway. Known as the Zastava Koral in its homeland of what is
now Serbia, the Yugo was actually a copy of the
Fiat
127, a car which had gone out of production as obsolete 10 years before
the one you see here was built. To say there were quality issues would
be a massive understatement and the car was an utter failure in
non-communist countries.
But here’s one for sale in upstate New York that has
been remarkably well preserved. It’s being advertised as "mint," but
there appears to be a ding in one of the fenders, and the interior is
hardly concourse-ready. Moreover, it had 15,000 miles on the clock and
is advertised as having been garaged for 20 years. But being a 1987
model, that means it wasn’t garaged for 7 years. None of this would be
too big a deal if the asking price weren’t $8,500, about double the
original price. Now, that would be the correct inflation-adjusted price
for a new Yugo, but that isn’t how the second-hand car market works.
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