"In a Yugo"

As the snow flies

At a used car lot on the edge of town
A liberal guy and a liberal gal
Buy a Yugo
And they drive with pride

Cause if there's one thing that this world needs
It's environmental friends who'll take the lead
In a Yugo

They say, "people don't you understand
Those suburbans are ruining the land"
But they'll wish they had a full size van one day
They point fingers at you and me
They say we're too blind to see
But do we simply use our heads
And choose another way?

As those small wheels turn
Fifty miles to the gallon
And their knees on their chest
They're gonna save enough gas
For all of the rest
In a Yugo

Then one day on the interstate
They suddenly lose control
They swerve to miss a baby duck
They're squashed beneath a produce truck
But they drove with pride...

And as the crowds drive past a little flat car
You know they saved a lot of gas
But they didn't get far
In a Yugo

And as they're trapped inside
At a used car lot on the other side of town
A liberal guy and a liberal gal
Buy a Yugo....

And they drive with pride...

At some time in the 1980s, a friend of ours had a Yugo. She, two other guys and I were in SF looking for a parking spot. She pulled to one and the four of us lifted the car and moved it sideways into the spot! To make it really funny, she is about 6', one guy was maybe 5'10", I'm 6'4" and the other fellow is 6'6"! Clearly we were much more flexible at that time. It helped that we had already been to one club and were on our way to another...

Remember the Yugo?

I literally managed to lift the back end myself when looking at one and managed to bend the bumper. Fortunately I was able to bend it back into shape. What a piece of shit that was. I think it was selling new in NY for $3k at the time.

Like that little Syrena Sport model...

The icon of Communist cars was always the East German produced Trabant: plastic body over a steel frame, godawful gutless stinking two cycle engine. The only more laughable auto design from the era was probably the UK produced Robin Reliant, a three wheel monstrosity with a penchant for rolling over on even the mildest of sharp turns (see the UK Top Gear reruns, which made enormous fun stock of this auto).

I believe what we see in places like Poland are the future of the usa!!!

Those three cars in the top photo look like little things to pack circus clowns into. Old dino saw as much as a runty kid under a big top circus tent.
Also recall the ringmaster saying not to mind where a rain storm water leaked through tent rips because it was pure water dripping down from heaven.
No, I wasn't in Poland. I was in Dothan, Alabama, where I did most of my growing up.