I used to have a Lada (Fiat 124 model) & it was loads of fun once I tore
all of the environmental protection gear off. Although on starting huge
clouds of smoke would roil up from under the hood. It was a car that I just
didn't care about & so I had lots of fun tuning it to get the most bang out
of it.
- Mark
At 10:12 PM 4/21/99 -0500, Roger Elliott wrote:
>
>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
>
Mark Milotay, Principal
On the Mark Software & Consulting
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