August Ratings

[AbrahamJSimpson]

Meh......old for sure. How much love they'll get for that design....they were kind of the mullets of the automobile era.

 

[Miguelito]

And the cars of the 80s qualify for the “classic” license plates.

Though much of the 80s in automotive design is arguably not exactly classic.

If this doesn't deserve a special license plate, then I don't know what does...



I'm guessing that $3,990 didn't snare ya the CD player (or air conditioning or power windows or traction control or...airbags) but I'm sure the "AM/FM" sounded awesome through the tinny, little "Sony My First Speakers" that surely came standard.

 

[kevtronics]

And the cars of the 80s qualify for the “classic” license plates.

Though much of the 80s in automotive design is arguably not exactly classic.

In NJ, any vehicle that's at least 25 years old can get "Historic" (formerly "Antique") license plates.

And the 1980s was the last decade with true diversity of automotive design. You had "bustleback" Cadillacs with chrome bumpers and whitewall tires competing with sleek, aerodynamic Audis and overtly boxy Volvos. Under the hood you had everything from carbureted big-block V8s to turbocharged, fuel-injected 3-cylinder engines and rotary Wankel engines that didn't have pistons at all.

 

[kevtronics]

I'm guessing that $3,990 didn't snare ya the CD player (or air conditioning or power windows or traction control or...airbags) but I'm sure the "AM/FM" sounded awesome through the tinny, little "Sony My First Speakers" that surely came standard.

Sparkomatic was the radio and speaker OEM that Yugo used.

 

[Miguelito]

Sparkomatic was the radio and speaker OEM that Yugo used.

MW/LW/FM! Where can I get one?!

 

[CTListener]

MW/LW/FM! Where can I get one?!

Yugoslavia?

I'd be surprised if the radios in the Yugos sold here actually had longwave. Unfortunately, so few exist today that the question may be hard to answer.

I kind of like the "He-Man" dual control system. That suggests that Yugo envisioned its cars as a low-cost vehicle to be used by driving schools and for driver ed in public schools. I wonder if any actually were sold for that purpose.

 

[kevtronics]

MW/LW/FM! Where can I get one?!

In the UK -- that's where that brochure is from. BBC Radio 4 is still on 198 kHz longwave there, although the transmitter has supposedly been on borrowed time since 2011, when the BBC said they bought up the world's remaining supply of final tubes for it, and only had 10 tubes left then.

Yugo cars in the U.S. had Sparkomatic radios too, but instead of longwave, we got C-Quam AM Stereo!

 

[CassChopper96]

With the sedan nearing extinction, those look-alike bean-shaped cars of the '80s and '90s will start looking more classic in a decade or so.

Toyota, Honda and Nissan sedans are extremely popular. It's just that American auto manufactures don't make them

 

[CTListener]

In NJ, any vehicle that's at least 25 years old can get "Historic" (formerly "Antique") license plates.

And the 1980s was the last decade with true diversity of automotive design. You had "bustleback" Cadillacs with chrome bumpers and whitewall tires competing with sleek, aerodynamic Audis and overtly boxy Volvos. Under the hood you had everything from carbureted big-block V8s to turbocharged, fuel-injected 3-cylinder engines and rotary Wankel engines that didn't have pistons at all.

You mean the PT Cruiser and the Scion didn't count as "diversity"?