It's not just a car, it's a whole gym. Swole arms from the steering wheel and swole legs from pushing. It is even eco friendly as it can run on unrefined oil or local moonshine. Love from Serbia ❤️
I grew up very poor in so cal, my dad was a used car salesman, and the most exciting day of my childhood was when my dad came home with a brand new yugo. Shortly after that day, i became a professional flash light holder from all the nights i had to help my dad fix that pos. That sounds like a bad joke, but im literally 💯 % serious.
Im German and this is like learning to be a mechanic i whiped the floor and held a light for 1 and a half year and my family had a Trabant 601 and the yugo looks like a mix of Trabant and VW Golf 1
The Yugo is far from being the worst car ever made, the thing is it has that title because its a very cheap, very basic, low quality material car, but having lived in Bosnia for several years, I can tell you this, this car is perfect for the balkans, it isn't particularly unreliable, its based off FIAT parts so easy and cheap to source parts for it, its got its character and was an affordable daily driver for the people from that area who don't earn much, I love the Yugo 45 and plan to buy one
@@prestongarvey4461 Problem is the US version of the Yugo, at the time they were trying to push theirselves towards the US market the Ex-Yu area was going through the crisis & war so they had to cut costs wherever they could.
@@prestongarvey4461 Because It's a old car, properly serviced who knows how long ago and It was never supposed to be the top of the line car. It was supposed to be a basic and cheap car, a working class people car, something to drive you around. The reason this car for some reason keeps on being egged on by the western world, js because as you know, we were a socialism, therefore we were and still are now as just Balkans automatically marked as bad, backwards, 3rd world... Another reason It's being egged on in the west, is because everyon keeps on judging this car through some modern lens, as it was a modern car, and not a for that time back then, cheap, basic and old car. Everyone mentions these three facts, and then proceeds on egging the car, totally ignoring these facts, and boom "wOrSt CaR iN tHe WoRlD". It wasn't enough that war happened, genocides happened, the whole country destroyed, reputation lost, that we became NOTHING on the world map. Nope, it seems it wasn't nearly enough, and we still, till this day keep on being egged on.
To be honest. In Serbia (one of the ex-yugoslav countries) you can find these in close to new condition for like 600 bucks max. 9k for a used Yugo is too much. Also you were lucky to get an original Yugo, most of the Yugos copies were after the 60s made by Zastava. If you got a better model, it would actually be able to climb up a hill :)
😂 600? For an original yugo? Haha no, that's for the post 1990s yugo I think Zastava Yugo Koral is the name. Wich is an actual car somehow, not a joke... (okay still lacking airbags but eh) like the Florida was.
Well, I did not expect James to buy a car that stopped being produced around the world. Also i am serbian, from a country where the yugos were originally made during the yugoslavian times.
Yess I am so happy bro, I am polish, my dad is first generation immigrant from Poland with me, we both have a yugo, it’s so shitty, but it never breaks and considering the Mountain town we live in, is most capable, I thought everyone had forgttton about them!
My first car was a Yugo. Back then it actually ran pretty well. The metal on it was super thick too. I enjoyed it. Although, the 57hp was a bit slow...
As an expert on US market cars I’m thoroughly surprised you found a USDM Yugo that nice! Please take care of it, even if it doesn’t seem worth much at all
I'm from Serbia, daily driving a Yugo for like 5 years now. It's the most fun car in the history of the world. I believe that carburetor on your car isn't working properly and was making all that mess. BUT, the overheating... yea, that happens too sometimes.
@@moonbeamskies3346Not anymore, but the sedane version of the yugo (the zastava 101 was a police car, before being replaced by the Yugo Florida) Also there is yugo pickup called zastava 101/T or Zastava polly.
Pro tip from Serbia (the OG manufacturer of the Yugo): You should drive with one hand, the other one stays on the shifter to try and keep it in gear. Also start revving immediately upon start to prevent it from stalling.
This whole video genuinely made me smile, please do more car stuff. I don’t have even close to the money to do stuff with my own project cars so its fun to watch people do stuff with their ridiculous cars.
I was pulling a Yugo into our shop, as I depressed the clutch pedal the clutch cable snapped, the owner blamed me and ranted "No they are not going out of business!"
What do u mean only car? Zastava didn't only make Yugo they had other great deisgns like The Zastava 101. Also are u talking about just serbia or the whole of yugoslavia. Cuz slovenia made TAM trucks which are still used today by firefighters and other services. Also Tomos motorbikes are good.
@@SHMUGI2 By only car I meant company, but I didn’t know about Slovenia’s companies since I’m from western Balkans. I don’t know much about Slovenia but it’s cool to hear about you guys.
In all honesty James, I hope you can turn the Yugo around into being a great car - my Alfa 33 was also in the same kind of situation where it needed a full engine rebuild and rewiring work, which involved basically stripping the car down to the floorpan but believe me it's worth it in both a collectible sense and that you're saving a piece of history from the scrapheap
Same, seeing the state it was in just makes me wish he'd give what it needs to be a fun little car to drive around and get groceries and stuff Considering he did fix some of the issues we can only hope to see more in the future
I come from Bosnia, an ex-ugoslavian country and these are very common and insanely fun to drive on our cracked asphalt and you will always find it at your grandpas house under a canvas because hes convinced it will become an old timer sold for a lot of money. Oh yes also, they cost around 400 USD here.
I had the opportunity to drive these and they were not this level of catastrophic. As for the shifter I don't think it was too much better even from the factory, it reminded me of a maze when trying to shift, but when you memorize the weird pattern it works if it's in good condition. Unreliable throttle response is I think a symptom of bad maintenance because I don't remember that. I had a fun experience when I got used to it, as opposed to a terrifying one. Then again I was driving a 40 year old car too. If you can drive a Yugo you can damn well drive anything.
This video brings back some childhood memories of the struggles my mother and I experienced having a Polski-Fiat 126p car. We could not really use it much in the harsh Hungarian winter months and we could barely make it on top of the hill where my school was. I felt sorry for my mother whenever we got stuck in the snow on the road or broke down but I gotta admit that the car had special character and weird charm.
Zastava did not go bankrupt; only their automotive concern did. Zastava is still a major industrial concern producing arms and munitions. I have an M70 rifle from them from around the time of the Balkan Wars, but my friend has one that is modern production. They have an assembly plant in Illinois. It was hiring a while back and I thought briefly about working there, but it'd be rather a long commute from up here in Wisconsin.
The Yugo is a great car and totally worth the money and not a barely working car that can run on crude oil and Serbian made rakija. also much love from Serbia my friend!
@@lucasRem-ku6eb It's called recycling. One of these "car experts" gets it, then it goes around the block like a cheap prostitute 'till the least capable one destroys it.
Pre-2000 cars in general have this cool vibe. None of these sleek shapes and aerodynamics witchcraft. Nah, my dude, have a rigid metal brick on wheels and have fun!
I’m pretty sure there’s some old Yugoslav-Grandpa out there who can get this thing running no problem but until then I can watch James struggle and that’s all I truely need in life
Generally Yugo's that were shipped to the US were of sketchy quality because there was a deadline to deliver them since Yugoslavia owned a lot of money to the Western world and that was a way to pay it back. We still see them rolling around nowadays too here in the Balkans.
@@angelwa1fu no it's not, u should have been borned in the Balkans to understand what beauty this could do, it still can go 80kmh he just got the busted one, i still see fkn ppl driving it cuz it's a legend of a car just like Golf 2, ur just young not to realize what a good car this is back in the day and still having one is a respect not only having it but actually driving it
@@angelwa1fu its not, first of all its a historical car, second it has the SOHC 146A engine, made by Fiat, decent on power, really high tunability, and also used in the Fiat X1/9
Nah, although that would be funny. What I was thinking is him and a couple friends buy second hand cars on a budget and go on a road trip, like in top gear, and they do stupid things along the way
Im from serbia and theres a lot of yugos here, you can buy a working one for $200. They are really lasting a long time and if you are out of money its a great Point A to Point B type of vehicle. And the parts cost nothing.
Slovenian here, It's kinda sad that the US only got the bad yugos. I've driven some before and loved all of them. But I guess it's just like we always said "Yugo nije za dugo" ( Yugo... not for long)
In 1990, I was given an '86 Yugo as a loaner for 3 days from a repair shop doing A/C work on my car. It had something over 40,000 miles, and already was on its 2nd engine. I swear everytime I shifted through the gears, the gears were in a different place lol!! The tiny 4 cylinder motor made sporty sounds, but there was no sport 😂
I have a Yugo 45 that I learned to drive on and I swear it's the most fun car to drive. You literally feel connected to the car since it doesn't have power steering and it has horrendous braking. That means that you'll be driving and working out at the same time! Genious Yugoslavian engineering!
Yugo is literally such a goated car, I have a need to spend a part of my first paycheck on the car + big speakers and have so much fun with my friends in it during the summer also... no idea how someone managed to sell a Yugo for 9k when it usually goes for 400-600e over here in Serbia
@@harbinger200 That's because there weren't many of them made when compared to the regular models. But cabrios still aren't worth 10k, maybe 4-5, but not ten
Probably would do 10x better just gutting the drivetrain entirely for something more modern that fits or can be made too fit the original suspension & driveshafts, or efi convert it if possible.
Oh you can definitely put a different engine i saw a dude put a fiat uno engine it fits you just need to do couple of things for it to fit properly and then you have a better engine more power etc.
This is the car equivalent of juggling chainsaws. While it works, it's pretty cool but the risk factor is always super high, and when things go bad, they go *bad*
The timing is absolutely impeccable as my friend bought the exact model and is currently fixing it up while having the very same issues. I am not one to gamble but if I survive the highway initiation trip with him I probably should gamble.
The Yugo was actually not such a bad car, the problem is that you are driving a 30+ year old car that has not been maintained. You can still see the Yugo on the streets of Croatia. It used to be that every 4th car was a Yugo. Today's cars will never live that long. It had many flaws, but anyone with basic mechanical knowledge could fix it. Parts were cheap and available everywhere. I drove it for 15 years and I bought it used
Todays cars are built much better and will be on the road for 50 years easy. I see cars with 300k miles from 5 years ago that still look and drive like new. A car from the 1980s would have rusted away with that kind of use and would putting out clouds of blue smoke.
@@user-tb7rn1il3qa Yugo was a very cheap car so difficult to compare to but with regards to 80,s car and old cars let’s look at old Volvos for example they can go on for ever , modern cars haven’t had the test if time with regards to electronics , will these last as long , I’m not so sure
If you plan to modify the engine, just replace it. A lot of FIAT engines fit there since it was based on a FIAT model... However, that might damage the structure of the vehicle since the frame was not built to withstand an engine with a bit of power, so beware of that as well
What a little gem this tin on wheels is... I think I experienced a similar thing with my old vw, the stalling, revving and weird noises when starting the engine. If you'd like to keep working on the car, I think this might be worth looking into: So, I have a hunch about what went wrong when the car started opening the throttle while you had the clutch in - seems to me like something in the car that's supposed to hold revs while in neutral is malfuncioning. I had that happen in my old vw which still sports a carb. In my case it was the valve cover being a bit warped and not keeping pressure, which led to the carburetor's stepper motor revving the poor thing to 2.5 - 3k without any gas input. The same issue can also affect the ignition - the sound in the video was very similar to what I had experienced - if it doesn't budge, try giving it a bit of gas with the pedal - just a smidge to get it going. Should be usable after that, with minor hiccups along the way, of course. Try to see if the engine holds pressure, and if no vaccuum lines are busted. There must be something controllong the throttle and keeping it open to prevent the car from stalling in neutral, if you figurr out what that is, it's going to be way easier to diagnose. In my case it was a carburettor stepper motor that was causing the throttle to open - once I figured that out, fixing the issue boiled down to going down a checklist of things that can make it malfunction. If you're trying to keep this car in a running condition, I hope this helped at least a bit :D
I'm not surprised the AC doesn't work, it doesn't have it, has a simply heater system which just blows warm or coldish air in, the temperature is regulated with the coolant system so the harder you push it the hotter it'll blow and the faster you go the more airflow will go through the heater
8:37 my guess for that noise is the speedo cable! I have an older miata with the same issue of a jumping speedometer needle, and in colder weather it makes that noise, thought my engine was dying lol. You can try to re-lube the cable if it keeps happening, or replace it outright (if there's even parts available).
Yugo’s we’re so popular when they first came out. Everyone knew they were cheap but people still loved them. I’ve considered buying one for fun but they sale more now then when they first came out because of the nostalgia of having one now.
you can buy Yugo in almost new condition in Serbia for 1k$ ,for 9k you can buy Yugo Convertible in perfect condition. My first car was Yugo when i was 18 years old ,drove it for 5 years,and probaly becase off nostalgia and for sure it was best fan i ever had with car i thing i will buy one before retiring
This video reminds me of when me and my dad tried and succeeded in fixing our old family minivan that sat in the elements for 5 years and it kept stalling on straightways on the freeway.
The Yugo, The Icon. U need to pray just for engine to turn on. In the winter, oh boy, you can forget about turning car on. But when it turns on, it runs like a charm. (sometimes)
well, during 80s this was a selection for many people in Greece. comparing to other cars of that era, it was compact, cheap, easy to handle, easy to fix, versatile, tough. believe it or not going camping all over Greece, my family used this car, and it even could pull a mobile tent, and carried so many things on the roof. First rain, made the back window letting water inside. my father was furious. Got the car back and demanded fixing. haha. we had a white one and then my uncle bought a light yellow.
wait NO SIDE MIRRORS?!?!?
UA-cams
I hope you're having a good day random UA-cam employee ❤
oh hey its youtube XDD
Also no engine! It's basically the Flinstones car at the moment.
I know, right?!
It's not just a car, it's a whole gym. Swole arms from the steering wheel and swole legs from pushing. It is even eco friendly as it can run on unrefined oil or local moonshine.
Love from Serbia ❤️
so its a hybrid :D
Rakija powered beast
Its ecofriendly as if the engine is not running, there are no emissions!
@@Danny-mq5oh RAKIJAAAAAAA
im Serbian too lol
I grew up very poor in so cal, my dad was a used car salesman, and the most exciting day of my childhood was when my dad came home with a brand new yugo. Shortly after that day, i became a professional flash light holder from all the nights i had to help my dad fix that pos. That sounds like a bad joke, but im literally 💯 % serious.
Im German and this is like learning to be a mechanic i whiped the floor and held a light for 1 and a half year and my family had a Trabant 601 and the yugo looks like a mix of Trabant and VW Golf 1
Guys stop enjoying this video I don't want to be inside that monstrosity anymore
Fox boy
Shouldn't have moved in with Jameskii tbh
Fox man
TOO BAD I'ma watch this 10 times
Too bad
The Yugo is far from being the worst car ever made, the thing is it has that title because its a very cheap, very basic, low quality material car, but having lived in Bosnia for several years, I can tell you this, this car is perfect for the balkans, it isn't particularly unreliable, its based off FIAT parts so easy and cheap to source parts for it, its got its character and was an affordable daily driver for the people from that area who don't earn much, I love the Yugo 45 and plan to buy one
If it is not unreliable why is it dying so badly lol
@@prestongarvey4461 when you are buying a Yugo, it is a gamble, mine is still working like a charm, 1989, can go up and above 120km/h
@@prestongarvey4461 Because 1 car defines every other car in the world....get a grip, learn a bit about the car before slagging it off
@@prestongarvey4461 Problem is the US version of the Yugo, at the time they were trying to push theirselves towards the US market the Ex-Yu area was going through the crisis & war so they had to cut costs wherever they could.
@@prestongarvey4461 Because It's a old car, properly serviced who knows how long ago and It was never supposed to be the top of the line car. It was supposed to be a basic and cheap car, a working class people car, something to drive you around. The reason this car for some reason keeps on being egged on by the western world, js because as you know, we were a socialism, therefore we were and still are now as just Balkans automatically marked as bad, backwards, 3rd world... Another reason It's being egged on in the west, is because everyon keeps on judging this car through some modern lens, as it was a modern car, and not a for that time back then, cheap, basic and old car. Everyone mentions these three facts, and then proceeds on egging the car, totally ignoring these facts, and boom "wOrSt CaR iN tHe WoRlD".
It wasn't enough that war happened, genocides happened, the whole country destroyed, reputation lost, that we became NOTHING on the world map. Nope, it seems it wasn't nearly enough, and we still, till this day keep on being egged on.
To be honest. In Serbia (one of the ex-yugoslav countries) you can find these in close to new condition for like 600 bucks max. 9k for a used Yugo is too much. Also you were lucky to get an original Yugo, most of the Yugos copies were after the 60s made by Zastava. If you got a better model, it would actually be able to climb up a hill :)
And he could find 2004 2005 year model
You've gotta pay for the feature to go up a hill?? I want this car so bad now
@@strana6875 Nah, the better ones here in Serbia are like 300 bucks with registration and insurance
😂 600? For an original yugo? Haha no, that's for the post 1990s yugo I think Zastava Yugo Koral is the name. Wich is an actual car somehow, not a joke... (okay still lacking airbags but eh) like the Florida was.
@@eloyxzma5620 actual prices are 150-1000 euro
Well, I did not expect James to buy a car that stopped being produced around the world. Also i am serbian, from a country where the yugos were originally made during the yugoslavian times.
Yess I am so happy bro, I am polish, my dad is first generation immigrant from Poland with me, we both have a yugo, it’s so shitty, but it never breaks and considering the Mountain town we live in, is most capable, I thought everyone had forgttton about them!
same lol
What happened in the 90s dear Serbians?
@@tony_5156 what does that have to do with this video?
SERBIA STRONG MOMENT
As a Yugo myself i'm happy to see a car made by us last longer then our country itself
Only barely.
One day
Than
@@bobbobkinz9958than?
@@Wheagg than
My first car was a Yugo. Back then it actually ran pretty well. The metal on it was super thick too. I enjoyed it. Although, the 57hp was a bit slow...
The Geo Metro had less horsepower.
52 horsepower, actually. The 1.3 cars (GVX, Cabrio) made 65, and the fuel injected cars (GVplus) made 67.
@@moonbeamskies3346 The Geo Metro had more, actually. The Suzuki G10 used in the Metro produces 54.
They arnt all that bad
Still more horsepower than a Chevy Chevette.
Everytime you guys took out a car part by accident, I thought ALL the car parts were gonna fall off like a cartoon.
😂
I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if it happened.
As an expert on US market cars I’m thoroughly surprised you found a USDM Yugo that nice! Please take care of it, even if it doesn’t seem worth much at all
Bro u can get it everywhere at serbia for 600 euros
@@Duskee well ofc...Yugo here grows on trees! :D
@@vukasinristanovic5940 A lot of people still have yugo and a lot of them are selling it in serbia so wdym?
@@Duskeethis is usdm
I've got a red 88 GV myself. Factory air con which still works. Unlike this guy, I do take care of mine.
I'm from Serbia, daily driving a Yugo for like 5 years now. It's the most fun car in the history of the world. I believe that carburetor on your car isn't working properly and was making all that mess. BUT, the overheating... yea, that happens too sometimes.
Do they get used as taxis?
@@moonbeamskies3346Not anymore, but the sedane version of the yugo (the zastava 101 was a police car, before being replaced by the Yugo Florida) Also there is yugo pickup called zastava 101/T or Zastava polly.
Pro tip from Serbia (the OG manufacturer of the Yugo): You should drive with one hand, the other one stays on the shifter to try and keep it in gear. Also start revving immediately upon start to prevent it from stalling.
e i ti seres u pm
key word "try" 💀
I know someone who drives with one hand and is very good driver, so yea.
you need drive with one hand for gear changing vehicles
nmg da verujem da nisu skontali xD
@@vukasinristanovic5940 Ma americka gospoda navikla na novo i skupo. Ne mogu oni da voze nesto starije od 10 god a kamo li od preko 40.
Imagine buying a car from a country that doesn't exist anymore
i have a tractor from czechoslovakia💀
Fr fr
It's like half of all the cars in eastern europe
@@663s As a Czech, I'm proud our older vehicles still have some use in this world.
*Laughs in soviet t-40 tractor*
Let's bring yugo back to the market, they make such great cars guys!
Yugo Orbitala GT-A
Tell that to United States who bombed the Yugo factory and literally bought it up for a few dollars lmao
Driving this car is like playing Dark Souls 3 blindfolded
Except it's not Dark Souls and penalty for losing is being featured in one of those car crash compilations.
Dark Souls 2.
_Scholar of the First Sin Edition._
*_Without levelling ADP._*
DS3 blindfolded? I'd say blindfolded and broken sword with the way it just refuses to even be a car
@@Volvith me dodging with base adp and fat roll
This whole video genuinely made me smile, please do more car stuff. I don’t have even close to the money to do stuff with my own project cars so its fun to watch people do stuff with their ridiculous cars.
I was pulling a Yugo into our shop, as I depressed the clutch pedal the clutch cable snapped, the owner blamed me and ranted "No they are not going out of business!"
ah yes. its the one car my neighbors had for 20 years and insists it still works.
"if i let the yugo go, i let a piece of yugoslavia go with it and i dont want that to happen" mentality real
Well it's Schrödinger's box. If you never start it, it's state of operation will be both operable and inoperable.
my parents friends still uses one after like 30 years, the inside is literally falling apart but it somehow still runs
@@DoggoDaGoat its so simple that the only way it can stop working completley os the engine falling out
@@ballpython1753 exactly
I’m from ex-Yugoslavia and have been following Jameskii for years and I’ve never expected him to buy our country’s only car 🤣
What do u mean only car? Zastava didn't only make Yugo they had other great deisgns like The Zastava 101. Also are u talking about just serbia or the whole of yugoslavia. Cuz slovenia made TAM trucks which are still used today by firefighters and other services. Also Tomos motorbikes are good.
@@SHMUGI2 By only car I meant company, but I didn’t know about Slovenia’s companies since I’m from western Balkans. I don’t know much about Slovenia but it’s cool to hear about you guys.
@@SHMUGI2 This is YUGO for American market our YUGO for Yugoslavian market is 10x better.
@@SHMUGI2 Didn't know we made TAM trucks.
Pretty neat!
@@kaydubsthekoifish hey i know u
i love how 90% of this video is just the car stalling and Fundy screaming
In all honesty James, I hope you can turn the Yugo around into being a great car - my Alfa 33 was also in the same kind of situation where it needed a full engine rebuild and rewiring work, which involved basically stripping the car down to the floorpan but believe me it's worth it in both a collectible sense and that you're saving a piece of history from the scrapheap
Same, seeing the state it was in just makes me wish he'd give what it needs to be a fun little car to drive around and get groceries and stuff
Considering he did fix some of the issues we can only hope to see more in the future
I come from Bosnia, an ex-ugoslavian country and these are very common and insanely fun to drive on our cracked asphalt and you will always find it at your grandpas house under a canvas because hes convinced it will become an old timer sold for a lot of money. Oh yes also, they cost around 400 USD here.
Yeah they're worthless in Europe, he really got ripped off
I had the opportunity to drive these and they were not this level of catastrophic. As for the shifter I don't think it was too much better even from the factory, it reminded me of a maze when trying to shift, but when you memorize the weird pattern it works if it's in good condition. Unreliable throttle response is I think a symptom of bad maintenance because I don't remember that. I had a fun experience when I got used to it, as opposed to a terrifying one. Then again I was driving a 40 year old car too. If you can drive a Yugo you can damn well drive anything.
This video brings back some childhood memories of the struggles my mother and I experienced having a Polski-Fiat 126p car. We could not really use it much in the harsh Hungarian winter months and we could barely make it on top of the hill where my school was. I felt sorry for my mother whenever we got stuck in the snow on the road or broke down but I gotta admit that the car had special character and weird charm.
Average Hungarian Kocsi
😊
Áh, igen. A "vidéki experience". Nálunk is történtek hasonlók.
the best part about this is that the company that made this car, Zastava, went bankrupt some years ago and their factory was bought out by Fiat
Zastava did not go bankrupt; only their automotive concern did. Zastava is still a major industrial concern producing arms and munitions. I have an M70 rifle from them from around the time of the Balkan Wars, but my friend has one that is modern production.
They have an assembly plant in Illinois. It was hiring a while back and I thought briefly about working there, but it'd be rather a long commute from up here in Wisconsin.
ZASTAVA?? THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE THE YUGO AK?.?
@@habere yeah, it's like having a Volkswagen beatle from the 40's and a Ferdinand tank from the same age
Zastava is still around to this day, they just make guns now. Its just the automotive division that is gone😢
Good to know quality didn't go up
James being a CarTuber is what we need right now, keep it comin' mate!
The Yugo is a great car and totally worth the money and not a barely working car that can run on crude oil and Serbian made rakija.
also much love from Serbia my friend!
This is the US Yugo, that car was on every channel
why you need him ?
E Rakija? Malo za Automobile I malo za mene! Lol 😂
@@lucasRem-ku6eb It's called recycling. One of these "car experts" gets it, then it goes around the block like a cheap prostitute 'till the least capable one destroys it.
The car design looks fire ngl
It will be on fire soon
yeah, but it also looks like a LADA 1600
Pre-2000 cars in general have this cool vibe. None of these sleek shapes and aerodynamics witchcraft. Nah, my dude, have a rigid metal brick on wheels and have fun!
Peak Yugoslavian design
That eclipse at 10:33 is clean
I would love to see more video like these from you, mostly cause most Car channels aren't as comedic as yours. Keep it up James.
I personally like "garbage time" too, but it get annoying to people who dont like that kind of hyperactive personality
That’s because James is a car guy who has a comedy channel
Whistln diesel is a recommendation
It's like this car was assembled in Garry's mod
I’m pretty sure there’s some old Yugoslav-Grandpa out there who can get this thing running no problem but until then I can watch James struggle and that’s all I truely need in life
A new video from Jameskii is always a W.
True
In my city here in Balkans this car is used for litteral racing and is famous for being in shape even after 50 years
They are good for the price they where sold.
At least till American people get their hands on it and "fix" It
kv?
Balkanian Initial D but instead of ae86 you have a yugo
Generally Yugo's that were shipped to the US were of sketchy quality because there was a deadline to deliver them since Yugoslavia owned a lot of money to the Western world and that was a way to pay it back. We still see them rolling around nowadays too here in the Balkans.
I need more videos like this. The chaotic energy of a DankPods/Garbage time car video with Jameskii's humour is perfect
yo garbage time reference?!
holy shit, massive respect for buying something this terrible just to make us laugh
not terrible it's a Legendary car u wouldn't know
@@JASXN8 its a terrible car
@@angelwa1fu no it's not, u should have been borned in the Balkans to understand what beauty this could do, it still can go 80kmh he just got the busted one, i still see fkn ppl driving it cuz it's a legend of a car just like Golf 2, ur just young not to realize what a good car this is back in the day and still having one is a respect not only having it but actually driving it
@@JASXN8 I rather drive yugo than fucking shity electric car. Probably Coral 55. I like that model.
@@angelwa1fu its not, first of all its a historical car, second it has the SOHC 146A engine, made by Fiat, decent on power, really high tunability, and also used in the Fiat X1/9
the Yugo VS the Free Car in a "worst car to ever exist" competition
Honestly Yugos are pretty cool. They are also pretty basic cars but they were always meant to be. Don't scrap it! It's a piece of history!
We NEED a top gear style roadtrip with jameskii
with that car? no way, he wont make it back home! :D
Nah, although that would be funny. What I was thinking is him and a couple friends buy second hand cars on a budget and go on a road trip, like in top gear, and they do stupid things along the way
@@stevemcfudge Today on Top Jameskii, Jeremy blows up a truck, Richard eats a cake and Jameskii forgets the car.
As someone with several older cars, manual windows are a blessing.
This guy is a legend for taking a big risk for us and our entertainment
Im from serbia and theres a lot of yugos here, you can buy a working one for $200. They are really lasting a long time and if you are out of money its a great Point A to Point B type of vehicle. And the parts cost nothing.
"Yugo, but the car stays", that was a good sum-up 😂
Jameskii looks like an Uber driver, oddly enough. Like it's his profession.
What copyright claims do to a mf
Slovenian here, It's kinda sad that the US only got the bad yugos. I've driven some before and loved all of them. But I guess it's just like we always said "Yugo nije za dugo" ( Yugo... not for long)
In 1990, I was given an '86 Yugo as a loaner for 3 days from a repair shop doing A/C work on my car. It had something over 40,000 miles, and already was on its 2nd engine. I swear everytime I shifted through the gears, the gears were in a different place lol!! The tiny 4 cylinder motor made sporty sounds, but there was no sport 😂
YUGO but the car stays is the best advertising catchphrase ever.
Never thought Jameskii would be a car enthusiast i hope he makes more car related content.
If you ever feel stupid, remember that this dude paid 9k for Yugo
I have a Yugo 45 that I learned to drive on and I swear it's the most fun car to drive. You literally feel connected to the car since it doesn't have power steering and it has horrendous braking. That means that you'll be driving and working out at the same time! Genious Yugoslavian engineering!
Yugo is literally such a goated car, I have a need to spend a part of my first paycheck on the car + big speakers and have so much fun with my friends in it during the summer
also... no idea how someone managed to sell a Yugo for 9k when it usually goes for 400-600e over here in Serbia
No, old Yugo goes for 500. Restored models are much more expansive. Cabrio model was selling for 10.000 here in Serbia.
@@harbinger200 That's because there weren't many of them made when compared to the regular models. But cabrios still aren't worth 10k, maybe 4-5, but not ten
Hey, you Madlad. Huge props for snatching this car and fixing it up. Tempted to buy a shirt to support the car build.
Probably would do 10x better just gutting the drivetrain entirely for something more modern that fits or can be made too fit the original suspension & driveshafts, or efi convert it if possible.
Oh you can definitely put a different engine i saw a dude put a fiat uno engine it fits you just need to do couple of things for it to fit properly and then you have a better engine more power etc.
This is the car equivalent of juggling chainsaws. While it works, it's pretty cool but the risk factor is always super high, and when things go bad, they go *bad*
Its just a FIAT!
The timing is absolutely impeccable as my friend bought the exact model and is currently fixing it up while having the very same issues. I am not one to gamble but if I survive the highway initiation trip with him I probably should gamble.
That car is held together by hopes, dreams and the power of James’ frustration
The Yugo was actually not such a bad car, the problem is that you are driving a 30+ year old car that has not been maintained. You can still see the Yugo on the streets of Croatia. It used to be that every 4th car was a Yugo. Today's cars will never live that long. It had many flaws, but anyone with basic mechanical knowledge could fix it. Parts were cheap and available everywhere. I drove it for 15 years and I bought it used
Todays cars are built much better and will be on the road for 50 years easy. I see cars with 300k miles from 5 years ago that still look and drive like new. A car from the 1980s would have rusted away with that kind of use and would putting out clouds of blue smoke.
@@user-tb7rn1il3qa Yugo was a very cheap car so difficult to compare to but with regards to 80,s car and old cars let’s look at old Volvos for example they can go on for ever , modern cars haven’t had the test if time with regards to electronics , will these last as long , I’m not so sure
I love how he doesn’t doesn’t explain how he got that injury at 8:07 which is probably from the car lol
If it drives I’ll take it.
If you plan to modify the engine, just replace it. A lot of FIAT engines fit there since it was based on a FIAT model...
However, that might damage the structure of the vehicle since the frame was not built to withstand an engine with a bit of power, so beware of that as well
What a little gem this tin on wheels is...
I think I experienced a similar thing with my old vw, the stalling, revving and weird noises when starting the engine. If you'd like to keep working on the car, I think this might be worth looking into:
So, I have a hunch about what went wrong when the car started opening the throttle while you had the clutch in - seems to me like something in the car that's supposed to hold revs while in neutral is malfuncioning. I had that happen in my old vw which still sports a carb. In my case it was the valve cover being a bit warped and not keeping pressure, which led to the carburetor's stepper motor revving the poor thing to 2.5 - 3k without any gas input. The same issue can also affect the ignition - the sound in the video was very similar to what I had experienced - if it doesn't budge, try giving it a bit of gas with the pedal - just a smidge to get it going. Should be usable after that, with minor hiccups along the way, of course.
Try to see if the engine holds pressure, and if no vaccuum lines are busted. There must be something controllong the throttle and keeping it open to prevent the car from stalling in neutral, if you figurr out what that is, it's going to be way easier to diagnose. In my case it was a carburettor stepper motor that was causing the throttle to open - once I figured that out, fixing the issue boiled down to going down a checklist of things that can make it malfunction.
If you're trying to keep this car in a running condition, I hope this helped at least a bit :D
I'm not surprised the AC doesn't work, it doesn't have it, has a simply heater system which just blows warm or coldish air in, the temperature is regulated with the coolant system so the harder you push it the hotter it'll blow and the faster you go the more airflow will go through the heater
To be honest it actually looks fairly nice, I legit like both the exterior and interior aesthetics
buy it then and see how you like it
@@krotle8238 I already have a couple of old soviet project vehicles and do enjoy their aesthetics.
bro that is so disrespectful 0:08
8:37 my guess for that noise is the speedo cable! I have an older miata with the same issue of a jumping speedometer needle, and in colder weather it makes that noise, thought my engine was dying lol. You can try to re-lube the cable if it keeps happening, or replace it outright (if there's even parts available).
Yugo’s we’re so popular when they first came out. Everyone knew they were cheap but people still loved them. I’ve considered buying one for fun but they sale more now then when they first came out because of the nostalgia of having one now.
you can buy Yugo in almost new condition in Serbia for 1k$ ,for 9k you can buy Yugo Convertible in perfect condition. My first car was Yugo when i was 18 years old ,drove it for 5 years,and probaly becase off nostalgia and for sure it was best fan i ever had with car i thing i will buy one before retiring
James's witty banter is even better IRL
4:20 “Well.. it’s running” my brother in Christ, Stephen Hawking runs better than that car.
And he’s dead
I really want to see James take the car to a racetrack
Just imagine you pull up to a drag race and see a Yugo with a V8 in it lol.
Ferrari is gonna give you a cease and desist for that logo😂
This video reminds me of when me and my dad tried and succeeded in fixing our old family minivan that sat in the elements for 5 years and it kept stalling on straightways on the freeway.
It may be the worst car, but it sure looks like you are having a lot of fun with it, can't wait to see what you do with it
What about upgrading it like a jdm, could be fun
It'll become the best sleeper build
@@Thefess ok now let’s convince Jameskii to do it lol
If he wants we could hook him up with the people who engine swaped it/ modified them for racing.
8:25 Glad that's foreign.
You doing a project for this car would be sooo sick. I'll definitely come back to see
this is unironically my dream car
i love that with every trip it unlocks a new sound
Can't wait to see how this goes, man. Do it to it. And maybe flintstone it if you gotta.
I don't think I'm surprised to see Jameskii with a Yugo. I'm more surprised he found a clean Yugo and paid too much for it lol.
when you pass your driving test in yugo like I did 27 years ago, then you can drive any car without any problems
Love these project car videos, I hope you get the support needed to continue!
It's sad that the yugo is geniuenly really good looking.
I love the idea and irl content! keep up the great work
My grandfather still has a yugo that he bought 30 years ago so i wouldnt say its bad
i am serbian and this is the first time im offended
I mean its your country’s fault for making yugoslavia non existent (dont take this seriously)
please dont destroy this! WHATEVER YOU DO! PRESERVE IT! these little Yugos are gone, and this one is actually a really really nice example!
As someone from former Yugoslav lands this video insolts me a lot yugo is a big part of my life and i love it a lot
All of us Balkans are proud of you Jameskii, not because of the car, its because of the bravery of driving it
The Yugo, The Icon. U need to pray just for engine to turn on. In the winter, oh boy, you can forget about turning car on. But when it turns on, it runs like a charm. (sometimes)
Driving around in a shit box with your friends is just a vibe that everyone should experience.
Yugo in the mud, Yugo in the snow- You break down and
Yugo to the junkyard. Yugo home angry, therego my investment.
This was great it seems you all had a lot of fun with it
The Yugo is like a VW Golf that didn’t finish the Loading Screen. 😂
You just convinced everyone, that you don't know how to use a car.
1:37 You realise this Yugo in this condition in Serbia can be bought for like 400$. 😂😂😂
Lol wasnt expecting buy mode and neighborhood music from the first sims. Lol love it
well, during 80s this was a selection for many people in Greece. comparing to other cars of that era, it was compact, cheap, easy to handle, easy to fix, versatile, tough. believe it or not going camping all over Greece, my family used this car, and it even could pull a mobile tent, and carried so many things on the roof. First rain, made the back window letting water inside. my father was furious. Got the car back and demanded fixing. haha. we had a white one and then my uncle bought a light yellow.