Here's Why A 31 Year Old Yugo Is Still Worth $1000 Today

This 1986 Yugo GV was $3995 in 1986. Today I found out why it's still worth $1000 today, and why it's one of the most interesting cars for the money, by putting it on my lift.

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[boskovelicanstveni]

You said bad quality, but why is Yugo running well after 31 years?

[kireMK]

I learned to drive on a Yugo. #Balkan life

[mrverbeck]

A person goes into an auto parts store and asks, "Do you have a gas cap for a Yugo?" Person behind the counter says, "Sounds like a fair trade."

[urospetrovic]

About Yugo - that was my first car back in the 1994.... Actualy it is not that bad car at all, problem was with mass production or more accurate there was produced more cars than factory could make and normaly there is problem with quality because of it. Also they tryed to make it cheepest So we knew for flaws factory made and redone it in propper way.
A lots of people back than had a tuned Yugo's and the car is great for tuning, easy to work on and compatible with large number of other mostly Italian cars (Fiat, Lancia). We have start with body/chases and after some spot welding and making body harder (similar like any other sport cars) most important was to change suspension - to put some quality shocks and lower the car. Next was the brakes - depends of what engine you put in the car and that was not a big job... Even with propper tuned factory engines (you have to change pistons, crankshaft, engine head - or tune it by changing valves, work on intake, outake channels, etc etc... List is sure endless LOL) You got a propper sport car - great fun to drive, reminds me on go kart :D 1.1 factory engine was tuned from stock 55 to 65, 75 all to 100+ HP but that was heavy tuning and very expensive for sure. Great thing is that if you want to swap engine you dont need to do almost any mod and mostly people used 1.6 Fiat engines (Fiat Tipo) and now we have crossed a line and from "silly toy" we have a lots of power on a very light car. Some ppl had 2.0 engines too.... Next - transmission.... That factory one I had was very bad - gear ratios was very badly and easy fix was to take it from old models - short gears and 4 instead of 5 gears (Zastava 101) that is perfect for 1.1 engines. What I like about Yugo is fact there is no electronics in it (exept injection fuel system if you have one), no ABS, no any of that stuff - everything is in your hands, Symple, feeling that YOU drive car <3 In the end I can say that Yugo have bring me a lot of happy moments I will never forget :)

[AustinsGarage]

I had a blast man!! Thanks for having me!!

[ruk--]

Q. Why does a Yugo have rear a window defroster?
A. To keep your hands warm as you push it.

[TheFrowningLizard]

The slots on the bottom of the car are Jacking points. The jack looks like a T on its side. You slide the jack in to the slot, put base on floor and wind it up :D

[Drev]

I love Yugos! My buddy had a gray one with red trim back in the early 90's, guessing it was a higher end one, because it looked sporty. I was always amazed at how thin the doors were, and how it felt like a go-cart going through the turns. Good video, brought back a lot of memories!

[ooglefluffg]

I love how there are so few Yugos around that this exact same one keeps popping up on different YouTube channels.

[gregorytimmons]

A car guy that can't recognize a Jack point.

[djtotino]

it is 55hp model. there was also an 45hp model, but it has smaler, diferent engine with 900 cm3. Yugo is still making many people proud, and nostalgic.. greetings from Serbia!

[ekspresija]

Things on the both sides that you saw under the car are for manual jack lift that should be somewhere in the original tool kit. When you are changing the tire you slide the axle of jack lift into one of those metal frames and you lift the car :)

[gurugoguzhanson]

As a young man it gave me easy of mind, I never had to save up money to buy new tires or do repairs, it was so cheap. It really is the best car for a young student.

[efkaverx]

Here's Why A 1000 Year Old Yugo Is Still Worth $31 Today

[alexanderliverierolavelli]

My mother had one (I'm from Italy, it was a yugo 55 (50 HP version) it was spartan, but for the car it was accelerated Ok and also was source of NO undue breakages. yrs early '90 It hadnyce alloy wheels

[hausmeisterengineering]

Those things in the bottom of the car are for inserting the jack for the spare tire.

[cdigity]

There yugo again with the cheesy puns 🤣

[thenzyugo]

The 1.1 liter engines actually put out about 55hp

[TOMA]

You know what's interesting... I live in Serbia (where Yugo is made), I actually bought Yugo new 2008 and it looks almost exactly the same, no innovation (airbags, electric windows, etc.) just more bulky bumpers and some interior design if I can call it that way in 2008. But I have no bigger problems with it for full 8 years (every day driving, going to work staff like that).
Cheep for maintenance low fuel consumption, even upgrade it to LPG so it was sort of a green car. :)
It's a great video man, keep it up.

[AutomotiveAmerican]

Take a look under a Fiat, Ford or any other front wheel drive of this era and the design is the same. The fact you don't recognise a jacking point is a bit scary :)