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Written by Stephen Dobie
Stop the internet, because there"s a new Dacia Duster. One of the most likeable cars on sale (seriously) has been given some new, fancier styling. We"ll see it for real at the Frankfurt motor show in a couple of weeks.And doesn"t it look, y"know, designed? It"s always been a proudly utilitarian thing, the Duster. Intentionally simple because that helped make it, in Dacia"s words, "scandalously affordable".Now, though, there are LED lights. A paint scheme called Atacama Orange. A satin-chrome-finish" skid plate. It"s trying to nab buyers of Qashqais and Sportages with some actual styling accoutrements. There"s even talk of voluminous haunches", which sounds more like a band you"ll find in session on 6Music than anything else.Dacia"s also bigging up the Duster"s completely new interior, though without any pictures of it, we"ll have to wait until Frankfurt to see what it"s like. Expect all that"s good and proper about the Duster to remain so: a choice of front- and four-wheel drive, and a choice of small petrol and diesel engines to haul its titchy kerb weight about.And a small price, too. Dacia"s sold a million Dusters since 2010, and it"d be foolish to mess with its most defining feature.Like it? Or has Dacia made its most honest model a bit too fancy?Share this page: FacebookTwitterGoogle+WhatsAppMailtoCopy link
Date written: 30 Aug 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 8989
Stop the internet, because there"s a new Dacia Duster. One of the most likeable cars on sale (seriously) has been given some new, fancier styling. We"ll see it for real at the Frankfurt motor show in a couple of weeks.And doesn"t it look, y"know, designed? It"s always been a proudly utilitarian thing, the Duster. Intentionally simple because that helped make it, in Dacia"s words, "scandalously affordable".Now, though, there are LED lights. A paint scheme called Atacama Orange. A satin-chrome-finish" skid plate. It"s trying to nab buyers of Qashqais and Sportages with some actual styling accoutrements. There"s even talk of voluminous haunches", which sounds more like a band you"ll find in session on 6Music than anything else.Dacia"s also bigging up the Duster"s completely new interior, though without any pictures of it, we"ll have to wait until Frankfurt to see what it"s like. Expect all that"s good and proper about the Duster to remain so: a choice of front- and four-wheel drive, and a choice of small petrol and diesel engines to haul its titchy kerb weight about.And a small price, too. Dacia"s sold a million Dusters since 2010, and it"d be foolish to mess with its most defining feature.Like it? Or has Dacia made its most honest model a bit too fancy?Share this page: FacebookTwitterGoogle+WhatsAppMailtoCopy link
Date written: 30 Aug 2017
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 8989
