I've got mine for 5 yrs now. No complaints about it. If you just want basic transportation at an affordable cost, go for it!

This is a smart car. Less tech, lower price, very well targeted in the market.

The way cars should be,for ordinary people.

One of the best rewiews for the Sandero, well done Tish!

How did people manage before all the tech and extra safety gadgets came out....just fine....common sense should prevail !! Excellent Review Tish, as usual. 😀

I bought a 90 TCe Comfort new in 2022 for £13,250 including metallic paint & spare wheel. Great value then with 6 gears, wireless CarPlay & Satnav. Dacia reduced the specification & raised the price soon afterwards in a rebranding exercise. Now I wouldn’t buy one but would pay a few grand more for a similar but much smarter Mk 5 Clio.

Dacia is what Skoda used to be in the 90's. Value for money, no thrills and that is what mobility should all be about. I hate things like power, premium, posh, sporty, luxurious... All these things including a shitload of so called safety features have resulted in an even more aggressive traffic and selfish behavior on the roads. I read a Dutch article where they clamed that simple, small cars with sub 100 bhp are "dangerous" on highways. I was flabbergasted by such a quote while it's the opposite. Most modern cars are much to powerful, especially EV's. They result in owners making it a sport to accelerate as fast as possible at each intersection and, of course, they don't give a shit about speed-limits. That has made it very hard for normal cars (yes I mean normal cars or the rare sensible EV's) to participate in the daily traffic without having a shitload of assholes pushing you, almost bumper to bumper, because it's not fast enough for these man and ladies. Such powerful and fast cars should be forbidden to be build and sold. If you want "sportiness" , go to track days with your sportscar on a trailer and have all the fun you want but not on public roads.

I test drove all the models but eventually chose the jogger mainly because of boot space…it being a 7 seater and I didn’t need the extra seats in the back so having sacked them off it gives so much extra room..Also being quite a long car it gives scope for carrying more on the roof ! If you are thinking of a jogger I’d go for the Extreme SE version 👍

Good news, the Dacia Sandero is coming to the U.K.

Still the best reviewer on KZfaq.

Very good review, thanks. Did they demote the Sandero to a 5 speed? :(

As a non English native speaker, the way that you speak is very clear, thank you 🙏

Comes with a phone holder as standard in the expression you dont need a long phone cable. Wheel trims are fine , no worries about scuffs in pot holes. Its a good car , good price , if you want something dearer , take out more credit , if you dont want the debt, buy what you can afford 😉

Get the Stepway version with alloys, wireless apple car play/ android auto, blind spot monitoring, extra usb ports. Looks a lot better car in white with the body moldings. 6spd gearbox.

I had one for a few years - got a 2021 essential bi-fuel model for £10k new and was faultless - only got rid when got a car through work but do miss it

The USB port on the dash is really for the lower spec model that does not have the touch screen. It allows for a mobile phone to be used as a sat nav etc when it is held in the built-in phone holder. It works well in that scenario.

Thinking of geting off can you help please should I buy??

Sandero, c1/Aygo/108, Picanto, i10 are my favorite cars ..reliable and low running cost

Nice presentation Pls share the dimension of the vehicle in milli meters

Dacia will be same price as everything else soon just like kia and hyundai. The Chinese will be the next cheap brands

Good news !

16" alloys were available in, at lest, Benelux countries until late last year. Sadly gone the way of the 6 speed gearbox on every version other than the Stepway.

I had a Dacia Logan 1st generation. Simple, not a beauty on the outside, very... usefull style inside. A/C as the only luxury special. Very simple, reliable, not expensive, spacious. In need to by a new car I have chosen the new Dacia Sandero, which is still afordable, but also much more attraktive.

I bought one of the last Dacia sandero auto expression model for £16,500 with 3 years servicing 12 months ago. Got £6,500 for my 7 year old Skoda fabia so only £10,000 for a new car. Have no regrets whatsoever will prob keep for the next 3-5 years. It's a decent car overall and a great car for the money.

The bi-fuel option may seem useful, but LPG filling points are disappearing fairly quickly now......

The engine in the petrol and LPG are the same ; The computer changes automatically the settings in LPG to perform 100HP instead of 91 on petrol.

I’ve owned a diesel Logan, a diesel Sandero and now drive a petrol Duster Presteige... no hint of a problem with any of them since I bought the Logan back in 2015. The diesel Sandero seemed underpowered compared to the Logan, but not worrying so.

Thought Dacia was a six speed gearbox now?

Nice

Best car!

In 2022 the top range with selected paint 10in screen rear camera and automatic gearbox for less than £14k

The good

Nice review, Tish 🙂 Being Romanian ... I know a little more about Dacia cars ... so, I'm able to say that this model, Sandero ... and the sedan (Logan) too ... have variants with quite good automatic gear boxes - not very pricy ... which, of course, are very handy in the city. The automatics are not coming with factory LPG option ... but the factory LPG equipment is not the best on the market, anyway. So, it worths to buy a petrol automatic and install later an aftermaket LPG kit (Landirenzo being the best that I know of) ... in order to have the both advantages: the automatic + the LPG option. Also, a bad of these cars are the (stupid) half-way exhaust pipes (the cheapskates French management 😏) ... which are pointed to the ground ... so, they put the gases under the cars ... allowing them to go into the cabins ... when the cars are staying in traffic - with the engines running. 🤢 So, when the LPG kit is installed ... the exhaust pipeline must be properly extended ... in order to go all the way ... in the back ... 🙂 P.S.: I don't wanna hear the smarta55 argument ... with the same solution for the exhaust on the G - Wagon ... because ... first ... it's not on all variants - only on G63 AMG .... meaning 8 cylinders engines ... so, those exhaust gases have a bigger volume ... meaning a higher pressure at the exit point ... so, the gases are not staying under the car - as in Sandero/Logan cases. Plus, at the G Wagon ... the exhaust is dual ... so, the volume is half on each side of the car. And ... finally ... the catalysts are muuuch more efficient on the G - wagon ... so, the gases are not so toxic - as in Dacia's-st1pid-half-length-exhaust-pipeline case ... 😉

Anyone ever taken this long duty?

I bought a new Jogger Extreme 1.0tce in 2022 and it's been nothing but problems. The engine is far too stressed for that type of vehicle. Although I can see the appeal of cheap motoring, there's cheap and cheerful and then there's cheap because it's cheap. Dacia's are good cars. My Jogger was hugely practical, but regular dealer visits, blown up flywheels and months waiting for parts is not fun. I bought new to avoid that type of thing. I swapped to a 1 year old, AWD, mild hybrid Suzuki Vitara SZ5 for £18500 and it's been excellent. The Suzuki IS cheap and cheerful and it actually feels like it's designed to last.

Dacia Sandero few years ago 8k €, Dacia Sandero in 2024 14k+ €. Insane.

These reviews never show or talk about the engine which is the most important thing on a car.

I like the Dacia Duster but I think the Sandero although cheap, it is cheap for a reason. Build quality is below par and I think the KIA Picanto is a better buy. The Suzuki Swift although a bit more expensive (but in my opinion worth the extra) is worth a look too. Good review thanks.

I noticed that though you were driving the higher spec model the speedometer is analogue... Oh dear...

honestly, it looks like the UK sanderos don't get all options, even on the higher spec model. I live in Romania and my car (2021 sandero stepway) has more options such as the ones below 2:31 you can pay to get the boot floor separator as an optional 3:12 you can pay to get the car with the big armrest with storage, which comes 12v socket at the back of the armrest (meant for rear passangers) 4:46 my car is bi-fuel with 6 speed manual gearbox (this might be only on stepway though) 6:32 you can pay to get a blind spot warning light in the mirror my car also has climate control some even have heated seats 8:40 mine has another usb port near the front 12v charger (i don't have 2 front 12v chargers)

Another Top Gear wannabee repeating all that has already been said, so nothing new here. The Extreme version of the Stepway Sandero adds a fair few niceties and is a very good drive at a still very competitive price. The seat coverings that this reviewer didn't like are actually an easy clean material, so good for those of us with dogs or messy kids. Stop comparing these cars with those that cost far more and give them the merit that they deserve. Not all of us want 'lane assist' and all those other annoying 'Euro Nanny' gadgets that just serve to annoy. Leave the driving to us! Also, Dacia are currently offering 4.9% APR on their new cars which is very competitive.

These so-called safety features are all invented to make cars more expensive less affordable for some pricing people off the road, what would the encap score be if these extra distracting, annoying gizmos were not included in the test and how on earth did we manage without them all these years?

Uguale alla mia bianca ma col motore solo a benzina, i difetti: rigida sullo sconnesso, presa USB troppo in alto, manca il supporto telefono che hanno levato da tempo, manca di un pianale robusto nel baule che compensi la mancanza della ruota di scorta, io ne ho costruito uno in compensato leggero avvitato al perno centrale e ricoperto con il suo tappeto originale, nel vano tengo tutti gli accessori dal kit gomme alle catene ed estintore. Il motore turbo é favoloso consumi contenuti e brillante nei sorpassi prezzo 15860€ in contanti con bulloni antifurto e identitcar

Cheap decent reliable car. Stop moaning about plastics and stuff its 14k

Dacia is the best!

8K to 14K in a few years wtf

Unless you're a driver who can't put their phone down for 10 minutes or get behind the wheel sober these "safety features" aren't going to be of much use for you anyway.

The car is to expensive you better of buying a good used mainstream manufacturers which will be more up to date with and better screwed to getter when they were cheap the were more being bought but now the price has gone up I don’t see many new ones coming on the road now

If my desire is to drive an affordable car, I buy one for 2000 euros.

funny how a small woman reviews the back seat space lol

The problem is that at 14k you can buy a really nice nearly new car like a corolla 1.2t, which is a vastly better car, it's not even comparable

14k for that?! It’s just a really old Clio..Nicole an all. A second hand clio or 208 or fiesta is a much better buy. Ridiculous that this “expert” hasn’t pointed that out 😂

£15 k no allows not good enough

I hate analogue, digital much safer and easier to read.