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Anyone own a Dacia?

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  • photome
    photome Posts: 16,735 Forumite
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    docmatt wrote: »
    If my dad ever brought home a Sandero or Duster I'd personally remove his scrotum.

    maybe you should grow up, move out and let him do whatever he wants
  • UncleZen
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    Dacia is the budget brand of Renault. Which itself is already a budget brand. That makes it budget budget , you get what you pay for , in the end its a French car and after a few years will behave like a French car. I doubt resale prices will be strong like all other French cars.
  • motorguy
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    teepee83 wrote: »
    Just wondering if anyone has taken the plunge and bought a Dacia Sandero or Duster? What do you think of your car?

    So in answer to your question, no - noone on here has taken the plunge, but there seems to be a lot of people who have an opinion on them....
  • ILW
    ILW Posts: 18,333 Forumite
    docmatt wrote: »
    If my dad ever brought home a Sandero or Duster I'd personally remove his scrotum.
    Rather childish comment.
  • motorguy
    motorguy Posts: 22,626 Forumite
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    docmatt wrote: »
    If my dad ever brought home a Sandero or Duster I'd personally remove his scrotum.

    Perhaps in hindsight your father should have had his scrotum removed a lot earlier in his life... ;)
  • david29dpo
    david29dpo Posts: 3,986 Forumite
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    docmatt wrote: »
    If my dad ever brought home a Sandero or Duster I'd personally remove his scrotum.

    Someone taking to much notice of Clarkson me thinks.
  • marlot
    marlot Posts: 5,004 Forumite
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    Johnmcl7 wrote: »
    The pronounciation in the advert is correct, the general pronounciation in the UK is incorrect - the little diacritical mark on the S in Škoda is what gives it that effect.

    John
    Since we're being pedantic ...

    It's 'pronunciation' - there is no 'o' in the middle. Even Radio 4 presenters regularly make this mistake!
  • System
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    motorguy wrote: »
    So in answer to your question, no - noone on here has taken the plunge, but there seems to be a lot of people who have an opinion on them....

    yeah I noticed!
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  • System
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    UncleZen wrote: »
    Dacia is the budget brand of Renault. Which itself is already a budget brand. That makes it budget budget , you get what you pay for , in the end its a French car and after a few years will behave like a French car. I doubt resale prices will be strong like all other French cars.

    True, you do normally get what you pay for, but not always. Sometimes you pay a premium for a badge on the front.

    I do agree with you in that normally I have strong reservations about buying a french car, but like everything the car you get is the luck of the draw. My brother-in-law had a Clio for 10 years without a hint of trouble, my sister had a Polo for 2 years and got rid because it was never out of the garage......

    Too many people buy cars because of their status instead of what they actually need on a daily basis.

    As for resale values, even if they are poor you arent going to lose as much money as on a premium brand. If you buy a sandero for 6.5k, it can only lose 6.5k, a 14k fiesta can and will lose more.......
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  • cootuk
    cootuk Posts: 878 Forumite
    They seem very cheap, but that's on a very low spec.
    If you want a decent spec like adding air con then you soon get up to what you would pay for a mainstream brand.
    I imagine we will soon see loads of the £10k softroader around, solely because of price. A bit like when Proton came over here.
    A lot of people will avoid them because of badge snobbery, though I imagine some 2nd hand ones will be pretty good value.
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