Standing in the course of Morocco, with the Sahara beneath my toes, it’s arduous to not be impressed by the Sandrider. If there was ever going to be a System 1 automotive for the desert, this absolutely needs to be it. It’s obtained goal, poise and no scarcity of presence. There’s not a touch, not a whiff of low-cost Renault about this factor. It’s a rocketship, pure and easy.
However most of all, it’s a Dacia.
The person behind this most audacious of promoting marvels is François Aupierre. However how? And why the desert?
“This,” says Aupierre, waving his arm across the Rally of Morocco bivouac, “that is an outside, life-sized journey. It matches completely for Dacia, with our model markers: sturdy and outside. Clearly, this can be a sturdy journey, but it surely’s additionally a totally outside journey as a result of rally-raid is the Everest of motorsport for the journey. After we checked out what’s the most related competitors to hyperlink our model, this one is the proper match for Dacia DNA.”