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Renault 's short price Romanian kind, Dacia, desire be unveiling its extremely foremost concept at the Geneva Motor Display this week. Called the Duster, the concept features a crossover-style corpse with some extremely absorbing styling elements like headlights that beaten path away across the face fenders and back part tail-lights that extend advance across a flying sustain of sheetmetal overhead the back part wheels. Praise to Renault designers in Romania and France for penning such an absorbing form. Contained within is an equally utilitarian inside with a tidy modular ruse: The face rider place slides underneath the driver's place on rails, creating sufficient space to transport a mountain bike interior the motor vehicle quite than on summit of it. Of path, there are those concept motor vehicle elements that possess to be included like ridiculously big 21-inch wheels, an all-glass roof and rear-hinged invest in doors, but the Duster's powertrain is anything but whimsical. The concept is powered near Renault 's 1.5L dCi four-cylinder diesel motor that produces 105 hp and 177 lb-ft of torque. Dacia says that's sufficient to thrust the Duster to 62 mph in 9.6 seconds while returning 44.4 mpg (U.S). Stop interruption outside the authorized subject to let go from Dacia after the leap, our high-res gallery of images lower down and hold an eyeball on our living coverage of the Geneva Motor Display near clicking here.

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DUSTER: THE CONCEPT CROSSOVER FROM DACIA UNVEILED AT GENEVA MOTORSHOW

• Dacia is breaking new earth and springs as yet another shock with the unveiling in Geneva
of Duster, a futuristic, image-building crossover that promotes the identical values for which the
kind has stood from the start.

• Duster is Dacia's foremost concept motor vehicle and the fruit of close collaboration between Renault Plan
Middle Europe in Bucharest, Romania, and Renault Plan Technocentre in Guyancourt,
France.

• Duster's athletic carriage adds an undeniable informal touch to the brand's authentication robustness.

• Interior, the employ of colour, bounteous hut spaciousness and an initial modular layout insure a
especially convivial ambience for occupants.

HEALTHY AND INFORMAL

Duster – Dacia's foremost concept crossover – is proud to be unlike. Seen from the driver's side, it is visibly a
sporting coupй, as yet passengers entering from the other side desire observe it as an MPV (Multi Object Conveyance with
a traditionally break face door and rear-hinged back part door which propose luxurious itinerant culture.

Duster's altitude of 1.49 metres, small face and back part overhangs (65cm and 80cm separately, bounteous
wheelbase (2.80m) and packed volumes (4.25m extensive, 1.64m spacious exude an dominant faculty of robustness
and sports entreat.

The face finish features a wide bumper with two level air-intake slits that propose power. The grille
features clear Dacia styling cues and is flanked near headlamps which wrap above the face wings to shape a
tapering mark of illumination that stretches rearward toward the doors.
Viewed from the side, the clear-cut lines of the disc arches and high doors strengthen the sensation that
Duster sits squarely on the way. The Anthracite Ashen bodywork and broad one-piece glazed brush –
made feasible near the non-attendance of a middle column – highlights the styling of the sides which are unmistakably
reminiscent of Duster's vivid sameness.
At the back part, the engraved Dacia logo more emphasizes the concept car's healthy, dependable credentials.

Like Logan, Duster is fair 4.25 metres extensive, and its intrinsic agility ensures that it is completely at dwelling-place in the
urban jungle. Interim, its 21-inch, five-spoke aluminium mixture wheels, outer mirrors positioned on the
window encompass and trapezoidal aluminium use up tailpipes are telltale signs of its sporting line of descent.

Particular anxiety has gone into Duster's aerodynamic effectiveness (Cd: 0.30) and the liquid lines of the corpse sides
qualify atmosphere to stream candidly along the vehicle's flanks previously being jettisoned because of the back part lights. The
aerodynamic, wing-like forms of the roof-mounted directing indicators also watercourse airflow toward the back part.
The total of all this labour has as a matter of course been advantageous to tinder consumption, and Duster stands away as a
especially environmentally-respectful crossover. In spite of its execution possible, the particulate sieve-
equipped 1.5 dCi 105hp motor (77kW) emits fair 139g of CO2/km, tantamount to tinder consumption of 5.3
litres/100km.

A CROSSOVER WITH DACIA HALLMARKS

This futuristic crossover showcases the brand's centre values – namely uncomplicatedness, robustness and authenticity –
in a surprising shape, as yet Dacia's authentication ingeniousness and generosity are at once evident in the route
designers possess approached Duster's hut.

The concept car's two-tone chocolate and depressed inside exudes a faculty of well-being and conviviality. The fully
glazed roof floods the hut with illumination, while the enveloping forms of the staggered slim-line face seats
supply foremost rank console and hold up. The driver's place is incorporated in a form which extends all the
route from the sill to the middle comfort, forming a sculptural, one-piece outfit that echoes the exterior's
informal entreat.

The user-friendly dashboard features liquid, indicative lines while employing unc
omplicated materials. The driver's
side face airbag is housed in the drop piece of the steeringwheel which has made it feasible to posture the
partition centrally and liberated up appreciable stowage spaciousness on the dashboard. The latter's receding lines also
supply write down kneeroom of 280mm for the face rider who benefits from an exceptionally at ease
accommodation posture. The bellows-like shape of the initial two-tone dashboard incorporates a 20-litre glovebox,
while the door inserts each incorporate eight-litre stowage bins. Another bin has been cleverly concealed in the
invest in of the back part right-hand place. A uncomplicated thrust causes a case to glide advance from the boot which itself is in
sum total keeping with the Dacia anima, with the erect tailgate providing a carrying volume of 470dm3 (VDA), a
extraordinary attainment for a conveyance of Duster's packed total dimensions .

Duster is an flexible, modular concept motor vehicle. The four-seat 'daily driver' layout can be fast converted into a
spare configuration in a material of seconds. The rider place slides underneath the driver's place on rails
concealed in the flooring to go away fair single face place and so liberated up a sum total carrying amount of two
cubic metres. Thanks to a alcove in the flooring and a strap located beneath the dashboard, this spaciousness can be
second-hand to transport a trials mountain bike.

Dimensions
Extent (mm) 4,250
Breadth (mm) 1,640
Altitude (mm) 1,495
Total breadth, doors ajar (mm) 4,285
Wheelbase (mm) 2,804
Face line (mm) 1,637
Back part line (mm) 1,640
Unladen heaviness (kg) 1,300
Boot amount (dm3 VDA) 470

Complex data
Motor class: dCi 105
Most power: hp (kW) 105 (77)
Most torque: (Nm) 240 at 2,000rpm
Acceleration from dead to 100kph: (s) 9.6
CO2 emissions:
Combined round tinder consumption – 139g/km, tantamount to 5.3 litres/100km
Transfer: Handbook six-speed gearbox
Tyres: 245/35 ZR21
Wheels: 21-inch diameter wheels

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