I haven't seen a Yugo on the street since the mid 1990s. The owner must be an automotive genius. For those too young to remember, the Yugo made a big impact on the US market when it arrived in 1985. It initially sold for $4,000 or about $10,600 today. That's 26% cheaper than the Chevy Spark, the cheapest car you can buy in the US today.
Malcolm Bricklin had a long and extremely sketchy career developing and selling cars of very dubious quality. Case in point: the Yugo, which Car and Driver has called "The Worst Car in History". Long story short, the Yugo was poor quality and fell apart quickly. On the other hand, it's a stretch to say that it was a lot worse than some of the competition at the time. Have you ever driven a Chevy Chevette?
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