That Yugos were so cheap might very well have been their undoing. Mechanics (at lawn mower repair shops, we assume) reported that customers tended to treat their Yugos as disposable cars, because when you’ve paid less than $4,000, little things like tires and oil changes start to seem like throwing good money after bad. You could double a Yugo’s value by just filling the tank, said someone who wasn’t Leno, probably. In 1986, Saturday Night Live did the Yugo one better with an ad for the imaginary Adobe, a Mexican-made, $179 car fashioned entirely of clay. "You could buy a cheaper car," said pitchman Phil Hartman, "but I wouldn't recommend it.