Hi Judd,
I was really sceptical when my wife said she wanted to buy a Duster and it wasn’t until I test drove them that I dropped my resistance to buying one. If you’ve got the time go and test drive one. I bet you’ll like it.
All in all it looks to be a reasonable choice.
We thought long and hard about it Mate and I spent hours on the internet searching out information. It’s still early days and I’ve only seen one on the road. My wife has wanted a Duster for the last I don’t know how many years. She basically left the decision in the end to me after she had selected the packet she wanted:cool: We’ll see how it all goes.
Kev.
Would be interesting to get a price comparison for a Dacia. The Prestige TCe version (petrol) is around £14000 here in Blighty, the equivalent Euro price when converted is around €16000 at current exchange rates but is that the real price in Germany or is it a case of rip-off Britain again?
Hi Judd
The basic model here is €16,000 before sales tax. I’m a member of a forum here for the new Duster and it seems that most are paying €20,000 to €21000 for a Prestige with the complete set of bells and whistles. We were just under €19,000 for the Comfort package.
Be sure and give us (me 
) your assessment when you buy the car Kev - I’m considering one as my Kia will be four years old this year and I like to replace my cars every four years, pocket allowing.
I certainly will Judd. We are really looking forward to driving the new Duster. It’s still going to be a while though.
Our Duster goes into production today so I guess it’s a countdown from here. I’ve heard it takes two or three days to build one but it can take a month to be delivered.
Are they that busy,wheres it being made?
They’re built in Rumania. I think Dacia were a bit shocked and overwhelmed by the demand for the new Duster. When we ordered ours, one car salesman told us that he’d had days when the only car people were interested in was the Duster and they also sold Renault and Hyundai. At the moment in Germany you can’t order one.
That’s got to be a good recommendation.
Yes I think so too mate. For the price you can’t beat it.
I think they can be ordered in the UK as of Monday 11.06.
Just spoke to the laddie who has been studying cars obsessionally for 30 yrs and has boxes of magazines in the garage - we cannot buy the dacia in OZ and according to the laddie wouldn’t want to either !
anything coming out of Romania has just gotta be suspect - and I asked him about the pulling power thingy - he said something that cannot be repeated here but suggested a Commodore would be eminently more suitable
commodores - you can’t get them in europe ?? no we only drive hard cars for a hard country!!
Am I being cynical ? - I don’t think so - I think some eminently car experts have already expressed grave concerns on this thread - I am just surprised that if " the wife wants one - who I assume knows eff all about cars - she gets one" - I rest my case and will see you later Kev in the candy bar for a Volgswagen !!
Commodore. Tells me a lot about your friend. I know a lot of Commodore piston heads in Aus. No one would drive such a gas guzzling piece of scrap in Europe.
The women you know don’t know much about cars. German women are different. Germans live and breath the fact they build the best cars in the world. The women as well. And they buy Dusters along with most European countries plus Africa and South America. 
Germans live and breath the fact they build the best cars in the world.
I thought the dacia was made in Romania ? - well Germany has really moved up a notch or two if it’s competing with Romania!!!
Africa and South America - yep good bedmates too!!
It is built in Rumania. I didn’t write different.
Still, they’re not above fiddling exhaust emmision figures.
you sort advice and you have been advised!!!
True. What I don’t understand is that they were producing competitive motors anyway most of which had the least emission in their type. Renault is the largest motor producer world wide and Mercedes use their motors in some of their models. Mercedes didn’t directly accuse Renault but tried to shove some of the blame on them when they had nothing to do with it. Bosch produced all the corrupted software for these motors and got out of this scot free saying they didn’t know what the software was going to be used for.
The whole world knows now what VW has done. Trying to prove all the German manufacturers got together and plan this has also failed.
Woman’s point of view - I like the shape of the new Duster and can’t believe they are so cheap. There is a very nice silver colour in the range as well I know nothing about cars (obviously) but if the shape and colour is OK I will probably be interested in a test drive - will I be disappointed. I currently drive a Golf TSI and having had Golfs for years I don’t really have any other yardstick to go by. Please be kind with any replies