Here is Dacia's newest proposal in terms of MPV models, the new Lodgy, an affordable and good looking car price from under €10,000 in Europe. The Romanian model debuted at this year's edition of the Geneva Motor Show and will hit the showrooms in the coming months. The new model is 4,500mm long and 1,750mm wide, Dacia following to offer...
With this weekend we see the end of another leg of the Andros Trophy. The French ice racing series held in the Alps has titled a new player to the game. That'll be the Dacia Lodgy Glace, an ice racing version of the recently unveiled Romanian low budget MPV solution. The man behind the wheel isn't new to the game...
Though not expected to be unveiled until the 2012 Geneva Motor Show, the 2012 Dacia Lodgy MPV has been unveiled by the Romanian manufacturer. The Lodgy is a very important car for the Dacia brand since it is a premiere on many fronts and it signifies them targeting a new segment of the market. The 2012 Dacia Lodgy will once...
Out of late stages of development and into the spotlight: this is the Pikes Peak Dacia Duster or "No Limits" as it has recently been named. Meant to take on what can be the most surprising race in any sporting calendar, the Dacia Duster No Limits one-off car is powered by a lot of technology and a dream. We'll get...
Even though China is the place to look for news and excitement about cars nowadays, Europe is clearly not going to be a pushover no matter how small the brand making the announcement. This is exactly what Dacia is talking about in coming up with their new version of the Duster. We're not talking about a production low budget SUV...
The Romanian people from Dacia are testing the new Sandero somewhere in Brazil. Actually, we talk about a facelifted version of the Romanian model which is expected to debut later this year. The model has Renault's badge as the French manufacturer decided to sell the model this way on the other continents than Europe. According to the first details, the...
The Romanian manufacturer has very important news to announce, so, everyone pay attention please. Dacia managed to reach an important milestone today, the vehicle number 4,000,000 left the gates of the factory in Mioveni. Dacia's 4,000,000th vehicle is the new SUV in the range, Duster, and its owner is a 58 year old customer from Romania. The jump from 3...
The French people from Renault recently announcend that at this year's edition of Pikes Peak International Hill Climb which starts on June 26 in Colorado, U.S., a 850-horsepower version of Dacia Duster will compete with the French pilot Jean-Philippe Dayraut behind the steering wheel. Packing 850 horsepower under the bonnet of a Dacia Duster sounds pretty crazy, this is why...
It's true that Dacia Duster is a very affordable car, it's also a good looking vehicle but unfortunately the Romanian model is not doing that good when it comes to safety. This compromise, affordable price over safety is not seen very good by the Euro NCAP officials and also by the customers, a model rated with three-star being considered a...
The Romanians from Dacia will extend the production figures at the Tangier plant in Morocco and according to the first details there will be produced around 350,000 units every year. It seems that the successful story started few years ago by Logan and Sandero is continued now by Dacia's first SUV, Duster, and most probably the future will be future...
Dacia is preparing a new MPV model for the current range, a vehicle with an affordable price tag as all the models of the Romanian brand, expected to debut somewhere next year. The French publication L'argus offers us a view on the new Dacia MPV, a couple of renderings being available and showing us a seven-seater family model. According to...
According to Fabrice Cambolive, Renault's sales manager, the Romanian brand Dacia which is included in the French group managed to increase their sales from 311,282 vehicles to 348,723 units, thus, a 12% increase. The best selling globally model in 2010 was Dacia Sandero with about 155,000 units followed by Logan with 127,000 vehicles. On the third place is ranked the...
The Romanian SUV wins one more award, this time from the French people from Argus. The main reason for the Romanian model to win the big prize in its category is the well equipment level and performance according to the price tag. More exactly, the 4x2 Laureate 1.5 dCi version of Duster managed to take the first place in the...
The Romanian SUV managed to remain in the last seven competitors battling for this year's Car of the Year award. It's true that Duster came as a surprise at the launch date bringing a low price tag and a great quality/price ratio. Even the Romanian model was chosed to remain in the competition, few other well recognized model won't give...
The Romanian manufacturer announced that the 1.000.000th Logan rolled off the production line at Dacia's plant, in Mioveni. This special unit is a sedan version of Logan, more exactly the one you see in the photo. The model is painted white and was delivered to a Romanian customer. Dacia also released a raking of the Logan models, on the first...
Two performance tuning kits were created for the 1.5-liter dCi propeller found on Duster. The Germans at RaceChip decided to create two performance kits called RaceChip and RaceChip Pro able to significantly increase the horsepower amount delivered by the 1.5-liter dCi unit. Thus, the first tuning kit is able to offer an extra 29 horses and 66 Nm of torque...
Oh yea! Few hours ago I was "complaining" that Dacia Duster received just the second tuning kit, since its debut on the local automotive market, in Romania. Here is another tuning kit developed for Dacia's first SUV, but this tuning kit definately stands out compared to the usual tuning kits even there are not significant visual or performance improvements. To...
Here's the second tuning kit prepared for the Romanian SUV after the tuners at Elia AG presented an aesthetic and performance kit for Duster. This time, people at Cobra operated just aesthetic changes, the performance chapter remained unchanged comparing to the previous kit told below. So, what's new? Well, Dacia Duster received a sylish set of 18-inch alloy wheels, in...
The Romanian manufacturer Dacia is continuously increasing the records set on different automotive markets. Here we have a statistic regarding the number of foreign brand cars registered last month in France. These standings show us that Dacia was ranked in the first place in August with 6.068 units and obtained an increased market share by 1.1% compared to August 2009....
Being born and raised in Romania and seeing that Dacia's SUV drew attention of the German tuners from Elia it's not a small thing. It's true that some important international publications said that Duster got balance or braking problems, that we talked recently, but, for its price, I think that the model do its job successfully. It's also true that...
