The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History

The unlikely and genuinely entertaining history of the Yugo GV — the $3,990 Yugoslav subcompact that became an American punchline almost immediately after its 1985 debut. Jason Vuic treats the car seriously: this is Cold War trade policy, Balkan industrial economics, and 1980s American consumer culture told through the lens of one very bad automobile. Hill and Wang, first edition, 2010. Clean copy in very good condition, dust jacket bright and sound.

Good for gearheads, historians of the 1980s, and anyone who has ever made a Yugo joke and wanted to know where it came from.