Lol

...aaaaaaaand he bought an Alpine A110.

Jonáš Lavička "Great news!"

“GREAT NEWS.....THE DACIA SANDERO HAS GOTTEN ON TO FIFTH GEAR”

Chernobyl nuclear reactor that's where he actually drove one of these then made it out.

US and UK have different size 'gallons', it would get 39.9 miles to a US gallon.

Okay, so then it's better than 94% of them.

4thPlayerFilms savage

that's what i get with my 1.0 fiesta and its much quicker.

i get over 50mpg but not more that 64mpg on 1.9 golf tdi

JC : bad news, james JM : JC : james, dacia sandero

Wot?

...IVE GOT A NEW PICTURE!

Anyways

The Dacia Sandero is not coming to the UK

@han0509 In which country can you buy a "brand new" Polo for €10k? The cheapest configuration costs €13.6k and it's a 1.0L with 65 HP in the most basic trim level "Trendline". The Sandero is much more of a car.

nope the base model doesnt have aircon or a radio , but considering for the 900 quid over base , 7800£ you get radio, ac and central locks with remote, the base model which has no radio (or 250) isnt a good buy, its meant to get you to showroom so you spend a bit more, the base is meant to be too low to really buy

@han0509 polo new base price is 13345, the price of TWO dacias

@han0509 u get only 2 years of waranty with your VW and 5 years waranty with Dacia I dont know if anybody is gona keep the car more than that

@han0509 here, you make money to buy a car 5-10 years old to keep it for 10-15 years. Who remembers 2007-2010, when almost all romanians tried to buy an

Made 1 Milion*

vorbesti serios?

Am gresit eu a facut 1 milion de km

chair nu stiam ca rezista asa mult dacia

Rezista daca ai grija de ea si putin noroc.

AeroLeroy i am offended by the dashboard , dacia should check their dashboard privilege

Rakitha Peiriz they have none sorry

I prefer how James May say's Dacia.

Let's be honest it must be better then the Aygo's interior.

AeroLeroy great news

I would buy a sandero

Dioo

Mr. Slowly as the Italians call him

4. The ex writer who got sacked by autocar magazine

The 1500 3 pot diesel weighs just 1200 kg and goes 0-60 mph in 4.9 seconds, you might end up eating your words.

More like pancreas.

Nah. That's a sweater.

@@StrikeFromTheSkies spleen indeed.

You know your so sexy

@@georgepeg6167 *you're

That's quite good. As someone who carries around a lot of camera crap, I'd definitely get a Sandero. Who expects a fancy camera under the front seat of a Sandero?

@@jrshaul everyone after this comment

@@jrshaul I am a semi-professional (meaning it is not my main job) landscape photographer. I own a mk 2 Clio from 2007. And it is awesome: 1. It weights nothing, so you can get to places where most people can't. 2. It has an overbuilt chasis, after 14 years and 120 000km bushes and shocks are tight as new. 3. It is so cheap you don't care if you scratch it. 4. Nobody expects expensive stuff inside, literally left it with windows open overnight on a parking lot by mistake a few times, nobody cared, not a hair moved inside when I got to it in the morning. Has been to the Alps with it, been offroad in places most wouldn't dare. You can abuse it, it does not care, you don't care, because if something brakes, you go to a scrapyard and buy the part for 10€ or just order new for 30€. It has old and simple engine, it does not care what you put in it, some people pour in a vegetable oil and it runs (metaphorically, off course). It has a small engine and no BS turbo, actually runs 40mpg, not like modern 1l engines with real consumption of 30mpg. Plus it has LPG kit, so it costs even less to run.

@@zeecaptainz 😂

James may's proud of you

Nothing , the car is perfect

At least 120 hp

@@j0ris876 there is the 1.6 16v engine with 110hp stock... If you soft it, you might get your wish

@@j0ris876 and trust me =))) for a car that weights ~1 tone it's a lot

Just try Lada!

Tim Guttesen 15 year old audi’s have comfort, cruise control, electric windows, automatic headlights, and still drive well.

@@nurousek123 well, sure. But the maintenance costs will be a nightmare. The Sandero is the intelligent option, don't pretend it's so simple.

@@nurousek123 well I don't have automatic headlights, not that I need them, but I have the rest of everything you mention. And for a fraction of the cost. The badge, I'm afraid, has become an overblown excuse to rip off people. OK Audi are quality, but quality can be found elsewhere, it just depends how much you want a status symbol. Same principle can be applied to most things. Many people who have money, shop in Aldi and Lidl. And why? Because they know pretty much that the food is extremely similar to more expensive supermarkets, but cheaper. They use their brains, that's how they keep their money

@@SamanthaGuttesen I would still rather buy an better but old car cheaper than the Dacia instead of it. It can probably survive for as long, it's cheaper, nicer to drive, looks better and is bigger

@@user-wq9mw2xz3j facts. With 6 grand you can get a better used car.

:D

"Got me laid"? You had sex with car? I no understand.

@@afisemenaborevlaka48 You pick girls by telling them you have a car

@@roger5555ful Thank you. Dacia best car for girls in France.

@@fatisdead7150 As we all know, guys with good cars always get alot of sex, right! right?

Ha! Yeah, and the first one get's sent to JM himself.

Search Dacia Sandero stepway 2

Good news

@@zamfirdavid13 I did and it's just a mute fly around

And radiation coated exterior

James May would

My dad and my mom buy 2008 both I mean is fantastic

Thought U had a car called olden?

Reliable...? Its literally the least reliable vehicle in all inspection listings..

@Broly The Legend well, the issues are not really in the engines but the other parts, brakes, suspension, paint issues, ball joints etc. So not really that expensive stuff but still they have the highest procentage of failure in yearly inspection. Engines and transmission otherwise are okay i guess. Thats what it is when they use cheap parts. Ofc you can change way better quality parts that last, thats what some people do.

@@xcake2652 The vz alloytec wasn't that bad. Sure it had many problems, but if its serviced regularly and driven properly it can last a while.

@@Berzertles What is that? I only know dacia duster, sandero etc.

keiner außerhalb des deutschsprachigen Raumes weiß was ein dual Student ist :D

niclas00 was ist das kann man das essen?

niclas00 was zu Hölle ist das

A to B but you look like a bitch on sandero , better buy an old vintage German car dude. You live there just use the advantage

@@RiverRaid2 esti roman?

Brazilian Turntable this also does not have electric windows.

Same in Mexico, also we share some of your products, like VW Gol, but I wish we can share Honda WRV, but you are right, cars in Latin America are bad

Hahaha so you haven't heard of Argentinian car market

I guess in brazil your have other problmes than worryng about the luck of Automatition in the Windows

@@digitusinvulnere4826 bruh try Turkish market. puts 277% tax on cars with engine size above 2000cc like a boss causing a car like G63 reach the price range of $545k

*Good news, James May bought a Dacia Sandero!*

Top Gear: Great! Now, the new Ferrari...

Anyway, the new Lamborghini has been released

yeah and old mercs drive as taxis for 30 years and get over 1 milion kms, the dacia will never do 1 milion so effortlessly

the old merc can drive for 30 years and milion kilometers, but with rusty or non-existent floor, broken central lock, slow and with lame mileage

rudkacka there is an taxi driver who reached 1 million km with the older and cheaper version, Dacia Logan.

facts right there

omfg why are you romanians so butthurt, do you really want to compare a fucking dacia (pos french design made in a fucking undeveloped shithole the Romania is) with a merc? the dacias rust year after they are made not after 30 like the merc does, broken central lock? you are happy to have a central lock in dacia, saying the merc is slow? so is the dacia, low mileage? there is no way the petrol dacia will have better mileage than the diesel mercs that are used as taxis

I'm romanian Good to hear that :)

100,000 miles is so much on a car here in the UK, you’d have to sell it at such a low price or just sell it for scrap, i brought my Vauxhall Corsa E (2015) for about £7,000 and it had 41,000 miles which is considered a lot

@@rxss6154 wow I never knew. My 06 Honda civic has 215k miles.

Dustin Bud that would be unsellable here 😂 most cars sold on a forecourt are around 15,000-30,000 miles anything above 50,000 is a lot of miles on a car

@@rxss6154 In finland anything under 100k is basically considered brand new.

@@rxss6154 That's because they have the steering wheel on the right side.If it would be on the left side you could've sell it to romanians ( or any other east european citizens) pretty close to it's initial price.

Much better then cheap cars of the past such as Proton and Perodua

Yeah

DoomDriver32 Or 5 cheesehurgers and a Dacia Sandero:D

LOL! You guys made my morning. XD

Deer Lord fuck your morning

Or you can go to Russia and buy 9000 cheesburgers from McDonalds

ill take the burgers lasts longer

Josh Bacon and the car In you're profile pic is the opposite of it

brickwall made of lego It probably is. Tesla Model S/X's are a bit like iPhones: they are powerful, fast, and they both have big screens.

And no headphone jacks??

Josh Bacon at least James May approves

but with a shitty, shitty, battery life...

In Germany, people have about ~1500-2500€ per month to life and it is not enough because living is so expensive. A flat costs between 600-1300€ a month... Car taxes and insurance are about ~150€ per month etc. People in Germany get more poor every year, per person they are poorer than greeks :( But in Romania everything seems even to be quite a bit sadder :/

@@iGAGGA25 that s false. I m a romanian too and the living conditions are not that bad now. Dacia is perfect for Romania because of the Chads that scratch the paint of the car. The best Dacia is the Dacia Logan.

You are in EU should be better

@@zanthony1286 that is the minimal wage. And the minimal wage is 400 dollars. He just want to talk sht about his own country because of the media propaganda

boohoo, how about 100$ per month on average and no allocation for kids, and a country without any roads, without any hospital outside the capital and without industry like Moldova? Don't bad talk your country because you actually live way much better.

In Finland they are really popular....

Best-selling car in Spain in 2020 is... yes, the Dacia Sandero. *cue James May happy noises*

In România are the most popular car.

Ahahahah 😂

Hahaha. The Chinese cops are using some creepy Chinese made VW Santana that was basically from the 70s and early 80s. Hahaha. In communist countries you don't go on high speed car chase to arrest people, you go to people's homes in the dead of the night to arrest them.

Then u got no problem running.

@@shenghan9385 *Excecute them, arresting is an inconvenient extra step.

capitalist countries are so much better i guess

@Geo Gaming Passat-urile alea V6 TDI erau bune (B5.5) sau chiar si Vento-urile, pe care sunt sigur ca nu au dat 80.000 de euro ca atunci cand au luat MCV-urile alea de patrule si radar

GREAT

Moving on

بالجودة

That's quite impressive.

@@jrshaul it is good engine from d4f renault 1.2cc 16v

Same like my sandero but my is from 2008 and only the radiator was change =₩

My uncle has a 2008 dacia logan with 180k riden kilometers and he visits the mechanic everyday with a new problem

@Gavin Crump hell, you can still buy one without a radio!

@@SoulTouchMusic93 2019 ones have a/c and multemedia system installed in standart packages

@@ozanayan698 took them long enough to get there!

@@ozanayan698 those aren't the entry models, the entry model doesn't come with radio, nor A/C, the model that comes with radio and A/C costs 1.200 EUR more than the entry model.

@ standart new ones are sold with ac and multimedia in turkey

It's good value for money, no question about that, but I'm just mentioning the joke from Top Gear haha

Jeremy Clarkson : Moving On...

martinovici ion 12 From Figureight right? :)

Emir HD read that in Clarksons voice too haha

@Emir No it's not. Cheapest model in my country, the Netherlands, is €11680.

especially if you have kidney stones

RUMD3X i think its the full model

Alterate Awful :)))))))))))))

I don't get it, why does that country have such insane import taxes....when it doesn't even produce cars, phones or technology locally.

@@KRaikkonenSF No technology? Is this a joke? The make air planes!

@@ukharry02 It's one of the few things they make, and even then, they import all the same. they don't make make types and are only present on a smaller market.

vast majority of cars are good from new, it's how they are treated

Even in Croatia, LPG station-wagon Sanderos

In Portugal there are a lot of Dacia Taxis

Yes, but the interior absolutely sucks. I would only care about the stepway model. Just look at the sound controls on the steering column, first time I saw that I thought it's a home-made DIY addition - it's literally a SQUARE BOX with buttons glued next to the steering wheel. That shit is ridiculous and no way I'm gonna have that in a brand new car. As an example, Chevrolet Spark might be even cheaper and the interior and dashboard design is alien technology compared to the lousy Dacia.

truth be told, this is renault's patent, and i can attest it is much more ergonomic thank on-wheel buttons, more intuitive and makes you spend less time with eyes off the road.

Sold as datsun go in asia

Yup, that's because the Dacia brand is unknown outside of Europe.

Só nos paises fudidos

@@r.giovannosdn Datsun is different

Yeah... And here in ZA... It's about 12000 dollars 🙄

Wot?

@ It's the Dacia Sandero!

@@Randommmmm204 Anyway...

@@robotko_ruslanyou ruined it

@@robotko_ruslan its Oh no! Anyway....

60k miles in 5 years? That car is good as new with that number. I reached 150k km in 1.5 years

It doesn’t look good as new any more, it’s a work vehicle used in lots of city driving, but it’s good to know they last

Well the engines are reliable and u wont have any problems in the next 4-5 years

@@owenlewis8006 The car may be cheap but it's definitely crap. The only reason it sells well is because of people in developing countries.

What engine is in that model?

it's a 2 liter petrol, 145 hp

Mike it uses the a slightly modified version of the 2.0 used in the Clio Williams and the Mk1 and Mk2 Laguna back in the 90s

RafaGmod JAMES MAY APPROVES!!!

Like Suhov said, it's a F4R engine: 2.0 16v. 95% of the car in brazil are flex fuel (runs on petrol and ethanol) due to taxes discounts, so on ethanol it brings 150hp! They changed the suspension (dampers, antiroll bars and made a structural reiforcement), brakes, have a slightly better cooling system and a very agressive 6 gears transmission.

probably british gallons = 1,2 us gallons which makes it 40 american mpg. (17 km/l) Still neat, but not massively efficient indeed

It's a fair comment for it's class, price and where it's sold. IT's actually a little higher now (the car in the clip is more than 5 years old going by its rego), at 54.5MPG (45mpg US). But you know the UP!/CitiGo/Mii... is there an Audi badged one yet? start from only a thousand pounds more (depending on what badge you want on the front, and that'll get you 68.9 MPG (57mpg US).

koenigscat 40 miles to the US gallon is still better than most cars they sell in the US and Canada.

still, a fuel efficient car involves newer technology thus more expensive. Dacia is not best at fuel either its just basic. So you would expect it to be not as fuel efficient as newer car models, wouldn't you ?

The 1.2 16valve engine fitted to this car dates from the late 90s so back in its day 48mpg was pretty decent. The Sandero has since had a facelift (I have a facelifted one) the base spec now comes with a Nissan derived 1litre 3 cylinder unit. Cool fact the 900cc turbo engine fitted to my sandero was co developed by The Mercedes and Renualt F1 teams and features such things as graphite piston skirts and bore spray technology. Both new engines are very efficient too the 1 litre manages 54mpg and the 900cc turbo I have had 60-65mpg out of it.

@@gradlon3946 Dacia is owned by Renault. Like many german brands and Lambo being owned by Volkswagen

this actual model can do 1000000km or older model ?

the engine is 100% french

@@gradlon3946 you can call Dacia a french car as much as u can call a Lambo a german car

Dacia's association with Renault goes back to at least 1970 - the Dacia 1300 was a clone of the Renault 12.

I wish they'd sell these here in the states! I'd probably buy one for a first car. XP

I think that you miss the point - They are testing absolutely the cheapest car you can buy.

Mr14Anonim if you go for the optional extras then you arent actually going for the cheapest car. this is seeing what the cheapest cheapest car can get you with none of the optional extras

well, the car is highly underpowered...as a Romanian, i was surprised how weak was when my Godfather took us for a spin with it...then he went to park it in his garage, which is up on a steep hill for some reason...in reverse, you had to accelerate quite a lot to get it moving, but you had to take breaks to keep it accurate...If they only tried to re-model the Dacia 1300....now that was a car...the Kalashnikov of cars...imagine a 1300 or 1410 lowrider, finely tuned, not excessively...candy paint and all that...

The German Dacia slogan is: "Das Statussymbol für alle die kein Statussymbol brauchen" wich translates to "The status symbol for everyone that doesn't need a status symbol"

the duster, 1.5L diesel?

@@suralexandrumarian6689 Sandero Stepway 1,5 DCi. And still going strong ;-)

alextheromanian Daca vrei o Dacia mai "luxoasa" ai de ales intre Renault si Nissan, iar daca vrei rival pentru Audi ai Infiniti. Dacia este facuta pentru a fi ieftina, a nu se dezmembra si a te duce de la A la B, iar la asta are mare succes. Se vinde ca painea calda peste tot.

alextheromanian dude come on.... The dacia 1310 was so shit they it rained inside it.

Tiberiu Marian sau daca vrei rival pt orice dacie/renault/audi/vw/Mercedes...iti ei toyota/Lexus....cea mai fiabila de departe si performanta, motoarele si transmisia hibride is blindate, iar lexus e dotat calumea.

You`re an idiot, it don`t matter in which country you live ! Idiocy is universal.

alextheromanian Match Audi quality? Never in a gazillion years!

If you don't buy your kids a car capable of 200+kms, he or she would be so eager to drive crazily once they have the chance to do so while not having the necessary experience to control the machine. Just a thought. And I am sure you don't know much about speed and acceleration. 0 to 100 kms/h in 3 seconds is very difficult whilst going up to 200kms/h is very normal deal with most cars. Almost every car with 6 cylinders can go up to 200kms/h and many 4 cylinder ones can do that too without too much effort. So you are saying you will only get your kids some half ass car with less than 4 cylinders?

They hold their value surprisingly well. They only depreciate by about £1000 a year, compared to three times this for most other cars. I suppose if they depreciated by £3000 a year you might as well buy a one year old one for £3000!

Id honestly take this over a used mini so that I wouldn’t have to deal with i s s u e s

no audio jack is the biggest downfall. It can be as barebones as it likes but please give me an audiojack to listen to music or audiobooks

@@ElZilchoYo you can install your own radio

Used car.

Used. Definitely used. I know when something's fishy. I'm 5 for 5 so far. All my cars have been 2nd hand and neither of them had any major problems. My last one, a 2009 1.4l Kia Cee'd had a bit of rust on the breaks because it sat for a while so you could feel a bit of a trepidation but some sandpaper fixed it quickly. Also, the clutch was making a weird squeaky noise so we decided to replace it. All in, with the clutch, filters, oil, registration, insurance etc we spent 3000 euros. And believe me when I say it's SO much better than a basic new Dacia. I could've bought a newer model but cars above 2010 are generally not nearly as reliable as older one. They're made to break. I would honestly prefer my Kia over a fully loaded Dacia just because they don't feel right. They just feel weird to drive. And they're built cheaply, I've got more metal in my PC than Dacias have in their body. And most of the engines are really forced. I mean almost 100 HP out of a 0.9l engine? That can't be reliable. Their only actually good and reliable engine is the 1.5 dci. At least the one on the 2010 models, I don't know about the newer ones. They drive the same, but I don't know if they're as reliable. By the way, this is coming from someone who learned to drive on Dacias. I've driven all kinds. They're everywhere. I still don't like any of them. I'm a car guy who can't afford sports cars so I put reliability first, then performance and then comfort. The the Kia delivers on all of them. Really reliable, performs great, it's relatively quick and it's surprisingly good through the corners, it was great going up and down the Transfăgărășan and it's fully loaded so comfort is good too. All for 3000 euros and a couple of scratches on the body because... It was driven by a woman. She literally had a paint marker in the armrest... It's still there...

Clar Nu stie sa o bage in mansalier xD

Mr.Razvan lol good luck driving that comunist scrap

Snopp Dogg The car is actually made after a French design, the Renault 12, so...

i actualy did driving school on one of them, the handling on backwards parallel parking is a pain, but on that "comunist scrap" you realy learn how to drive. and on anothe note todays cars will be considered the same like the old timers that are considered crap today. if you take care of them they will take care of you, for a long time

Mr.Razvan 😂😂😂

derbigpr500 nope

yep, Euro wins

yes. fucking look at what's cheap in america. this honestly looks decent.

Please show me the $7,800 American car that you're comparing it to.

What do you think of this compared to a Cadillac XTS? Edit: specifically, the Cadillac XTS V-Sport Platinum Twin Turbo.

Alexandru Klipii foarte bine

Iskander K lol

What county?

Shahrokh any problem with transmission (flywheel or clutch)?

I have 2009 one. Payed 10.000 € to buy it, lots of km driven, not once I had to fix anything.

If that's a good car what the hell is a bad car?! 😂

@@Aarontlondon FIATs

@@Aarontlondon you're weird

Same here in Australia - a/c is a must (45C temp in summer), no one buys even a used car without a/c here.

It has AC ! don't listen to this moron presenting Dacia ! Just take a look on their site ! www.dacia.co.uk/vehicles/sandero/price-and-spec/

Its also hot as fuck in europe in summer. Especially where the Dacias are sold the most, in eastern and southern europe. Just open the window and you are ok, I was on a roadtrip in summer without AC so I know how it is

teoiorg this test is solely about the basic version. And that does not have A/C.

Well, Dacia is owned by Renault, so it does make sense... somewhat

That's called a Nissan Micra

@@EdPMur but the micra is more expensive

You can import one from brazil, the only problem is they aren't Dacias, but Renaults

@@EdPMur the nissan micra is smaller than a dacia sandero, the sandero is even slightly taller than an renault clio inside

@@thytor756 It has to be 25 years old to import to the US. This would NEVER meet US safety and possibly emissions standards.

Big Head Mafia Savage

Poor man, now you have to live with a Sandero.

Daaaaamn

Why tf would you want one of these?

Bean Films true it's shit

I've seen a fast food shop with 3 of them parked up front with shop logos on it. It's better than paying 2k a car for 2nd hand cars and spending 1000's repairing them.

X Blocky Most companies go for German vehicles as company cars, they get all sorts of deals.

X Blocky thank you! Dacia is a romanian brand and im romanian... im proud

My mum has a 2018 bmw 116 company car and if she had this she would just buy a car herself

Yeah because driving 100 thousands plus miles up and down the motorway in this Dacia screams a great company car lol

Rob Jonckheere Where in Belgium ?

Rob Jonckheere bruh where I live in Belgium (Hoeilaart) on my street alone there are at least 9 sandero's xd

Another one drives a Duster pam pam pam

I take it the Sandero is to you guys what the honda civic/accord is to us?

Hello There well kinda the same thing

Those models are popular with private security companies here.