I Asked Dacia to Give Me Their Cheapest Car... The Results I Did Not Expect!

hello everybody this week on the channel I decided to change things down a bit and so contacted data to ask them if they would send me the cheapest press car on their Fleet having now lived with it for a week I can tell you it's been something of a surprise because it turns out that cheap cars aren't what they used to [Music] be [Music] so then what is it I've been enjoying the company of all week well it's this the data sandero now in it's third generation and it's a car that's known to most of us as being just about the cheapest new vehicle you can buy in Britain with four whole wheels so my first surprise then the price how much do you think one of of these would set you back 8 Grand 9 Grand 10 well this is 155,000 that number in fact came as such a shock to me I had to check and make sure my mind wasn't playing tricks on me and it turns out it wasn't because back in 2020 you could buy a version of this car for just $ 7995 granted that was the base access version which precious few people actually bought and I suspect existed mostly as a mark in gimmick it did without painted handles electric rear windows even painted front and rear bumpers airon and a whole bunch of other stuff I think modern buyers deem an essential in any case you really could buy a brand spanking new car for just $ 7995 now no longer in fact the cheapest version of this the sandero the lowest cost car in the daa lineup is now 13795 but though the s is no longer Britain's cheapest car full stop it remains one of the most affordable in its segment and good news these are a far cry from the cheap cars of my youth so even the most basic car comes in with painted bumpers front and rear electric windows air conditioning and you've even got such luxuries as Bluetooth and dab radio this one is the expression trim just £1,000 more at 14795 and for that you do get quite a bit more money including rear parking sensors rear camera rear electric windows you've also got an 8 in touchscreen giving you Android auto and apple carplay functionality there is even keyless entry and go all included in that price in fact the only option on this car is the metallic blue paint at about £650 yes the interior is still basic if you were a cow living next door to the dater Factory I think you'd feel fairly safe however the company's slogan is they give you everything you need and nothing you don't and I have to say that is personified by this car you could get the slightly beefier crossover looking sandero stepway which I'm told is a big seller but to me that defeats the point entirely as far as I'm concerned this really is all the car anyone would ever need I do have plenty of gripes the interior controls could be just a little nicer the phone holder is just so cheap flimsy it feels like I'm going to break it every time I use it there isn't even an auto button for the HVAC controls and the ones you have all do feel like they've been stolen from a van from 1995 however there is just about enough space for four adults or five at a push the boot is a good size too and you have to bear in mind this even at the now slightly higher price of 15 and a bit Grand is still roughly in line with a mid-spec Kia Picanto a car that is at least a class maybe class and a half smaller and you know something I'm even impressed with the styling no I don't think it's ever likely to win an award however I've pared this in a number of town centers where it's been next door to any number of faceless vag products and it Blends in perfectly at no point in time have I turned around and looked at it and gone yeah that does look like a cheap car doesn't it in fact to just about the only giveaway this is a budget conscious model are these 15in steel wheels but complete with alloy styled full coverage caps and Bridgestone tires H that's not so bad and I'm sure these are of some benefit to the particularly careless driver who does like to curb a wheel fairly frequently but what about those of us who care about the art of driving does the sandero have much for us well it turns out that it does I know on paper this may not sound like a particularly petrol head friendly recipe here in the UK the sandero is currently available with one of just two engines each is a 3-cylinder 1 L turbo the sole difference being the one is petrol and the other is LPG this one is the pure petrol and it produces a mighty 90 horsepower and 140 NTM of torque that's uh just over 100 lb foot curiously the B Fuel actually makes marginally more power another 10 horses for a nice even 100 both of them are then connected to a simple 5-speed manual gearbox that drives the front wheels there is no automatic option there is no all-wheel drive option that's it in keeping with the daer ethos of giving you everything you need and nothing you don't the front brakes are discs and the rears are drums there's even a strange and unusual device between the front seats that may be unfamiliar to some of my younger viewers us old farts call it a handbrake just in case you weren't aware dater are an offshoot of Renault created a number of years ago to fill what I think is a very important need lowcost transport for the masses so while everybody else is trying to go up market and create ever more expensive EVS it's really good to see a manufacturer out there which is committed to basic meat and potatoes motoring and I think it's for that reason that have fallen so in love with this perhaps the biggest surprise for me on the spec sheet was actually the chassis on account of their connection to the company many daer models have been born out of previous generation Rena that's one of the ways they've managed to keep the costs down but this new sandero is in fact built on the same platform that underpins the current Cleo although in a special deified lowcost version what exactly they've changed I do not know in real time just an hour ago I was driving a 300 100 plus horsepower four-wheel drive 8-speed automatic BMW m135 IX drive and that was proof to me of just how inherently right the dater is of course the BMW was measurably quicker I think even the most optimistic of Road testers would struggle to come to any other conclusion inside of course the BMW was also a big step on not just in terms of Technology but also quality of materials this actually feels I think far better than I expected it to and my only real gripe with the interior of this car is this stuff this sort of weird black and white fabric that's just about everywhere it is very abrasive but more than that if you have young people in this car or dogs it's not going to be the easiest to clean if they make a mess of it I think it would be good to see a sort of vinyl or leatherette option for the interior for those that need something a little easier to clean sadly this is the one and only choice that you have the dash is nice clear easy to read and I have to say it's actually a delight to have something where the speedo doesn't go to over 200 mph the central display then tells me everything I need nothing I don't and the 8 in touch screen over here works just fine I haven't been able to test Android auto with it but that is because my phone it's utterly rubbish USBC has a terrible design and now no cables will connect to my phone yes I have cleaned the port out no it hasn't made it difference oh I did notice one other nice little feature the car appears to have a takeaway hook which I think everything should from uh ders to f40s visibility is good not great the a pillar at the base particularly is quite chunky and the B pillar is a little further forward than I would like it but in all honesty compared to just about anything else modern it's not really any worse or any better all of the controls are nice and light very easy to modulate the clutch and gearbox in particular are fantastic and so I think this would make an excellent first car Beyond Hill hold assist there isn't really anything in here to flatter a poor driver but neither is there anything to unduly punish one that's trying to do their best but to me the real party piece of the dater you can take your child out in it teach them all the fundamentals of driving Grandma can borrow it take it to the shops it's got everything that she would need just about enough space for her her friends a parking center at the backa hopefully keep her out of trouble but then when you've got the car back you're driving home you find yourself on your favorite piece of road and there's nobody around you can drop a cog and have a lot of fun it may not have Fancy Pants 5way traction control in fact you can't even turn the traction control off nor does it have super duper brakes trick multi-link double Wishbone suspension or adaptive dampers instead what it's got is just a pure simple and honest approach to motoring yes there's only 90 horsepower here but it's also got less than 1100 kilos to cart around load it up with people and yes you will notice the car does struggle but certainly when you're on your own it's got more than enough Pace to have quite a lot of fun and even with this electric steering that's maybe not the most communicative they changed it a few years ago it's still got just enough waiting to give you an idea of what's happening with the chassis and the car still has a decent amount of lean in it giving you a pretty good idea of exactly how much you're asking from it I struggle to think of the last time I drove a car to what I know was its limit in any sort of way that didn't feel completely and totally Reckless this loves it it's an absolute Joy Joy I have been driving the wheels off this thing at every given opportunity and it has been a total Delight I love the fact that on the first day I got it I drove 460 Mi all the way up to Scotland on one tank of fuel it's got a 50 L tank and it averaged 52 to the gallon it wasn't even that uncomfortable I got out of the car 9 hours later not feeling all that bad the airon as of when it's needed is icy cold I've got it disabled at the moment for every single spare horse that I can get and uh the car was a far far better tourer than I expected it to be sure these speakers are a little bit naff and because my phone is rubbish I wasn't able to use Android auto but still it did the job and did it well then when I arrived at my destination and I had to Ferry a few people about it had more than enough space in it for doing all the stuff that you'd need any car to do and then when I found myself on some of my favorite roads they had lots and lots of fun though the headline power figure is not really anything to write home about because it's a turbo it'll give you what it has fairly early on so even from 2 to 3,000 RPM the car responds with actually a little bit more than you might expect there is an element of Turbo lag but not really ever anywhere near enough to give you problems and even in first gear giving it the absolute big one traction has been generally fine I'll note it's been dry this week but I think even in the wet you're not exactly going to struggle it is as the company promises everything you need and nothing you don't how's the Turning Circle oh that's pretty good too so then should you rush out to the shops and buy one well that's a little bit more complicated because from the moment I got the car I did notice there were a few issues first off and this relates of course to this specific car the steering wheel was not correctly aligned the car also had a warning telling me the tire pressure monitoring system needed to be reinitialized which I did I have also noticed that there must be somewhere a slightly loose piece of Bodywork because on occasion you get to 60 MPH and you get that very distinctive sort of of something being loose it may have broken free now because I haven't heard it in a couple of days I mention this because this is a press car this is supposed to demonstrate just how good these cars can be and I always find it disappointing when they're delivered with basic issues like that it shows to me a general lack of attention to detail and when we're talking about the Press Fleet here I can only assume that customer cars are going to be at least like that if not potentially worse that's a shame in the last few days the car has also developed a worrying number of creeks and rattles in including from the speaker grills up here which I checked and they don't actually appear to be correctly fixed in place and these I'm sure sound like the minor gripes that I assure you they are however there is a much bigger problem for the dater sandero I talked earlier about this car's rather surprising price £155,000 as you see it here and I'm sure a few of you have already thought yeah but that's not really an issue because the point of a car like this is not to buy it new for cash but instead to finance it at a relatively low rate and that is how you justify buying this as opposed to say a used car for £3 or £4,000 taking then the risk that it may go wrong and you'll have to pay to fix it in terms of warranty data will give you 3 years and 60,000 Mi which is again okay but PS in comparison to the seven years of Kia the 5 years of hyundi and the 10 years of either Toyota or Lexus though I suspect not many people are Cross Shopping a data with Alexus in any case I think the big and potentially deal-breaking issue for this car is the fact that over the last few years not only has the cash price gone up but so has the finance I recall not that long ago you could walk into a dealer with £99 in your pocket and for that a £99 a month you could get a brand new car not anymore this should you want to buy it will cost you according to dater's sample Finance £2,000 as a deposit and near £200 a month that's for a pal 6,000 m a year lease and that is a lot isn't it more I wager than many people would probably want to pay out for a car like this which is a shame because Creeks rattles and slightly off steering wheel aside I genuinely like this car but if you're on the hunt for affordable transport and you must have something new I think I would urge you to try one of these but also consider a few other options that might initially seem like they cost a little bit more but over the long run could work out as better value so then that is my review of the daa sandero and I'm very pleased to say it has been actually quite a nice surprise I want to say a big thank you to them for Lending it to me and as ever to you for watching don't forget to hit the like button comment down below and subscribe if you haven't already I'll see for the next one [Music] [Applause] [Music] bye-bye

Channel: JayEmm on Cars

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Length: 16min 58sec (1018 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 31 2023