The Austrian Fiskales LKW company proposed a special tuning kit for Dacia Duster: a van version of the Romanian SUV, which offers a load volume of 1.636 liters and a maximum load of 425 kg. The van version of Duster will be powered by an 1.6 liter engine and will have an starting price of 12.508 euros in Austria.

The Austrian of Fiskales promise to produce the conversion van kit for the Duster version with 1.5 dCi engine with 110 HP. The conversion price of this package has not yet been announced. This is the first van conversion that the Duster has received, other changes announced so far were for suspensions, engines and external appearance.

In Romania, the entry-level version of Dacia Duster has a starting price of 10.941 euros all taxes included. The cheapest four-wheel drive version of Dacia Duster starts at 12.817 euros with VAT included, while the top end starts at 16.255 euros in the Laureate version with an 1.5 dCi engine and 110 HP. Dacia has its own van version of Duster, but it is offered in some markets and it is not available for the four-wheel drive versions.

Dacia Hamster Hybrid is a study of the Research Center of Automobile Engineering University from the University of Pitesti , as part of an environmental program for the developing of a car with only 99 g/km CO2 emissions.

Dacia Hamster is a 4×4 model based on Dacia Sandero platform with a hybrid diesel-electric propulsion (EcoMatic Hybrid System).

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The Renault version of Duster will be produced at the Envigado factory in Colombia, where Renault invested 20 million euros for training and adaptation of the assembly line of an SUV. On the Colombian factory will be produced 20.000 Duster units which will be sold in Colombia and other countries in the area like Mexico.

At the moment Renault sells in Colombia models like Clio, Megane, Scenic, Grand Scenic, Kangoo and Koleos and Logan, Sandero and Sandero Stepway from Dacia.

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The new model, which measures 4.31 meters long and 1.82 meters wide, will be available in 4X2 and 4X4 versions with a gasoline engine of 1.6 liters and 110 horsepower, and two diesel engines of 1.5 liters and 85 horsepower respectively 1.5 liters and 105 horsepower.

Duster has a global ambition and the launch will take place gradually in different regions of the world, after the Logan and Sandero launched plan.

Dacia Duster will be launched in the spring of 201dacia Jordan, dacia Siria, Dacia Lebanon0 in Europe, in Turkey and in Algeria and Morocco. From June 2010, Duster will be launched under the Renault brand in Ukraine, the Middle East (Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon), Egypt and some African countries. The Mioveni factory will produce vehicles for all these markets, both under the Dacia brand, and under the Renault brand. The factory with a current production capacity of 350.000 vehicles per year, will continue to produce other models of the mark.

The Duster expansion will continue in 2011. In the countries of the Persian Gulf will be available under the Renault brand from 2011. Dacia Duster will be produced in Brazil, in the Curitiba factory, along with Sandero, Logan and Stepway models. Vehicles manufactured here will be sold in Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Chile.
Renault is also studying to return in the U.S. market after 23 year absence.

"We analyse the re-launching opportunities in the U.S., and the model that might influence this decision is the new SUV from Dacia" said Gerard Detourbet, charge entry-level division at Renault.

The first pictures offered for the public present an extreme version of the Romanian model, ready for competition. The competition version of Dacia Duster, anticipates the release of the series model, which will launched in the spring at the Geneva Motor Show.

The Dacia Duster presented in Paris will participate in the famous competition Trophee Andros known for the difficulty of the routs performed on mountain roads covered with snow. The surprise prepared by Dacia is that the famous french driver Alain Prost will drive the Duster in the Trophee Andros. The version driven by Prost will be equipped with an V6 engine capable to develop over 300 horsepower.

The Duster presented in Paris was prepared by Renault Sport Technologies.  The series version of Dacia Duster will have a tubular chassis which houses a three liter engine with  24 valve from the Renault-Nissan range.

Kanjara is an Indian name with Sanskrit origin meaning as the word "mild".

Besides the future Dacia SUV name, Automobile Magazine announces that the new Romanian SUV will have a version with seven seats, like Quashquai/Quashquai +2. According to information provided by Automobile Magazine, the long version of the SUV will have a length of 20 centimeters than the classical model, and the price of the final model – around 18.000 euros – will be half of the next SUV that can host the same number of passengers.

The new SUV from Dacia is presented today in three photos published today by the daciaclub.ro members forum. The three photos are most likely in one of the Dacia workshops in Mioveni.

According to the existing information so far, the Dacia SUV will be based on the production platform of the Nissan Qasqai. The first Romanian SUV will borrow from Nissan the know-how in terms of integral traction systems.

The official name of the SUV is not known, but the names speculated at this time are Steppe and Duster. However, it is possible that the official presentation of the new Dacia SUV, which will take place in Frankfurt in September, will reserve a surprise.