Good news! A month with a Dacia Logan MCV
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Slushbox said:
satinder said:
I'm a taxi driver & have driven one for a while for work. I can recommend the 1.5 dci version as its caused no drama or major costs in 180k miles so far, its been a totally reliable workhorse.
Good news, indeed."I rate Dacia as a brand and think they're good car. "
Yes, seems so. Under the tin it's a Megane estate, for the most part. And, I said I would never buy a French car...
Renault now have the Renault RS Sandero, with a 145 HP engine. If it becomes a Dacia RS over here, that could be fun.
Edited by Slushbox on Monday 4th July 06:19
They're also Romanian-built - and were doing to Renault in France, a decade ago, what Graham Taylor and Steve McClaren did to English football...A friend has a Logan MCV with diesel engine, I rate it very highly to drive (and can get 66mpg easily while not hanging about but in "Eco"). Not sure about the "MCV" nomenclature, though - "Maximum Capacity Vehicle" is just crass
(it originally stood for something else in French). But if I had to buy a new car, it would be a Dacia 
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"All current Dacias (certainly the Logan and Sandero if not the Duster) are based on the previous generation Clio rather than a Megane;"
Thank you for the clarification. I didn't understand the footy analogy, but France is indeed awash with Dacias.
There's a press report someplace that said that Renault France wanted a budget range to absorb the market sector which tends to buy used cars. Now they buy new Dacias instead of new Renaults.
There is a Dacia Day at Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground (LE17 5 Lutterworth) on 13th August if anyone local wants to pop in for a bit of Logan-ing, or Dusting, or Sandero-ing. Dacia UK are there, I believe. There will be a 4x4 'test track' for the Dusters.
Thank you for the clarification. I didn't understand the footy analogy, but France is indeed awash with Dacias.
There's a press report someplace that said that Renault France wanted a budget range to absorb the market sector which tends to buy used cars. Now they buy new Dacias instead of new Renaults.
There is a Dacia Day at Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground (LE17 5 Lutterworth) on 13th August if anyone local wants to pop in for a bit of Logan-ing, or Dusting, or Sandero-ing. Dacia UK are there, I believe. There will be a 4x4 'test track' for the Dusters.
Slushbox said:
There's a press report someplace that said that Renault France wanted a budget range to absorb the market sector which tends to buy used cars. Now they buy new Dacias instead of new Renaults.
No they don't, not in the UK anyeay; Dacia and Renault customers were very different people and anyway Renault market share is rising. HTP99 said:
No they don't, not in the UK anyeay; Dacia and Renault customers were very different people and anyway Renault market share is rising.
I did say 'Renault France'. Renault's market share fell slightly in 2016.Here's the figures:
'For the first time in five years, Renault’s first-quarter passenger car registrations [France] topped 100,000 in 2016, with sales rising by 6.7% and market share at 19.9% (down by 0.3 points).
Dacia [France] registrations rose by 16.8% in the first quarter of 2016. Dacia ranks fifth on the French passenger car market, and fourth if we consider retail customers alone. Dacia, fourth in the retail passenger car market, outpaced market growth.'
Source Groupe Renault: http://media.renault.com/global/en-gb/renaultgroup...
Edited by Slushbox on Tuesday 5th July 08:00
Having just got back from a holiday in France Dacias are everywhere. Glad to see another PHer enjoying one, I've had my Sandero Stepway for over 2 years, covered over 45,000 miles and actually enjoy driving it, once you get used to the body roll of the Stepway it can be really quite fun on the lanes (think 2CV fun rather than MX5).
(think 2CV fun rather than MX5).paralla said:
And today I'm going to wrap myself in cotton wall and not leave my bed incase I get hit by........a bus, a falling 747, a feather. Feck me we never had NCAP for years of me driving and it never bother me before and won't now.
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