We told you about it from December 2023, the Duster will benefit from a coupe SUV version in South America. Since then, we have been able, and precisely with measures, we are talking about here, to clarify things. Indeed, this variant characterized by a sloping roofline, providing a dynamic and more exclusive silhouette than the traditional SUV, will not be derived from the Dacia Duster but rather from its big brother the Dacia Bigster.
The more generous format of the new top of the range from the Romanian brand is more suitable for exercise very often moreover, the coupe SUV is slightly longer than the classic SUV from which it derives for example the Audi Q5 Sportback measures 4.72 m compared to 4.68 m for the Audi Q5. And also corresponds to the standards of the segment as evidenced by the 4.60 m format of the designed Fiat Fastback assembled in the Brazilian factory of Betim in the province of Minas Gerais.
The “Bigster coupe” could be called Renault Niagara
For the record, the Duster (4.34 m) is too short to transform into an SUV coupe, unless you sacrifice rear seat space or trunk capacity. A renunciation that the Bigster coupe will not make.
A recipe that Renault has already applied to the Arkana (see our photo gallery) whose format (4.57 m) is almost identical. This “Bigster” Coupé will be marketed under the Renault brand, Dacia not being present across the Atlantic, and it will top the range in which the Renault Kardian, another model specifically designed for this market, already operates.
-The diamond brand will also have to find a commercial name for it, why not Renault Niagara like the concept car, which in the guise of an adventurer pick-up worthy of participating in a race such as the BAJA 1000 in Lower California, rather announced in the made by its athletic profile an SUV Coupé.
A flexfuel engine running on gasoline like E100
Furthermore, this will not be the first time that the Renault group has rebadged the Bigster. In India, it will leave the factory, located in Chennai, shared with Nissan under the diamond brand like the Japanese one. With, there, a particularity to which the European Dacia Bigster will not be entitled, a 7-seater configuration.
Another change, under the hood this time, the South American “Bigster” Coupe will not focus on hybrid engines, the 1.8 block associated with an electric machine with a power of 155 hp will not be for it. It will instead focus on 125 hp flexfuel gasoline engines capable of refueling with pure E100 ethanol, a fuel very popular locally.
