17 Oct
2025
17 Oct
'25
4:02 p.m.
Or the glue didn’t hold any more!
I remember a news item when the Yugo was introduced where the gearshift liver was glued to
the transmission, and that was failing.
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On Oct 17, 2025, at 13:58, Doc Shipley via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 10/17/25 15:25, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
Subaru was actually not the worst.
Think of Yugo! Imported into USA from 1985 - 1992
https://www.librarypoint.org/blogs/post/the-yugo/
It was brought in by Malcolm Bricklin. He had also been the one to bring in Subaru 360,
and founded subaru Of America.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com
I worked on a few Yugos, and had a disproportionate number of friends who owned them. My
take:
They were designed & built on the AK-47 Principle - inelegant, ultra-simple, no
consideration at all for style, and manufactured to intentionally ridiculous tolerances.
Turned out all that works a lot better in a rifle than an internal-combustion vehicle.
If you accidentally got one that was built pretty tight they were solid cars, but most of
them died early when one bearing or another grenaded.
Doc
Some makes and models of cars don't last ten years
and auto makers don't WANT them to last;
On Fri, 17 Oct 2025, Van Snyder via cctalk wrote:
Subaru: Built cheap and designed to stay that way.