page_title: Yugo
section_title: Earlier models
hierarchical_section_title: Yugo / Models / Earlier models
caption_attribution_description: English: Two Yugo in their native country (picture taken in Priština, Kosovo).
context_page_description: The Yugo, also marketed as the Zastava Koral and Yugo Koral, is a subcompact car hatchback formerly manufactured by Zastava Automobiles, at the time a Yugoslav corporation.
  Originally designed in Italy, as a shortened variant of the Fiat 128, the first Yugo prototype was manufactured on 2 July 1977. Series production started on 28 November 1980. The Zastava Koral, a facelifted model, was marketed until 11 November 2008, after production of 794,428 cars.
  The Yugo was marketed in the United States from 1985 to 1992 by Malcolm Bricklin, with a total of 141,651 sold – peaking at 48,812 in 1987 and falling to 1,412 in 1992.
  The car has been subjected to much criticism over its design and reliability; the historian Jason Vuic has called it "the worst car in history."
context_section_description: Yugo 45 derivative models have included the Yugo 55, 60, 65, Koral, Ciao, Tempo, Cabrio, GV, GV Plus, GVX, and GVL. Yugo engines were fitted with a carburetor until well into the 1980s before fuel-injected models (starting with the Koral 65) were gradually introduced, beginning with the GVX-EFI (an electronic fuel injection system), which featured a 1300-cc engine. Yugo did not only target the West: In early 1985 500 Yugos were exported to China, and exports to Bulgaria and Egypt were already established.
  The fuel-injection system was a Motronic MP3.1, which was later developed with Bosch to Motronic M4.6 MPI on 1.1- and 1.3-L engines and had multiport fuel injection with a three-way catalytic converter and "Lambda" sensor.
caption: Two earlier Yugo models in Priština
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