opennews5646

  I boast about the Duster all the time. Friends are getting bored with this; I can see it in their eyes. But every time the dark blue Romanian diesel 4x4 and I take a trip together, the essential refinement surprises me again, and these impressions are made pretty trustworthy by my contact with some of the Duster’s higher-born rivals. The other thing that gets me is how amazingly close this mid-range Comfort model gets to an ideal specification, showing the truth of Dacia’s beguiling mantra: everything you want and nothing you don’t. It’s a pleasure consulting the configurator, getting to ‘Interior’, and seeing again that the choice is black fabric or black fabric. You can almost feel money dropping off the purchase price. The cabin looks good  and works fine, including in weather when comfort-lovers who drive leather-lined ritzmobiles must pay (including in weight) for integrated seat heaters. We’re up to 7500 miles now and I’ve given up counting the number of times I’ve gra...