The car was ultimately named Yugo (or Jugo) 45 and launched in October 1980 at the Belgrade Motor Show, and Zastava began exporting the car's derivatives internationally within several years.

The last Skala 55 (#1,273,532) will be built on November 20th, marking the last Zastava after 4.2 million cars, of which 700,000 were exported (145,511 to the United States).

The car was ultimately named Yugo (or Jugo) 45 and launched in October 1980 at the Belgrade Motor Show, and Zastava began exporting the car's derivatives internationally within several years.

Like Yugoslavia, Zastava was riding high back in the 1980s. From its 19th century beginnings as an arms manufacturer, it branched out into car and truck manufacturing by the 1950s, growing into ...

Properly, the original car's full name was the Zastava Yugo GV, Zastava being an automaker with a long history in the former Yugoslavia. GV was meant to stand for Good Value, and at $3990 to start ...

Despite a lack of parts and markets, Zastava managed to produce 14,000 cars in 1998, managers said. But even at a rock bottom 6,000 Deutsch marks a car, few people really want a Yugo anymore.

After a 30 year lifespan and nearly 800,000 units later, Serbian automaker Zastava has ended production of its legendary Yugo model. Roughly 142,000 of the inexpensive economy cars made it to U.S ...

A resourceful Bosnian mechanic is determined to keep old Zastava cars rolling. The company gained fame in the 1980s for its only Western-marketed vehicle, the Yugo. Although shuttered in 2008 ...

NATO air raids early Friday inflicted severe damage on Serbia's Zastava car plant, wounding more than 120 workers who had stayed as "human shields" to protect the state-owned complex which, ...

Serbia's Zastava car factory in Kragujevac will stop assembling Opel cars for General Motors Corp. after the Serbian government signed an accord with Italy's Fiat SpA to put Zastava into a Fiat ...

The car in which this trick was pulled is a Zastava 101. Built during the communist era of Serbia (which was part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia at the time), this is an ...