See the Dacia Bigster as a glamping tent with stove and down comforters

Car names can be seen that manufacturers no longer know what their merchandise stands for. Today’s design SUVs are called Mokka, Capri or Grandland, Kolder. The Chinese BYD mentions a Tesla competition seal, from seal. While there was once a connection between title and product, model and society. A Citroën with front -wheel drive was called Traction Avant, a small mini. The car name named you place in the world: Kadett for the common man, Admiral for the rich. Asian and American brands called Limousines Grandeur, Crown, Century of President, a Droom-Cadillac Eldorado. Little is left of that feudal romance. Western elite manufacturers opted for cool numbers or letter codes: BMW 5 series, Mercedes S-Class. And the lesser gods started to do fun. The newest little BYD calls itself dolphin.

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Dacia reverses what you see and what you get. The bigster, coolest Dacia ever, only needs to be big for little money. After all, a budget brand is about that. The top model with 155 hp Hybrid powertrain costs 39,200 euros. For that you buy what costs 20,000 euros more from French competitors and from the Germans, and it is there from 31,000 euros. He is not as huge as he seems. With a length of 4.57 meters and one by a SUV modest width of 1.81, relaxed in parking garages that you will avoid with two-meter wide fashion SUVs, it remains neat middle class. In this way he disprove the stigmas of his genre. Dacia did not make him too fat and with his just under 1,400 kilos not too heavy, so that he almost became as economical as the smaller hatchback that you had cost the same or more at Opel or VW – 1 in 20 is feasible. Dacia has done everything to make him a must-have. Despite the scaling, the style worked out well. The nose with the interrupted horizontal stripe is reminiscent of the gigantic electric hummers in the US, but the clumsiness of the thick fender protectors makes him an endearing macho. So sweet how that Romanian community center is so high on the legs so accessible. He is a tree house on wheels, powerful children’s adventure.

Inside, Dacia is taking steps forward by turning the clock back. The premium approach of experience drorism is running the throat to make it beautiful enough again. The materials are solid but simple. The fabric upholstery is black, the plastic of the dashboard and the door panels neat poverty. The unadornness is liberating. In many cars you feel your clochard in a palace. Here you are immediately at home and with the breakdown that comes over poor sloebers, he immediately smells familiar with you. Nice, I think of the cup holders in the middle tunnel, what a nice narrow edge, my Minibeker Pompstationespresso lingers without a risk of falling. Stupid. The cup drops right through it and then I have my first test car with swimming pool. He smells like Senseo, a passenger said. No, I said, he smells like my fate.

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The Bigster is a real hybrid, which even rides completely electrically at low speeds.

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The Bigster is a real hybrid, which even rides completely electrically at low speeds.

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The designer had the fork -shaped ends of the headlights return to the unit with the armrest and the handle.

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The designer had the fork -shaped ends of the headlights return to the unit with the armrest and the handle.

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We were even used to digital displays from Dacia, but the screens were not like that before.

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We were even used to digital displays from Dacia, but the screens were not like that before.

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Frivole covering accents for the top model, otherwise the seats are mainly black and simple.

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Frivole covering accents for the top model, otherwise the seats are mainly black and simple.

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Photos Merlin Doomernik

Fake jewels on a cart horse

No matter how well he sits and drives, the Bigster is not perfect. I repeatedly saw the windowsill-like slope under the rear side window in front of a car that comes back, so I was shocked when catching up. The four -cylinder engine hums loudly according to the standards of today, although the sound color harmonizes with the raw bolster of the old -fashioned load animal that he is up to 1,900 liters with his unprecedented charging volume. You hope that they escalate within the warranty period from the noises under the floor. With the top model, the luxury and grace and a psychologically uncomfortable style break with its fundamental sobriety. The gadgets in the Bigster hang like fake jewels on a carpaard. With gentrification symptoms such as an infotainment display you had learned to live at Dacia, but an electrically operated tailgate, an electric panoramic roof, steering and seat heating, a sound system and partly electrically adjustable seats go very far. The audio synthesizert a welcome sound and the multimedia system gets online updates, the colors nowadays are called decent rouge terracotta or vert cėdre, not normally anymore. The Bigster is bursting at the joints of his humble caste. Fortunately, he has not become wrong chic. See him as a glamping tent with stove and down comforters, a campaign to paradise. This is a car that can smell like wet dog. I would order it directly after signing the purchase contract.

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