If you were shopping for a car way back in the 1980s, you may have come across a car made by a country that was a member of the Communist Bloc. The country was Yugoslavia and the car was the Yugo.
The brand was actually introduced into the U.S. in 1986 by (in)famous automotive tycoon Malcolm Bricklin where it quickly developed a reputation as a terrible car. If one was to define a lemon car in a dictionary description, the copy would have been accompanied with a picture of a Yugo.
The car sold for $4,000 but just didn’t go anywhere. It was pulled from the U.S. market in the early 1990s.
Since the break up of Yugoslavia, owner Zastava continued to produce Yugo in now Serbia. Even there it didn't sell well: while the plant can produce up to 60,000 cars a year, Zastava only sold 15,000 in 2006.
The Serbian government will sell Yugo in April this year. And while the Detroit News reports that there are at least "two major international companies" interested, government representatives were mum on their identies.