Dacia will introduce no other novelties in its model range until the end of 2009, except for the SUV (sport utility vehicle) to be launched next year, the company’s CEO Francois Fourmont said on July 1.
Fourmont denied thus information that the plant might start producing a bigger sedan car than the current Logan Sedan.
There will certainly also be new component suppliers for Dacia SUV, but they have not yet opened plants in Romania, Fourmont said at the launch of the facelift Logan model on Tuesday.
The Dacia suppliers opened 12 new plants in Romania for the Sandero model.
The series model Dacia SUV is to be launched most probably in late 2009 and it is to be the 6th model from the Logan series, after Logan Sedan, Logan MCV, Logan Van, Logan Pick-Up and Sandero.
The technical platform where the Logan models are developed is very flexible and offers many opportunities for expansion, allowing the production here of most of the car classes demanded by the market. Dacia car manufacturer expects steady sales on the domestic market for the next years and estimates an annual volume of 100,000-110,000 units, after it sold 103,000 cars in 2007, said on July 1 the general manager of the company Francois Fourmont at the launching of restyled Logan version.
He said that the Mioveni-based factory will construct 350,000 – 400,000 cars annually, two thirds of production to be exported.
He said that sales on foreign markets depend on the factory’ s production capacity, while the sales on the internal market will be influenced by the customers’ reaction to the new regulations and taxes for the import cars.
Fourmont said that Dacia’s local sales would not be influenced by the pollution tax for the next period, a tax replacing the old registration tax. The car manufacturer maintained the prices unchanged at the new restyled Logan (facelift), even though the model has several technical and aesthetic improvements.
He explained that the increase in productiveness, the competitiveness of the Logan model and the contracts with the car part manufacturers allowed Dacia to maintain prices, although Renault announced an 1.5% increase in prices for its models and Arcelor Mittal, one of the four steel manufacturers (with a 15 pc share) announced price increases up to 60%.
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