Dacia has once again underlined its winning formula after the Dacia Jogger and Dacia Sandero have won ‘Best Family Car’ and ‘Best Budget Car’ respectively at the 2023 Autocar Awards.

• Dacia wins a trio of honours at the 2023 Autocar Awards
• The Dacia Jogger has been named Britain’s ‘Best Family Car’, the Dacia Sandero has been recognised as the nation’s ‘Best Budget Car’ and CEO Denis Le Vot has won the prestigious Sturmey Award
• The seven-seat Jogger was praised for its family-friendly space, practicality and appealing drive
• Sandero’s win came after beating its competition in a recent group test, impressing judges with its blend of value, size and comfort

Dacia has once again underlined its winning formula after the Dacia Jogger and Dacia Sandero have won ‘Best Family Car’ and ‘Best Budget Car’ respectively at the 2023 Autocar Awards.

In addition to the Dacia duo taking home two of the most important awards of the night – ‘Best Budget Car’ being introduced this year as a reflection of the current times – the brand’s CEO Denis Le Vot added to the success by being awarded the prestigious Sturmey Award. This highly coveted award recognises innovation and achievement in the automotive industry and is named after the renowned title’s founding editor and automotive pioneer, Henry Sturmey.

The awards are the latest to acknowledge the seven-seat Dacia Jogger as the perfect family car and highlight how the Sandero – the second best-selling car in Europe in the first quarter of the year – continues to offer an unbeatable combination of value and quality.

On Autocar’s decision to name the Jogger its family car champion, Mark Tisshaw, Editor, said: “The Dacia Jogger is 2023’s unexpected hero. Given the rampant rise in the cost of living that we’ve experienced in the past year, the Jogger is a particularly relevant car for families. It offers all the space and utility you need, including a genuinely usable third row of seats, for significantly less money than most standard hatchbacks. What truly makes the Jogger a great car is that it drives so much better than it strictly needs to. The enduring feeling is that the Jogger is so much better at everything it does than it has any right to for the amount of money Dacia charges for it.”

Tisshaw was equally complimentary of the Sandero, which since its introduction over a decade ago has always featured among the best value new cars available in the UK: “Just in terms of metal-for-the-money value, it’s a lot of car: a full-sized supermini for less than rival firms charge for an ‘A-segment’ city car – and not a small one, either. The Sandero can seat four adults of average height quite comfortably and it has a useful 330-litre boot. It has comfy seats, well-located controls, a simple but clever fascia design, and certainly escapes any austerity interior feel if you go for a mid-spec Expression model. No other new car frees up more of your own money for you to have fun with if you so choose. No other does more for such little outlay.”

On accepting the awards, Luke Broad, Dacia Brand Director for the UK, said: “We’re especially pleased to win these awards as they recognise our core values and how Dacia has innovatively evolved to provide car buyers with what they really need. A year after its launch, the Jogger is still unrivalled in terms of the space and versatility it offers families, while the Sandero is still as popular as ever with customers that are seeking optimum value, quality and usability. These awards illustrate that Dacia, and what it has to offer, remains relevant to the changing requirements of drivers and families, whether it is with one of our most established models or our youngest.”

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 NOTES TO EDITORS:
The Dacia Jogger TCe 110 is available in three trim levels – Essential, Expression, and Extreme – and all versions are generously equipped with air conditioning, cruise control, and rear parking sensors as standard. It is priced from £18,295 on-the-road.

The recently-introduced and more powerful hybrid version – the Jogger HYBRID 140 – is available in Expression and Extreme specification. The electrified drivetrain allows it to return up to 56.5mpg combined (WLTP) and emit only 112g/km CO₂. It costs from £22,995 on-the-road.

The Dacia Sandero is available in Essential and Expression trim levels. Standard equipment includes electric front windows, cruise control with speed limiter, air conditioning, a comprehensive range of passive and active safety aids, and Dacia’s clever Media Control that places the smartphone at the heart of the infotainment system. Customers have a choice of two engines – the turbocharged TCe 90 1.0-litre petrol unit and the TCe 100 Bi-Fuel 1.0-litre petrol/LPG powerplant. It is priced from just £13,795 on-the-road.

ABOUT DACIA:
Born in 1968, then relaunched by Renault Group from 2004 across Europe and Mediterranean countries, Dacia has always offered the best value for money cars by constantly redefining the essentials.  As a game-changer, Dacia proposes simple, multi-purpose, reliable cars in tune with customers’ lifestyles. 

Dacia models have become a reference on the market, including Sandero, the best-selling retail car in Europe each year since 2017; Duster, the best-selling SUV to European private customers since 2018; and Jogger, the C-segment versatile family car. Present in 44 countries, Dacia has sold more than 8 million vehicles since 2004. 

Dacia launched in the UK in January 2013 and enjoyed the most successful start ever for a new car brand in the UK. More than 240,000 Dacia vehicles have been sold in the UK to date.