![]() 07/16/2015 at 18:11 • Filed to: None | ![]() | ![]() |
So I was working on my “When Life Gives You Lemons” t shirt design from way back, and I had an idea. Is there a way I can modify the Yugo logo:
to look like a lemon, which looks like this, in case you somehow don’t know:
I was thinking I would just make it yellow and add the little nubs on the ends, and give it some leaves. Actually, now that I think of it, would that be violating any copyright laws? Because Yugo hasn’t been around for quite a while, right?
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Basically what I was going to do, as long as it doesn’t infringe copyrights
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FIAT owns Yugo, actually.
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fair use allows for parody.
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I think they own Zastava, but I don’t know about Yugo itself...
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I was thinking about Yugo the other day. I wonder if they suffered more because of a lack of parts availabilty (the country split up had a war not long after they were first introduced to the maket here) Or if it was just a poorly conceived and even more poorly exececuted idea for a car.....I’m leaning for the second reason, personally.
![]() 07/16/2015 at 18:29 |
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Woo! I promise I won’t just copy and paste the one you made.
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Yugo is owned by Zastava, thus is owned by FIAT. They apparently made cars called Yugo’s up until about 2008.
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From what I’ve heard, it’s the second for sure.
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More than anything they suffered from high consumer expectations. In the 1980s we got accustomed to high-quality small cars with decent performance and exceptional durability, courtesy of Japan. The Yugo wasn’t up to those standards; it was a 1970’s Fiat in every way (oddly, that’s what I liked about them (I owned 25 of them over the years)). If it had been brought here in 1976 rather than 1986 it would have been competitive.
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Maybe, but even in the 70’s, of which I remember a few years, if you had a new car and it broke down in the first 1000 miles, you would have had some serious problems in the eyes of consumers.
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That’s the reputation, but the vast majority didn’t do that. They led sad neglected lives devoid of oil changes and died of neglect. So the car’s a piece of shit because it didn’t even go 40,000 miles before the engine blew.
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My friend had a new one that broke down almost daily. It wasn’t a matter of neglect.