Dacia Duster Prices

jimbobmalones

New 2024 Dacia Duster prices are in

for Europe

Base model is €17490 in slovakia

https://www.dacia.sk/model-comparator.html?leftModelAdminId=spring-electric-bbg24&rangeId=global-range&rightModelAdminId=duster-p1310-ph1

Should be good fun seeing Irish prices when they land - Guessing 27k for base model

So much for the EU/common market

JVince

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058353327/dacia-duster-prices

And?????

Different country, different tax system.

Gusser09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122187437#Comment_122187437

Common market is the key word he used. And he is correct. When it comes to cars we are rode sideways.

JVince

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122187447#Comment_122187447

Other countries have vehicle registration tax - Denmark in particular.

Duty is different in all countries too on many products.

Same in the "united" states. Different tax rates depending on the state.

Padre_Pio

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122187437#Comment_122187437

A joke of a tax system

jimbobmalones

Key point is simple - we pay almost 50% more than our brothers and sisters in Europe

for a basic necessity (for most people). Germany is marginally higher (18450 for Duster basic) and that is a seriously wealthy

country. A second point is that many Irish people are fine with this due to inertia / national characteristics

hence it continues…

Miscreant

Wasn't this similar with the Jogger when it was launched? 17k in other parts of the EU but 25k and above here?

I believe part of the reason is because we like a higher spec on our cars so the VRT element will be higher as a result.

Still can't escape the "Treasure Ireland" effect though and feeling like we are taken advantage of.

As the old adage goes.... the price is what the market will bear. We seem to bear a lot in this country.

Eggs For Dinner

It's a lucrative revenue stream which helps pay our national bills. Value for money on how revenue is spent is another matter

Gusser09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122188287#Comment_122188287

That's incorrect. We only ever get basic models over here in comparison to our EU or even UK counterparts. Their basic model is more like our premium model.

Its a joke. We are double taxed on everything.

BrianD3

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122188404#Comment_122188404

That's not really true. While we often didn't get top spec versions of cars or they were special order only, we also didn't get "UN Spec" versions. The Dacia Sandero Access (unpainted bumpers) has never been sold here, it has in the UK and rest of Europe where there is a critical mass of frugal people and old giffers who don't care about spec.

Gusser09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122188794#Comment_122188794

So we different specs of vehicles are held back from out market. It's the same thing really.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122188820#Comment_122188820

it’s not though. There is obviously not enough demand for the basic package here.

Gusser09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122188840#Comment_122188840

Well supply should meet demand.

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122188879#Comment_122188879

but there is not enough demand!

goochy

it will be priced at what importer thinks market can take , i see cars tested in uk mags and see sometimes irish price is euro equavalent of it

jimbobmalones

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122189336#Comment_122189336

Good point - i think the market is slowing as inflation has taken its toll on Irish peoples incomes. Dacia are currently

offering zero per cent finance for the first time ever here and I think that's an indication that they are struggling for sales.

To put it in perspective - the Duster 1 started at 16k for a diesel not that long ago.

Hopefully it may be priced reasonably here. Still compared to other brands they still offer a lot for the money. Basic octavias are now 32k ish

Gusser09

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122189398#Comment_122189398

I think for me to deviate to a Dacia it would have to be serious, serious savings. Although other base models of Octavia, Corolla etc are bigger money I'd have more trust in them.

reubenreuben

Not knocking people who would buy a dacia, but I recently hired a 2023 dacia stepway for a week. It was like going back in time with it's lever for internal/external air control etc. And fairly shoddy build quality.

You gets what you pay for but in Ireland that doesn't apply when comparing 17/18k in other countries to 27k for same car in ireland

cml387

I'd rather a lever for air control (and other real buttons) than have to hunt through a set of menus on a touchscreen.

goochy

They ate the lada of the 21st century

antodeco

Its funny the divide of people who hate Dacia or those who just "get them". Those who do "get them" know exactly what they are. Cheap reliable cars. For most people that is all they need. An A-B car. I have a Dacia as my daily driver and it has never let me down and does the job exactly as I need it. When I want to have a more enjoyable drive I just use one of the other cars I have

Wanderer78

…with the average industrial wage at over half of what it is here in slovakia, maybe this is really why we pay more!

Luna84

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122190346#Comment_122190346

I have driven a Sandero and thought it was the same as any other car I drove. One thing though is it was down on power with it's 90bhp. Could do with a 130-150bhp model.

Mad_Lad

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122190608#Comment_122190608

Absolutely, 100% !!!

I handed my Volkswagen id3 electric car back to the finance company under the half rule, couldn't wait to get rid of it. The software was irritating as hell, the ergonomics absolute sh1t.

I often lost climate, radio, climate and even speedometer because of a system crash, stopping the car getting out and locking it worked sometimes but other times not and I'd have to drive around with not even speedo and I recorded it happening once.

These systems should be banned, but now we're seen screens in cars larger than TVs in homes 30 years ago and no one has the common sense to put a stop to it. How have people become so addicted to screens that they can't sit in a car for a while without having screens in their faces too ? even the digital instrument clusters are massive now with endless menus and customisation.

I wonder how many fatalities are as a result of the ever increasing amounts of in car tech, cars are not meant to be entertainment centres.

Now I drive a Kia Cee'd 1.0L 120 Hp petrol and love it, it's much more fun just for the fact alone it weighs around 1300 Kg vs the id3's 2000 Kg !!!

I quite like having a manual petrol after 9 years of driving EV, after the novelty wears off they are just high tech appliances + I got fed up with public charging, just can't beat filling up in 3 mins for 800+ kms !

Now I have manual climate control and it's the best thing ever, so simple to use while on the move.

Nice analogue instrument cluster.

Proper handbrake

Halogen lights no matrix headlights that will cost around 2 K each to replace if they fail then have to be coded to the car, for the Cee'd I can get a headlight out of a breakers yard pop it in and job done.

All this tech in cars and the high cost is just bonkers. I am happy to have a much more simple car and I really like it.

+ I couldn't trade the car no matter what dealer I went to so this is the reason for giving it back to the finance.

Rows Grower

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122187437#Comment_122187437

I think the point being made (on the motors forum of one of the biggest Irish chat forums) was the extra cost the same motor is going to cost Irish people compared to other motorists that live in other member states of the EU.

It's a very valid point.

kippy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122190913#Comment_122190913

It is true. But it's also easily explained. Want cheaper cars? Move to the continent. Want cheaper XYX just move elsewhere.

We are a small island country on the edge of Europe that drives on the opposite side of the road as the vast majority of the continent.we have a different tax system etc etc. Lots of things are gonna cost more here than on mainland Europe unfortunately.

The other points raised on this thread are very valid in the context of rising road deaths in this country and the perceived lack of reliability/simplicity in newer and more expensive cars. There are many many more distractions in more expensive cars and a lot more to go wrong with the systems in them. Maybe cheaper more straightforward cars are the way forward.

Luna84

Just to add about screens. I remember one day I was walking down a street in Galway city and a woman drove by me in a Tesla Model 3 and she was driving by with her face on the screen pressing screen buttons. She didn't crash or anything but as was said it is a distraction for her.

User1998

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122190940#Comment_122190940

It has nothing to do with us being an island or being RHD. The reason cars are more expensive here is because of our punitive VRT system. Look how much cheaper cars are in the UK and it will prove my point.

BrianD3

Even with not selling the proper UN Spec versions, Dacias are by a big margin the cheapest cars on sale here - yet the Sandero languishes in 17th place in sales tables with the Jogger nowhere in 60th. Is Dacia restricting supply or do people just not want good value cars? I'd say it's the latter.

Financial illiteracy, ignorance and snobbery are endemic in ireland and in the case of cars, PCP encourages consumerism and stupid purchases. The more you pay for something and the bigger the touchscreen it has, the better it must be, right? So a 40k "jeep" from a "good" brand has to be better than a 26k Dacia Jogger - LOL.

Luna84

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122191021#Comment_122191021

Like that meme on the internet. One guy has a old cheap car but 40k of savings while the other guy has a fancy car and no savings who is better off. By just looking at the two of them with their cars you'd say the guy with the fancy car but that is not the full story.

jimbobmalones

Agree with most of the points on here - I actively look for a simpler car now and don't want

a glorified smartphone for a car. I laugh at the safety guff from the authorities who insist

on driver aids etc while ignoring the elephant in the room - screens!