UK drivers can get the keys to a model new electrical automotive for slightly over £12,000.
Motorists can get their arms on the model new 2026 Dacia Spring for simply over £12,000 (Picture: Dacia)
Need to get your arms on a model new electrical automotive at a cut-price finances. Sounds inconceivable? Dacia has the reply. Once more. For years, Romanian-based Dacia has produced the most affordable petrol automotive on the roads, the Sandero, and motoring on a shoestring is again.
The Spring was launched within the UK in 2024, however order books at the moment are open for the improved 2026 mannequin, priced at simply £12,240. Dacia claims the automotive returns to the street with a “refreshed chassis, retuned suspension and upgraded braking system” to really feel extra composed on the street.
Model new homeowners can safe a £3,750 low cost off the 2026 Spring (Picture: Dacia)
The mannequin is supplied with a 24.3 kWh Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) battery, able to delivering an estimated WLTP driving vary of as much as 140 miles. Dacia claims this may simply cowl a typical working week on a single cost, however confused that topping up remains to be a breeze with a 40 kW onboard DC charger restoring the battery from 20-80% in simply 29 minutes.
Inside, the upgrades proceed with a contemporary inside and upgraded digital expertise. A 7-inch digital driver show display is commonplace, however this could improve to 10.1 inches on the extra expensive ‘Excessive’ version.
Luke Broad, Dacia Model Director for the UK, stated: “With the introduction of our Dacia Electrical Automobile Grant, it makes shopping for and proudly owning a Spring much more inexpensive. We’re within the enterprise of constructing electrical mobility accessible for all, and with our observe document of delivering best-in-class worth for best-in-class automobiles, it actually does not require a leap of religion to go electrical.”
Opinions of the Spring have to date been combined with considerations over the automotive’s dealing with and cramped inside when carrying passengers.
Add the £3,750 Dacia low cost and prices tumble to simply £12,240, making it nearly half the value of the automotive’s nearest rival, the Fiat 500e, priced at £24,000.
Motorists have been capable of buy the brand new automotive since December 2025, with the primary deliveries of the brand new mannequin anticipated this Spring.
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