Start with what the Dacia Sandero/Renault Sandero is: a 5-door hatchback with Petrol engine, built from 2008, in the decade of stability control, dual-clutch gearboxes and the first serious hybrids. What it meant takes a little longer. The shape is credited to Renault Design Barcelona.
The background
The Dacia Sandero is a subcompact car/supermini (B-segment) car produced and marketed jointly by the French manufacturer Renault and its Romanian subsidiary Dacia since 2007, currently at its third generation. It has been also marketed as the Renault Sandero in certain markets, such as Russia, Latin America, Iran, Egypt, and Sub-Saharan Africa. The Dacia Sandero has been Europe's best selling car several years in a row.
The engineering
The engine is Petrol engine; other versions carried different engines, listed in the specification table below. On the scales it comes to 1025 -. Drive goes through a 5-speed manual / 4-speed automatic. The layout matters: the engine drives the front wheels, the packaging choice that gives a small car a big cabin. The wheelbase is 2589 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Where it sits
In the Dacia line-up the Dacia Sandero/Renault Sandero has a clear place: the factory was ubl | Romania: Mioveni | Brazil: São José dos Pinhais (Renault Brazil) | Colombia: Envigado (Sofasa) | Morocco: Casablanca (Somaca) | Russia: Moscow (Avtoframos) | South Africa: Ro. The cars a buyer would have weighed it against include the Tesla Roadster, the Nissan 370Z, the Volkswagen Tiguan. Its Dacia stablemates include the Dacia 1100 and the Dacia 1210.