Dacia Sandero - Build your own!

[beko1987]

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4YfVzZhLwvIa3g0NEVydmNXckU

 

Sadly I've been told I'm not allowed one

 

http://www.dacia.co.uk/vehicles/sandero/build-and-preorder-your-car/

 

Anyone else been having a play? Must be future autoshite! Will certainly look for one sub £600 when they star appearing in the bargain/tat thread

[Pillock]

Shiteness almost guaranteed by the Renault engines leading to them most likely going over the bridge way before making it to the ebay thread.

I keep thinking of them as a CityRover, but less reliable.

[outlaw118]

Just managed to spunk a virtual £12k on one....diesel top of the range, all options ticked. Or could have two bottom range pov spec pez ones for the same money.

What a choice.

[Craig the Princess]

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B4YfVzZhLwvIa3g0NEVydmNXckU

 

Sadly I've been told I'm not allowed one

 

http://www.dacia.co.uk/vehicles/sandero/build-and-preorder-your-car/

 

Anyone else been having a play? Must be future autoshite! Will certainly look for one sub £600 when they star appearing in the bargain/tat thread

 

I 'd go for the base spec one (white only, one interior option) with the additional £50 emergency safty wheel. Giffertastic

[beko1987]

About Dacia

 

Q. How is Dacia pronounced?

Dacia is pronounced “Datch-aâ€Â.

 

Q. Where does Dacia come from?

Dacia was founded in Romania in 1966. The Renault Group bought the Romanian car manufacturer Dacia in September 1999. Through shared technology and production methods, Renault has helped Dacia become a global icon in its own right, selling just under 350,000 vehicles worldwide in 2011 and over 1.8 million since 2004.

 

Q. Where are Dacia cars built?

Dacia holds production facilities across the globe, including Romania and Morocco. UK versions of Dacia Duster will be built at a Renault-Nissan Alliance factory in Chennai, India.

 

Q. Are Dacia cars reliable?

Dacia cars use only useful and proven technology from the Renault-Nissan Alliance. Maybe that’s why Dacia finished in second place, just behind Audi, in the 2010 J.D. Power Customer Satisfaction Survey, in Germany. In 2011, Dacia was also voted “Europe’s Most Reliable Car Brand†in a survey of 29,000 car owners across 5 European countries.*

*“Que choisir†Car Reliability Survey, 2011. The Survey included 32 car brands, with responses from 29,026 owners across France, Spain Italy, Portugal and Belgium. Dacia scored 95/100.

 

It seems they are reliable! On paper, unbiased of course!

[CreepingJesus]

Saw half a dozen Logans over the summer, of various nationalities. All seemed to be loaded up with families and luggage touring the UK. So if their confidence in them's anything to go by, maybe Dacia have picked the good bits out of the parts bin, and left the crap to Renault!

[Craig the Princess]

Saw half a dozen Logans over the summer, of various nationalities. All seemed to be loaded up with families and luggage touring the UK. So if their confidence in them's anything to go by, maybe Dacia have picked the good bits out of the parts bin, and left the crap to Renault!

 

Every Logan cab I've been in (all 4 of them, 3 Dacia, one Mehendra) have had massive mileages (or rather Kmages), seem to run on zero maintance 24 hours a day driven by nutters (3 Romanians in Romania, 1 Indian in India). Pretty much the only modern car I would buy (that and an MG6 obviously).

[Baz]

Was quite excited to see that Dacias are everywhere in Spain, when I visited back in May....I hope they do as well here.

 

I personally like the Duster....Base model....White with black bumpers....Steel wheels....Would happily buy one if I had £8995 to spend on a car, and will certainly be keeping an eye out for one on the secondhand market in years to come.

 

I had an original Duster back in the early nineties....Bought it ex-demo....A truly awful car, but we kept it for quite a long time....Funny that....

[CreepingJesus]

Pretty much the only modern car I would buy (that and an MG6 obviously).

 

I could agree about the Logan; not so sure about the MG6! The first one I saw, about 18 months ago, was Spanish registered, and was not only loaded with kids and luggage, but had a roofrack full of hillwalking/climbing gear on. Similar for the German one I was chatting to the driver of, at the snackvan on the border. Seems to me that a Logan estate would be close to what my V70 can do that way!

Not so sure about the Duster tho'; being 4wd, there's more to go wrong. It's OK if you're building a tiny runabout, or a utility estate, to build them simply and cheaply. Not sure that ethic will work on a car which will have to compete with Freeloaders, RAV4's and the like, for the school run market here.

[Micrashed]

I wonder if the wiring is in place for a radio?

[ProgRocker]

http://www.whatcar.com/car-news/dacia-sandero-supermini-from-5995/263892

 

I'd prefer the 0.9 litre Ambience model. Still looks fairly 'Billy Basic' in the images. Specced it in pearl black and after watching BBC Watchdog this evening on how useless tyre repair sealants are on new cars, I made sure that I had included the £50.00 spare wheel.

 

I think the new 4 door Logan saloon looks better than the Sandero but as small saloons are not popular in the UK anymore, Ithink that Dacia will not bother exporting it to the UK.

[hairnet]

http://cgi.ebay.fr/Dacia-Logan-MCV-brea ... 2576678c60

 

french taxi anyone....

 

id hit that sandero in white

[Junkman]

I can't find where you specify the automatic.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

I think the MCV is GR9. The Duster is also an excellent idea on paper. However, I can't really see the point of the Sandero. UKcarbroker sells i20s for less than the list price of a similar spec Sandero (which surely, as a budget brand that's new to the country, has no reason to alienate people with an artificially high RRP), and they're likely to be more reliable and more likely to find a buyer in 5 years' time. Similar story with the Colt at broadspeed. The Micra doesn't really seem to cost more than the Sandero, either.

 

Unless, of course, the idea is that "the Renault brand is so fucked that we're never going to sell any Clios, so we might as well try and shift a handful by putting a Dacia badge on them".

[Micrashed]

I can't really see the point of the Sandero. UKcarbroker sells i20s for less than the list price of a similar spec Sandero.

Really...Sounds good...

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Fuck Ooooooofff.

[Luxobarges_Are_Us]

Hahah, didn't see that. They might as well say they're selling them for a quid (APR 9449237423752396523965325.99%).

[Micrashed]

http://cgi.ebay.fr/Dacia-Logan-MCV-break-7pl-Laureate-1-5-Dci-/160900287584?pt=FR_JG_Auto_Pi%C3%A8ces_Automobiles_Test&hash=item2576678c60

Winner indeed.

Dacia - sell these in the UK you bastards. You will nail the competition.