Few cars evoke a sense of truly barebones motoring like a Yugo. Sometimes cited as the worst car in history and the most hated car ever sold in the United States, the fundamental philosophy of the ...

The Yugo, or Zastava Koral, as it was known in its home market of Soviet-bloc Yugoslavia, hasn't been sold in the US in 21 years, but the name is still synonymous with crap cars. It was fascinatingly ...

After 30 years of production, the last Yugo will roll off the assembly line in Kragujevac, Serbia this month. Built by Zastava, the lowly Yugo was the pride of the former Yugoslavian republic, ...

Did the Yugo stick around long enough to go from being the butt of jokes to laughing together with its detractors? At least a ...

Serbia had hoped someone might ‘do a Dacia’ with Zastava. But Fiat’s ambitious plans for the Serbian automaker have no room for sentiment, as Mark Bursa discovers. Serbia had hoped someone might ‘do a ...

You've probably all heard about the legendary Yugo GV — the Yugoslavian hatchback imported into the U.S. and sold as the cheapest car available in the 1980s and early 1990s. While lately the car has ...

Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) A LONG-forgotten car brand has vowed to return after decades away with an ultra-affordable retro ...

In 1985, just nine months before the Yugo came to America, Yugo America CEO Malcolm Bricklin and second in command Tony Ciminera toured the Zastava plant in Kragujevac, Yugoslavia. This is where the ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When Tom Hanks visited Budapest, he fell in love with a communist icon: the tiny Polski Fiat 126p. Every time ...

IN THE 1980s, western car buyers knew Yugoslavia best as the exporter of the Yugo, a much derided communist-era clunker that shed its parts on roads across the United States and Europe. Jokes ...

• This 1980 Zastava 750 SE is today's Bring a Trailer auction pick. • The diminutive, no-frills car is based on the Fiat 600 and was produced in Yugoslavia from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s. • The ...