# Time to buy a new Balkan map! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 4, 2003, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-buy-a-new-balkan-map/152758 "2003-02-04T19:15:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-buy-a-new-balkan-map/152758/1 "2003-02-04T19:15:32Z")
[Yugoslavia no longer exists](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,77573,00.html) How come nobody ever tells me these things? Now I gotta go out and get a new globe, map, etc. And heaven knows what Yugo owners are supposed to call their cars now. Farewell, Yugoslavia, we hardly knew ye. ---
**Author:** ![ResIpsaLoquitor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b3f665/32.png) [@ResIpsaLoquitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ResIpsaLoquitor)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-buy-a-new-balkan-map/152758/2 "2003-02-04T19:16:33Z")
Crap! This was supposed to go in MPSIMS. I’m thoroughly embarassed…unless anybody wants to take a poll on “What should we call the Yugo now?” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![typhoon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed8c4c/32.png) [@typhoon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typhoon)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-buy-a-new-balkan-map/152758/3 "2003-02-04T19:56:12Z")
Serb-Montes. I wonder if the map-making companies pay these countries off to change their borders every now and then. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2003, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-buy-a-new-balkan-map/152758/4 "2003-02-04T20:09:40Z")
I was under the impression that “Yugoslavia” hasn’t been “Yugoslavia” for a long time now. I wonder if Prince Alexander will regain his family’s throne. Most royalty experts say he is the one ex-royal with the best chance of a restoration. It would be especially fitting, since he is a descendent of the Serbian family AND the Montenegrin. ---
**Author:** ![njufoic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/278dde/32.png) [@njufoic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njufoic)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-buy-a-new-balkan-map/152758/5 "2003-02-05T05:00:49Z")
ResIpsaLoquitor- You should now call the Yugo a [ZMW](http://www.myZMW.com). Yes, these cars really are made by the same company as the, um, “memorable” Yugo. -Andrew L ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-buy-a-new-balkan-map/152758/6 "2003-02-05T06:31:43Z")
Apparently, Serbia-Montenegro wants to move up in the order of procession at the Olympics. Except I have no idea how the name will be transliterated in Greek for 2004 and where it will fall in alphabetical order then. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-buy-a-new-balkan-map/152758/7 "2003-02-05T08:11:19Z")
Off to MPSIMS ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/time-to-buy-a-new-balkan-map/152758/8 "2003-02-05T19:53:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by njufoic \* > \*\*You should now call the Yugo a [ZMW](http://www.myZMW.com). Yes, these cars really are made by the same company as the, um, “memorable” Yugo. > \*\* Damn, did you see the “models” page? All they did for the base model was change the grill/headlamps! Dig their slogan, “a ZMW may be all the car you need”…