Becoming common, these Dacias.

[GJR 11L]

Turning back into my street after a hard day doing things so unspeakably dull that I won't speak of them, what should I see but yet another Dacia Logan.

Modern shite or just modern?

 

You decide...

(Excuse phone pics...)

Oops, closer:

 

Turns out it belongs to a couple who just moved in, they don't think they need to register it in the UK, but I know jack about that sort of thing so just nodded my head and feigned interest in the politics of the situation....

[Rod/b]

Does need registering an insuring here if it's here for more than 6 months apparently.

[FredTransit]

Doesn't need registering if they take the odd trip across the channel. They do keep checks too, if they are stopped and it hasn't had it's day trip recently, it will get impounded.

[Richard]

You don't have to register it until the rozzers take an interest.

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

There was one parked opposite me a couple of weeks ago at Hartshead Moor. On Italian plates and with a man asleep inside.

[Andrew353w]

Those Dacias have carried on from their roots in the Renault 12 of the 1970s. Attached are a number of shots from my brochure collection, covering the brief Dacia marketing spree in the early 1980s. They were unashamadley copies of the Renault 12 and were marketed as "the very acceptable Dacia Denem"; suffice it to say, they weren't (acceptable, that is!) I hope you all enjoy and if anyone ever spots one of these....

 

 

 

 

Dacia also sold a range of 4x4 vehicles here, called the "Duster" marginally more successful, they aped the Lada Niva, but with the same Renault engine, the attempt was hardly a serious one! Have a look.....

 

 

 

 

 

There was one of these in Greenford, Middlesex a few years ago, but it looked tatty then! Again, a great Autoshite spot if ever you see one...

[GJR 11L]

I had a sumpguard from a Denem from a scrapyard in Leeds back in 1986. Also took a centre console, the alloys, a sliding luggage cover that Renault didn't fit to the original and the tombstone, 12 TS-style front seats.

 

I don't understand how the Romanian cars have rotted away so spectacularly fiercely when the steel used in their construction appeared much thicker than that of French 12s. Probably the rubbish quality stuff from Russia that killed off Alfasuds, post-'75 Dolomites and others of the period.

That sumpguard fitted to spire clips that were already on the 12's chassis legs from the factory, it was made from ridiculously thick steel, about a sixteenth ISTR and made a darned good job of making sparks on many of my usual routes. Then I converted the 12 to strut suspension (ex-Fuégo) when the 17 Gordini engine went in and suddenly, the guard was redundant.

Sold it through the club magazine to a fella who travelled up from Dorset to pay me more for that than the combined cost of all of my bits from the Denem Estate.

 

With hindsight, I should have tried to buy the Denem in one piece as it was only in that yard because it was a repossession job not thought worthy of a trip to the auctions by the finance company!

[Formula Autos]

Speedily perusing the brochure made me think for a second that Dacia had produced the 'Shiter' 1 ton pick-up. Sadly though, it actually said Shifter.

 

Still, if anyone owns one of these, I would implore you to prise the 'f' out of the badge. Do it, and you will no doubt attain hero status around these parts.

[Alpineandy]

The Logan is definitely modern shite.

It was built to offer basic, tough and cheap mobility.

[Tayne]

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[ashmicro]

[chaseracer]

Class.

 

[aled]

i passed two dacii or dacias yesterday one in the swansea valley road a dacia van, and one on the way to llandeilo- dacia estate, both irish regd.

[Marshall]

Pearoast but hey ho - I bloody love em!

 

[Station]

Always wondered about the legalities of driving a foreign plated car around. If I bought one, what would I need to do if I used it as a daily?

[Negative Creep]

Would anyone even check up on it?

[pogweasel]

Always wondered about the legalities of driving a foreign plated car around. If I bought one, what would I need to do if I used it as a daily?

All you need do is simply lay on a thick east european accent, shrug alot and pretend not to understand should you get any hassle off the authorities. Easy!