AutoVAZ Brings Cheap Granta to Europe to Test the Market

Ever since Renault hit it really big with their low-cost Dacia brand, all other manufacturers have tried to adopt the successful model. However, nobody liked models like the Fiat Albea or Peugeot 206 sedan, or others of the sort, and while they did sell, they couldn’t match the sheer volume of sales that Dacia was getting with the Logan sedan, in so many varied markets, including western Europe.

What is needed is not a ridiculous hack and then glue back together job, like Peugeot seemed to have done with the aforementioned 206 sedan, but rather a car built from the onset as a cheap model, like the Logan.

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