Dacia Jogger camper
This successor of Dacia Lodgy seems to be boasting everything you need from a good car for camping – SUV features to take it off-road, MPV size with 7-seats + a long and spacious boot at a very affordable price. Could this be the next best everyday camping car?
Apparently, it will be the cheapest 7-seater MPV on the market at around €15,000 (just under £13,000) new. And if that’s not enough, it’s getting great reviews overall. The biggest downside seems to be the cheap plastic feel on the inside.
Users submitted boot length on camping forums is 200cm with the front seat pushed forward, so the standard boot length is around 180cm. Makes sense as the overall car length is about 30cm shorter compared to a Sharan (with a 208cm boot length). One disadvantage seems to be that the last row of seats sticks out quite high even if the seats are folded – but you can easily take them out, see here.
There’s already an Egoe Nest camping box specifically for the Dacia Jogger if you’re interested!
Key information
| Make | |
|---|---|
| Body type | |
| Boot length (cm) | 180 |
| Available in | |
| Engine type | |
| Average used price, GBP (2015) | 13000 |
Interesting features:
- modular roof bars/rails that convert from roof bars to luggage rack/cross bars. No need to purchase any third party ones – just unclip the existing ones, turn them around and clip them across the car. Nice!
- 7 seats
- lowest price MPV at €15,000 (just under £13,000) new
- confirmed to fit Egoe Nest Camper camping box (therefore will likely fit others too) – but you need to take the last row of seats out
- Boot length is based on user feedback, not official data
Euro NCAP rating: 1/5 – very low, mainly due to lack of most recent technologies like seat belt warning for the last row of seats or pedestrian recognition sensors + auto brake.
Standard reviews (not focused on camping):
Whatcar.co.uk rating 4/5 • Autoexpress.co.uk rating: 5/5 • Carbuyer.co.uk rating: 4.2/5
Average rating: 4.4/5 (very good!)
Official Dacia Jogger Camper in the works…
There isn’t much information available but the head of Dacia’s product development Lionel Jaillet told AutoExpress.co.uk that they are looking into options of creating a Jogger Camper.
It’s yet unclear whether it will be a stand-alone camper version or just an extension you can add to any Jogger. We’ll watch this space!
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