2024
Manual
45.6 mpg
Tax: £180
Mileage: 1
Petrol
Mileage: 12
Mileage: 296
2023
Tax: £190
Mileage: 316
Mileage: 376
Automatic
44.8 mpg
Mileage: 1,023
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Mileage: 2,094
44.1 mpg
Tax: £170
Mileage: 2,871
Hybrid
Mileage: 2,973
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'The best bargain on the market'. That's quite a claim isn't it, particularly for a car that starts from around £20,000. But this third generation version of Dacia's Duster SUV just might be. It's not an EV but it's the first Duster that's been in any way electrified and, thanks to use of existing Renault Group tech and cheap manufacturing in Romania and Morocco, it offers easily the best value compact family SUV proposition on the market. You could argue that the Duster always has, ever since it first arrived back in 2010. Alongside the Sandero hatch, it's been the brand's biggest seller since then, updated in second generation form in 2017 and along the way notching up 2.2 million registrations. All that's been founded on a back-to-basics approach to SUV design and a platform originally created by Renault in the '90s. A structure which of course couldn't accommodate the kind of electrified engines a car like this must now have. So this MK3 Duster adopts the same Renault Group CMF-B platform of other Dacias, a move additionally supposed to benefit practicality and refinement, though one that's also pushed the price up. But as we said earlier, the Romanian brand still thinks it's a bargain. Is it? Let's see.
This is without doubt the most sophisticated Dacia Duster we've seen yet. But is a Dacia Duster supposed to be sophisticated? The original version certainly wasn't. And it cost around a third of the amount that most customers will be paying for this one; it's unlikely that your salary has increased by two-thirds since 2010. But your expectations of what a reasonably compact family-suitable SUV certainly have and there's no doubt that this third generation Dacia meets them - so impressively that you might wonder whether it's still true to the simple, no-nonsense concept of what a Duster should be. But some of that still remains in some areas of cabin decor and the cheap manufacturing origins and hand-me-down engineering from other brands - things that have always characterised this Romanian marque. And even the claims for continuing outstanding value stack up when you consider that for Duster money, all other brands will give you is a tiny style-led crossover no use for much but urban trips and a commute to the gym. This Duster, in contrast, can do more: take a family, take a longer trip - even, if specified properly, go off road. In all these respects, it's a true Duster. And we can see why you might like one.
Borrow £6,000 with £1,000 deposit over 48 months with a representative APR of 18.1%, monthly payment would be £172.36, with a total cost of credit of £2,273.28 and a total amount payable of £9,273.28.
