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    Sound Your Horn

    Apr 06, 2020 6 minutes

    100K-mile Yugo owner speaks

    Being a one-time owner of a 1987 Yugo GV, I take issue with Patrick R. Foster’s article “Yugo: How it Went Wrong” in the Feb. 20 issue. I loved my Yugo and it served me well.

    Mr. Foster claims that the Yugo was “the worst automobile ever sold in the United States.” It must have been a good day when my Yugo was assembled, because it lasted me seven years and ran past 100,000 miles. It was my commuter car and I drove it daily more than 60 miles round trip in every conceivable weather condition in northwest Wisconsin. Overall, it was a very reliable car until the last year when it began to burn oil (up to a quart a week). The radiator also began to leak and during the last winter, the heater only worked sporadically. Due to heavy engine vibration, a spark plug once shot out its cylinder while going

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