The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst car in History [Audiobook] download free by Jason Vuic
- Listen audiobook: The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst car in History
- Author: Jason Vuic
- Release date: 2011/5/17
- Publisher: HILL & WANG INC.,U.S.
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Transportation
- ISBN: 9780809098958
- Rating: 7.23 of 10
- Votes: 502
- Review by: Casey Francisco
- Review rating: 8.29 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/27
- Duration: 3H24M3S in 256 kbps (54.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-24
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WAV, MP3, FLAC, WMA, MPEG4, MPEG-4 DST (compression LZ, TAR.XZ, ZIP, TBZ2, RAR, IMG)
- Total pages original book: 272
- Includes a PDF summary of 24 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 17M8S (4.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Six months after its American introduction in 1985, the Yugo was a punch line; within a year, it was a staple of late-night comedy. By 2000, NPR's Car Talk declared it 'the worst car of the millennium.' And for most Americans that's where the story begins and ends. Hardly. The short, unhappy life of the car, the men who built it, the men who imported it, and the decade that embraced and discarded it is rollicking and astounding, and one of the greatest untold business-cum-morality tales of the 1980s. Mix one rabid entrepreneur, several thousand 'good' communists, a willing U.S. State Department, the shortsighted Detroit auto industry, and improvident bankers, shake vigorously, and you've got The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History.Brilliantly re-creating the amazing confluence of events that produced the Yugo, Yugoslav expert Jason Vuic uproariously tells the story of the car that became an international joke: The American CEO who happens upon a Yugo right when his company needs to find a new import or go under. A State Department eager to aid Yugoslavia's nonaligned communist government. Zastava Automobiles, which overhauls its factory to produce an American-ready Yugo in six months. And a hole left by Detroit in the cheap subcompact market that creates a race to the bottom that leaves the Yugo . . . at the bottom.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Motor Cars, Manufacturing Industries, Road Vehicle Manufacturing Industry, Road & Motor Vehicles
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 19.20 USD
- Dimensions: 147x222x17mm
- Weight: 350g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: New York, United States
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