Captured here on film in Romania, were several examples of Dacia's new entry in the compact minivan sector, affording us a better view of the car.
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But let's rewind. What you're about to watch is two stuntmen trying an ambitious jump in what appears to be a Dacia of the 1300 series. According to the person that took the video, the time is 1995 and the place is the Romanian city of Alba Iulia.
For whatever reasons, the jump didn't go as planned and as a result, the Dacia flew into the air only to drop down like a brick well before reaching the ramp on the other side. Amazingly, at the end of the clip we can see the driver and the front passenger walking out of the car alive!
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This here commercial for Dacia's low-cost Duster SUV is the work of Dutch advertising company Artcore. We should warn you that the ad is a 1 minute and 46 second parade of almost continuous swearing. While we can appreciate some over-the-top creations, we just can’t see this ever airing, at least not during daytime hours. But even if the commercial somehow made it on your TV set, we doubt that this is what Dacia wants to promote.
The commercial has been labeled as “banned” by various internet sources, but it seems to have been produced to showcase a radical idea, rather than to be purpose driven advertisement. The foul-mouthed clip is available right after the break.
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However, the brand's models aren't exactly exciting, even more so when it comes to sheer performance with their mundane, small displacement petrol and diesel engines. But as always, for every problem there's a fix. This man's answer was to ditch the Logan sedan's four-cylinder and throw in a 2.8-liter VR6 Volkswagen engine.
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Here's a short clip from Dacia's Romanian factory (unless we're mistaken and it's from one of Renault's other plants that also produce Dacia models), showing a worker on the production line trying to fix a problem with the passenger-side doors on what looks to be a Sandero hatchback.
The poor guy tries everything; from repeatedly tapping the locks with a hammer and slamming the doors in numerous ways to even trying to pull the door down, but nothing seems to be working as the doors simply refuse to close properly. Watch the video after the break.
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We were hoping to see some driving footage of the new Dacia Duster 4x4 in the first official video of the vehicle, but instead the Renault-Nissan Alliance bored us to death treated us with two-never-ending-minutes of static shots of the SUV's exterior... As a reminder, the Romanian brand's budget 4x4 will go on sale in Europe from spring 2010, followed shortly after by other international markets including, but not limited to, the Middle East, Russia, Brazil and the Gulf States. You can read more about the Duster 4x4 in our previous post here.
For those that just can't wait until early December to see ex-F1 champion, Alain Prost, getting behind the wheel of the competition version of Dacia's forthcoming Duster crossover for the Trophée Andros racing series, here's a video with some action-packed footage from the test runs. We remind you that the competition Duster 4x4 gets a mid-mounted, 3.0-liter V6 engine that pumps out 350 horsepower. Click through to watch the videos.