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Issue: Feb 2005


Europe Report



Renault’s Romanian Route

by Anthony Lewis

Renault’s Dacia plant gears up to build a quality, $5,000 car for Eastern Europe.

Louis Schweitzer, outgoing chairman of French carmaker Renault, has always been slightly nervous about the constantly escalating costs of ordinary family cars. Adding more and more features just pushed up costs with no real benefit for buyer or carmaker, he argued. One of his lasting legacies, apart from the successful alliance with Nissan, will be the Logan, the so-called €5,000 ($5,000) car now in production by Dacia, in Romania, which Renault bought in 1999.







 
Logan is built on the Renault-Nissan B platform found under the Nissan Micra. It will also be used for the next Renault Cli...

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