Renault subsidiary aims to fill the budget brand void in the UK market
Dacia has opened order books for its new Logan MCV (maximum capacity vehicle) and the new model is priced from £6,995.
Poll results and comment from AM's poll on Dacia's introduction to the UK market.
The European new car market continues to contract, with sales 10.3% less in February and 9.5% less year-to-date than a year earlier.
Vertu Motors’ Bristol Street Motors brand has created a marketing launch video for its Dacia franchise which asks shoppers to guess the price of the new Sandero hatchback.
The UK order books for the Dacia Logan Estate open in April with first deliveries from July.
Dacia, the low-cost sub-brand launched in the UK in January, will add a fourth model this summer.
Renault UK is set to rebuild in 2013 after the challenge of the last year, according to Thierry Sybord, its managing director.
Renault's budget brand, Dacia, has demonstrated that inexpensive cars are often the best performers for depreciation.
About 4 per cent of all new cars sold in future, equalling about 4.5 million units, could be sold completely online by 2020, which compares to approximately 5,000 new cars sold solely on-line in 2011.
Renault has confirmed it will have to cut approximately 7,500 jobs in France before 2016 as it adjusts its business after falling sales.
Budget car brand Dacia could gain a large foothold in cash-strapped austerity Britain which could put the brakes on Chinese ambitions to target the UK car market, according to CAP.
Renault UK managing director Thierry Sybord has said he will pull its budget brand Dacia out of the UK rather than discount its already low model prices.
Dacia has revealed a B-segment SUV, the Sandero Stepway, which will rival Vauxhall's Mokka and Ford's EcoSport next year.
Dacia’s new new Lodgy has received three stars in the latest series of Euro NCAP tests.
ONE of Northern Scotland's largest independent groups has added Dacia and SsangYong to its franchise lists.
UK newcomer Dacia is making its forthcoming Sandero available for a monthly payment from just £69 on Dacia Dimensions (PCP).
