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By Jonathan Crouch

The improved Jogger Hybrid is pricey for a Dacia but cheap for what you get. Jonathan Crouch reports

Ten Second Reviewword count: 53

Budget maker Dacia tests the limits of what people might pay for its brand with this car, the Jogger Hybrid 155. It offers a proper full-Hybrid powerplant, seven seats and auto transmission. For less than rivals will charge for a conventional engine, five seats and a manual gearbox. Still a proper Dacia then.

Backgroundword count: 183

Value is relative isn't it? When the first generation Dacia Sandero was launched back in 2013 in the UK for around £7,000, it would have seemed inconceivable that a decade later, we'd be testing another Dacia costing over three times that much. And equally conceivable that we'd still have been telling you that it was great value. Yet here we are doing exactly that with this model, Dacia's Jogger Hybrid. Launched back in 2023 as the Jogger Hybrid 140, this was the Renault-owned Romanian brand's very first hybrid (of any kind) and was somewhat over-due because all the mechanicals in play here had been available to the marque since before the Pandemic. We refer to the 1.6-litre full-Hybrid unit that we've already seen in Renault's Clio and Arkana models, as well as the Nissan Juke Hybrid. Here, it's fitted to a seven-seat estate, today's solution for families who not long ago would have turned to the now out-of-favour genre of compact MPVs. In Autumn 2025, Dacia updated this Hybrid engine - at the same time as introducing a package of mid-term Jogger updates.

Driving Experienceword count: 238

This is a slightly different hybrid to the 1.6-litre 140hp unit originally used in the Jogger. As with the previous powerplant, it has to be had as an auto, but now combines a 109hp 1.8-litre four cylinder petrol engine, two electric motors (a 50hp motor and a high-voltage starter/generator), a slightly larger 230V 1.4kWh battery (up from 1.2kWh before) and an automatic electric gearbox with four gears for the ICE engine and two others for the electric motor. As before, Dacia expects the Jogger Hybrid to be able to run up to 80% of its time on electricity in urban driving and it offers 155hp and 62mph from rest in about 10s. There's 200mm of ground clearance and the Jogger will tow up to 1,200kg. The Jogger sits on a relatively modern Renault CMF-B platform that's fine for purpose but not stiff enough to deliver particularly engaging handling dynamics; this car isn't intended for that kind of driving. But it'll be easy to use in town, thanks to a light electrically powered steering system that requires little effort to turn at low speeds. There's an 11.7-metre kerb-to-kerb turning circle. There's more camera safety kit than used to be on Dacias. This one gets an Automatic Emergency Braking System (AEBS). And can be fitted with Blind Spot Warning, which illuminates an LED light within the door mirror to warn the driver if another vehicle may be concealed from view.

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