Dacia considering new model line on CMF platform

Dacia is thinking about increasing its core line-up with a new model line based on mother or father organization Renault’s modular architecture.

The Romanian firm’s line-up currently includes the big-marketing Sandero supermini, Duster SUV and Jogger MPV in the Uk, additionally the Spring electric town car or truck and Logan saloon and in other markets.

The flexibility of Renault’s CMF-B system – on which Dacia plans to foundation all potential goods for streamlining uses – paves the way for the manufacturer to goal new shoppers in new segments and accelerate its immediate expansion trajectory in crucial world marketplaces.

At the Paris motor demonstrate, Autocar asked the brand’s chief designer, David Durand, if Dacia could follow up the phase-straddling Jogger with far more new types. He answered: “We preserve discovering different fields. We’re considering about other types that could finish the present range. It is still a project it’s not determined however.

“Many items can come about, but we won’t stay with what we have nowadays with no exploring other locations that could make a ton of perception with Dacia.”

Durand stopped short of confirming which segments Dacia could seek out to enter. The Spring is an EV similar to the Peugeot e-208, the Sandero, Jogger and Duster address off the B-phase in various bodystyles and the Bigster SUV, owing in 2024, will contend with significant-advertising C-phase crossovers like theNissan Qashqai and Toyota RAV4.

You will find no apparent gap in Dacia’s line-up, but expansion possibly facet of the diminutive Spring and huge Bigster seems not likely, so diversifications of present and potential products appear to be far more feasible.

Notably, Renault introduced the Arkana in 2021 as a coupé-type crossover intensely based mostly on the Captur. Regardless of whether Dacia would glance to give a related cure to the Duster or Bigster is uncertain it may perhaps clash with the brand’s function-over-sort merchandise ethos.

Just one other possible is an estate-bodied model of the Sandero in the vein of the preceding-technology Logan MCV, which bowed out in 2020. This would give Dacia a rival to likewise conceived hatchback-dependent estates like the Ford Concentrate Estate and Peugeot 308 SW.

Durand reported thinking of an expansion of the line-up is achievable simply because of the reduced prices afforded by Renault’s currently-produced platforms.

“Helpfully we have our large brother Renault, which aids a lot,” he stated. “In actuality, devoid of Renault, we could not exist. We have to have the know-how of the team, all the technologies off the shelves that we can choose to adapt to regulations and emissions [legislation]. It will make a great deal of sense to be in this team.”