Question

Jason Vuic profiled Malcolm Bricklin’s import of this product to America after five-hundred some alterations to reach US standards in a book about “The Rise and Fall” of this product. For 10 points:
[10m] Give this brand name of notoriously shoddy imports that were sold in their homeland as Korals. This product’s production was crippled by a 1999 NATO bombing of a facility mistaken for Zastava’s arms factory.
ANSWER: Yugos [or the Zastava Yugo; or the Yugo Koral; accept the Yugo GV; accept The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History]
[10e] The Yugo was based on the 128 model produced by this Turin-based auto manufacturer, whose “500” model symbolized the post-World War II “Italian economic miracle.”
ANSWER: Fiat [or Fiat Automobiles S.p.A; or Fabbrica Italiana Automobili di Torino; or Italian Automobile Factory of Turin; accept the Fiat 500; reject “Fiat Chrysler” or “Stellantis”]
[10h] The Serbian film Black Cat, White Cat’s scene of pigs eating a Trabant plays off an urban legend about this cruddy plastic-based material, which was used instead of steel for the East German car’s body.
ANSWER: Duroplast
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