The Dacia Sandero is a supermini hatchback and the volume backbone of the Renault Group’s budget brand. At 4,099 mm long on a 2,604 mm wheelbase, it is a conventional five-door supermini sold on price rather than on novelty: no touchscreen-only controls, no electric version, and a platform shared with the Renault Clio in an earlier, cheaper specification. It leads the model charts in several European markets and is regularly the best-selling car in Europe to private buyers, as opposed to fleets.
Dacia revealed the current update on 6 October 2025. The car keeps its body and proportions and gains the brand’s inverted-T LED light signature at both ends, redesigned bumpers, a 10-inch central screen, the YouClip mounting system for accessories and an optional wireless charging pad. In the UK the range runs Essential, Expression and Journey, with the Essential priced from 14,765 pounds (Dacia’s recommended retail price, excluding metallic paint).
The engines are the point. The UK range on Dacia’s site is the TCe 100, a 1.0-litre turbocharged three-cylinder rated at 100 PS, or 99 bhp, with a six-speed manual and 53 mpg combined. Continental Europe adds the ECO-G 120, a 1.2-litre turbo three-cylinder that runs on petrol or LPG and makes 120 PS, with a six-speed manual or a seven-speed dual-clutch automatic. The 2026 update enlarges the LPG tank from 40 to 49.6 litres. Since July 2026 the hatchback also has the Hybrid 155 in continental Europe: a 109 PS 1.8-litre petrol engine and two electric motors with a 1.4 kWh battery, 156 PS combined, from 19,890 euros in Spain. Dacia no longer sells the 65 PS SCE entry petrol in Spain.
Production sits in Morocco, at Tangier and Casablanca, with Stepway output also running at Mioveni in Romania. Nothing about the car is designed to be advanced. Its position rests on a new five-door hatchback with a warranty starting under 15,000 pounds, and on LPG costing roughly half what petrol costs per litre in most of the markets where the Sandero sells best.
