yugo

Sometimes you gotta admit that a Yugo is a really, really, really bad car.

Standardizing on this cog doesn't require that the car look like a yugo - it just means that all cars get the best possible experience with the least amount of effort.

So they went into debt for a Yugo instead of a BMW.

Albeit the Yugo needs to move at the speed of light.

It just can't happen, much like how a Yugo rear-ending a garbage truck in Brooklyn doesn't instantly consume all of New York City in a gasoline fireball.

As an anecdote, read about the creation of the Warajevo ZX emulator, a cross-ethnic colaboration from several Yugo people to get spare PC parts and books while avoiding snipers.

I'm in the middle of this still, but it's a pretty interesting look at Malcolm Bricklin, who brought the Subaru and the Yugo to the USA.

Thou hast well said, Yugoslavia has no successor states: For Yugo hast had five successor states; and the domain thou now hast is not thy successor state: in that saidst thou truly.

On multiple occasions I have been called Yugo, a "gypsy", Slav because of my name, and also have given attitude due to my accent.

"a Yugo rear-ending a garbage truck in Brooklyn doesn't instantly consume all of New York City in a gasoline fireball." My new favorite metaphor.

I'd just like to point out that the Yugo metaphor is invalid because the article specifically states that the experiment involves "beams of uncharged particles — the energy in them so great it could vaporize a car in seconds".

Would you like a commenter on HN to say something like "well that's why you are driving a used Yugo and I am driving a brand new Lamborghini that I paid cash for?" as justification for why they know something or are somehow better than you are?

It's like saying a Pinto is a great car, because it's not a Yugo.

It would be as if someone came up with a new, super-high end car and called it a Yugo.

Which might sound plausible for anyone that never heard of Yugo, or the speed of light.