A Dacia Disaster

[Vin]

I was flicking through a railway magazine that somebody had given me. It was a couple of months old and the news section had a story about a car transporter train crash in Austria.

 

Train was travelling from Romania to France, loaded with Dacia Logan, Sandero and Duster. Unsurprisingly, all written off....

 

Here is a linky to the story.

 

http://lunaticoutpost.com/Topic-Spectac ... s-devasted

[ashmicro]

Phew! What a mess!

 

Poor James May will be devastated

[Gompo]

A Duster must be near the top of the AS hitlist now? I'm not sure if anyone has spotted one in the UK and posted it here..(?)

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

I love the new Dacia Duster, especially in misery spec

There's even a commercial version

[chaseracer]

I love the new Dacia Duster, especially in misery spec

There's even a commercial version

That... /\/\ ...is oddly appealing

[droofer]

i like that too, thought nothing beats the denem, there seem to be less of them around than r12s.which is a shame.

[pogweasel]

WHEN are they going to start letting us have them with the steering wheel on the correct side??? I R IMPATIENTS.

 

 

my deposit r poised & ready.

 

Surely they're missing a trick by not getting this one here pronto.

The Duster looks nice, but it's another half-way house soft-roader which does nowt new. This MCV thing is full of win. Look at how much ropey old mega-miles MPV's go for and you can see there is a huge market just waiting for it...

[Timewaster]

Pogz image R fail!

 

EDIT I was rong. Pogz image R cool!

[chaseracer]

Complete agreement here with the Pogmeister. Logan MCVs were everywhere on my Berlin trip a month or three back.

 

Maybe that's why we're not getting them...

[Peter C]

When you said Dacia Duster, I was hoping to see one of these:

 

[Spottedlaurel]

Crikey.

 

I too saw loads of the Logan things when on my hol's, some seemed to be hire cars.

 

Dacia Logan x2 by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

I suppose they've taken over from where the Kangoo and Berlingo type things left off?

 

The only old ones I've seen in recent times:

 

1989 Dacia dropside pickup by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

 

1986 Dacia pickup by Spottedlaurel, on Flickr

[Tayne]

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[Timewaster]

I R IMPATIENTS.

 

my deposit r poised & ready.

 

This MCV thing is full of win.

 

Hang on Pog. Wont this be a badly (or at least cheaply) built Renault and therefore an ideal tool for speed dating AA guys?

[pogweasel]

Well given my experience of recent Renner activity, I expect it to be a bit noisey, not very comfortable and cheaply finished, with economy that is acceptable but no-where near the manufacturers braggery... but also reliable and robust as 25k of abuse from highlands & islands to the lizard in the kangoo proved.

[Guest Leonard Hatred]

I think Renault's simpler stuff is reliable enough, it's when they go all techno crazy (Mk2 Laguna, etc.) that it all goes wrong.

[Mr Lobster]

WHEN are they going to start letting us have them with the steering wheel on the correct side??? I R IMPATIENTS.

 

+1

 

I think they are awesomez. I'd definately be up for one of them, just makes such a lot of sense.

 

Theres loads of them kicking about in France and I couldn't help but admire them and how practical they are whenever I had the opportunity for a quick bit of Dacia lust.

 

Saw a couple of Dusters in France too, looks quite nice but the Logan wagon is far better.

[andrew e]

That Dacia train crash features in the current Network Rail safety briefs.... what happens when you send a freight train round a bend with 20 unbraked wagons....

 

In the flesh the Logan & Sandero are quite smart with Korean comparable quality. The Duster Duster is quite poor and plasticy inside - think Fiesta/Escort Van @ 1988. A good driving postion (couldn't tell you any more it was parked at the motorshow, surrounded by crazed Parisians) but shiny shiny inside - perfect leased autoshite.... The poverty spec Sandero's were stickered up at £5999 (after rebate) on LPG for the home market - very good value.

 

BTW Pog - you can squeeze a real person - 504 stylee - in the back of a logan 7 seater.

[eddyramrod]

That Logan looks like the future of UK taxi fleets if they can make it reliable enough! It's probably already flying into that market in mainland Europe. Haven't seen any here though, where the E-Klasse is still king.

[trigger]

Dacia Denem Advert 1982 by Trigger's Retro Road Tests!, on Flickr

[warren t claim]

I'm sure someone of this parish described the Dacia Denem as a R12 made entirely of pattern parts.