YUGO HOW IT WENT WRONG

I know what you’re thinking: Foster is really losing it. Why would anyone write about the Yugo GV, a car considered the worst automobile ever sold in the United States? One that he himself described as “an obsolete Fiat design assembled in a backwards country by disgruntled Communists.” Well, the truth is, the Yugo was such an awful car that it has acquired a sort of charm, kind of a “reverse snob appeal,” if you will. That’s not to mention that low survivability rates have made the once-ubiquitous Yugo a real rarity nowadays. And, you know what? They’re also kind of cute, in an “ugly VW Beetle” sort of way. Finally, their story is interesting.

The Yugo was a product of the Yugoslavian automaker Crvena Zastava, which began producing