Paris Car Show 2014: A selective meeting with Dacia

This is the last part in my Paris Car Show 2014 arrangement of reports: a selective meeting with Renaud Pirel, sell car Renault Entry Range Sales & Marketing Director, and Frédéric Favre, Dacia Press Relations Manager. I have never shrouded the way that I am a huge aficionado of Dacia's brand method, that has empowered it to go from 0 to 5 million units sold in 10 years, as of now posting in 2014 the speediest development rates of any mass brand in France and Europe. Being French sell car however living in Australia since 12 years back, I have seen the Dacia escapade from a far distance, getting a preview of its ubiquity in France consistently I returned for a visit. An experience I have depicted in two progressive articles: France August 2012: Dacia, ruler of the field and Nice hinterland September 2013: one Dacia in every modest town. 
This is the first occasion when I get to talk with Dacia straightforwardly, and sell car it was the most productive meeting I led at the Paris Auto Show. I even got an exceptionally open response to something that has confounded me for some time: the absence of achievement of the sell car Dokker LCV in France, and we turned around parts toward the end when I got questioned by Dacia about the potential accomplishment of the passage extend in Australia. The full question is beneath the bounce.
Dacia Sandero Stepway


BSCB: Automotive News Europe advertised as of late that the Dacia reach was going to be streamlined, with either the Dokker, Logan MCV or Lodgy to be scratched off. Do you affirm? 

Frédéric Favre: This is a tremendous false impression, there is truly no expectation to drop any of the models you specified. 

Renaud Pirel: Not just that, yet we likewise continue contributing and pondering new sell car thoughts on each of these 3 models, so they are staying put. 

BSCB: Glad we cleared that one up. Dacia is up 21% in France and up 35% in Europe so far in the not so distant future. What's next? 

Renaud Pirel: The sky is the breaking point! No in the interest of calling a spade a spade, as a rule we never convey piece of the pie or volume targets for Dacia, just Group ones by sell car our President. Anyway before I address the 'What's next' inquiry, its value taking load of what's happened in the decade that the brand has been popularized in sell car Europe – it propelled in France in June 2005 – in light of the fact that a great deal of components that will structure our future lie in our establishments. In short, I accept the hazardous development rates we have reliably attained over that sell car period originate from our ability to dependably stay in contact with our clients. 

The undertaking began with the Logan, which wasn't initially intended for Western European markets not to mention France (BSCB note: C-section cars are everything except dead in French deals outlines). The augmentation of the Dacia range into different sections has sell car dependably been chosen focused around client criticism. The main Logan clients became tied up with the thought of another, extremely straightforward auto with a 3 year-guarantee as an option to a comparably estimated 2-3 year-old utilized vehicle regularly without a maker guarantee past the few months needed by sell car law. On this establishment, we have figured out how to fabricate the Dacia 
Dacia Picnic 2010. Picture courtesy of larevueautomobile.comDacia picnic. Picture courtesy of autodeclics.comThe 6th annual Dacia picnic attracted 14.000 Dacia owners in France last June.
Understanding our clients is central in light of the fact that they are not the same clients that we were accustomed to managing through Renault. They have a place with the utilized vehicle universe, and we understood that as auto makers we really didn't have much data about this sort of clients. So when we tried their enthusiasm for this kind of items with the Logan, these clients were really shocked that an auto producer would be ready to speak with them, they were not used sell car to that. So they weren't modest in chatting with us and we got a sell car tremendous  measure of criticism that we had the capacity use to develop the brand. Taking into account this, we quickly dispatched the 7-seat Logan MCV, then the Sandero, Duster, Lodgy and Dokker. 

Full question underneath. 

A huge sell car piece of this example of overcoming adversity in France and Europe (where we are #15 in front of exceptionally settled brands, for example, Kia and Seat) is because of this steady contact sell car with our clients. It implies we know precisely what they anticipate from us: we know when is the opportune time to redesign the vehicles whether it be with new motors, gear or configuration. We know their desires live, as they advance. That is the thing that has empowered us to develop so quick. Our passage range reasoning is basic and has sell car been the same since the first Logan: our client will pay for what sell car they esteem. So we won't provide for you any more (or less) than what you require. This thrifty 'simply what's required' methodology is the reason our clients truly relate with the Dacia brand. We are putting forth precisely what they require, no all the more, no less. 

BSCB: What channels do you use to listen to your clients? 

RP: There are sell car two fundamental sources. The Dacia group of holders, the sell car one we welcome to the Dacia outing (BSCB note: a yearly cookout complete with shows and activitys reunites Dacia managers in France since 2009). They were 14,000 last June to accompany their family simply to impart their Dacia experience to us and with one another, and we likewise stay in contact with them through Facebook (BSCB note: The Dacia France Facebook sell car page has 242,000 fans). On top of this, we are in immediate contact with our business people, who sell car frequently overhaul us when client input takes an alternate sell car heading, when they begin listening to something that they weren't listening to 6 months former. We continue making the inquiry you've quite recently asked me (what's next?), and we depend intensely on them to get a feel for our next item headings, for example, for instance, broadening sell car the Stepway line into both the Lodgy and Dokker as we are doing here at the Paris Auto Show. 

BSCB: On this – what is the degree of Sandero Stepway in general Sandero deals? 

RP: Two thirds of all Sanderos sold in Europe are the Stepway variation, and in Morocco sell car and Algeria 90% of Sanderos are Stepway. There is just no rival for a rough terrain, traveler styled item at this cost. It's the proportional in the B-portion of the Duster in the SUV section: a remarkable offer.
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