A compact SUV manufactured by Skoda had the highest pass rate of any vehicle submitted for a NCT test last year.

French carmaker Renault posted record vehicle sales around the world for the first half as a sustained product offensive lifted deliveries by 10.4% — with a well-timed China SUV launch and a renewed push into Iran both contributing.

The Dacia Sandero has been famed as a robust, budget hatchback. Now there’s a new one. Andrew Evans tests it out.

I NOTICED with grim amusement recently a typographical error (or perhaps simply a Freudian slip) in a motoring publication which highlighted the Dacia Sandero ‘Stepaway.’

YOU can say what you like about the Dacia Duster — and believe me many have — but in my view this machine represents a new era for the motor industry and new thinking too, offering as it does an extremely cost effective package for families alike, admittedly with few frills, at a time when just such a thing is truly needed by the buying public.