The Yugo

The Yugo has the distinction of being one of the few Eastern Bloc cars ever brought into the United States in large numbers. A car straight out of hell with reliability worse than that of an old Volvo's, and a ride worse than that of the infamous Ford Pinto, I do not envy anyone who had the misfortune to own one. It was possibly the worst low cost flop ever to be brought to the US market, and was introduced by Canadian businessman Malcom Bricklin, although it, as the name suggests, came from 1985 to 1991 be for being discontinued not to soon, and most likely several years to late. The car is so unbearably awful that it is actually painful for me to write it right now. Riding in a Yugo, of any kind, felt like riding in a wobbly metal box on wheels. If you were lucky enough to have Air Conditioning, there was a good chance that it wouldn’t work... Or it would just pump fumes into the vehicle. And with licks that sometimes locked the driver inside the vehicle, it would turn it into a smoke inhalation chamber. Yeah, not good. This dull car was available in a wide variety of  equally dull colors. These include many different shades of the same color. But that could not disguise the truly awful car underneath the paint. This care quickly became less reliable than an old Volvo. Not to mention that bastard of gearbox. The original model boasted a  truly awful  1.1 L engine that sounded like an animal was being violently murdered when ever you started it up. It could get up to 29 mpg on the highway, when at an at an average speed of  37 mph, and had a top speed of an  abysmal 135 kmph (translated to 84mph) however, you were unlikely to reach this speed before a brake nod snapped, a door came loose, or you lost your front left wheel. All in all, it may not be the worst car of all time, but it is certainly up there.