Serbia had hoped someone might ‘do a Dacia’ with Zastava. But Fiat’s ambitious plans for the Serbian automaker have no room for sentiment, as Mark Bursa discovers. Serbia had hoped someone might ‘do a ...
The emergence of a bidding war for the Serbian automaker formerly known as Yugo took a lot of people by surprise. Wasn’t the company bombed into the Stone Age a decade ago? Far from it, as Mark Bursa ...
The final closure of the long defunct Zastava car factory in Kragujevac has left many Serbs grieving for a part of their history that is now definitely over.
From 2000 onwards, the government took steps to split up the Zastava conglomerate, and prize its component companies away from the mothership and into private hands. For Zastava Automobili, now Fiat ...