Zastava Florida

The Yugo Florida was a car model of the former Yugoslav, Serbian manufacturer Zastava today. He is also known under the export name Yugo. On this car model at the time rested the hope of the entire Yugoslav automotive industry.

The Florida has already been developed as a supplement to the three-door Yugo in the 1980s and introduced in 1986 to the public. The design of the five-door hatchback by Giorgetto Giugiaro. The unclassifiable in the Golf class 3.93 -meter-long body has a boot volume of 420 liters at up imputed and 1280 liters with the rear seat folded down.

Technically the Florida based on the T3 platform from Fiat. Exported to Germany vehicles were ( fulfilling the EURO -2 standard ) with an old (but heavily modified ) 1302- cc engine from Fiat, a multi -point fuel injection (EFI ) from Bosch by Porsche Design, as well as a regulated 3 - way catalyst equipped.

The marketing success of this vehicle was because of the outbreak of war in the former Yugoslavia in 1991 and the associated export sanctions to a sudden end.

The production of this model was continued up to 1999. In that year the NATO attacks on Serbia met the Zastava factory and destroyed it almost completely. After the reconstruction of the production, the production ran again (mainly for the domestic market ) with small numbers of. In addition, but was also exported back to Croatia, Macedonia, and further SKD kits to Egypt. In the pre-1999 vehicles had already been introduced as gray imports to Poland, the Czech Republic and Greece.

In some exporting countries of Florida was also sold as the Yugo Sana or Yugo Miami. In the former Yugoslavia, there was a pick-up and a panel van variant of Florida. After 2000 the vehicle in Egypt from El Nasr Automotive Manufacturing Company in Cairo was made ​​as Nasr Florida. Meanwhile, the Yugo Florida was renamed Serbia Zastava Florida In. Production stopped in 2008.