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Why they would take Mercedes and turn it into Yugo is something I'll never understand.
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What do you call a Yugo that breaks down after 100 miles?
NPR Topics: News 2010
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What do you call a Yugo that breaks down after 100 miles?
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The Yugo is History: I wounder were the name Yugo came from, any thing that is givin a nick name must ... by The Salesman
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The Yugo is History: I wounder were the name Yugo came from, any thing that is givin a nick name must ... by The Salesman
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And they have a guilt by association with the disastrous venture known as the Yugo, which was basically a Yugoslavian Fiat.
Fix It Again, Tony? 2009
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In any event, the Soviet-Yugoslav dispute escalated so quickly that within a year the Russians were calling the Yugo - slavs “Fascists.”
Dictionary of the History of Ideas R. K. KINDERSLEY 1968
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It is the custom to call the Southern Slavs "Jugoslavs" from the Slav word Yugo, "south," but as this is a concession to German transliteration, many prefer to write the word "Yugoslav," which represents its pronunciation.
History of the World War An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War Richard Joseph Beamish 1895
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But the Yugo was the product of the finest communist-era engineering that gave us the Trabant, and it was truly awful.
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The Yugo is the butt of more automotive jokes than any other marque and the synonym for a terrible car, but Jason Vuic says the Subaru 360, entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin's debut in the automotive import field, was worse.
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