Had mine a month now 1500 miles and if you use the B mode correctly to slow down , you can get far more MPG. I am mainly A roads and Motorway on my commute to work, 44 miles a day and i am getting 66MPG
I have the Dacia Spring Expression new one, absolutely love it. I saw one of these parked in the supermarket car park today, lovely car. Well done Dacia.
Considering everything else is 40k+, 23k for this one is decent. Honda crv is now 50k+, this was the luxury pricetag. Find a 7 seater below 40k, hybrid
@@nistb2123 and that it itself is ludicrous. I agree with you. However hybrid tech is pure bollocks and a scam. Imagine paying a premium for this bs and end up with 7-12 l /100 km deoending on car economy. Makes 0 sense.
Thank you. Very interesting. Are Euro NCAP scores now much too heavily biased towards active rather than passive safely? Most cars on the road still don't have collision avoidance systems and still collide from time to time. Passive safety still seems relevant, surely?
NCAP stands for New Car Assessment Programs. Most of the new cars equipped with activate collision prevention and good passive safety features. NCAP's rating has been reflecting Dacia's lack of active safety features as a new car. So imo it is relevant and the Dacia does deserve lower score than the other better equipped cars.
But Jogger was not tested, not sure why she ststed thks. The 1 star was taken from the Dacia Sandero that was tested. Jogger doesnt have a crash test, becasue they both share the same platform. I know its stupid as f.
In the UK, retailers of LPG have all but dried up and demand for LPG fuelled cars is absolutely minuscule. So there is no business case for Dacia to sell an LPG fuelled Jogger here.
@@badbusdriver7160 Such a shame since i was sure that UK still has good LPG infrastucture. Usually CNG is problematic in many countries but in general i think there is still good savings in those alternative fuels rather than this kind of expensive hybrids.
LPG is dying. Shell are decommissioning *all* their LPG assets in the UK, and many other independent LPG outlets have either gone, or are winding down.
Yet they are churning out LPG dusters and sanderos. It's more location based, if you're in certain parts of the southeast or Birmingham youre pretty sorted. I live near a few retailers and 14500k of the 15k I've covered has been on cheap LPG. It's dying because unlike the most of savvy Europe the government don't want or educate on it. Funny because they were giving grants for conversions, then they decided diesel was best. Now it's electric! LPG hybrid was the way forward in my opinion.@@badbusdriver7160
If NCAP tested this vehicle to pre 2017 test it would have received 4*. The 2015 CMF-B LS platform was designed for low cost global manufacturing and will underpin all Dacia models (except Spring) by 2025, so NCAP will continue to eschew the results because of lack of safety electronics.
You try buying one. They're like hen's teeth just now. I ummed and aahed and decided that while the extra space would have been nice, the Duster would do me just fine. I've reserved mine today and I should get it quite soon, all being well.
I was very tempted for a while to buy a Jogger hybrid and even went to a few dealerships for offers and test drive. I finally couldn't go past the 25.000 EUR price and the fact that the consumption is quite higher in real life than on paper. I opted for a 9 year old Espace 4 2.0 dci and I'm not regreting my choice. For a third of the price I have bigger interior space and lower running costs than the Jogger Hybrid.
CARWOW did a rather entertaining take on how the 1 litre could struggle with a full load. Great car but it does need this engine to exploit it carrying capacity.
They overloaded it and did a standing start on an incline of which there is only one on public roads in the whole of the UK. It had very limited practical implication.
I have just driven 900 miles to Scotland and back with four adults, a roof box and a boot bulging with luggage - and I can assure that the 1 litre engine didn't struggle at all, in fact the torque from 1800 rpm upwards is remarkable.
Whilst the hybrid is quite a bit more expensive than the 1L and the saving in mpg isn't that great they wouldn't be deal breakers for me. My next car is going to be the same as my last 2 i.e. an automatic and therefore the price difference isn't that great.
I'm tempted but purely because I do use our current 7 seater as a van and with 6 up quite regularly so the extra grunt might be handy. Shame that's the one thing they didn't cover! If I didn't need this I agree, it does seem to offer little extra for a lot of extra mechanical complication and outlay.
@@neilhewitt2761 The closest we can get to a diesel Jogger is the Vauxhall Combo Life which is quite good value 2nd hand and comes as a 7 seater and 1.5 diesel! Currently consideing one of them in 5seater to replace the Logan.
Bringing the diesel to the UK is unlikely. New diesel sales have crashed in the UK, and now make up a smaller share of the market than new electric cars.....A number of ca makers have dropped diesel from their ranges now. BMW are one of the latest. No more new diesels from them in the UK.
Is it just me? Am I not understanding how the fuel consumption works?? My Citroen C4 Grand Picasso gets 50.44 Mpg and it's not even hybrid 🤷🏻♂️ How can it be that the Dacia hybrid is no better??
Not so sure about that. Dacia's retain residual value extremely well. I have been offered pretty much what I paid for my Sandero almost two years ago. Not many brands can beat that.
@@z00h No not at £50k. I only buy used cars. An EV version of the Jogger should be no more than £33k new & after a 1-2 years around £20-22K, that's when I would look to buy.
It’s very impressive indeed but sadly with all the maniacs on the road these days a 1 star safety rating is a deal breaker for me,I’d definitely return if Dacia improved it,thanks guys 👍
@@aidan1585 So most people can't keep their car in their own lane or see people crossing in front of them! and if they can't why are they looking at a vehicle in this price range to start with? Dacia has kept the cost down by not adding all of those over the top safety measures.
Lane keeping assist is a pain in the arse. I have it in my Audi but switch it off. My Sandero doesn’t have it but feels just as safe behind the wheel. Both 22 plates. All about the driver.
I'd rather buy a JDM Toyota Alphard, 7 seater, Toyota reliability and a certain amount of luxury above the Dacia while being under the asking price of a new vehicle.
Good luck with the fuel consumption - you will soon eat up the price difference. I was considering the Alphard and the Nissan Elgrand until I spoke to a few owners about the fuel costs.
I bought the extreme hybrid jogger and I am very impressed with engine the extra horse power over the 1ltr makes all the difference. Also the car always moves off on electric mode which gives a good smooth speedy take off. The jogger hybrid engine doesn't have a clutch or timing belt to worry about.
I would like 1.3 petrol 4 cylinder. I hate 3 cylinder engines, they make me sick while driving. But I think that a hybrid is just wasted effort, no real economy benefits in the long run. Only for burocratic use cases, like Low emission zones.
@@Brian-om2hh Ah I see , so all those sensible people are acquiring (not) the said plastic shoebox for four times it's actual value. It's well thought out ...
So what's your plan for when petrol and diesel becomes harder to find? I mention this as Shell have said they plan to cut the production of petrol and diesel by 40% on the lead up to 2030. Details are in Shell's last business report..... You could of course just switch to Aspen synthetic petrol, as that's been on sale in the UK for decades. It does cost around £30 per gallon though...... Still, you've got a few years to decide what you want to do...... Personally, I went electric 3 years ago. I've saved around £6k in that time by no longer buying petrol. It costs me around £6 a week to charge my car up at home. I can cover 1000 miles of town and commuting driving for well under £40 if I stick with home charging - which I do 90% of the time. My local Sainsburys offers free charging too......
Another Dacia with an appalling NCAP safety rating. NCAP deliberately choose the lowest spec car to test for the sensible reason that safety should be the default, not something you buy. So regardless of what a Jogger might have on higher spec, the reality is safety sucks by default.
This is only the case if you think the car should bear the responsibility of driving for you. As was pointed out in the video, the reason the Jogger scores so poorly is because it is not festooned with all the latest driver aids (meaning a driver who has only half their attention on the road and the other half on their smartphone should be fine). The path Dacia have chosen, that is to say not jumping on the NCAP merry-go-round, is to reduce the cost of the car, and their popularity shows that there are plenty out their who are quite happy with that compromise. Those who aren't, are free to spend an extra £10k on some other 7 seat family car with all the NCAP bells and whistles. And just to be clear, the Jogger, while not brilliant, performs adequately in an actual crash.
This just looks staggeringly awful to me! As mentioned in the review, people will pitch this against a second hand car. I drive a luxurious E Class Mercedes estate that is now six years old with a 2 litre diesel engine. I easily get 55mpg on this test run style driving and have had 70mpg on a run. Dacia is worse on the test. It will do 105mph effortlessly at 2,000 revs and is great to drive with superb handling. Dacia crap. It is plush and has a lovely expensive feel. Dacia is cheap and plastic. Boot is probably bigger in my merc. I do not have 7 seats but the back row are awful. My co2 figure is lower than the Dacia. car tax is £35 My NCAP is the best car they have tested and it is full of safety features. It cost £18k a year ago, after three years I may lose £3k in depreciation. The Dacia will drop £10k at least. Why on earth would you buy the Dacia? Seems an expensive way to do lots of things badly and to drive a cheap heap of crap.
Yet if we look at brand reliability, I’m afraid your Merc is more likely to be spending time in the repair garage. At least your luxury seats will cushion the blow when they hand you the bill.
Too right, Mercedes are nowhere near the quality at their peak in the late 1980s. The last decent E was the W124. The 210 and 211 that followed were appalling, rust, turbo failures, broken springs engine management issues, rubbish interior trim....I know because I had all those models. And I am currently driving a new Jogger !
@@johngarethjenkins Yes the 211 era cars went rusty but Merc honored their warranty and sorted them. I had a 10 year old C class from that era and they put on 4 wings and a tailgate and resprayed it for free. Issue sorted by 2005 so that is 19 years ago. I doubt the Dacia will be around in 19 years! Since that blip Merc have been spot on with quality. I had a C class that did 100k and one thing wore out in that time - a £30 ball joint. I currently have a 5th gen 2016 E with 95k on the clock and it is like new and all original parts. What has a Jogger got going for it apart from being cheap to buy new?
