► Dacia’s first hybrid car
► Bargain pricing
► Lots of kit
The new Dacia Jogger Hybrid 140 that goes on sale later in 2023 will be the firm’s first hybrid model. It keeps the seven-seater layout and, priced from £22,595, remains great value. So if you’ve been looking for a frugal yet affordable people carrier, time to form an orderly cue – regardless of what Euro NCAP has to say about it.
Is the Dacia Jogger Hybrid a plug-in or self-charging model?
It’s just a conventional hybrid – self-charging, as they’re styled these days – so there’s no hefty, expensive battery pack to cart around or push up prices. But being a variant of the Renault e-Tech hybrid system, it does come with two electric motors.
Admittedly, only one of these is a proper drive motor, boasting 49bhp; the other is a starter-generator, maximising the efficiency of the stop-start system and promising smooth, silent progress away from standstill.
How’s the performance?
The drive motor is paired with a naturally aspirated 1.6-litre petrol that produces just 89bhp on its own. Add the petrol to the electric, however, and you get a much more palatable 138bhp – enough oomph for 0-62mph in 10.1sec, Dacia says.
With a four-speed ‘multi-mode’ automatic transmission, the Jogger Hybrid is also said to be good for 56.6mpg WLTP, with CO2 emissions of 112g/km. Perhaps more significantly day-to-day, the system recovers energy so effectively into the 1.2kWh battery that up to 80 per cent of urban journeys will be covered under electric power alone.
Does the new Jogger Hybrid come in different versions?
There are two trim levels: Expression and Extreme SE.
Both come with an exclusive 7.0-inch instrument cluster, while Expression also includes front and rear parking sensors, reversing camera, blind spot monitors, keyless entry, heated mirrors, air-conditioning and 8.0-inch infotainment system with DAB, Apple CarPlay and Android Auto.
Upgrading to Extreme SE adds 16-inch alloy wheels (in black), sat-nav, heated front seats, sliding tray tables, and six speakers. At £23,395, this costs just £800 more than the Expression, making it a bit of a no-brainer, we reckon.
The only option is metallic paint – which includes a new Shadow Grey that’s exclusive to the hybrid.
You can order the new Dacia Jogger Hybrid 140 now, with first UK deliveries expected in the second quarter of 2023.