World’s Ugliest Cars: Yugo
Fastest… Most expensive… Slickest… these are the things cars are most oftentimes talked about for. But haven’t you wondered about the slowest, cheapest or funniest cars around?
Well, while I was looking for a centerforce clutch, I suddenly thought about what could possibly be the world’s ugliest car? What unfortunate make and how it actually looks. So, I searched for it and finally ended up hooked to an article in b92.net, featuring the Yugo as one of the ugliest cars on earth. It was followed by Ford Pinto, Pontiac Aztek and Chevrolet Vega.
Have you heard of the auto company Zastava? It owns the Yugo model, definitely one of the ugliest creations I’ve ever seen. It is a Kragujavac-based company with state subsidies.
Yugo was not actually on the top of the list. It placed second. It has been titled “The Most Questionable Car Designs of All Time”. Maybe, at least, it is titled and recognized, though not desired. It was not only a symbol of poor design and quality, but of Serbia’s only carmaker’s troubles as well.
They say, “2,500 of Hagerty clients who deliberated models that either were present or are still sold in the U.S. market, decided that AMC Pacer took the proverbial cake when it came to the world’s ugliest car.”
Yugo is priced EUR 6,500, making it quite hard to be sold… or probably impossible with such looks and quality. So, the factory opted to no longer produce the model and just turn to cooperation with global automobile industry leaders, like Fiat and General Motors. They absolutely made the right decision for that.
