Dacia Logan

Characteristics
Dacia Logan is an automobile manufactured at Dacia s plant in Mioveni, Romania, and
launched on the 4th of June 2004 at Paris, being available from the 1st of September 2004.
The first generation of Logan was voted official best car of the year Autobest 2005 by a jury
from fifteen countries: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Macedonia, Hungary, Poland,
Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Ukraine and Malta. The members of the
jury score 13 criteria like fuel consumption, versatility, roominess or design.
The Logan replaces many older cars in production, including the Romanian Dacia 1310 series
of Renault 12-based cars. The car is based on the B0 platform used for the Renault Clio II and
for other Renault and Nissan models
Renault originally had no plans to sell the Logan in Western Europe, but in June 2005, began
importing a more expensive version of the car, starting at around 7,500.It was an unexpected
success with people wanting an inexpensive, no-frills car they could repair themselves.
The Logan, vital to increasing sales of the Renault group to the 4 million mark by 2010, is
manufactured in nine production and operational assembly centres: Romania, the pilot plant of
the Logan Programme, Russia (Avtoframos), Morocco (Somaca), Colombia (Sofasa), Iran (two
assembly plants), India (Mahindra), Brazil (Renault), and South Africa (Nissan). Located in
Romania, near the Mioveni plant, the International Logistics Network, the official name of
the CKD centre, is the biggest logistic centre of its kind not only in the Renault Group but in the
entire world automotive industry.
In the European, Asian and African countries (such as: Romania, France, Italy, Belgium,
Netherlands, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Czech Republic, Croatia, Slovenia,
Morocco, Turkey), it is sold as Dacia Logan. Exceptions are South Africa, Argentina, Russia,
Ukraine,Colombia, Ecuador, Israel, Egypt, Brazil, Chile, Per and Venezuela where it is
marketed as theRenault Logan, and furthermore Mexico, where the Logan was sold as the Nissan
Aprio.
The second generation Logan was revealed by Dacia at the 2012 Paris Motor Show. Official
photos with the new Logan were released on 17 September 2012. It shares the same front end
design with the second generation Sandero, also revealed at the motor show, as well as other
elements too.

Sales in Romania began in November 2012, with a starting price of 6,690.It is manufactured
in Mioveni, Romania, and in Casablanca, Morocco, at the Somaca factory, for the North African
market.

Benefits
SAFETY
In June 2005, the car achieved a three-star rating at the EuroNCAP crash tests. This result
confirms initial expectations stated previously by Renault.
Depending on the equipment level, standard on some variants and optional on others, the
facelifted Logan comes with driver, passenger and side airbags.In terms of active safety, all
versions feature the latest generation Bosch 8.1 ABS, which incorporates EBD (electronic
brakeforce distribution) and EBA (emergency brake assist).

LOW PRICE
Logan was designed from the outset as an affordable car, and has many simplified features to
keep costs down. It has 50% fewer parts than a high-end Renault vehicle and has a limited
number of electronic devices. This makes the car cheaper to produce and easier and cheaper to
repair.

MODELS
Dacia Logan has a variety of models:

Logan MCV:

The Logan MCV (Multi Convivial Vehicle), launched at the 2006 Paris Motor Show, is
the station wagon version of the Logan.[59] It has five or seven seat versions, with a luggage space
between 200 and 2,350 litres depending on how many seats are folded, and numerous storage
spaces for smaller objects.

Logan VAN

The panel van variant of the Logan was launched on 23 January 2007, in Bucharest.[67] It is a
small business oriented vehicle, with 2,500 litre loading space and 800 kg payload. The Logan
VAN is more or less an MCV without the rear side windows and therefore has the same safety

features and uses the same engines as the other models (except the 1.6 16v engine). Production
of this model was stopped in August 2012.

Logan Pick-up

The coup utility version of the Logan, also based on the MCV, was introduced on 10 September
2007 (4 October 2007 at the Bucharest International Motor Show), and replaced the Dacia PickUp.

Dacia Duster

The Duster was initially introduced in the ice racing version prepared for the Andros Trophy,
presented for the first time on 17 November 2009. The Duster is offered with two-wheel or fourwheel-drive. The 4x4 variants make use of Nissan's all-wheel drive system,which allows the
driver to choose from three different driving modes