Privacy policy Sales ended in the U.S. that year when a recall was ordered by the feds over emissions issues related to faulty carburetors. No regrets and better than any $1500 alternatives at the time. In the 1970s the PCI (Italian Communist Party) reached its all-time maximum electorally: 34.4% in the 1976 general election (12,600,000 votes, 3 million more than in the previous election in 1972). The philosophy behind Drowning Mona is not good clean fun, or even intelligent nasty fun. He claimed the belt was good for 200,000-plus miles, often outlasting the pulleys. European manufactures give guarantee for lets say 50k-250k km (~30k-150k mi) and 5-10 years, whatever come first (in practice mileage is more important), but previous owner could use some product with shorter life thats why this saving of couple* Euros isnt worth a risk. https://jalopnik.com/the-yugo-is-not-the-worst-car-ever-and-anyone-who-says-1830229976, The Yugo Is Not the Worst Car Ever and Anyone Who Says That Is a Lazy Hack So Lets Prove It, Your email address will not be published. I test drove one of these brand new when they hit the market. New York (where "years ago," according to an opening caption, "the Yugo Car Company chose to test market its new breed of vehicle.") Directed by Nick Gomez (Laws of Gravity), . Also in that time, poor workmanship wasnt exclusively Yugos problem. In 1968, Bricklin thought that what America needed was an air cooled two cylinder car that could make zero to sixty in thirty seven agonizing seconds. Two YUGO watches, new. The Little SuBARu Wow!, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLPp-NFInXw. I also have to say that state ownership does not always lead to poor business. Seem like this article is just a mishmash of old articles written by people who never owned a Yugo, dont know anything about yugos, or who designed its engine. At the very least, Bricklin didnt end up in a hotel room trying to arrange drug deals. Assuming the gentleman was telling the truth, this has to be some kind Even though the price was a come on (dealers larded as many options onto the car as they could get away with, see below), America was hooked. I actually grew to like winding the snot out of that motor. 1. Nasty Mona Dearly (Midler) drives her car into the Hudson River and drowns. Its so interesting to think of how things couldve been different if the country survived Communisms collapse in one peace. Introduced at an offer price of just under $1300 , the little Subaru made much of its over 60 MPG fuel economy and low cost of ownership. Also spare parts were inexpensive and any mechanic and his nephew would fix it. 500 Yugo cabrio were imported to the States. State-owned auto companies or assembly plants, tend to have little to no feedback from end-user to management. But these Yugos aren't just a frivolous component of the storythey're essential to establishing the wacky tone of the film. She picked them up for virtually nothing and was content with bare-bones transportation. Amidst mutual finger pointing, the deal collapsed in July 2008 as the erstwhile partners took turns suing one another in federal court. What kind of sicko lives there? I know there were folks who collected Yugos for nothing, for running and parts cars. One of the sight gags is that everyone in town drives a Yugo, thereby using personalized license plates as a necessity more than anything else.) Gearboxes on the other hand well, its a Fiat after all, and it teaches you how to double clutch. Membership also saw a similarly sharp increase, with over 1,800,000 in the same year (300,000 more than in 1970). Here is the text that opens Drowning Mona before we see the first shot: She does figure in a quiet little in-joke. Another example of the high cost of low priced objects. UK Yugo dealers were often small garages in small towns, who really tried to do the prep work to get the cars out well. Yep, the N and Z360 from Honda, but when they made them for export, they dropped in a 600cc motor into what was essentially the same car so what we got as did Europe was the N and Z600 with a 600cc motor instead of the 360cc motor, which was the utmost limit in displacement for a Kei car then, and I think now. Drowning Mona Trailer - Yugo Cars 7,448 views May 7, 2014 The NZ Yugo 1.66K subscribers 26 Dislike Share In Drowning Mona everyone drives Yugo Cars and one day Mona borrows her sons. In the 70s when I lived in Boston, I worked with a guy whose 5-year-old Pinto had big holes in the doors. I cant recall reading anything positive about the vehicle, anywhere. As a rule, Chrysler got worse as the 70s progressed where Ford and particularly GM got better. I think that its important to remember that Subaru (Fuji Heavy Industries) itself didnt try to push the 360 into the American market-It was Bricklin looking for a lottery win and the little 360 was his ticket. In the moviedrowning MonaI remember there was among the many regular Yugos one that had four doors (a black one).Was it It eventually developed a bad piston ring(s), and the blow by was enough to clog the carburetor so that it would stop running. She was given a Yugo that wouldnt runthe fix was nine dollars. It was owned by a gentleman named Dave Benton who claimed to be the former engineering manager for Yugo North America. Director Nick Gomez Writer Peter Steinfeld Stars Danny DeVito Bette Midler Neve Campbell Renault has been in state ownership since the 50s, and has been a very profitable company. In The Film, for some inexplicable reason, everyone who lives in the Catskill area towns seems to drive a YUGO. I remember seeing new Yugos at the (I think 1990) Chicago Auto Show. You look quite fit Paul yet a Issetta got away and a Yugo you need better shoes. Ive been toying with seeing if I can find one thats been stored in a garage somewhere and buying it to replace my aging truck that leaks oil and coolant and tide the time before I can buy the new Fiat 500. It was as if the Yugo was being promoted as crap, but SUPERIOR crap. And was thus more expensive. var readyGEO; The interior squeaked everywhere that it didnt rattle. The worst of the Japaneese cars would rust in structural places that would make the car unsafe. The problems with Audisare RELATIVE to other brands; and RELATIVE to past experiences. My problem was that I didn't care who killed Mona Dearly, or why, and didn't want to know anyone in town except for Chief Rash and his daughter. There was a guy that was racing a Yugo in SCCA competition, but thats been a long time ago. Jason Torchinsky of Jalopnik had an interesting take on it lately; What do you call a Yugo with twin exhausts? This may seem shocking, but Yugos really dont rust badly. It cut costs, and as was the concern then (as now) it was Green using the parlance of today. Honestly, I think Zastava should be commended for the amount of engineering they were able to do independently, modifying and developing Fiat cars. (Eagleburger had been U.S. ambassador to Yugoslvia and had spent almost all of his foreign service career in southeast europe. I was worried that shed make it. Our narrative today is of a modern P.T. Ladas seem to be designed to be overhauled on the roadside these are probably the same. Bricklin often says that the first model year or so of production the cars were well assembled and then once Zastava saw the money they let things slip. Yeah, theres no question on really poor build quality. Drowning Mona is a 2000 U.S. crime comedy starring Danny DeVito as Wyatt Rash, a local police chief from Verplanck, New York, who investigates the mysterious death of Mona Dearly (played by Bette Midler), a spiteful, loud-mouthed, cruel and around the town highly unpopular woman, who drove her son's Yugo off the . Which together would have theoretically allowed the Yugo to be more successful. (* 5-20 for older cars, up to 200 if they have to change water-pump and rollers, new models are more expensive, but 500 maybe for new BMW). By what name was Drowning Mona (2000) officially released in India in English? She wrote something like, How cute, Ill be Lelo in her Yugo.. I have NEVER burned out a clutchexcept on a Yugo. Someone steeped in the maintenace required to keep something like a Trabant running would probably be right at home with a Yugo. Saw a lot of Datsuns with the box off, and the tiny size of the frame on those thingsthey were half-ton trucks only by extreme optimism. English tongues tended to read it JUG-oh not a saleable name. And as any living myth, this one spreads into other areas as well: I know of no explanation for the garbage experience my dad had with his Audi, which broke down regularly. I was discussing cars with a woman in my office building one day, when she remarked that she had owned a Yugo, and got an incredible number of miles out of it. The 360 fit in with the type of Japanese car that was (or would become) the Kei car class, which continues to this day within tightly-defined parameters. By the 90s Japan had it totally nailed. Had the car been screwed together properly, and had there been an engineering department to iron out the bugs, it could have had a long run. Bricklin is still nominally involved with a venture called Visionary Vehicles and appears on its website today.The end of his Yugo adventure left him short of funds to repay an impressive list of creditors, investors and employees and even the IRS took its pound of flesh later on. Thank you for the interesting history. Much embarrassment was caused to Toyota when it was found domestic panels had been mistakenly exported to NZ for local assembly we keep cars forever and these rusted out under a year on local limestone based and cowshit covered roads. That brochures more collectible than its car. Zastava took over the American company. At first glance, the car looked up to date- Front wheel drive, rack and pinion steering, decent mileage. From the start, Zastava resented the profit dealers made, and thought their expenses exorbitant. Possibly most accurate and realistic analysis I have heard yet regarding what happened in ex-Yugoslavia. It had nervousness built into it, it made people nervous and it was nervous. Youre welcome here anytime ! The character name, Wyatt Rash, was intentionally chosen by writer, Peter Steinfeld, to reflect the underlying premise of the movie -- said fast enough, it sounds like yup, White Trash! According to IMDBThe first thing to appear on screen is a little blurb about the Yugo car company using the town of Verplanck as a test area for their new model years ago. Every character's automobile has personalized plates. I was unaware of the Bricklin connection at the time, and in fact learned about it here on CC, but I remember seeing some Bricklins as a kid, thinking that they were cool looking cars, and wondering why there werent more of them. The accident I referenced in my earlier post has adversely affected my overall health (lumbar damage), and Im nowhere near as ready to slide under a car as I used to be. Ah yes, I can see it now. This is the real reason that Yugo failed in the US- a poor dealer network. Dispose of the rest of the car. The result is that the UK Yugo was a far superior car to the US one, with its dealership network out to make a quick buck. (At the same dealership on the window sticker above,actually). Not a bit ! They initially started out as an arms manufacturer. Its not unlike the relationship I have with my cockroaches of the road (TM). The characters this time could be lightened up and dumbed-down versions of the confused drunks in "Laws of Gravity," their social lives centered on bars, their center of gravity the bartender. This was not a design fault, but like the Corvair, the company seriously underestimated the ability of the American motorist to neglect even basic maintenence. But theres a difference between an easily-repaired car, and one that needs frequent repairs. I frankly dont know how anything this poor could ever be made. You mentioned this before; itd make a great article. The Yugo, new clutch, new exhaust, patched wiring and all, went into the trash. As far as ethnicity goes, Im Russian by birth, Belarus to be exact, and have that somewhat stocky build to prove it! As the movie opens, a local woman named Mona Dearly ( Bette Midler) speeds down a country road and directly into the Hudson River when her brakes fail. But who? Everyone in Verplanck, N.Y., drives a Yugo. Drowning Mona (2000) is a never remembered black comedy that I absolutely love. While poor Yugo certainly was not the best car made, but it was hardly the worst either. Nevermind that their cars are horribly unreliable, people still buy them. I ask because I wanted to make a comment in the article about the C3 Audi 100/Audi 5000 about how much of a disaster my fathers ownership experience turned out to be, but I figured itd make an interesting point of comparison. During the time the clutch cable was dying, I broke the shifter mechanism, due to the clutch cable dying. It had a three way folding back seat back that could make multiple level shelves out of itself, you could haul a lot of stuff in that car. if (window['UnicI'].geo === 'CA') { Why Fiat? I bought a used, year-old Yugo. I remember, as a teenJapanese cars had fit-and-finish second to none; they started and ran smoothly with the primitive emissions controls of the time; but boy, did they rust. Required fields are marked *. After the 1973 oil shock and protracted period of economic stagnation globally, Western markets had less incentive to buy anything from Yugoslavia. Trouble for him was, the rest of America wasnt interested in postwar America. Wheel barrow. Another movie moment: Nick drives a Yugo in the film _Nick & Norahs Infinite Playlist_. In a recent episode of Top Gear UK the trio were allegedly asked by an alleged high-ranking member of the alleged Romanian Mafia what would be the best luxury car for one of his stature. (not that I cared that much about it I was in my mid-twenties and during summer season beaches were full of naked girls.) i doubt they are still there. Money was a problem; but not the root problem. As a Japanese kei class car,it was pretty good for crowded streets , expensive gasoline and as a motorcycle (or scooter,which Fuji also built) alternative. The other being Yugo / Zastava missing out on producing a smaller model based on the Autobianchi A112 as a replacement for the Zastava 750, initially carrying over the existing Fiat 100 Series engines prior to using the Fiat FIRE engines. The Proton is only a Malaysian Mitsubishi exactly the same awful car Hyundai built as trhe EXCEL. I was listening one Saturday to Car Talk and one of the callers that day to the show was a Catholic priest who drove a Yugo and commented on all the flak he received for his choice of automotive transportation. Visit Dealer Website. It was 10 years old in Japan at the time. Japanese cars generally started out small, usually around 800cc in the mid 1950s and grew with the prosperity of the country and desire to chase export markets. Its a tough call on the Yugo. 3. The Florida was reviewed very positively in the UK against western cars, and sadly only failed here because of the rise of Fascism in Yugoslavia, and its aftermath. Screenwriter Peter Steinfeld says the film was originally going to be set in a mythical north. The last Yugo that we would recognize rolled off the assembly line in November 2008. An automatic wouldnt fit in the Yugo engine bay, so the only thing shiftless about the Yugo would be the Zastava workers that routinely drank on the job. I remember the lights were tied to the ignition switch so if you left the light switch on, theyd go off when you shut down the car, and back on when you started it back up, and that meant headlights and all, ala SAAB. Why did Yugos have standard rear defrost? When I got there, my promised job had fallen through and my wife and child still needed a car, and I needed one for working. 1) Anything assembled at gunpoint tends not to be of high quality. after about 30 years of having the car rust off of the frame. Barnum, Theres a sucker born every minute con-artist. They were incredibly simple mechanically. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. The blue one had seen much more use than the red one, but it was still a good runner. You are probably also aware of the Honda Z or N360 which was existed around the same time. Or maybe not. One of my dads friends had one of these. Your experience was exactly what my suspicions were about these cars. Going up hill was a struggle, it tended to roll back in reverse because it didnt have any power to go forward. Only with the threat of armed intervention by Nato and the UN is an uneasy peace maintained. 2) At the 2014 Route 66 Mother Road Festival in Springfield, Illinois there was a Yugo with a Chrysler 426 Hemi (with blower) in the rear of the car (Hemi under glass). Mine was an 86 and a half Yugo. Secondly, I would be one of those people who had a good experience with a Yugo. He soon discovers that her death was no accident. It was only later, when the bean-counters bid out the belts on a cost basis, that they developed a much shorter lifespan. Let me disillusion youI busted a piston crown and bent a valve badly enough to freeze up the camshaft. LOL The old fashioned radio was a piece of crap, and the speakers cracked and gave out after very little use. Further, it was the only small car of the era that could be genuinely fun to drive. We heard of the Yugo here far away in South Africa, but now I know how it all came about and fell apart. It really has all of the benefits of an Italian car with none of the drawbacks. The possibility upsets Ellen, who explains in some of the movie's best dialogue: "I can't marry a murderer. Nobody had let management know that the wiring harness as made, wasnt usable in that part of the car. How quickly they developed larger cars was a product of how well capitalized each company was and how much their senior management (some of which was deeply conservative, even by Detroit standards) was willing to make the investment in export-specific products. I know of a 1979 Datsun pickup that completly rusted out in 6 years. His last notable brush with the automotive world (in 2004) involved a vague alliance with (uh-oh) Chinese auto maker Chery. VW, in its first days, had all the same problems as Zastavabut with a product that was continually improved, they overcame it inside of five years. They were true babes in the woods, and they lacked the capital to deal with the investment and the costs of distributing cars. Todays story, though, has nothing to do with anybody like that. I started to work in 1985 as a young engineer in the factory producing electrical equipment for the industry, and was very aware about problems we faced at the time. With a State-owned automobile plant, management is there for political reasons which may have nothing to do with competence. I owned two. its a beautiful nineteenth century townhouse that was redesigned combining the 19th century iron front with a modern glass setback. With just 25 horsepower (at a cacophonous 5500 RPM), the elfin 360 was the type of cynical exercise that would define Bricklins career in the car business. Ive never felt safe in any car that light so would never have considered owning one, no matter how cheap, even if they had been decently made vehicles. It has interesting characters and situations and I found myself really enjoying the film--only to have it all fizzle at the end. My little red Yugo was dead. Rather, I see him as an irrepressible optimist who went into his various ventures believing everything would turn out well and he was blind to the shortcomings of the cars he imported. Bette Midler chops off son's hand. I remember that time very well, it was impossible to find coffee or bananas or laundry detergent etc in the stores, and the industry was struggling to get raw materials. I recall taking my younger brother out to teach him how to drive. You had to know FIATS and and what Yugo klooged up to meet EPA regs and how to unklooge it. who collected Yugos for pennies on the dollar and used the collection as a parts supply to keep ONE of them running. Though set in Verplanck, "Drowning Mona" was shot entirely within an hour's commute of Los Angeles. Paid less than a thousand for it, thought at the time it was a good buy. The 360 was a Kei car, which took advantage of reduced taxes and insurance rates in Japan for cars less than three meters long with engines no more than 360cc in displacement. It would take about eight years from apparent problem to engineered fix to failure of the fix and another engineered solution. I wonder why they used the Yugos, To show the towns Quirkyness? Its avoidable with regular replacement, true. Like all good European cars used to do, it came with its own tool kit and (owner) service manual. Kind of reminds me of a first generation Rabbit/Golf, which Ive always considered the gold-standard for the best styled small car. And it tanked with the critics. This car had one genuine asset: ride quality. It couldnt be trusted just sitting in the parking lot. After 330,000km with two Yugos, I must be destined to eternal vacation on BOra-Bora . Casey Affleck has gone on record saying that both this film and Soul Survivors (2001) were his two least favorite films that he has worked on. I drove the blue one about three more years, but it did have some issues. I was enrolled in a community class marketing course and the teacher brought up the Yugo, and was joking about it. Bricklin used franchise fees to run the company (a major accounting no-no) while the car was being modified for safety and emissions certification in the U.S. and dealerships were sold, territories assigned. how did Subaru make the transition from dangerous sardine can to granola FWD/AWD family compact in the US?. It was like, when you get in, what is next to give out or give you trouble. )that I spotted a I knew about their reputation, but I really needed a set of wheels that wasnt going to set me back a couple of thousand dollars. Saying that, it doesnt mean that people were particularly promiscuitive or anything like that. I think the other reason they were more successful out of the US is that in Europe, people have driven OHC cars since the 60s. Well, when someone drowns Mona (Bette Midler), it's almost a cause for celebration in the quiet, upstate New York town of Verplanck, whose one claim to fame - except Mona Dearly - is that it's a hotbed of Yugos. if(document.getElementById("unic-ccpa")) { I had very good support for the Yugo as Atlanta is the home of Bayless, which is a big Fiat parts house. Dont forget, we had the Czech Skoda Estelle, the Russian Lada and the Polish FSO 125p all competing at the bottom of the market. Did it even come close? Even on foot. Ive got video somewhere. Ah, the quintessential crap car. In 1975, he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. Reviewed in . In addition, many cars have changed hands by that timeand who knows what the previous owner may have had done? Also in Drowning Mona's favor, at the heart of the movie, is a genuinely positive character, Verplanck Police Chief Wyatt Rash (Danny DeVito).He's possibly the only principled citizen in town. Mona Dearly (Bette Midler) is an anagram for "only a dream". Yupand does anyone think Fiat or Yugo engineers thought to make the engine a clearance design? But they were cheap! Me and my friend Jerry (from Sam Bonds) drove a Yugo at a wrecker yard in Coburg some years back. The ignition constantly gave out and so did the clutch. Americans are a funny lot.I am not sure what $4000 in 2016 money equates to but you can these days get plenty on the used car lot if you look carefully for roughly the same money as anything in the light car class or it can be can be a car you dreamed about when it was new but couldnt afford at the time.We Australians never saw the Yugo but $12,000 before you factor in things like automatics and on roads plus good condition gets you better than most of these cars from foreign lands and brands which dont exist anymore.I suppose the modern day equivalent of this would be something like a Suzuki Celerio or a Mitsubishi Mirage in my part of the world new,used equivalent buying gets you a three year old Corolla or Pulsar or one size smaller a well kept Yaris or Mazda 2. They are also heavily used rather than background or minor action vehicles. Of course not. The biggest thing Ive heard was the timing belts were supposedly good for 30K miles and many owners were caught off guard, mostly due to not reading and/or heeding the maintenance intervals and boom, they croaked as they were not non interference motors like most OHC motors arent. ), See all comments about this movie and its vehicles. In the small, white-trash town of Verplanck, N.Y., a loathsome woman named Mona Dearly (a dour and ugly Bette Midler) drives her car over a cliff and into the river. These rear engined devices were a blast to drive, with tail-out shenanigans a-la Porsche 911 being easy to emulate. And the A/C system on the Yugo was an add on! and lso two Horizon ? Jamie Lee Curtis' character looks like she has some colorful insights to share but isn't given the dialogue to do it--she's more a plot marker than a person. For my family and me back in the eighties, fuel economy was king, so I drove K-Cars and assorted used vehicles that were cheap we never really struggled, but cash and monetary resources were scarce, hence my missing out on the larger, more deluxe offerings of GM, Ford and Chrysler. NEVER Give Up - NEVER Back Down Jason Vuic details this in his book The Yugo of how management refused plans for premiums for top-grade work or extra effort; of how primitive and shoddy were the paint booths, of how design goofs went uncorrected for years. The last ones left in my hometown got a stay of execution when the city received a good number of Bosnian refugees in the 90s; many of them bought Yugos and got mobile for next to nothing since they knew how to keep them running. One of the magazines rolled one on test, and they had a top speed of around 65mph. I bought it in January because I figured it would be fun to see just how bad it could be. ), it was quite good. I would suggest you read Jason Vuics book on the Yugowhat he described the Yugo America advance men as finding, had little to do with shortages of raw materials. 459 tweaks (and 18 months) later, the Yugo was almost ready for launch. So whats my point? So, they set about seeing what was what with a road-trip around Romania in three cars they would be testing. To be said, Jasons book is 90% about Bricklin. American Brands: AMC, Jeep and All Others, Tractors, Lawn Mowers, Off-Road Equipment, Automotive History The Jokes On U.S.- The Short, Wild Ride Of The Yugo In America, TOAL:1974(?) Also, I think that first step after buying any used car in general should be changing of belt. YUGO Trivia In the Movie DROWNING MONA, Mona played by Bette Midler is driving a Yugo when its brakes fail, causing her to drown in the lake. I was only ten, but knew they were junk. Yugoslavia was in the state of bankruptcy at that time, import of all goods and raw materials was practically halted. Drowning Mona is basically a comic murder-mystery. An older Yugo, since the car hasn't been manufactured since its country went out of business. Thanks for your first hand account ! I didnt mind helping friends and neighbor with problems they had with their cars. But like so much of his other stuff, the deal fell through. And that, sadly, is the point and the problem. At my brothers wedding this weekend, what did I see right across the street from the Germanic-American Institute on Summit Avenue in St. Paul, Minnesota? Rated PG-13 In fact, if anything, Americas foreign policy in the 80s encouraged Yugoslavia to manufacture and export finished goods to pay its debts. But before Bricklin made a virtue of safety, he all but made a mockery of same just a half decade before. The next Yugo we were to get in the US, the Sana/Florida, showed even more independent development of a Fiat design by the Yugoslavs. Based on the slightly larger Fiat 125, it was everything bad about a lada, but somehow worse. Zastava only collapsed in 2008, and its decline was NOT due to mismanagement, but the trade embargo on Serbia, which starved them of devlopment funds. So it worked pretty well in the domestic market, but USA is another story. The Yugos bait was a stunningly low MSRP of just $3990. I had two of them. Before I moved to Atlanta in the early 90s, we sold off our other cars before moving. As it turns out, the same rental car place was STILL selling surplus Yugos, and I bought a blue one this time. I think I remember this! They start, get you to your destination in the dry, and thats about all you can saytheres no enjoyment in operating it and build quality was a joke. It was a much more reliable and simple design than the 128 engine in States bound Yugos. Edit: Gah! The engine in mine was the old fiat 903 engine that dated back to the Fiat 600 of the 50s. Ive been around big rigs all of my life, but they never looked bigger than when I was next to them on the freeway. Another factor was that Subaru managed to kick Bricklin out on the street and take over distribution and marketing before he ran it into the ground. I owned one. I want to say she drove it, but I dont think she actually put many miles on it. Id love to hear what they thought a year later. Since the film is set in modern, post y2k times, it may be the last one in running condition in the U.S. No, I dont know if they used an actual Yugo or just a skinned over FIAT prop, & if they did utilize a Yugo, how many production assistants were tasked with keeping it working ;-D. Also used for laughs in the Ackroyd/Hanks Dragnet movie. Im trying to remember, she actually, may have owned two of them. When a woman drives a car into the river to her death, everyone in town becomes a suspect. 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