The Dacia Jogger offers the best reason yet for families on a budget to flock to the Romanian manufacturer's showrooms. Read our UK review here
The Jogger’s interior is typically simple but not sparse- or particularly cheap-looking. Our mid-spec test car had some welcome cloth textile trim decoration on the fascia that matched the seat upholstery nicely and broke up the expanse of grey plastic well. While its dashboard mouldings were hard to the touch, they weren’t plain, shiny or objectionable at all.
Interior space is surprisingly good for a car that’s a couple of inches shorter at the kerb than the average seven-seater MPV: it’s just about adult-appropriate in the second row provided you’re not over six feet tall, and fit even for older kids in row three thanks to reasonable leg and head room . That it delivers its torque in a bit of an unseemly surge makes the car feel rough-hewn at times; and it doesn’t like revving much beyond 5000rpm. But it works through a light, pleasant manual gearshift, and it provides more than adequate real-world performance and drivability for what might seem, on the face of it, like a big car for such a small engine.
The car’s outright grip level, on its 16in wheels, is only modest, but it’s assured enough at everyday speeds, and it allows the car’s body control to stay fairly neat and tidy when cornering. Complex surfaces can bring a little bit of fiddling clunkiness out of the suspension, particularly over sharper inputs - but bigger, longer-wave lumps and bumps are dealt with quite well, and at no point does the car’s ride feel limp or ill-controlled.
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