Sunday, June 22, 2008
Renault prepares Dacia for UK in 2009
Budget brand launch is confirmed for next year
Dacia, Renault’s budget brand of cars made in Romania, is poised for a UK launch.
Sales here are planned to start during the first quarter of next year.
But potential customers will see the brand’s new Sandero when it makes its public debut in this country at next month’s British International Motor Show in London.
Renault decided that the only Dacia for the UK, at least initially, will be the Sandero five-door hatchback. The car’s tailgate badge will read ‘Dacia by Renault’.
This is a more stylish car than the Logan, which is sold in other markets, but similarly spacious and should sell for less than £7,500, undercutting the similarly-sized Skoda Fabia and the cars from Korea including the Chevrolet Aveo.
Renault’s UK dealers will see the car next month and the company expects to recruit 90-100 of them to form a network for the Dacia sub-brand.
DATED: 22.06.08
FEED: MT
Dacia, Renault’s budget brand of cars made in Romania, is poised for a UK launch.
Sales here are planned to start during the first quarter of next year.
But potential customers will see the brand’s new Sandero when it makes its public debut in this country at next month’s British International Motor Show in London.
Renault decided that the only Dacia for the UK, at least initially, will be the Sandero five-door hatchback. The car’s tailgate badge will read ‘Dacia by Renault’.
This is a more stylish car than the Logan, which is sold in other markets, but similarly spacious and should sell for less than £7,500, undercutting the similarly-sized Skoda Fabia and the cars from Korea including the Chevrolet Aveo.
Renault’s UK dealers will see the car next month and the company expects to recruit 90-100 of them to form a network for the Dacia sub-brand.
DATED: 22.06.08
FEED: MT
