Dacia Sandero Revealed

• Author: Razvan Pirnac
• Filed under: Video, World News
• Date: Mar 4,2008

Dacia is one of Renault-Nissan’s success stories: a new, almost-global brand specializing in not-quite-ultra-low-cost cars. According to most reviews, the Dacia Logan is a decent drive with a hideous interior. At €5,400.00 (net), the Logan is by far the cheapest more-or-less modern car sold in Europe, Russia and many third-world countries. So, despite being one unattractive son of a Munstermobile, it’s a hit. Autocar has scooped the new, more eye-friendly Dacia Sadero. Although its shares mechanicals with the Logan, the Sandero’s smaller: a Yaris-size supermini. Autocar reckons the Sandero will be larger and more capable than the smallest Euro-Fords and clock in at £6.5k, undecutting FoMoCo’s cars by about a thousand quid. Dacia plans to unveil the Sandero at the Geneva show, three weeks hence. We’ll be there and report. [FYI: the UK V.A.T. rate is 17.5 percent, so the Sandero would net at £5,363.00. At current exchange rates that would be $10,450.00, but according to Purchasing Power Parity, which filters out short-term exchange-rate distortions, the Sandero’s net-US price could theoretically be around $8,350.00. There’s also a seven-seat version of the estate car available to Europeans which won’t make it to the UK, but the Logan estate could join our range later, as could a Dacia-branded small 4×4 – kind of 21st century Lada Niva.

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