Dacia Logan

Dacia Logan at a glance

First generation (2004–2012): the X90 project

Renault announced the X90 project in 1999. Engineers at the Technocentre near Paris spent four years developing a modern car that could be built and sold cheaply. The Logan was officially launched in June 2004, and marketing began that September. It went first to Romania, Eastern Europe, Africa and South America. Germany followed in mid-2005 at about €7,200 with two airbags and ABS. Wikipedia EN gives about €7,500 for Western Europe from June 2005.

The saloon sat on Dacia's B0 platform, shared with several Renault and Nissan models. Its boot held 510 litres. Euro NCAP tested it in June 2005 and awarded three stars. The Logan won the Autobest Car of the Year title for 2005.

The family grew quickly. The MCV estate arrived in September 2006 with up to 2,350 litres of load space, followed by a van in January 2007 and a pick-up from 2007 to 2012. A facelift announced on 1 July 2008 added driver, passenger and side airbags and Bosch 8.1 ABS with brake assist. The saloon also grew about four centimetres to 4.29 metres.

Production spread far beyond Romania. Assembly took place in Casablanca, Envigado in Colombia, Tehran, Nashik in India and São José dos Pinhais in Brazil, partly under the Renault name. About 1.3 million Logan-platform vehicles had been sold worldwide by March 2009. Mioveni built its millionth car on the platform by 3 September 2009, with nearly 250,000 a year, about half for export. In Germany the saloon was dropped in summer 2010, while the MCV stayed on sale.

Second generation (2012–2020)

The second Logan was revealed at the Paris Motor Show in 2012. Romanian sales began in November 2012 at €6,690. Wikipedia DE places it on the Clio's MO platform, with MacPherson front struts and a rear torsion-beam axle. The new MCV estate followed at the Geneva show in March 2013. ESP and side airbags were now standard. The second Logan is covered in detail in our separate Logan 2 article.

• 0.9 TCe: a new three-cylinder turbo petrol with 66 kW (90 PS) and 135 Nm, with stop-start from August 2015.
• 1.2 16V: 54 kW (73 PS), also offered with LPG until it failed Euro 6.
• 1.5 dCi: diesels with 55 or 66 kW (75 or 90 PS).
• SCe 75 (from 2017): a 1.0-litre three-cylinder with 55 kW (75 PS).

Euro 6 engines arrived in late 2014. A facelift at the 2016 Paris show brought LED daytime running lights, a new grille and a four-spoke steering wheel. The Easy-R automated manual gearbox followed at the end of 2016. For the tenth anniversary, a Romania-only edition of 2,000 cars appeared in June 2014.

Third generation (since 2020): CMF-B and LPG

Dacia published the first images on 7 September 2020 and launched the third Logan with the third Sandero on 29 September 2020. Sales began in January 2021. The car moved to the low-cost version of Renault's CMF-B platform, also used by the Clio V. It is 36 mm longer than its predecessor, with a longer wheelbase, a shorter rear overhang and a roof lowered by 10 mm.

With the CVT, the TCe 90 delivers 142 Nm compared with 160 Nm for the manual version. Euro NCAP gave the Logan two stars on 14 April 2021. Its body is practically identical to the Sandero Stepway's, so Euro NCAP applied the Stepway's results after extra Logan tests. French Wikipedia also lists 1.5 dCi diesels for some countries. In the safety test, the Stepway scored 70 % for adult occupants, 72 % for children, 41 % for pedestrians and 42 % for safety assistance.

The Logan III is not part of Dacia's range in most of Western Europe. Launch markets were Romania, Moldova, Morocco, Tunisia, Serbia, Albania and other countries of the Balkans. It was withdrawn from Poland in 2023 because of low demand, and returned to Portugal in 2024. A Turkish-built version has been sold as the Renault Taliant since May 2021. In 2022 the car received the new Dacia logo and a new grille.

The 2025 facelift

On 6 October 2025 Dacia announced a heavier update of the Logan together with the Sandero and the Jogger. It brought a redesigned front, new headlights and fog lights, and new alloy wheels. For the Sandero, the range moved to a 1.2-litre turbo ECO-G 120 that runs on petrol or LPG. It can be combined with a six-speed manual or Dacia's first six-speed dual-clutch automatic. Wikipedia does not yet confirm which of these engines the Logan receives.

Logan, Renault Logan and the wider family

The Logan name was also used by Renault in markets where Dacia is not sold, notably in South America. The Renault Symbol is a related saloon, and the Renault Sandero is the hatchback relative. The estate version has its own page: the Dacia Logan MCV. German registrations of all Logan saloons and estates together reached 154,181 from 2005 to December 2024. How the Romanian maker began is explained in our history of Dacia.

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