To be honest ... I was expecting far worse figures from that tiny engine. Well done Dacia!

As much as everyone would like to see high performance cars with such testing I appreciate the carwow team and matt for doing such real world test on a rather inexpensive cars because these things matter more to us normie people than it does to someone driving an rs5, quadrofolio or x5.

Back in 2010, i was travelling Romania with my basketball team mates in a 7-seater Dacia Logan MCV. Our heights are between 198 cm - 205 cm or approximately 6 foot 6 - 6 foot 8 and we didn't have absolutely any issues, except for looking like circus clowns once we all got of the car.

Just like James May said: Dacia are the essent of the car. Everything is simple basic nothing unnecessary fancy.

I'd love to see the same test done for a high performance family car like an Audi RS6 or a BMW M3 Touring

Now THIS is something that I would like to see more often. Absolutely great job!

I don't know how many Romanians stop by to leave comments, but figured I might as well do my part. The Jogger's (and the Logan MCV's) ancestor, the old Dacia 1310 Break was infamous for being used in a far more gruelling manner than what your test entailed. Being based on the Renault 12 platform, it got a carburated 1.3 liter iron-block that maybe cracked 60HP on a good day or when new. The whole car, being from a time before extensive safety features, came in at less than 1 ton (I think it was 950kgs). As getting a car was quite the big deal in Romania prior to the 1989 Revolution, and for quite a bit of time after that until the late 90s, people tended to use their hard-earned vehicle for basically everything. You would see those Dacia Breaks on every road and in every village filled with their own weight in potatoes, cabbages, corn, sacks of flour, cement, anything you can think of. Even then, people would put roof-racks on them and strap crazy things on top as well, like whole sofas, armoires, huge stacks of hay. No one ever gave it a second thought. If you drove behind one, the suspension was so low that the wheel arches would cover the top part of the rear tires, and people sometimes put solid rubber pieces as bump-stops to prevent the springs and shocks coming up through the wheel-wells. And the crazy part wasn't even doing it on a 1.3 carbed engine with a 4 speed that had no over-drive, it was doing it in all manners of weather on brakes the size of a small plate. Since the Dacias only ever came in one wheel size (which was a 13 inch steel rim), the front discs were tiny, and the rears were the same drums that had been engineered for it since 1969. For all the ludicrous lack of safety, people loved them, and still do to this day. Needless to say, I also own one, though it's only the sedan version in which you have to get a bit creative if you're trying to make use of all the available space :P

Their faces at the fully loaded ramp test was hilarious 😂

Wow I'm really surprised and impressed. Basically a 50% weight increase only added 24% to the 0-60 time and no effect on the braking distance! Like the previous comment I would really love to see the same done in a high performance car!

This has been one of the most interesting automotive tests I've seen in a while. I'd love to see how other affordable cars stack up, both petrol and diesel, manual and auto, etc. Cheers!

I was crying while you were torturing the car with 1967 kilos trying to climb.. You were really cruel to the clutch. I can smell the burn of the clutch and the tires from here..

2:25 Mat looks so happy with his family 🥰

Absolute banger of a concept with mat's touch to it , WEE NEED MORE OF THIS

It's amazing how that 1-litre turbocharged 3 cylinder engine in the Jogger can handle that huge weight!

We honestly need to see this kind of testing more often, especially with MPVs and SUVs. For sure more expensive cars with more powerful engines will be faster, but what I'm curious to know is the performance drop on such powerful cars when loaded with 7 people and 200kgs of sand.

Dacia really surprises me each year

Having the same braking distances for different weights is a great sign. It means that the brake themselves are good enough and that the limiting factor is the tires. When you have more weight, there is more inertia and the car wants to go further, but also the force of friction between the tires and the ground is bigger because there is more weight on the tires. So as long as the brakes and ABS work well the tires compensate and you should get the same distance (at least on dry ground)

This test proves how good this car is

Great content. Even fully loaded it's still quicker to 60 than the base configuration of the VW Polo with the 1.2 3 cyl !

In the Netherlands this car is registered to have maximum 1862kg, so actually you tested it 100kg or so overweight of what its specced for. Not too bad how it performed then

Dacia has really become an important carmaker. Good for them, I'm amazed!

Yes, ze german here. Please keep in mind, that the maximum additional weight for the Jogger is specified at 582kg. Your 1967kg is a full 105 kg over the maximum total weight of 1862kg.

Great test. Genuinely surprised by the braking test - what was gained in weight was made up for by increased traction. I guess downforce is the key to achieving great braking performance. The impact on handling and acceleration was to be expected. Also, I think AWD would have made a big difference, particularly in the hill climb as weight transfers to the rear wheels.

Would be interesting to see the same tests, but what's happening when you change tires pressure, i.e. from 1.8 Bar to 2.8 Bar every 0.2 Bar or something similar and see how that affects 0-60, 60-0, fuel economy, etc.

Never expected to have a Dacia in one of the best Carwow videos ever! Credits to the editor!

First, the animations are really good, you have great editors. Second, I like that you added the fuel economy in L/100Km, so I don't have to calculate on my own ❤

I wish there was this kind of tests for every car. Really love these!

The brake test was interesting but makes sense from a physics perspective. As you add more weight to the car, there is more force pressing the tires against the road, so they are able to provide more acceleration/deceleration force without slipping. The additional weight in the rear of the vehicle also allows the rear brakes to be more useful, since the rear brakes actually provide very little stopping force on an unladen FWD vehicle since the vast majority of the weight transfers onto the front tires during a hard stop.

Pretty darned good little car. Slow, cheap, good mileage, and it beats walking.

Having the consumption that low (gpl variant) I am satisfied for this practical family vehicle. And I love the ground clearance. Truly versatile (specially for my country roads). Very useful tests, great job! Please adopt the metric sistem :D

Kind of started to feel sorry for not buying a Dacia earlier this year, but something else...

Finally some effectively smart reviews of normal and usable (buyable ) cars. I mean "smart" because they appeal to a lot more people than niche performance cars, and that's very good for KZfaqrs. Most of people don't have money to buy amazingly brilliant sports cars. Nice family cars that are made as modes of transportation and not as toys for rich grown children to toy with (doesn't matter if im one of them or not). I love big HP and torque cars, mainly ICE cars but you don't drive your family on holidays on a GT3. For a motor vehicle guy, I do apreciate normal cars as much as sports cars (and motorbikes etc), Great review.

5:49 the way everybody's head goes side to side 🤣

Good video I really like the Dacia cars! Ond thing though: The max. Load capazity of a Jogger according to Dacia is 426 Kg! And you exceeded that by almost 400 Kg.

Everyone just sitting the car quietly simply amazing.

Wow, I really liked this test. It was fun to watch) I hope to see more videos like this in the future.

Love the conversion from mpg to lkm edit: the 25% pull was brutal ))

For 7 seated adult people this 1l 3 cylinder engine did extremely well. I remember I couldnt get Opel Astra 1.4l turbo moving up the fking hill from the spot with 2 people seated.

Value/ money = very good value.

More like this test pretty please! Awesome work like always guys. Almost all reviews in all media is about look (both exterior and interior and yes this is important) but that kind of practicall test (is like unicorn in morning fog near the rainbow) so rare like not existing. It's so sad cause in my opinion this is the most important thing to know - how this or that car is behave in all that every day basic normal use situations. Thank you CarWoW. Greetings P.S. pretty please make more test like that

I remember being a kid in the 1960s and my dad somehow taking six of us on holiday in his tiny Austin A35 .... all the suitcases on the diddy roof rack. This reminded me of that!

I really wasn't expecting the brake performance to be identical with all that added weight. Well done Dacia! I remember when they did a similar test with a Fiat Panda on Top Gear the results were a LOT worse than this. This could be a new test / review to add on a regular basis for other cars as well because I am really curious how having more people in the car affects the performance of pretty much every car, not just cheap ones but also high performance cars.

if they added the Duster's awd to this, this would be a cheap and a great family car.

Now that's a good car. For it's volume the fuel consumption is quite decent. And the 0-100Kmh quite good.

This is an important test for me to know now, as I'm driving to the West Midlands in a few weeks time with two passengers and some luggage in my 1.1L Honda Jazz. Thanks Mat!

@11:02 The braking distance was not affected by weight because the maximum force that can be transferred between tyre and road is (simplyfied) proportional the the weight that sits on the tyre. So if the car gets heavier also the breakingforce increases. If you would do multiple brake tests in a row of course the breaks would not last that long on the loaded car

this is one funny and useful test. it's amazing how this modest car can actually complete almost all tests. even with extra 700 kilos is manages to go up a steep ramp. my diesel 177hp/380Nm DSG Tiguan would be a bit affected by that ramp. so... it's a great car for what it is intended. it has a lot of volume and it can also carry a lot of weight. and the consumption of 4,5-5 litter per 100 km @ ~112 kmh is also great. this one can carry a bunch of people or a bunch of volume and weight. what more can you ask of it? what other car can equal that? i see come worried that this car cannot accelerate while going uphill. i think it does if it's not fully loaded, however slower. if you are a good driver then you addapt to the car and not compare it to some way powerful and way more expensive alternative. this car is what it is and nobody is forcing you to buy one. i would also like to have an Aston Martin but my Tiguan is what i can afford and i actually like it.

You can tell poor man Jack was suffering as much as the little Dacia

I had a Toyota Hillux 2.5 diesel, 5 people in it and the skiing gear, struggled up on a pretty steep climb on dry tarmac. Honda civic IX tourer: every time I used the clutch on steep climb, I got the smell. So I'm impressed with the Dacia.

Never in the history of car reviews have there been more useful performance tests.

I bought a Dacia Jogger top spec because I was looking at other cars around the £40k mark and they were just not worth the price. My Jogger is bloody brilliant for the price. I've had it 4 months now with no issues and I've used it for tip runs, long distance drives an the school runs etc etc. Oddly the car pulls just as well with 7 people in as it does with just myself in the car. It's witchcraft. I am so happy because I got this car brand new for £19500 (I spent about £1000 on almost all of the accessories available in that price) and I have tonnes more money left over each month for saving and spending. It's hands down one of the best purchases I have ever made in my life and I feel like a right fool for being such a badge snob before. 2 things I don't like about the Jogger: The Kumho tyres the car comes with are crap, swap them over ASAP. Secondly the sound system is a bit naff, but it is clear and loud. Bass is virtually none existent. Other than those TWO things it is brilliant on every conceivable way. A nice perk if you have kids that like computer games, I have the rear 2 seats out of the car and in the living room as my boys use them as gaming chairs when they play their racing games. This has saved me about £500 on having to buy gaming chairs! 😂😂😂 Just go ahead and BUY ONE! You'll have no regrets.

I've driven this car 240kmh down the highway outside of Linköping, it's a beast that little cylinder!!

Wow, i never realized that car only weighs 1.2t when empty. That's really light.

I have test driven the Jogger and I also wondered what it would be like loaded up. No need to be concerned, yes it was a slower car but it's not as slow loaded up as i had expected. The little engine does need to be reved up but it's 3 cylinder nature loves it. above 2,500 rpm it pulls quite well

In case anybody is wondering why the breaking distance is always the same: Since friction force is the essential, but not entire cause for the breaking, and since its formular is FR=µ*FN (with µ being the friction coefficient which depends on the material of the tire which didn't change throughout all tests, and FN being a constant weight force 9,81 m/s on the earth surface), the weight of the car itself is neglectable.

Excellent video, reminds me of the time I drove the wife to go shopping at the next town, I was stuck behind a tractor on the main road and pulled out to overtake and accelerated and it took longer than usual and we just made it passed the tractor by the seat of our pants, the Mrs was not pleased and let me know all the way round the shops, when we got back to the car I opened the boot to put the shopping in and to my surprise it was full of grow bags! the Mrs had bought from the garden centre the day before and had forgotten to get them out. She got both barrels from me.

Really surprised on the car's performance overall, thought it would be much worse. Absolutely best price for what you get.

1.0 3cyl triples are so good in regular cars and the economy is phenomenal

The guy sat behind Matt at 5:53 is buzzin, he’s lovin it 😂😂💀💀

During the 70mph fuel economy test, maybe you should've pumped up the tires to compensate the increase in weight. That would've reduced rolling resistance to some degree and helped with fuel economy

Would've been ever greater of a video if you made a tesla model X or G63 go through same challenges to see how big of a difference does it make

The brake test was a pleasant surprise for me, the same range for all 4 different weights test. 👍

The synchronized head-tilting was awesome! xD

Tough car,great advert for Dacia. Love to see more similar testing with "better " cars Mat.☺

Mat you MUST make this test a series mate. I would love to see the same tests with different cars!

7:00 but did you increase the tire pressure to compensate for the added weight? I recon with correct pressure the MPG will be the same.

Loving it! I am looking into buying one and these tests have not put me off. Altough steep slopes are an issue...

5:58 Funniest sh.. i've seen all day😂 Well done

i LOVEEEE videos like this. Please do more of these realistic real-world comparison vids for family/everyday cars!

The way everyone's heads bob forward in sync when he shifts to 2nd 😂😂

0:08 I like how the captions say white instead of weight lol

Mat's son's reaction at 2:17 😂

I think the joger did realy good for only a 1 liter engine with forwed traction . Next year with the 1.6 liter mild hybrid this car is going 2 be perfect for a large famili that is stript on cash . It might be biest from me because i em a dacia fan boy.

Breakaway force (maximum static friction) is the product and the normal force (the force into the ground). What this means is that your traction increases linearly with the mass of the vehicle, and the force required to apply a certain deceleration (acceleration) also increases linearly. Meaning, no matter the mass, the braking distance of the car stays the same. Only when you're so heavy that the brakes can't deal with your bs do things change.

How is the stopping distance the same with increased weight?

That clutch is def. screaming for help at that last test

I'm impressed by how small of an effect the added weight caused; at least to me. I hope that you'll be including mileage(fuel consumption) figures in litres per 100 km in all other videos as you've done on this one. Hope the next video is of the same test for a family SUV like a 7 seater Honda CR-V.

I think the breaking test was the same because even tough the weight was being increased (negative) the breaks were getting closer to its ideal temperature of work (positive) kinda proportionately.

Nice test. Much interesting is overtaking acceleration from 80 to 120 km per hour - shortest possible and on 3rd,4th,5th and 6th gear.

The car is very good from a technical point of view. Speaking of which, other much more expensive cars cannot do what Dacia did in this video. I would buy it without hesitation!!

We need more of this practical test carwow! Please do them more.

The clutch is done!

I can smell that clutch burning

An excellent video Matt - informative and revealing - this core learning can be applied to virtually every other vehicle - powerful endorsement of the remarkable price/value/practicality of a most impressive product from Dacia/Renault

This was very interesting and i would love to see more videos like this one in the future. Well done Dacia!

The exact content we never thought we needed!

loaded it full with roof tiles and then test

Damn this video was really opened up some new knowledge for me. My dad always used to say that 1 liter engines pretty much can’t drive up hill.

You are doing a huge service to Dacia!! Great review!

I had a 1.4 citroen xsara estate (maybe 60bhp on a good day?) and absolutely stuffed it to the gills with garden waste to take to the tip which weighed the back down so much it was pretty much on the bump stops. Aside from the fact I was looking at a decidedly upward angle from the drivers seat it pulled away fine and didn't feel too sluggish in terms of acceleration. The problem came when I went round a corner at about 50 and the back end just let go and I did a 360, fortunately the road was empty and I didn't hit anything but I certainly needed a change of underpants. The xsara had passive rear wheel steering which worked by adding some toe out when the suspension compressed, it was the worlds most pointless feature as while it would have been useful for improving the turning circle in car parks you really had to chuck it around to make it work so it'd mostly manifest itself as unexpected mild oversteer.

0:27 Help, please. "Don't worry, it's nothing dodgy." 😂

After the test Matt’s gonna list the car on CarWow w/ the caption-“Lightly driven, garage kept, perfect condition, no issues. Hahaha

This car is ready to take whatever Mat throws it into.Its robust and its beauty to see such normal cars and SUVs are so much capable to tackle everything.U don't have to buy a super luxury SUV or muv to achieve anything...Well done Dacia More such videos would like to see in future... Thanks Mat and Carwow...

5:59 has me in stitches hahahaha 🤣🤣 So simple yet so fun for the car guys. Haha.

For the price of this car, honestly, I have to say that it was very good, it's not a performance car but it's still good, looks good, great job Dacia

Super nice Power. It was able to take 2 tons on a steep slope with only 999cc and 100 hp. Just imagine if this car had the 1.3 with 150 hp...

This shows us that the Dacia Jogger is one of the cheapest 7-seater which can handle a lot of weight!

I own a 2008 Honda Jazz with the 1.3L engine (100HP , 127Nm). We made a trip where we travelled as 5 people with additional equipment in the trunk. Then we drove a road with lots of hills and valleys, so the little V-Tech engine had really suffered, but it did the job! We even reached 100 km/h in a fairly decent time, when I used the gears close to the maximum. All in all I think most cars can "kind of" still drive, even if you completely overload them. ^^

should have turned the traction control off and let the tyres spin a bit more instead of burning up the clutch that much

This is the sort of testing that matters for the consumer. If I may, I suggest that instead or in addition you'd test reprise as from 30-70mph and so on, in different gears and different onboard weight as this would provide a more representative real World use than for example 0-60. The rest spot on 👌