Good News!!! The Dacia Duster's arrived

[telecat]

And at £8995 it's going to sell!!!!!

[Vilhelm]

There's a left hand drive one parked in Renault Birmingham's showroom.

[Captain Muppet]

[r1ch]

Never heard of it. Had a quick google, looks okay.

[Chrisw666]

I just had a play on their website and at the prices they're offering a 4x4 SUV for I can see them shifting a bucket load to people who aren't concerned about badges.

Does anyone else offer a sub £15k 4x4 diesel?

[farrendahl]

With this kind of pricing stratergy it's not going to take to long for Dacia to outsell it's Renault parents in the UK market. Yes the cars are built on older Renault platforms but when you can make significant savings how many everyday drivers will be that bothered? Heck £8995 for a decent looking 2wd SUV I'd be half tempted myself.

[TheHeretic]

Plenty here in BG. Mind you, there are decent amount of Dacia's on the road in general. Logan's, Sandero, the Duster, etc.

[Butter Face]

We have ours here and I am pleasantly surprised with the quality of it all.

Yes a top spec one is 15k but it is a very good overall package!

[Bill]

The wheel arches aren't round Not that I'm fussy given the price.

What Renault platform is the Duster based on?

[Captain Muppet]

doogz said:

Captain Muppet said:

Yeah, I'd like one like Alain's please.

I'd like one like this:

[farrendahl]

Bill said:

The wheel arches aren't round Not that I'm fussy given the price.

What Renault plat form is the Duster based on?

Nissan B platform so the same underpinnings as the Juke and and the Renault Modus

[Butter Face]

Bill said:

The wheel arches aren't round Not that I'm fussy given the price.

What Renault platform is the Duster based on?

Based on the Renault-Nissan B0 platform IIRC.

Juke/note/Clio/Modus all share variations of it.

[Bill]

farrendahl said:

Nissan B platform so the same underpinnings as the Juke and and the Renault Modus

Cheers. No idea if that makes it any good though

[Chrisw666]

Bill said:

Cheers. No idea if that makes it any good though

I think it makes it a tried and tested car that isn't bad at being a car. Nothing special but not hateful and if it's been around a while should have decent parts availability.

[12gauge]

farrendahl said:

With this kind of pricing stratergy it's not going to take to long for Dacia to outsell it's Renault parents in the UK market.

I think thats the plan...renault are already paring back their range in the UK IIRC, no longer selling langunas and meganes. Probably a lot more profitable making cars in Romania than highly unionized France. Renault hasnt much reputation for reliability either, so the relatively unknown Dacia name is unlikely to make much difference IMO.

[Butter Face]

12gauge said:

I think thats the plan...renault are already paring back their range in the UK IIRC, no longer selling langunas and meganes. Probably a lot more profitable making cars in Romania than highly unionized France. Renault hasnt much reputation for reliability either, so the relatively unknown Dacia name is unlikely to make much difference IMO.

Not selling meganes? News to me, we were selling them this morning

Lots of the Renault range isn't actually made in France anyway, but your point is correct.

The Dacia range uses existing tooling, mostly existing components so is cheap and easy to manufacture and will make a lot more profit than the Renault range does IMO.

Shame we have a LHD car that we can't use on the road and is a different spec (slightly) to sell from, with first deliveries in early next year.

[12gauge]

stopped selling some models anyway, for some reason i thought the megane was also cut, guess i just never see any...

http://www.carmagazine.co.uk/News/Search-Results/I...

[Ozzie Osmond]

12gauge said:

I think thats the plan...renault are already paring back their range in the UK IIRC, no longer selling langunas and meganes. Probably a lot more profitable making cars in Romania than highly unionized France. Renault hasnt much reputation for reliability either, so the relatively unknown Dacia name is unlikely to make much difference IMO.

^^^ This. Good news to have some decent cheap cars made in Europe rather than having to buy Chinese or Korean.

[TheHeretic]

Ozzie Osmond said:

^^^ This. Good news to have some decent cheap cars made in Europe rather than having to buy Chinese or Korean.

Ironically, Great Wall have just opened up a factory in Lovech, (about 150Km from me), building dodgy Chinese motors!

http://www.greatwall.bg/

For reference, halve the price, and that's pretty much the price in Euro's. Cheap as chips!