Comedy, just for today

[Greg Myers]

[southpier]

zombie nation!

[Ace-Garageguy]

Это похоже на Lada . Сидиот дерьмо - ездить тенденция , наконец, сделали это в Россию ?

Edited September 20, 2014 by Ace-Garageguy

[blunc]

why is Bill typing in latin?

[mnwildpunk]

That is russian because the car is a lada. Or luda however u spell the junker

[Maindrian Pace]

Whenever you see a Lada in a Russian dash cam video, it will most likely be wrecked seconds later.

-MJS

[mnwildpunk]

Lmbo but true

Edited September 22, 2014 by mnwildpunk

[chunkypeanutbutter]

Is it bad that I want a Lada more than a GTO or Ferrari Enzo?

[Ace-Garageguy]

Is it bad that I want a Lada more than a GTO or Ferrari Enzo?

Not bad at all. Just different. Ladas aren't bad cars, and the Fiats they're based on were good cars too. They just took a little more maintenance than the typical American consumer was comfortable with. There was even a rotary-engine (Wankel, like the Mazda and NSU RO-80) powered variant.

[chunkypeanutbutter]

Not bad at all. Just different. Ladas aren't bad cars, and the Fiats they're based on were good cars too. They just took a little more maintenance than the typical American consumer was comfortable with. There was even a rotary-engine (Wankel, like the Mazda and NSU RO-80) powered variant.

I didn't know they came over to the States!

Now a REAL junk car is a Yugo. Blech.

[unclescott58]

I didn't know they came over to the States!

Now a REAL junk car is a Yugo. Blech.

He didn't say they came into the States. Ladas were sold in Canada though.

Scott

[Greg Myers]

I thought YUGOs were english cars ?

[chunkypeanutbutter]

He didn't say they came into the States. Ladas were sold in Canada though.

Scott

He said "typical American consumer." Sorry for my confusion at that.

I thought YUGOs were english cars ?

No idea what they are, but they are just nasty.

[mnwildpunk]

Yugo were from Yugoslavia I think back when it was Yugoslavia and not split up

[Ace-Garageguy]

Yes, Yugos were Yugoslavian (the ones that came to the States were based on the Fiat 128). The 128 was also a decent car (I've owned several) but again, Americans didn't grasp how much maintenance they needed.

Fiat 128s consistently won their class in SCCA racing back then, and did well in international rally competition, but the Yugo derivative suffered from a lot of problems...the major one being crankshafts that cracked because of faulty material and heat-treatment.

Interestingly, one of the fastest hillclimb cars in the world these days is a modified Fiat X1-9.

Edited September 22, 2014 by Ace-Garageguy

[Greg Myers]

Naw. english , "I go, Yugo, He ,She and It goes."

[Ace-Garageguy]

Naw. english , "I go, Yugo, He ,She and It goes."

Ah, but Yugos don't go, and therein lies the problem.

[chunkypeanutbutter]

Ah, but Yugos don't go, and therein lies the problem.

They go stalled backwards down hills.

[slusher]

Ah, but Yugos don't go, and therein lies the problem.

I never saw one on the road running but did see a bunch in the back of car lots junked...

I remember the commercials

[Joe Handley]

I never saw one on the road running but did see a bunch in the back of car lots junked...

I remember the commercials

Yup, they were the cheapest new car in America and had a warranty, but you would have been better off taking that money and buying used without a warranty, that was still the more reliable and finacially better option in the long run from what I remember. Edited September 24, 2014 by Joe Handley

[blunc]

I had a ford festiva that I drove to california from arizona, those of us that have made that trip know of the rather steep hills involved in that trip.

the festiva is the only car I've taken on that trip that actually slowed down when I took it out of gear to "coast" down the steep hills.

I guess it was so light that it couldn't overcome it's own wind resistance.

[mnwildpunk]

I remember the movie drowning mona which was supposed to be set in the test town of yugo. Only problem they couldn't find enough yugo's so they had to use dodge omnis in some places