Yugo introduced an official comeback in February, with plans to provide a small hatchback just like what the corporate constructed all through the Eighties and Nineties. However our solely indication of the model’s return was a shadowy teaser exhibiting the automobile’s silhouette and some grainy renderings. Lastly, although, we get our first official have a look at Yugo’s new automotive—albeit in scale mannequin kind.
On the Automobile Design Occasion 2025 in Munich final month, Yugo lifted the very tiny sheet on its first scale-model idea. The idea would not have a reputation, but it surely seems pretty. The 2-door hatchback gives shades of unique Yugo fashions with its compact footprint, boxy profile, and flat, minimalist surfacing. However in fact, with all the trendy cues you count on of a automobile produced in 2025.
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The size-model idea was sculpted by Serbian designer Darko Marčeta beneath the guise of Yugo’s new proprietor, Professor Dr. Aleksandar Bjelić. Yugo instructed Automobile Journal that the brand new idea, ‘doesn’t simply function a historic memory, however underscores the affordability and the sportiness of the brand new mannequin.’
If this new Yugo makes it to manufacturing—which the corporate hopes to realize within the subsequent two years—it will compete within the subcompact hatchback market in Europe. Assume, Citroen C3, Renault Clio, Volkswagen Polo, and many others. Nevertheless it’s extraordinarily unlikely that the Yugo model ever makes its manner again to America.
Yugo says it should supply naturally aspirated gasoline and turbocharged variations of its new hatchback, with an EV possibility potential. It is going to be accessible in each automated and guide variations, and the corporate even hinted at a potential efficiency model, which we might get extra particulars on later this yr.
However a completely functioning Yugo prototype remains to be a number of years off. The corporate says {that a} prototype ought to debut Belgrade Expo in 2027, with manufacturing slated to kick off that very same yr.
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Yugo by way of Automobile Journal
