# What NATO Bombs Couldn't Kill, the Credit Crunch Has

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**Created:** [November 21, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nato-bombs-couldnt-kill-the-credit-crunch-has/473752 "2008-11-21T00:42:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\
**Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-nato-bombs-couldnt-kill-the-credit-crunch-has/473752/1 "2008-11-21T00:42:20Z")

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[The last Yugo has rolled off the assembly line.](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7739319.stm)

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> It’s the end of the road for the Yugo.
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> Production of the car has officially ended after almost 30 years.
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> Just like the Lada and the Skoda, the Yugo was often ridiculed.
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> Apparently Yugos came complete with heated rear windows to keep your hands warm when the car needed a push - just one of many jokes inspired by its questionable quality.
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> At its factory in central Serbia, it is almost as if you are transported back to the former Yugoslavia.
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> The design of the car and the factory itself haven’t changed much for decades. The last few cherry red models are on the production line.

I remember when NATO bombed Yugoslavia back in the late 90s and **everyday** of the bombings, we hit the Yugo plant. The only possible explaination I could think of for that, is that whomever was in charge of planning the bombing raids must have owned one of those cars.