Yes you were right Miguel: YUGOSLAVIA $UCKS
Joe Jukic leans across the table, shaking his head like he’s remembering a war story.
“Listen, Miguel,” he says, tapping the surface for emphasis, “that Yugo wasn’t just cheap—it was engineered to test your patience. You’d buy it once, but you’d pay for it a hundred times after.”
Miguel Neves raises an eyebrow. “You really think Josip Broz Tito planned that?”
Joe smirks. “Planned? Maybe not like some mastermind villain. But the system? It didn’t exactly reward perfection. You had factories like Zastava Automobiles pumping these things out fast and cheap. Quality control? Let’s just say it wasn’t the top priority.”
Miguel chuckles. “I heard they break down just looking at a hill.”
“Exactly!” Joe snaps. “You’d hit the gas, and the car would start negotiating with you. ‘Are we really doing this today?’ Meanwhile, mechanics are rubbing their hands together like it’s Christmas morning.”
He leans back, grinning.
“But hey, I’ll give it this—it got people from A to B… eventually. And if you made it there without something falling off, you felt like you won something.”
