RE: Good news! There's an all-new Dacia Duster

[P-Jay]

croyde said:

I love my MK2 Duster, bought new in '21 for £10500 and have been looking forward to the Bigster.

This looks like a smaller Bigster and I like it but sadly Dacia's have rocketed out of my price range and can longer be seen as a motoring bargain.

Buy my car today and it's over £17000 so lard knows what this new one will cost.

Best bang on a Tune then

[P-Jay]

I think it looks great, I know a Bar owner in the Alps who has one and they seem very popular with locals there, so I guess they'd be more than enough 4x4 for most of us.

£25k for a Hybrid 'not base model'? I could see me buying one, my Golf R Estate is getting pretty grubby hauling my MTBs around.

[Bonefish Blues]

P-Jay said:

croyde said:

I love my MK2 Duster, bought new in '21 for £10500 and have been looking forward to the Bigster.

This looks like a smaller Bigster and I like it but sadly Dacia's have rocketed out of my price range and can longer be seen as a motoring bargain.

Buy my car today and it's over £17000 so lard knows what this new one will cost.

Best bang on a Tune then

Happy days, those

[BFleming]

Each new car that Dacia brings out is a visual step away from the Renault-parts bin of old (whether it still is or isn't). I like their direction - maybe it's what Skoda could have been instead of the premium product it has become.

[thelostboy]

Interesting you say that as my neighbour has a new matt black Renault Alpine SUV thingy and the outline is similar / familiar.

I do think this - and the aforementioned Renault - do look really nice. Good luck to them! As someone has asked, I wonder if this just steals sales from Renault though...

[Alpenus]

Needs clear glass to look good obvs, could of been an estate in an ideal world

[richhead]

Not a fan of the svu thing, but good to see plain and simple cars at good value, get rid of the ipad on the dash and it might be good.

[Got4wheels]

I like the look of this! As I much as I liked the UN spec Dusters, I never imagined it to be a big seller, so this almost LR esque interpretation of utilitarianism is expected. It seems to get the balance right, but I think it'll be cost and spec sensitive for value.

Michael

[Si_man306]

Love it. It’s like the ikea of the motoring industry. For all the over the top German gumpf and range rovers topping 200k+ it just says ‘I couldn’t give a fu*k what you think’

[Dohnut]

Quite like the look of that.

Not said that about a Dacia before.

Mrs Nut is in the market for a new car early next year and this just might fit the bill.

[Silvanus]

Really like this. I will almost certainly be looking at these when I swap my car, along with the Jogger.

With regards to prices, even though they have risen sharply, they will still massively undercut their rivals, unless the Chinese release a proper equivalent.

I really hope they do an Awd commercial version to replace the existing model, that would be a work car sorted.

[nismo48]

bobo said:

I bought a new Sendero 2 years ago....SOLD

Here's the enjoyable experience i had....

1. All lock cylinders failed within 13 months
2. Engine warning light on after 6 months
3. Injector failed after 9 months
4. Electric short lead to constantly drained battery

Will never buy a Dacia again........ Be warned....

That's bad luck
Over here in Andalucia Spain they are very popular and for good reasons too.
Reliable and efficient and rugged capability whenever required.
Two years and 40k kms our Duster is going strong

[Silvanus]

bobo said:

I bought a new Sendero 2 years ago....SOLD

Here's the enjoyable experience i had....

1. All lock cylinders failed within 13 months
2. Engine warning light on after 6 months
3. Injector failed after 9 months
4. Electric short lead to constantly drained battery

Will never buy a Dacia again........ Be warned....

In contrast, I've not had a single thing go wrong with my 2019 Logan and will definitely be buying another, maybe two, Dacias in the near future. One of the most satisfying cars I've owned.

[Llew]

I'd happily drive one of those.... I quite like Dacia. Pricing will be interesting - Hopefully it'll be priced right but I wouldn't be surprised to see it at late 20s which would be way too expensive... Sub £20k (doubtful) and they'd sell in bucketloads with that styling...

[anonymous-user]

This looks very good, but as others have said it is going to be £25K for a half decently equipped one. Now on the face of it this sounds expensive, but the price of a non prestige, basically white goods SUV is getting on for £40K now.

No idea who buys them or how they afford them, but they clearly do.

[ChevronB19]

Joey Deacon said:

This looks very good, but as others have said it is going to be £25K for a half decently equipped one. Now on the face of it this sounds expensive, but the price of a non prestige, basically white goods SUV is getting on for £40K now.

No idea who buys them or how they afford them, but they clearly do.

Quite. At 25k for a top spec model, I would go for it. I’ve got fun cars anyway and this could/would be our everyday family car (I can justify a high (ish) up seating position and 4WD due to being in the wilds of Cumbria). Still don’t like the wheels though, and as I’m getting old heated seats and steering wheel, and preferably heated windscreen would be a must have.

[P-Jay]

Joey Deacon said:

This looks very good, but as others have said it is going to be £25K for a half decently equipped one. Now on the face of it this sounds expensive, but the price of a non prestige, basically white goods SUV is getting on for £40K now.

No idea who buys them or how they afford them, but they clearly do.

PCP init, or at least it was until rates went wild.

VW Group started it (I think) they owned the manufacturing, ran the retail, owned the bank / finance companies and mostly took in the part-Ex’s at the end. They could set a very high ticket price because they could control the value of the cars through it's entire first owner life-cycle and often the second owner too. For consumers it's usually means jumping from one PCP to the next, never really owning anything, but never really paying for it either. I'm not snobby about it, I'm on my second VW PCP, the deals are usually too good to ignore.

Things aren't so good now, base rate is up 5% and for a time there were rumours that VWFS looked like the next Lehmans so I think they're reducing their GFVs and probally turning away a lot more medium-risk business. Ticket prices don't seem have fallen, but there are lots of deals around.

[Paulo_G]

D4rez said:

indapendentlee said:

I love this but it's going to be about £25k for 'the one you want' - maybe not unreasonable but I swear the Duster started at about 8995 when it came out!

£9500 in 2013 so about £13k in today's money. Actually now starts at £17300 so £4300 in real terms but you have to think about the mandatory safety, emissions and other kit it now has to have plus the huge raw materials increases in that time, well above inflation

^this.

The world has changed an awful lot in the last 10 years, the last 3 in particular with covid and wars aplenty. Things have become a damn sight more expensive as a result, cars are no exception as we all know, despite myriad PH comments claiming disbelief and seeming lack of acceptance of the fact.

In relative terms, still cracking value for a brand new car vs all other brand new cars. However, the days of cheap new cars and affordable finance appear to be over, for now at least, so maybe we will see a return to more people owning cars for longer and maintaining them over a 7-10+ year period, not trading in for the latest model every 3/4 years.

[ChocolateFrog]

Looks pretty good IMO. Glad they've dropped the lift up handles for pull ones, the old ones do feel very outdated in 2023.

No mention of weight, the old one was very light, I think the reason it's not mentioned is because it'll be 200-300 kg heavier than the outgoing model like for like (my guess).

Also no decent standalone engine option. As a long term owner I'm not interested in hybridisation, I'm almost certain I wouldn't recoup the extra cost and maintenance over the life of my ownership on slightly improved fuel economy.

I'll also be interested to see how much more it is. Climate control is mentioned and seems to be top spec only, it could be as much as £8000 more than I paid for mine last year.

Sounds negative but I'm not, they're definitely doing what Skoda did 25 years ago and I can see them being a huge success, just look at it, I think it looks great and they'll no doubt refine it further.

Edited by ChocolateFrog on Wednesday 29th November 14:51

[ChocolateFrog]

Forgot to add, have they dropped physical HVAC controls? It's hard to tell.

If they have that's a travesty, about the best bit of the ergonomics of the old model is the physical dials for the Climate.