Dacia Duster---5th gear review

[RENOMAD]

enjoy

 

 

[tonedepear]

This video contains content from Channel 5, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.

Sorry about that.

 

That didn't last long!

[Father Ted]

Sheffield?

 

Its been blocked in Sheffield???

 

Bugger me. Mind you it is Yorkshire after all - they are a bit strange there. I mean show them a £10K Dacia Duster and there might be civil unrest.

[tonedepear]

Oh. Could be cos I'm at work and our internet most likely proxys via America. Never thought of that.

 

Gah! I'm missing out!

[kinkersaab]

Blocked up here in jockland too.

[cort16]

Jonny Smith is a secret shiteist. He gave the Lada Niva a great review now this duster. I think he kinda like the stuff that's better than average when you expect it to be shit. He's also an Allegro perv.

[meggersdog]

Blocked and as yet still not available on demand five.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

It's blocked here, too.

[retrogeezer]

Looked alright to me that duster, I'll be amazed if it is actually 10 grand here when it goes on sale though.

 

One thing, I have always pronounced Dacia as da-sea-a but Jonny called them Da-chi-a??

[Father Ted]

I have always pronounced it Dah- see- ah.

 

But then I still pronounce Nestles Nest-luls not Nes-lay

[tonedepear]

Day-see-er.

 

Also, nougat = nugget.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Da (as in Daventry) - Chi ("ch" as in "change")- a.

 

Furthermore, the 'i' can be pronounced more softly or even nearly omitted.

[DSdriver]

Da (as in Daventry) - Chi ("ch" as in "change")- a.

 

Furthermore, the 'i' can be pronounced more softly or even nearly omitted.

 

Doesn't that turn it into a Russian holiday residence?

[andrew e]

Shit inside mind, lots of bare metal and cheap black plastic, the one I sat in had me thinking "Escort Van". They all seem to be white or metalic brown in the flesh, the shape works well - dare I say it was classless; like the mini? Handbags at dawn on last years Paris Salon stand. Not as many as you might expect in Romania mind.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Da (as in Daventry) - Chi ("ch" as in "change")- a.

 

Furthermore, the 'i' can be pronounced more softly or even nearly omitted.

 

Doesn't that turn it into a Russian holiday residence?

 

That's EXACTLY how to pronounce it!

[M'coli]

It's not blocked in the UK, Channel 5 have blocked it in the uploader's country - Romania, oddly enough.

[Dirty Habit]

How can anyone decide how it's pronounced when the even the "phonetic" isn't spelt "fo-net-ic"

[tonedepear]

According to wikipedia (which is ALWAYS 100% right):

 

Automobile Dacia S.A. (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈdatáʃi.a])

 

d as in day

a as in father

táʃ as in chest

i as in beet

a as in father

 

So I make that: daar-chee-aar.

 

Which sounds silly. Bloody foreigners.

[Felly Magic]

I thought it was pronounced SHITE

[RedSparrow]

According to wikipedia (which is ALWAYS 100% right):

 

Automobile Dacia S.A. (Romanian pronunciation: [ˈdatáʃi.a])

 

d as in day

a as in father

táʃ as in chest

i as in beet

a as in father

 

So I make that: daar-chee-aar.

 

Which sounds silly. Bloody foreigners.

 

I always thought it was meant to be more like 'day-cha' or 'day-chee-ar'

[Mr_Bo11ox]

All Romanians (and they should know) pronounce it dat-chee-ya.

[tonedepear]

Good enough for me.

[gtd2000]

Looks not too bad - reminds me of the Navarra truck but more compact.

 

I'd imagine it's basically a cheap Qashqai rehash at the end of the day?

 

Wonder what they cost Romania if they will be 10k in the UK?

[gtd2000]

Forgot to mention that a German mate of mine has a Dacia (Day-see-ahh as I incorrectly called them until the past couple of years) and he rates it very highly overall.

 

He pronounces it as Dah-Cha.

[Felly Magic]

Somehow I think it will be slightly higher than £10k. Probably around £12k-ish.

[gtd2000]

Mind you the cost for Dacia to build a car is buttons...makes you wonder what a Tata Nano costs...

 

Got 5,000 Euros? Need A New Car?

Drivers across Europe are clamoring for Renault's ultracheap, no-frills Logan

Business Week - July 4, 2005

 

A strange thing happened when French auto maker Renault last fall rolled out the no-frills Logan, a midsize sedan was designed to sell for as little as 5,000 euros ($6,000) in emerging markets like Poland. Western buyers clamored for the car. So this June, Renault began delivering the roomy, unpretentious five-seater to France, Germany, and Spain. The pricier West European version includes a passenger-side airbag and a three-year warranty but still sells for a base price of $9,300 -- about half that of the Ford Focus ($17,250) and the Volkswagen Golf ($18,264).

 

Building cheap cars for the West wasn't what Chairman Louis Schweitzer had in mind when he spent $592 million in 1999 to acquire and retool ailing Romanian auto maker Dacia . . .

 

No matter where the Logan sells, Renault has engineered a small miracle by making a car that is modern but stripped of costly design elements and superfluous technology. Deutsche Bank pegs production costs for the Logan at $1,089 per car, less than half the $2,468 estimate for an equivalent Western Auto. "The Logan is the McDonald's of cars," says Kenneth Melville, the Scot who headed the Logan design team

 

Source:

 

http://www.roconsulboston.com/Pages/InfoPages/Businesspages/Renault.html

[barrett]

I wonder if that factors in tooling costs, etc? If a 'normal' car only costs £700-odd to make, how could any motor company not be absolutely raking it? Even with advertising costs and overheads surely you're looking at, what, a 50% profit margin on every car sold? Insane. Just how badly did Saab cock things up?

[gtd2000]

I wonder if that factors in tooling costs, etc? If a 'normal' car only costs £700-odd to make, how could any motor company not be absolutely raking it? Even with advertising costs and overheads surely you're looking at, what, a 50% profit margin on every car sold? Insane. Just how badly did Saab cock things up?

 

I ask myself the same thing each time I hear about car manufacturers complaining about their lack of profits....

 

I'd expect that R&D eats up a fair bit and then there will be all of these consulants to suck up lots of cash too, then there's employee benefits, pension packages, redundancies, CEO's to pay astronomical fees to...

 

The truth is most goods cost the square root of fuck all to produce - I've been told that in many situations the packaging costs more than the item it contains.

[dieselnutjob]

the youtube video is blocked for me on virginmedia internet

 

presumably this

http://fwd.channel5.com/fifth-gear/vide ... iving-road

is the same thing?

[ashmicro]

The iJesus 4S is reputed to cost $32 to manufacture.