Sandero's Advertising Video Shows Car Maker’s Dream

Buyer Persecutes the Car
by Gustavo Henrique Ruffo
March 14, 2008 4:17 AM
Filed Under: European, Renault
The Dacia Sandero has just been presented to the European public, at the Geneva Motor Show, but it has been introduced to the Brazilian press in January. Soon after sales began, in February, the advertising campaign has shown what Renault expects the consumer’s to act like when they meet “the Renault they did not expect�: persecute the car. Whether anyone has done it or not, the car is becoming a common figure in the streets. Since the advertising video is already on internet, we thought you would like to have a look at what the car looks like in other countries, as well as check it in motion in a funny situation.

The video shows a guy that is stuck in traffic and sees Sandero passing by. After a long persecution, in which all resources are used (motorcycles, trucks and even a shopping cart), this guy finally reaches the car and starts arguing with Sandero’s owner over buying the car. The dialog, for those who do not speak Portuguese, is as follows:

- Do you want to sell it?
- What do you mean, man? Are you crazy? Have you drunk? Get out of my car…
- I have seen this car passing on the street and I came after it…
- The car is mine! I do whatever I want with it!
- No, it’s not yours…
- It’s mine…
- No, it’s mine, now!
- Give me back my keys, get back here!

The video ends with the campaign motto: “Sandero, the Renault you did not expect�.

Sandero prices in Brazil start from R$ 29,900, something like € 11,700 and counts on a 1-litre 16V engine that pumps out 76 cv with petrol and 77 cv with ethanol (all Brazilian engines for Sandero are flexible), for the entry level version, a 1.6-litre engine pumping out 92 cv (petrol)/95 cv (ethanol) and the 1.6-litre 16V, with a 107 cv/112 cv (petrol/ethanol) output.
Source: Renault
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Comments

That's a really good looking Renault hatchback- nicer than the planned facelift for the Clio. is it going to be sold elsewhere?

by joelynn | March 14, 2008 11:07 AM
Europe as a dacia i believe.

by radmeister | March 14, 2008 1:36 PM
Inminent facelift on Clio is going to update an old looking car from scratch. Way more modern than this franco-romanian "Tata".

by ck314 | March 14, 2008 4:55 PM
Clio is also more expensive and in reality it is the same car with a different shell. Nothing wrong with dacia, my grand uncle has one from 1972 which he has had since new and it still runs strong, no rust. Not the most technologically advanced cars in the world but that's whats good about them in their market, cheap cars for the common people. They are reliable and if something breaks it's cheap and easy to fix. I changed the clutch on that 1972 for 12$ and took me 2hrs in a driveway. Now that's a people's car. And FYI just because it is made in romania doesn't mean anything we are a smart people with 1000s of years of history and just because we got pillaged by communism and turned into a poor country doesn't mean we are incapable of assembling a car. That was only 44 years of poverty which is meaningless on the scale of our history in which we were relatively a wealthy country. Bucharest was lit by electricity when the americans hadn't even discovered California and still rode on horses.

by radmeister | March 14, 2008 7:22 PM
Yeah, but the fact that Dacia has marketed rebadged antique Renault's for decades is surely linked to french colonialism back in the day too. On another note, I once had a gf from Moldova, and the area of Transilvania is great, not to mention Count Dracula's link with some west european royals, I wasn't trying to sound disrespectful or anything, but same applies to Tata in India. Many thousands of years ago, Indians were extremely advanced in science and sacred knowledge, but we just can't expect Veyron's from them in the short term...

by ck314 | March 14, 2008 8:17 PM
French colonialism? Romania was never a french colony. Part of the roman empire, ottoman empire, austro-hungarian empire but never had anything to do with the french. Also vlad tepes (dracula) was 100% romanian, it was durring the austro-hungarian rule in 1866 some 390 years after vlad that the austro-hungarian empire decided to appoint Prince Karl of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen(somewhere in germany today). That dynasty is somehow related with the british royal family. I was actually in Brasov which is a city in the province of transilvania and that's where Bran's Castle is. I was expecting some scary stuff like dungeons and stuff but it was actually warm and cozy it was more of Queen Marie's summer retreat, vlad was actually only there for 2 days in the dungeon when the turks had control of the area. American marketing but hey it makes the ppl of that village some money. His home was actually Poienari Castle/Citadel.

by radmeister | March 15, 2008 12:03 AM
hah didnt say that either, just that ive always heard that, in the past, romania had been heavily influenced by the french, culturally speaking.. and those german princes were surely linked to the british crown, since theyre german themselves (saxe-coburg and gotha), but still, there are rumors connecting vlad tepes with the windsors today eventho ive never taken the time to verify to which extent this could be mere speculation

by ck314 | March 15, 2008 1:24 AM
it looks like a clio with a diffrent rear end...

by BabyMilo | March 15, 2008 8:36 AM

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