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They say that a crisis arises an opportunity. Beyond the optimistic messages that the Marketing team of Mr. Wonderful would sign, it is true that we are all good to stop for a moment and know what we are doing with our life and what direction we want to take in the future. Dacia is at that point. Threatened in the low range By cars of a thousand screens, higher ranges materials and a quality perception above what has been expected, the company has been trying to try reposition your product. This Dacia Bigster is probably his most ambitious proposal in recent years. Here we have tried it in hybrid format. DACIA BIGSTER TECHNICAL SHEET Dacia Bigster Hybrid 155 Body type. C-SUV of five seats. Measures and weight. 4.57 meters long, 1.81 meters wide and 1.71 meters high. 2.70 meters of wheelbase. 1,549 kg of weight. TRUNK. 667 liters. Maximum power. 155 hp. WLTP consumption. 4.6-4.7 l /100km Environmental Distinctive. ECHO Driving aids (ADAS). Emergency automatic braking, intelligent speed limits information, parking assistance, fatigue surveillance in the driver, helps the lane and maintenance parking and maintenance alert in it. OTHERS. Own software compatible with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, through Bluetoooh. Two USB C ports for front and rear seats. Wireless load for mobile phone. Electric hybrid. Yes. With four -cylinder and 107 hp combustion engine that is combined with a 49 hp electric motor. Plug -in hybrid. No. electric No price and launch Already available. From 29,290 euros. How to get out of an existential crisis Good for Union Europe regulations Or because of the arrival of Chinese manufacturers who are putting cars at very affordable prices, Dacia has been launching the message that they cannot remain in the niche market in which they so far lived. Your cars They are not the cheapest. And, they assure, They cannot be. To convince it only remains to be the leaders for the price to be the leaders in the quality/price ratio. That is, try to give more than anyone for the minimum possible price. The big problem is that Chinese manufacturers seem to have understood that this must also be their message. Who goes to an Omoda or Jaecoo dealership will meet medium -sized SUV with interiors that surprise their padded, for their huge screens and adjustments that, first, give good impression. In general, the perceived quality is very good For the price they have. None of this you will find in a Dacia car. But you will find many other things that are more important than a thousand screens. A better dynamic and, above all, an engine (in this hybrid case) that yields especially well and that predisposes us to think that we can save a lot of money in the long term. A hybrid that fights artifice games Because, indeed, when you feel at Dacia Bigster you check that you don’t have the Little luxuries They are offering Chinese manufacturers. The central console, the dashboard, the doors … everything is covered with hard plastics that, yes, are well adjusted. The proposal is clear. Dacia tries to offer cheaper materials but that should endure the passage of time. And, sometimes, a hard resistant plastic is better than better apparent quality materials that can suffer worse the passage of time. Of course, if we talk about Chinese brands we cannot advance this or for good or for worse because, simply, they do not have been between us so much time. Here, time will opt for the balance. To improve that quality perception, Dacia does raise the level with a steering wheel that feels firm and slightly padded. In addition, he flees from any game that can give him problems and opt for physical buttons that simply seem to me a more accurate decision than any type of touch panel, carry this or not haptic response. The two screens game is compliant. The instrument picture reads very well and offer three configurable spaces. The information is well distributed, read to the first view and there are numerous interchangeable data in the extreme right to have everything under control. The central screen is 10.1 inches. A correct size. It is not big but either is small to navigate the menus. The disposition is what we would see in a Renault, built on Android Automotive So it is fast and easy to find any option sought. The browsing drinks, therefore, from Google Maps. A browser that takes time to refresh the information more than it should. Sometimes you can doubt and whether we are taking the right out of the roundabout if we are a little clueless. It seems curious to me, however, because navigation between the menus of the infotainment system is agile and has not given us any problem by changing between functions. The rear camera has a quality … well, very improvable Of course, the rear camera screen has very low resolution and help little when maneuvering. It is no accident. From Dacia herself they already launched the message that this and the rest of ADAS AID TO DRIVING That they must mount by obligation of the European Union is exactly because they are an obligation. In motion, the Adaptive Cruise Control I sin sometimes braking applying too much force. On the contrary, acceleration is softer and does not present those problems. The maintenance in the lane works, in general, well. If you are looking for the tickles, it can have a problem (a curve at a relatively high speed on a secondary road) but it is not where it is assumed that this function will be used. We arrive, now, at the best of the car. It seems dynamically that it is slightly below a Dacia Duster and that the excess of size and weight penalizes you a bit when maintaining a path. The address feels a bit soft and I think it would be better to be a bit more direct. Problems that are more evident on … Read more