Dacia Duster. My streets full of them...

Dacia Duster. My streets full of them...

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HannsG

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3,031 posts

133 months

Saturday 16th September 2017
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They seem very popular, are they decent motors for family, kids, mpg, refinement and long distance driving. And more importantly are they comfortable and refined!

Looking at AT seems they are all pretty much h diesels which is what we want to avoid. Take it they have a DPF?

Cheap cars though. Considering heading back to a Skoda again though..

David87

6,648 posts

211 months

Saturday 16th September 2017
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Are you in Scotland? I started a thread a while back about the entire place being full of them.

HannsG

Original Poster:

3,031 posts

133 months

Saturday 16th September 2017
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David87 said:
Are you in Scotland? I started a thread a while back about the entire place being full of them.
West Midlands unfortunately.

Opposite neighbours son just got job in Hungary and is having the old man drive it there.

His son is a petrol head also.

thiscocks

3,127 posts

194 months

Saturday 16th September 2017
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They look st though. Get a Volvo 850 or something, save cash and be different to everyone in your street.

Cold

15,207 posts

89 months

Saturday 16th September 2017
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That's good news.

anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 16th September 2017
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i like the idea but would never buy one, too cheap for a modern country, considering there are better used cars for not much less. I think the appeal is they are cheap cars disguised as some sort of utilitarian transport..

Veryoldbear

210 posts

103 months

Saturday 16th September 2017
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Shed loads of them in France. Practical cheap sheds.

Butter Face

30,192 posts

159 months

Saturday 16th September 2017
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The Spruce goose said:
i like the idea but would never buy one, too cheap for a modern country, considering there are better used cars for not much less. I think the appeal is they are cheap cars disguised as some sort of utilitarian transport..
What do you mean 'too cheap for a modern country' confused

The price is too cheap? The car is too basic?

I'll agree on both points, the car is cheap, the basic car is super basic, but the basic car makes up a tiny % of the cars sold in the U.K.

The majority are diesel Laureate models with aircon, Bluetooth, CL, electric windows (and as of this year DAB) for £14,495. Finance it and you get £1250 deposit contribution (so effectively £13250) 3 years breakdown and 5 years warranty.

rayyan171

1,294 posts

92 months

Saturday 16th September 2017
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Let's be honest - they're fking cheap. When most of the population don't care too much about cars, this certainly is something that makes them very appealing to most people out there on the lookout for a 'trendy' crossover. Sigh, but they are very good value cars.

NickCQ

5,392 posts

95 months

Saturday 16th September 2017
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I'd prefer to live in a street of Dusters than a street of 'aggressively styled' white German metal. Something makes me think they'd just be nicer people.

anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 16th September 2017
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Butter Face said:
What do you mean 'too cheap for a modern country' confused

The price is too cheap? The car is too basic?
the cars is developed for countries not as developed as the UK but some how re-marketed it as this utilitarian transport, and fair enough a lot of people buy them. I just don't see the point of a cheap car with not much options when you could buy a better used car if you are trying to save money. Do farmers buy them no, i guess it would be middle class people, who tell anyone who listens how cheap it is.

Butter Face

30,192 posts

159 months

Saturday 16th September 2017
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The Spruce goose said:
Butter Face said:
What do you mean 'too cheap for a modern country' confused

The price is too cheap? The car is too basic?
the cars is developed for countries not as developed as the UK but some how re-marketed it as this utilitarian transport, and fair enough a lot of people buy them. I just don't see the point of a cheap car with not much options when you could buy a better used car if you are trying to save money. Do farmers buy them no, i guess it would be middle class people, who tell anyone who listens how cheap it is.
Not that I'm one to tell people when they're very wide of the mark, but you're pretty wide of the mark.

We're based in cornwall, rural, lots of farmers. We sell lots of Dusters to, er, farmers hehe

Actually we sell lots of dusters to lots of different people, and they buy them for many different reasons, but one of the main ones is that you get a brand new car with very reliable underpinnings for a decent price that would normally get you a 2/3 year old car and you get a new car warranty etc with it.

And some people do buy them because they like the look of them alone.

anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 16th September 2017
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i live in the countryside and never seen a duster, it is the usual old 4x4s. I would be very surprised a genuine farmer bought a suv for his farm but i guess you must deal with them.


Vipers

32,799 posts

227 months

Saturday 16th September 2017
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Seen any yellow dusters yet biggrin

BeirutTaxi

6,627 posts

213 months

Saturday 16th September 2017
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thiscocks said:
They look st though. Get a Volvo 850 or something, save cash and be different to everyone in your street.
Why would buying an old, clapped out, now probably un-reliable Volvo be the good thing to do :/

poing

8,743 posts

199 months

Saturday 16th September 2017
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Cold said:
That's good news.
This needs more recognition clap

Hungrymc

6,643 posts

136 months

Saturday 16th September 2017
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NickCQ said:
I'd prefer to live in a street of Dusters than a street of 'aggressively styled' white German metal. Something makes me think they'd just be nicer people.
Book, cover.... etc

cheddar

4,637 posts

173 months

Saturday 16th September 2017
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[quote=thiscocks]They look st though. Get a Volvo 850 [h/quote]

Random reply made me chuckle

ST Ford

291 posts

81 months

Saturday 16th September 2017
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I'm seeing more and more Dusters lately they are always in white and see many driven by youngish women which I find odd. But I think they see it as cool as long as it's a white 4x4 with the number 17/67 on the reg even though they look cheap and nasty and have casters for wheels.
Everytime I see one I think of that annoying advert for them "another one bites the duster" to the tune of the queen song.

Cupramax

10,469 posts

251 months

Saturday 16th September 2017
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Theres a facelifted one just been released...

http://www.carbuyer.co.uk/news/154239/2018-dacia-d...