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CAROLINE GETS MOTORING Bunclody native Caroline Kidd brings us reviews of the latest new cars to arrive in Ireland. Caroline is the founder and editor of the online automotive magazine Changing Lanes and a jury member for Irish Car of the Year. Find out more about her editorial and commercial copywriting services at
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DACIA JOG GER The new Dacia Jogger is the Dacia brand’s first ever seven seat family car and joins the Sandero supermini and the Duster compact SUV in the Dacia range. It's just gone on sale in Ireland, priced from €24,190, making it Ireland's most affordable 7-seater. Dacia has gone for a strong outdoors look for the new Jogger. In profile it resembles an estate car but with a slightly elevated ride height and rugged styling features like roof rails, plastic cladding around the wheel arches, and a skid plate at the front and rear. It's a practical and fashionable look for the new Jogger. Entry models get just steel wheels,
though mid-range Comfort models come with more attractive wheel covers. But if you’re willing to spend a bit more on your Dacia Jogger, the top of the range Extreme SE is the best looker with black 16” alloy wheels, black door mirror caps, and unique Extreme SE badging and trim.
Manual air conditioning and cruise control come as standard. The mid-range Comfort model adds a more desirable 8inch touchscreen with two USB ports and Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. There’s also automatic air conditioning, reversing camera and keyless entry. The Extreme SE adds heated front seats and even wireless smartphone mirroring.
Inside the new Jogger has a latest generation Dacia interior, which is good news. It looks modern and the controls are all easy to interact with. There are still plenty of hard plastics, but the Extreme SE has some more stylish fabric trim along the dashboard and arm rests in the front doors.
Keeping the cost down means that the Jogger does without some of the more advanced driver assistance features for example lane keeping assist. The Jogger got just a 1-star rating in Euro NCAP safety tests out of a maximum of 5 stars. It was also scored down for missing seat-
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