Dacia · introduced 2004
Among the 49 Dacia entries in the MotorJury library, the Dacia Logan holds its own page in a catalogue built to record every car ever made, from series production to one-off concepts. The record places its introduction in 2004. The photography on this page is hotlinked from Wikimedia Commons under an open licence, with the photographer credited on every frame.
To read the Dacia Logan properly it helps to place it in its decade. The 2000s were the decade of electronics — stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids arrived while platform-sharing consolidated the industry into a handful of giants. Any car launched into that world was shaped by it — by what materials, engineering and regulation allowed, and by what buyers of the day demanded. Its direct contemporaries in this catalogue, introduced within three years of it, include the Ford Ford Mustang, the Chrysler Chrysler 300, the Hyundai Hyundai Tucson — the cars a buyer of the period would actually have cross-shopped.
On paper, the Dacia Logan reads like this: the record lists its engine as Petrol: / 1.2 L 16v D4F I4 / 1.4 L K7J I4 / 1.6 L K7M I4 / 1.6 L 16v K4M I4 / 1.6 L 16v ME16 I4 (Iran) / Flex-fuel: / 1.0 L D4D I4 / 1.2 L 16v D4F I4 / 1.4 L K7J I4 / 1.6 L K7M I4 ; quoted output is 31 kW, 91 N⋅m; kerb weight is recorded at 1090-1360 kg; drive goes through 5-speed manual / 4-speed automatic; the layout is Front-engine, front-wheel-drive. Worked together, those figures give roughly 28 horsepower per tonne — the single number that says more about how a car actually moves than any of its parts alone. Every figure above is a manufacturer specification carried by the Wikipedia infobox or the open Wikidata record for this model — nothing on this page is estimated, and where a source is silent the row simply does not appear.
Within Dacia's own catalogue the Dacia Logan sits alongside the Dacia 1100, the Dacia 1210, the Dacia 1300, the Dacia 1310. The record names the Dacia 1310 / Dacia Solenza as its predecessor and the Dacia Lodgy (for MCV) / Dacia Dokker (for van) as its successor, fixing its place in the model line's chronology. Design is credited to Renault Technocentre. Assembly is recorded at ubl| | Romania: Mioveni | Brazil: São José dos Pinhais (Renault Brazil) | Colombia: Envigado (Sofasa) | India: Nashik (Mahindra) | Iran: Tehran (Pars Khodro, IKCO) | Morocco: Casab.
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