Brand new design and looks sweet at an awesome price, just booked for a test drive.
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gabrielmandu
10 May 1436#44
Ok, first of all I am Romanian therefore biased. A few considerations, in no particular order.
I live the UK but grew in Mioveni, Arges county, where the massive Dacia factory is. My father worked at Dacia for something like 35 years and was always proud of this. I know the factory intimately.
The factory itself goes a long way back (1966!) and the area is all built or related in one way or another to the car industry. Since being taken over by Renault, everything (and that really means everyting) has been modernised; all build processes are similar to the ones used in any other modern car factory.
The romanian car market is composed by almost 50% Dacias. There is a reason for that: cheap to buy and to service, parts are peanuts, plentiful and the cars are built to take the often rough roads. Most of the petrol engines are built to be converted to LPG for only a few hundred pounds. Almost ALL the taxis in Bucharest are either 1.4 petrol Logans converted to LPG or 1.5 diesels. Simple and reliable (wait to see 1.4 petrols run all their life on LPG with 500k km!).
To conclude, I think it is unfair to say that they are bad because they are built in Romania; however, the RHD Dusters are built in India and the discussion is different (see the Dacia forums for more info)...
andy182
10 May 1421#32
I have an octavia VRS and it is a brilliant car. You are talking out of your **** i'm afraid
amonkey
10 May 1412#12
I don't see how. Really. Any other estate car will depreciate by £7k minimum when you drive it off the forecourt. How much can the Dacia depreciate by? £1k? Get a grip, lol.
oddballjamie
10 May 1410#2
Bit of a deceiving image there OP. This is the £6995 car
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aabarcellos
10 May 14#1
Ordered twhot
oddballjamie
10 May 1410#2
Bit of a deceiving image there OP. This is the £6995 car
rugman
10 May 14#3
75bhp in a big car like that ?...I suppose the lack of any creature comforts (air con, elec windows/locking etc) keeps the weight down..
Awesam
10 May 14#4
Start from £9,595 for a Diesel with 90bhp
derek145
10 May 141#5
Great price for a new car but the depreciation on this will be horrendous. I'd have been interested in it a couple of months ago before I bought a second hand Mondeo right enough.
Groaver to derek145
10 May 142#11
Everything's relative in terms of depreciation. It hasn't got a huge starting price to fall from.
It'll do a job for anyone wanting a load lugger.
Heat OP
packard
10 May 14#6
Mpg for diesel looks good ???
gluke21
10 May 14#7
Normal price. No discounts
at Dacia.
Musician
10 May 141#8
A Romanian car company, now part of Renault. Could it be much worse, sorry
beerthebishop to Musician
10 May 147#9
Think they said the same thing about Skoda...
m5rcc to Musician
10 May 141#13
It could have been an FSO Polonez...
Dave-T to Musician
10 May 14#17
Could be a Spanish built Nissan or Merc ML built in Alabama!
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I live the UK but grew in Mioveni, Arges county, where the massive Dacia factory is. My father worked at Dacia for something like 35 years and was always proud of this. I know the factory intimately.
The factory itself goes a long way back (1966!) and the area is all built or related in one way or another to the car industry. Since being taken over by Renault, everything (and that really means everyting) has been modernised; all build processes are similar to the ones used in any other modern car factory.
The romanian car market is composed by almost 50% Dacias. There is a reason for that: cheap to buy and to service, parts are peanuts, plentiful and the cars are built to take the often rough roads. Most of the petrol engines are built to be converted to LPG for only a few hundred pounds. Almost ALL the taxis in Bucharest are either 1.4 petrol Logans converted to LPG or 1.5 diesels. Simple and reliable (wait to see 1.4 petrols run all their life on LPG with 500k km!).
To conclude, I think it is unfair to say that they are bad because they are built in Romania; however, the RHD Dusters are built in India and the discussion is different (see the Dacia forums for more info)...
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It'll do a job for anyone wanting a load lugger.
Heat OP
at Dacia.