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).

Zastava’s got a storied history of scrappiness, and its Skala 55 is certainly endowed with a spirit of perseverance. Based on Fiat 127/128 designs, the basic platform has long been vetted.

• This 1980 Zastava 750 SE is today's Bring a Trailer auction pick. • The diminutive, no-frills car is based on the Fiat 600 and was produced in Yugoslavia from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s.

The Zastava Yugo, the diminutive Yugoslavian-built and later Serbian-built car that brought the joys of Communist motoring to the U.S., has finally ended its 30-year production run. Based on the ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Yugo production ends after 30 years, disappointing a multitude of fans. BELGRADE, Serbia, Nov. 20, 2008 -- The little Yugo car has finally gone the way of its home country, the former Yugoslavia ...

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 ...