Both the Lada and the Yugo are essentially Fiats. Fiat sold the tooling and
the manufacturing rights to Lada and Yugo when Fiat felt they were obsolete. I
am sure there are other models, but for what we saw in the States the Lada was
the Fiat 124 and the Yugo was the Fiat 128.
Roger Elliott
"Simmons, Reid W" wrote:
> Wasn't the Yugo the "commie" attempt at copying a Fiat, or am I thinking of
> the Russian-made Lada?
>
> Reid
> '79 Spitfire
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laura G. [mailto:savercool@email.msn.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 7:18 PM
> To: Dianne & Ree G.; Spitfire List
> Subject: Re: Screwball with Spitfire on EBay
>
> >... I'd have about $7000 - enough to pick up a fully
> >restored Yugo!
>
> ROTFLMAO
>
> The idea!<VBG>
>
> But seriously...when I lived in Italy, a Yugo was considered a good
> economical car-low gas consumption with low insurance rate-at times harder
> to find on the market than , say an Alfa Duetto!
>
> Laura G. and Nigel
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