Dubbed one of the most hotly anticipated cars of 2025, Dacia Bigster has arrived in Ireland, offering a refreshing new take on the country’s largest segment.
“Bigster is tailored to the specific requirements of a steadily growing market. With consumers facing spiralling costs, Bigster offers buyers of larger family friendly cars the robust, well-equipped, great value for money that they have been longing for. Potential used car customers should also take note – here is a brand-new SUV for less than €30,000 with a three-year warranty. A no brainer!” according to Seamus Morgan, Managing Director of Cedar Motors.
Bigster offers a smarter value proposition on a spacious and practical car with impressive equipment and a price structure no other brands come close to. With prices starting from just €29,990 and €215 per month, Dacia’s new flagship vehicle gives customers equipment levels they want, at a price they can afford. Bigster takes the ingredients customers know and love in Dacia – all the essentials, delivered in a robust, cool and eco-smart way – and brings in features never seen before on a Dacia.
The design of Bigster showcases its robust styling and ability to support customers in their work, leisure and family activities with generous dimensions accentuated by taut, geometric shapes and volumes whose simple lines go straight to the essentials. The large wings over the wheels, and the position of the headlamps and rear lights at the far edges of the vehicle, reinforce Bigster’s assertive on-road stance.
Dacia’s newest model is available in a choice of three trim levels, mild and full hybrid petrol engines, plus the option of a 4×4. In addition to having more space, which C-SUV customers are accustomed to Bigster brings a level of luxury equipment to Dacia products for the first time.
Even the entry level Essential features a 10.1-inch central touchscreen with Android Auto and Apple CarPlay, air conditioning, 17” alloy wheels and a parking camera as well as rear parking sensors. Expression, Journey and Extreme trim levels all benefit from even more generous standard specifications including keyless entry, Multiview camera, front and rear parking sensors, dual zone climate control – first time available on a Dacia, alloy wheels (17”, 18” or 19” depending on trim); automatic wipers and Hill Start Assist.
Journey and Extreme trim levels also gain a heated steering wheel, heated front seats, rear window privacy glass, wireless phone charging. Power tailgate is available on Journey trim and in another first for Dacia, the electric sliding panoramic roof is available on Extreme trim plus the option of a 2-tone paint black painted roof.
At a length of 4.57m (longer than some competitors), with a wheelbase of 2.7 m and a boot volume of 667l, Bigster offers generous space, with ample legroom and loads of room for luggage. It’s not just spacious though, but versatile too – rear seats fold 40:20:40 with a centre armrest featuring cupholders and slots for rear seat passengers’ devices. In addition, the rear seats can be folded simply using a release lever in the boot.
To power Dacia’s most luxurious model yet, a new range of engines is offered. The TCe 140 engine is an upgrade of the TCe 130 available on Duster and features efficient 48V mild hybrid technology. Combined with a 6-speed manual gearbox, this engine offers lively performance, with fuel consumption of just 5.6l/100km.
Customers choosing a full hybrid powertrain on Bigster are the first to benefit from Renault Group’s new hybrid 155 engine. Compared with the hybrid 145 engine offered on Duster and Jogger, this new engine offers more power, more torque, less consumption (as low as 4.6l/100km) and greater towing capacity (up to 1 tonne depending on version). Combining regenerative braking with the high energy recovery capacity of the battery and the efficiency of the automatic gearbox, Bigster can remain in all-electric mode up to 80% of the time in the city. Further, the car always starts up in all-electric mode.
Bigster’s mild hybrid 130 4×4 is built to head off the beaten track with an all-wheel drive system mated to a 6-speed manual gearbox, and a 48V mild hybrid system to maximise efficiency. This hybrid system supports the 1.2-litre 3-cylinder turbocharged engine during start-up and acceleration, reducing fuel consumption and CO2 emissions, while providing enhanced driving pleasure. Regenerative braking recharges the 0.8 kWh battery as part of a process that is completely transparent to the driver.
All this space and comfort comes at a price tag the competitors can’t come close to. The surprisingly well-equipped TCe 140 Essential comes in at just €29,990 and even the top-line Extreme trim comes in at just €37,840 in hybrid form, undercutting even the cheapest competitor models. On Bigster, metallic paint is priced at €745 while the contrasting black roof, available only on Journey and Extreme trims, is priced at just €250.
As part of its Eco Smart approach, Dacia uses a larger proportion of sustainable materials on Bigster with 20% of recycled plastics, a higher proportion than usual in the automotive industry. Starkle®, a material invented by Dacia’s engineers and first used on Duster, contains up to 20% of recycled polypropylene. Used untreated and unpainted, it has a smaller carbon footprint in manufacture. The lower body and wheel arch protection, as well as parts of the front and rear bumpers are made from Starkle®.
Bigster comes with a range of driving aids as standard on all levels of trim level: advanced emergency braking system (urban/extra-urban with vehicle, pedestrian, cyclist, and motorcycle detection), traffic sign recognition with speed alert, rear park assist, emergency stop signal, lane change alert, lane keeping assist, driver attention warning, and the emergency call system, eCall. To make life easier for customers, Dacia has combined these features with an ingenious function called My Safety. This allows the driver to immediately switch certain ADAS to custom mode on start-up, to avoid having to adjust each one in no time.
Dacia Bigster is available to test drive and order now at Dacia’s 31 dealerships.
