And the sales boss believes this car will help Dacia in the UK, by boosting the brand’s EV sales and giving it extra headroom to sell more combustion cars, all the while meeting the ‘ZEV mandate’ which threatens fines for missing CO2 emissions targets.
Dacia Sandero hybrid supermini
Dacia’s supermini, the Sandero, was Europe’s best-selling car to retail customers again in 2025, shifting 289,295 units (slightly down due to the French and Italian markets shrinking). It will become the final Dacia to be electrified when the hybrid model comes to the UK in the last few months of 2026. It’ll have the same upgraded exterior and interior design previewed last year and filtering through now on petrol models.
“We’re going to introduce hybrid on Sandero,” confirmed sales chief Marotte. Expect it to get the same Hybrid 155 system, with 153bhp and electric driving at least 60 per cent of the time in urban areas. But why has it been delayed on Dacia’s best-selling model?
“It was a strategic decision, because basically electrification [was more quickly adopted] in the upper segments. We’ve been waiting for hybrid demand to be there and the moment is now.”
The proportion of Dacia hybrid sales doubled in 2025 to about 25 per cent of volume, with Jogger, Bigster and Duster leading the charge.
Another ‘big’ Dacia: an estate
Dacia has pushed into the midsize ‘C-segment’ with the seven-seat Jogger MPV and 2025’s Bigster SUV. The firm is delighted with the latter’s introduction, having delivered 67,573 units in the second half of 2025. Marotte reckons that could grow to 85,000 this year, its first full year.
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