You'll love the logan: Renault is to build one of its most ambitious cars. It's not a fancy sports model, nor a luxury executive saloon, but a modern, reliable, spacious vehicle designed especially for the developing world. Stephen Williams reports.(Vehicles)

African Review of Business and Technology,  February, 2005  by Williams, Stephen

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RENAULT HAS CONFIRMED plans that it will build the first all-new car developed by a major automobile manufacturer for Africa and other emerging automotive markets. For most markets the new car will be badged as a Dacia, the Romanian carmaker that Renault bought in 1999.

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Named the Logan, it has been designed especially for the developing world and will sell for under [euro]5,000. The car goes into production later this year with a sales target of 700,000 vehicles by 2010. Renault's ambitious plans were initiated almost ten years ago when chairman and ...

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