I go, we go, Yugo. Yu-gone.

The final Yugo car is rolling off the production line today. Apart from the fact I didn’t realise these were still being built, I tried in the mid 80s, unfruitfully, to persuade my dad to buy one of these with the idea that having such an unhip car would actually make you rather hip – this does, in my experience, work, as people are secretly rather curious about things they sneer about without knowing why.

Sadly, he didn’t buy one (or indeed, a Skoda Estelle which I was equally keen to promote). However, my parents managed to own two 2CV during the late 80s/early90s so my campaign was not entirely lost, and yes, people were impressed by their flaky flapping windows and the starting handle potential of it.