- Compact four -seat SUV could be cheaper than the spring of Dacia
- The design study loses comforts to keep costs low
- Inspiration taken from nothing and adolescent engineering
By mediating only three meters long, 1.53 meters high and 1.55 meters wide, the concept of hipster Dacia seemed slightly comic when he filmed silently in a hangar on the outskirts of Paris, with a driver behind the steering wheel and the design director of Dacia, David Durand, greeting from the rear passenger seat.
It is unfathomably small, but with the four 14 -inch wheels pushed to each corner to maximize the space, it can settle comfortably in four or transport a washing machine on the back when the most rear seats are folded flat.
As the projects go, this is probably the biggest thing that Dacia has done in a long time.
To recapitulate, the company has been in an ascending trajectory in the last ten years, which demonstrates a quick success with customers thanks to its excellent proposal for value and motor racing without luxuries.
Dacias has always represented a good value, but they have gone beyond the cut -off price characteristics and now pack their own personality.
Proudly part of the Renault group, the company can take the existing technology (often of previous generation cars) and apply it quickly and economically to its own models.
But in recent years, he has increased his style, nailed his brand and consolidated his reputation as a road travel facilitator to ‘go anywhere’ that he has been pinching to customers of almost all automotive segments, age groups and social status.
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When the EV of spring arrived, it quickly became the cheapest electric vehicle that money could buy and remains one of the most affordable ways to enjoy motoring without emissions. But not happy with that, Dacia has the mission of further reducing costs.
By eliminating 70 cm from the total length of spring, the company has been able to make considerable materials in the hipster concept, but there are hundreds of other details that help further reduce the cost.
The design director, David Durand, points to the fabric handles that open the doors, the sliding glass windows (the fact that they do not fall on the door card allow additional space for the elbows) and the front and rear lighting exposed that eliminates with superfluous housings.
“It simply adds additional material and weight, so we leave the raw lights,” Durand explains, agreeing that there is more than a touch of adolescent engineering and nothing on the exposed screws and cube surfaces.
Inside, the seats abandon the usual cushioning and covers for a light frame that is covered with a surprisingly comfortable mesh fabric. “Like those office chairs,” says Durand.
There is a small digital screen in front of the steering wheel for speed readings and other key metrics, but it depends on the driver to bring their own device.
There is a cradle and cargo ports for a smartphone and Dacia offers an application that links the vehicle to transform this phone into a traditional information and entertainment board, complete with shortcuts for Spotify, Google and all other important applications.
Hip to be square
Dacia designers have also been put in the next generation of the brand -printed accessories system of the brand, which sees things like lights, holders and storage solutions perfectly linked to several points throughout the car.
In the hipster concept, several of these points have a power feed, which means that users can erase the cradle loading devices, but they also feed a fan to cool or heat, and a Bluetooth speaker to fly the songs.
“We even ask if we need air conditioning in a car like this,” Durand explains. “This is a vehicle, driving owners will be made for 20 km, so there is no real need for large screens, air conditioning and other extra -utlized extras of Ofter,” he adds.
Durand tells me that the company points to a hypothetical range of around 160 km of a full battery charge and that the fast DC charging is probably out of discussion, since most probably connects at home or work.
Hipster is still a great extent for now, but feels that Dacia wants this to be put into production, citing the fact that the European Union is currently discussed by adding another automotive category to the existing quadlicle L7, which can be promoted without a complete license and for those so 14 -year -old young people in some countries.
A secondary category that is just under a segment A vehicle, which legally requires a series of active and liabilities security systems that would add weight and cost to hipster, would allow the four compact places to serve those who want more than a Citroen AMI, but I would not want to commit to a more traditional EV.
With stretched budgets, younger drivers find it difficult to find freedom and possible converts of evidents by large and inflated SUVs, the hipster concept offers a great alternative, something unique, something intelligent and something very dacia.
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