In 1980's Yugoslavia, it was considered to be an honor to own a vehicle ... whether it ran or not! One of the largest cultural shifts that Zastava had to overcome in producing for the USA marketplace is the difference in expectations of quality between the two marketplaces.

Yugo America was my software company’s second automotive customer. Over the past 40 years, we have worked with over 30 automotive companies. The first Yugo vehicles to arrive in the USA were rough. This was a function of the lack of quality control at the Zastava plant as well as the thin capitalization of Yugo…

If Tesla used software from my company ( www.vehiclesystem.com ), this would not have happened!