They generally were jokes, some with images, some not. It seems every joke site at the time had at least one about Yugo's or Hyundai's. At least that's what I remember. This is roughly between 1995 and 2000. Some may have been on Compuserve instead of the Internet, I don't remember the details, but generally both copied each other.

> FORD = Found On Road Dead (or Fix Or Repair Daily)

Haha, just fixed my Ford in the driveway today! (Battery cable corroded to the point it wouldn't conduct anymore.) But the beast is 30 years old, so I forgive it.

In the same vein, my grandpa considered Toyotas to be "toys" ("they've even got 'toy' in the name) until he bought a Highlander and - eventually - a Prius.

Yugo = you go on foot