The Spanish team of km77.com has posted another moose test report on YouTube, this time around dedicated to the Dacia Duster facelift. The soft-roader performed so-so and let its electronic assists interfere with the steering too much.
As soon as the driver began the initial slalom test, he noticed the hyperactive intervention of the ESP. He ended up having to keep the speeds down, because the faster he tried to go, the more insistently the ESP kept decelerating the car. In the end, he managed to complete the standard slalom course in 27.6 seconds – on par with the Dacia Spring and Jogger, as well as Volkswagen Caddy and Multivan.
During the moose test, the CUV was able to make a clean evasive maneuver at 71 km/h (44.1 mph). At 72 km/h (44.7 mph), it only lightly touched a single traffic cone. Overall, the car demonstrated quite a bit of understeer that the ESP was desperate to compensate for.
The test driver’s other criticisms were aimed at significant side-rolling and one of the wheels occasionally losing contact with the ground. He concluded that the result would have been better if not for the overzealous automatic corrections.
The Duster tested was a turbo/FWD version equipped with a dual-clutch transmission and producing 150 PS (148 hp / 110 kW).
