Recently, it seems like Facebook Marketplace has become a more popular place to find good deals on vehicles and parts. However, the platform often leads to uninformed inquiries from buyers and also sellers with overly ambitious expectations. The latter of the two is certainly witnessed within this listing for not one, but two 1987 Yugo GV project cars, which are available for $4,000 here on Facebook Marketplace in West Jordan, Utah.
Let’s get to the basics of these vehicles. The seller of the Yugos notes that both cars have the original titles, but does not note if they are clean and clear. His grandfather purchased the first Yugo new, racking up 48,920 miles between 1987 and 2002, when an exhaust leak led to its removal from the road. Alternatively, the other Yugo sat from 1987 to 2002, when the seller’s grandfather decided that he needed a second Yugo. Apparently, Grandpa’s revelation was short-lived: the odometer on the other Yugo shows 6,018 miles, supposedly making it the second lowest mileage Yugo in the United States.
From there, the details on about these compacts from the former Yugoslavia become blurry. This is the entire general description of both vehicles: “The one car is basically new besides the sunburned paint. The other car the paint is better, and the interior is nice, but it does need exhaust.” He also claims that both cars fire up with some starting fluid.
Despite barely providing any details and just five poor quality photos (two of which are the odometer readings), the rest of the advertisement is pretty much the seller talking about how he is sitting on a gold mine, and it almost reads like a work of trolling. “These cars are becoming BIG in the collector world. They are an IMPORTANT car,” he notes, which is immediately followed by, “they were the butt of all the jokes in the ‘80s and early ‘90s.” It also seems like $4,000 is the firm price, with the ad claiming “the owners of “Bring a Trailer” told me I’m crazy for taking less than $10k. I will not be going much lower than where I am at.” Oh boy.
Though it’s undeniable that 1980’s and 1990’s nostalgia has certainly gained speed in the past few years, it is still hard to imagine that we are living in a world where two dusty Yugos in unknown condition will fetch $4,000. The supposed reason for the sale of these vehicles due to the seller not having “the time or the knowledge to do with these, what deserves to be done.” With that being said, what would you do to these Yugos?
No way I’m that nostalgic.
I actually made my driver license on yugo back in 1996 in Bosnia
No suspension or power steering I may buy one for project just for fun.
What would I do with them? I’d leave them with the seller.
The company was not worth 4000.
Facebook Marketplce…land of the lost.
Junk + Junk = Junk!
The yugo was poor quality at a cheap price. My Air Force buddy bought a new one in 1988. It only lasted 1 yr before it broke down and got junked. Even if you polished these turds, they’re still turds.
Not even junkyard worthy.
Should be, take one, get the other for free too. Not a lot of high mileage Yugos around, they simply didn’t last that long. I think for the fun factor, but not $4,000 dollars worth.
Weren’t they known as “The Disposable Car”? Take it to the Scrap Iron yard! There’s probably some Crazy out there that just might be dumb enough to buy them for that price. If the crazies got talked into buying a Rambler, I guess something or someone can convince someone to pay this Ridiculous price for the WORSE car ever produced!!!!!!!! Sheeeeesh! Unbelievable!
“The seller of the Yugos notes that both cars have the original titles, but does not note if they are clean and clear.”
You don’t really think someone would loan money on a Yugo do you??
You never know, its easy to assume the titles are clean and clear, but the ad did not specify.
110 MPH speedo? Is that down a ski slope with a Cat 3 hurricane at your back?
:D
Wow. No thanks.
That would require a Cat 5 hurricane.
One question. WHY?
Brilliant idea. Take a Fix It Again Tony design, and have Communists build it. How did that work out?
1) install shoe laces on roof
2) wear like roller skates
What is this seller smoking?
Crack – in the exhaust system
“when an exhaust leak led to its removal from the road” – rather telling, isn’t it?
Should have known that routing the exhaust through the passenger compartment as a “heater” was not a good idea.
At today’s scrap prices, not worth taking unless you had your own tow rig, you happened to be in the neighborhood, the guy gave them to you for free, and the auto recycler was just a few miles down the road.
Ideal for putting downtange at the next Knob Creek Machine Gun shoot.
Whats worse than one Yugo?
Two Yugos……..
buy them and add to your classic car collection which includes chevettes, pintos, mavricks falcons hyundia ponys, and just for fun buy a dkw, and a skoda, ford fiesta, chev lumina van a ford windstar van and then set the building on fire ! collect the insurance money and get drunk!
But a DKW was actually a good car, and quite unique
There were 4 Messermsermsrechists in that barn!!!
That’s $35,000,000 in losses!!!!!!
Alternate title: ‘BOGO Yugo’
Wait…what? A 110 MPH speedometer?
Very optimistic for such a little car. And
so is the seller’s asking price. Just got
back from the market with Mom, and I
saw better BOGOs over there than what
this guy’s offering. Note to seller: How
’bout sharing some of that stuff you’re
smokin’! Must be good stuff for you to
ask so much for a couple of lemons,
or you have a really bad case of Barrett-
Jackson Syndrome. Whatever it is,
I’ll pass!
“…what would you do to these Yugos?” Well, setting them on fire and pushing them off a cliff might be fun.
lol!!!!!
So here’s my take on this – a Yugo is an interesting but non-valued car still. At least in the state these are in. That said – anyone who who’s seriously wanting these or any Yugo for that matter is NOT going to pay $4000 for two dirty mystery Yugos – maybe they will, doubt it. The rest of us will scoff and laugh because – Yugo. Meanwhile the biggest nut of them all is the guy trying to sell them with a line like “BAT tells me….” The cars are worth what someone is willing to pay. If a guy is excited for 2 Yugos and offers $1000 you’d be crazy not to take the money and run – at least you won’t have to push those Yugo’s anymore!
I remember the last ones being for sale for months at about $987.00…No one wanted them and I believe the last were probably bought up by someone who thought he was going to get 40MPG and 100,0000 miles out of them. I hope he succeeded. I wouldn’t walk across the street to get it if it were free but, I’m sure he thinks they are awesome cars.
4K? Maybe over the block at barrett yugo………….
My sister bought one with a/c and a racing stripe. It was such a solar heat trap you had to run the a/c year round. She finally gave it to her hubby’s henchmen and they drove it for years, even after caving in the front end. I don’t remember it giving any mechanical trouble, but it was so hard to get into reverse that I put my left foot out the door unless the car was pointed downhill.
It was actually a blast to wind through the first three gears at full throttle. I felt like Barney Oldfield, despite the fact that it only got to 45 in 3rd and nobody even noticed that I was racing. I don’t know where 4th topped out, I wasn’t brave enough to get on I-85 in Atlanta.
Oh goody, more Yugo’s.
A POS then. A POS now. Period.
Parked because of an exhaust system failure? Wait! I got it, this seller was riding with said grandparent, breathing in all the toxins, for the guys wondering what he’s been smoking,the seller just suffered from breathing the fumes in while in the carseat on the way home after rusty exhausted exhaust fell off. IMHO. Lol
Second lowest mileage Yogo in the US? I’ll bet there’s plenty of parked Yogo’s that never made it that far. As far as these two cream puffs, I’m thinking chicken coops.
It is my understanding that a rear window defogger was standard equipment so you could keep your hands warm when you were pushing it, which was quite often.
Uh, how can there be a lien on the cheapest car in North America at the time?
I know what to do with them, send them to the crusher.
Had one,😂 used the body on an old IH scout frame for a woods wagon
I Know of a transmission shop in Milwaukee that put one on a scout frame and put a snow plow on it. He did a really nice job of it too. He uses it to plow out his parking lot. That was the best use I ever saw for a Yugo.
Ummm…👎
If anyone is planning a remake of or sequel to the film, “Drowning Mona”, the seller might be in luck.
I guess the seller never heard of junkyards.
Actually, I’ve found a lot of good deals on Marketplace. This…. this is not one of them.
I was stationed in San Diego in 1987/88 and a local dealership had a sale on the remaining Yugo’s in stock. I am not kidding it was a buy one get on free sale at the dealership. Per the UPI website “The Yugo GV, introduced in September 1985, will continue to be sold at its introductory price of $3,990.” in 1986.
Seems to me the biggest un-truth in the listing is the odometer reading of 6018, with the notation ” . . . supposedly making it the second lowest mileage Yugo in the United States.” At 6018, it was probably the second HIGHEST mileage one of these achieved.
Jay Leno had a line one night. Said a couple of guys were arrested in LA, for firing shots out of Yugo. They were arrested for a Push By Shooting.
I bought one in the early 1990s for £50, drove it for 18 months and then sold it when it needed new tyres, for £50. Never had any problems with it other than the total lack of street credibility. Cheapest motoring I ever had.
Last name Juricic, I am Yugoslavian, been to Yugoslavia, ridden in a Yugo there, owned 7 Yugos to date. Now retired and living on a fixed income. Looking for another one, but due to finances has to be inexpensive. No more than 800 dollars. Hoping for the best.