Dacia Jogger Review & Prices

The Dacia Jogger is a practical, seven-seat family car that isn’t as bulky or as shouty as an SUV, nor is it anything like as expensive. It’s effectively a slightly jacked-up estate car, but for the price it’s about the most versatile vehicle you can buy - even if the cost-cutting is pretty obvious once you’re sat inside.

The Jogger looks a bit like a Dacia Sandero that’s been merged with a van - the front end is familiar hatchback fare, but the rear’s a lot bulkier. It’s the mullet of vehicles, and there’s definitely space for a party in the back - seven people can sit in genuine comfort, even in the third row of seats.

Direct alternatives are limited, but bargain-priced seven-seaters include the Citroen C3 Aircross and Chery Tiggo 8, while the van-shaped Citroen Berlingo is another practical choice.

In terms of styling, it’s an interesting mix. As well as the familiar front and estate car body, you get some chunky cladding and roof rails reminiscent of an SUV. The interior is a bit less distinctive - it’s simple and hardwearing, but very cheap in places. Base-spec models don’t even get an infotainment screen.

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But it really impresses when it comes to space. There’s enough headroom for you and your passengers to wear top hats, and adults in the second row of seats can really stretch out. Better yet, seats six and seven can genuinely accommodate adults, far better than in any comparably-sized SUV.

Fold down or remove the third row of seats and there’s a huge boot, easily enough for a whole family camping trip - though it’s a shame they don’t fold flat into the floor for an uninterrupted loading space. The only qualm most family buyers will have is with the low safety score, though that’s mainly due to a lack of a few electronic safety systems rather than it being unsafe in a crash.

There’s a choice of two engines, a bargain-priced 1.0-litre petrol or a pricier but super-efficient hybrid. Opt for the latter and 60mpg is more than achievable, plus it has an automatic and a useful amount of extra shove - though unless you’re regularly loading up with seven people, the petrol is powerful enough. Despite the Jogger’s roughty-toughty looks, there’s no four-wheel drive version.

Whichever Jogger you get, it’ll be comfortable. The suspension is soft and forgiving over bumps in town, though it leans a bit in the corners on a fast country road.

It’s not the most refined car on the motorway either, but it feels stable. In fact, it’s much better to drive than the price tag would suggest - it’s comfortable, powerful enough and easy to park.

Verdict

The Dacia Jogger is an extremely likeable car. It’s good to drive, but mostly it’s just superbly practical - and when you look at the price tag, which undercuts most small hatchbacks, it becomes an easy sell if you need a lot of space but don’t have a big budget. Just don’t expect too much sophistication.

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The Jogger is so affordable Dacia’s almost giving it away. Well, compared to its direct alternatives, anyway. Prices start from just under £19,000, making it one of the most affordable cars of any type - let alone seven-seaters. The Citroen C3 Aircross costs over £24,400 for the seven-seater variant, the Chery Tiggo 8 more than £28,500 and even the van-based Citroen Berlingo XL comes in over £25,000. The Jogger really does compete more with used alternatives.

Essential trim gets, well, the essentials - air-conditioning, remote locking, manual cruise control and rear parking sensors. There’s no infotainment screen, though, just a phone mount. Expression brings the central screen, keyless entry, climate control and a rear camera, plus the option of the hybrid engine.

The top-spec Extreme gets neater styling, alloy wheels, navigation, heated front seats and a wireless phone charger. It’s a mark of just how affordable the Jogger is that even a top-spec, hybrid model with optional paintwork is just barely over £25,000.

The Dacia Jogger is easy to drive whichever engine you choose, but the base petrol is rather gutless for motorway overtaking

In town

The Jogger is great at absorbing bumps, so this is a pretty easy-going car around town. The steering is light, which helps when tucking into tight spaces, but the turning circle is a bit big - 11.7-metres - which means you have to take your time with small roundabouts. The view out is great, as you sit relatively high up with big windows and not too many blind spots.

In petrol cars, the gearshift is light, if a little notchy and the only problem really is a slightly stodgy feeling to the clutch. The hybrid has a slick automatic gearbox, while the engine is happy pootling around quietly on electric power at lower speeds, making it the more relaxing of the two.

On the motorway

Opt for the petrol and its motorway performance is fine up to a point, but you’ll really notice that it’s lacking for outright performance, especially if you’ve filled your Jogger with people and luggage.

If you’re trying to overtake on the motorway, it’s really slow and laborious — watching the speedo needle when you accelerate in sixth gear is like watching the hour hand on a clock…

The hybrid is a bit better here. It’s not what you’d call quick, but it’s easier to get up to speed. On the flip side, it can be quite noisy under acceleration.

On a twisty road

The Jogger is just fine on a country road, and you can’t expect too much more from it given the price and positioning. It’s a bit roly-poly in fast bends, and the lightweight steering doesn’t give you too much feedback about what the front wheels are doing, but who really cares?

What matters more is that it has enough grip to feel secure and enough power to keep up, and so it fills its brief very well indeed.

The Dacia Jogger is hugely spacious in the back, but your passengers get seats, windows and not much else

Practicality is the name of the game with the Jogger - the front of the car features a decent-sized glovebox, big door bins that can hold a one-litre bottle, space under the centre armrest, and a nice spot for your phone in front of the gear lever with a wireless charging pad on top-spec models.

There’s not much in the way of clever seat adjustment - they go forwards, back, up and down - but they’re soft and comfy, and suitable for drivers of all shapes and sizes.

Space in the back seats

The Jogger has a step in its roofline, giving you much more headroom in the rear even though the seats are set higher than those in the front. This gives rear-seat passengers a better view out, too.

There’s loads of head- and leg-room in the middle row, and it’s even wide enough for three adults - though there’s a small hump in the floor. The doors are big and open nice and wide, so you can easily fit a child seat in one of the two ISOFIX points.

The third row is even more impressive, with enough space for even fully-grown adults to get comfortable. Try doing that in the Chery Tiggo 8 or Citroen C3 Aircross. There’s precious little in the way of entertainment for rear-seat passengers, though - just some rather retro pop-out windows in the third row and a couple of charging sockets.

Boot space

With seven seats in use, the Jogger has 160 litres of luggage space - enough for a couple of small suitcases or a few shopping bags. The third-row seats don’t fold flat into the floor, but they do flop down onto themselves and you can tumble them forwards to leave 700 litres of space. Or, you can remove them entirely - the levers to do so are quite fiddly but the seats themselves are a lightweight 10kg each, so quite easy to remove. You will need to store them somewhere, though.

The middle row doesn’t fold flat either, tumbling forwards against the front seatbacks - again, it’s a faff, but you liberate more than 2,000 litres of load space, so moving house in a Jogger is eminently possible.

The SUV-shaped alternatives have seats that fold flat into the floor, and are easier to move about - but they have less overall space than the Jogger, and they cost more.

The Jogger’s interior feels solidly built and it’s easy to use, but you have to accept plenty of cheap, scratchy plastics

The Dacia Jogger’s interior actually doesn’t feel too bad - when you consider the price tag. Put up against the likes of the Chery Tiggo 8 or even the Citroen Berlingo you can definitely tell where costs have been cut, but that’s not surprising - it’s much cheaper than either of those cars.

There are some genuinely premium-feeling bits too, and that’s because they’re taken from the parts bin of old Renaults. So the leather-wrapped steering wheel and climate controls feel rather nice. And everything operates with a lot of common sense.

That goes for the infotainment screen, which purposefully doesn’t overload on the functions - it does a few things, quite well. You get wireless smartphone connectivity as standard, and a wireless phone charger on top-spec Extreme cars.

Base-spec Essential does without the screen entirely, though, getting a phone clamp and a bespoke Dacia app instead. It’s functional, but not much more than that, and without your phone plugged in you have to navigate the radio on the tiny screen between the two analogue dials.

It’s not fancy, but everything is solidly built, and you can’t ask for much more than that in a family vehicle.

The Jogger’s engines help keep petrol costs down as well as the low purchase price. The 1.0-litre petrol officially returns about 47mpg, and in the real world 40mpg is easily achievable. It comes exclusively with a slightly notchy six-speed manual gearbox.

The 1.8-litre hybrid engine is much more powerful, with 155hp instead of 110hp, and comes with an automatic gearbox. Claimed economy is 61mpg, and we found more than 60mpg very possible. Fill up all seven seats and the hybrid will still do okay, but the 1.0-litre petrol does struggle.

Company car tax bills aren’t particularly attractive for either, as their CO2 emissions aren’t as low as a plug-in hybrid would be - though their low purchase price does help offset that. First year road tax is reasonable, and no Jogger gets anywhere close to the £40,000 threshold to pay the expensive car supplement. Car insurance is notably cheap too, especially for such a big vehicle.

Dacia Jogger Euro NCAP score (2021): 1/5

Adult occupant: 70%
Child occupant: 69%
Vulnerable road users: 41%
Safety assist: 39%

The Jogger’s one-star Euro NCAP rating makes uncomfortable reading, but it needs some explanation. Published in 2022, the assessment gave it 70% for adult occupant protection, 69% for child protection, 41% for protecting vulnerable road users and 39% for safety assistance.

We think the scoring is a little flawed here. The assessment was based on the closely related Sandero Stepway, with the Jogger losing additional points because it lacked a third-row seatbelt reminder. That omission alone pushed its safety assistance score below the threshold needed for two stars. It’s a useful feature, but its absence doesn’t suddenly make the car unsafe.

That said, you shouldn’t dismiss the result entirely - there are definitely safer family cars available.

Today’s Jogger has more assistance equipment, including lane-keeping assistance, traffic sign recognition and automatic emergency braking as standard. These additions are welcome, but they don’t amount to a new crash-test rating. The Jogger isn’t inherently unsafe; it simply wouldn’t be our first choice if safety were the overriding priority.

In the 2026 Driver Power owner satisfaction survey, Dacia ranked dead last out of 30 brands - not a great result. Owners rated value for money best of all - surprise surprise - but quality and reliability were among their weaknesses.

A significant European recall announced in 2025 covered some Joggers built in 2024. Rear axle fixings might not have been tightened correctly, potentially allowing a rear wheel to detach. Ask Dacia to check the car’s VIN and confirm whether any outstanding recall work is needed.

The standard warranty lasts three years or 60,000 miles. After that, qualifying servicing at a Dacia retailer can activate renewable Dacia Zen cover, up to seven years or 75,000 miles, subject to its terms. That’s reassuring, although it isn’t an unconditional seven-year warranty from new.