Balkan "feature"

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All of you have often seen this charming little and funny car in varying degrees of grooming. But very few people know that in Yugoslavia this car became a legend and is still widely known in the Balkans under the gentle nickname "Ficha" (from the Italian Fiat). This car is called Zastava 750.

One look at the photo is enough to draw a parallel with another similar machine - Zaporozhtz ZAZ-965.

But Soviet designers have so refashioned the prototype, the Italian Fiat 600, that there is no need to talk about constructive coincidences with Zastava.

Unlike the USSR, the Yugoslavs bought a full-fledged license and began to produce a copy of an Italian subcompact under their brand at the Crvena Zastava automobile plant - the Red Banner.

The volumes of the release of the copy lagged far behind the original. If Fiat was released more than 2 million copies, then the Zastav - 900 thousand, and Zaporozhye and even less - a little more than 300 thousand pieces. In Yugoslavia, the car was called the "Millennium car." Especially became popular due to the well-known film "National class".

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