[foobarian]

There was a variety of foreign cars, but the domestic ones had a lot of volume and were built simply and for more basic conditions. Fićo [1] being super widespread, with people sometimes owning several so they could use them as donor cars. They had underpowered, air-cooled engines, but they had a killer first gear that I remember could pull off climbs that no other car could at the time.

The thing I remember about Fićo was its poor gearbox, where sometimes you had to hold it in gear to catch, and constant synchronizer failures. I also remember the Stojadin had a butter-smooth shifter that allegedly was a Porsche design :-)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zastava_750