S1 Ep134: Is The Yugo REALLY The Worst Car Ever Made?
Past Gas
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🗓️ 30 May 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
The list of all-time worst cars wouldn’t be complete without the infamous… Yugo. Yes, it was objectively a bad car, but that’s not the whole story. Today on Past Gas, what’s the real story behind what’s perhaps the most notorious car flop of all time? Is this a story about failure.. Or something else entirely? Could there be something redeemable about a 45-horsepower jalopy built in the backwoods of Serbia? Join James, Nolan, and Joe as they go deep on the Yugo.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, what's up my name is Nolan and I'm from the PastGas podcast. |
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| 1:03.6 | The list of all time worst cars wouldn't be complete without the infamous Ugo. |
| 1:09.8 | Yes, it was an objectively bad car. |
| 1:13.2 | But that's not the whole story. |
| 1:15.0 | In fact the Ugo was at one time a sensation and Ugo America was actually its founder's |
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