Dacia Sandero

Almost six months on, Top Gear is still causing offence amongst Romania’s ostrich population

by Craig Turp April 15, 2010 Bucharest

 Oh dear. It appears that some Romanian with a grudge against the Daily Telegraph, Top Gear and Britain in general successfully hacked into the Daily Telegraph’s website last night, replacing a sub-domain page with his (or her) own rant about how Britain continually misrepresents Romania’s image. The hacker, or hackers – calling himself RNS: Romanian [...]

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Dacia: Romania’s good news story

by Craig Turp January 14, 2010 Bucharest

  As kids we never told Dacia jokes. Dacias simply weren’t available in the United Kingdom. We have heard (or did we read, once?) that there was an aborted attempt to market Dacias in the UK in the 1970s, but it never got off the ground. Instead, the Eastern European car of choice in Britain [...]

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