The project of the third generation of the Dacia Duster SUV will be coordinated from Bucharest by the Renault Technologie Roumanie team and will be one of the most complicated so far, considering that it will be produced in several factories and sold under different logos worldwide, show economica.net. Gilles Le Borgne, head of the engineering division of the Renault group, explained in an official meeting that “we talked to the teams from Romania, Russia, Morocco and South America because we are talking about a huge project. There are six cars (zonal derivatives of Duster-n.red.) And four industrializations (the car will be produced in at least three factories-n.red.), And the development is done here, at Renault Technologie Roumanie (RTR). At the moment, the project employs about 4,000 people from engineering and another 2,700 employees from Renault and Dacia “. –
The models arrived in Romania
“The first models are in Romania and from now on the project is a Romanian one, from design to industrialization, design and acquisitions. The car is here. A meeting of Dacia executives took place in Bucharest in Romania, I spent a week here in one of the first meetings since the pandemic “, said Denis le Vot, executive vice president, CEO for Dacia and Lada.
Without going into details, the official still outlined some features of the Duster 3 model, but also made a reference to the future Bigster. “Duster will be a crossover that will also have a 4 × 4 version. It will be the rough and tough car of the range, so to speak. The Bigster will be longer (4.6 meters) and will tend to the SUV area, meaning that in the end, this car will be very good for long journeys. Because that’s what people in segment C are looking for. They’re not looking for an all-terrain vehicle, but a spacious one with a high, comfortable position. So the role of each car in the Dacia range will be very different “, Denis le Vot detailed.
We remind you that Dacia is preparing a 1.8-liter hybrid engine (code HR18) that will equip the future Duster in the fall of 2024 and the Bigster model in 2025. In fact, Dacia launched at the Munich IAA Jogger, the first hybrid model in the brand’s history. It is equipped with the 1.6 E-Tech engine that is also found on the Clio hybrid.
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