Dacia Duster crossover concept
Topic: Auto, News (Mar 2, 2009)
Duster – Dacia’s first concept crossover – is proud to be different. Seen from the driver’s side, it is visibly a sporting coupé, yet passengers entering from the other side will see it as an MPV (Multi Purpose Vehicle) with a traditionally opening front door and rear-hinged rear door which suggest plush travelling refinement.
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Dacia Sandero: generous and clever hatchback
Topic: Auto, Economy, News (Mar 4, 2008)
The launch of Dacia Sandero means that 2008 will stand out as a strategic watershed in terms of the brand’s development.
Like the vehicles it produces, the new Dacia logo unveiled at the Geneva Motor Show expresses modernity, simplicity and robustness.
The brand’s emblematic blue has been carried over but has switched to a deeper hue.
Four years after the launch of Logan, the Dacia success story continues with Dacia Sandero, an affordable, spacious, robust, five-door hatchback.
First Romanian to join Forbes rich list
Topic: Economy, News (Mar 9, 2007)
Former tennis glory Ion Tiriac ranked 840th in the Forbes top of world’s richest people, with a wealth estimated at 1.1 billion dollars. It is for the first time a Romanian qualifies for this ranking. (more…)
Communism science-fiction: Moldavians, a ethnic minority in Romania
Topic: News (Feb 27, 2007)
Some time ago, three people established what they called “the Community of Moldovans in Romaniaâ€. This weekend, their organization was brought to light by no other than Vladimir Voronin, the President of the Moldovan Republic, who in an interview for a press agency demanded rights for the “Moldovan minority†in Romania, which he claims numbers some 10 million people.
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Prince Charles helps Transylvania
Topic: News, Travel (Sep 19, 2006)
Prince Charles is looking to buy a house in Transylvania, the part of Romania associated with his distant relative Vlad “Dracula” the Impaler.
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Over 190,000 Dacia Logans sold
Topic: Auto, News (Jul 15, 2006)
Over 190,000 Dacia Logan cars have been sold since the model was launched in September 2004. 106 Logan cars were sold last year alone, according to car maker Automobile Dacia, a division of French car manufacturer, Renault. (more…)
What Romanians think: Hungarians are “diligent”, Gypsies are “lazy, thieves”
Topic: News (Jun 24, 2006)
Romanian and Hungarian citizens in the Transylvanian city of Cluj-Napoca overwhelmingly trust and get along with each other, but the overall image of the relations between Romanians and Hungarians, on one hand, and Romanians and Rroma (Gypsies) on the other hand is rather bad, a new poll shows.
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“We f… up Western agriculture, now we’ll f… up Romania’s”
Topic: Economy, News (Jun 4, 2006)
Romania has delicious farming products as the West no longer remembers but international groups come to the country to destroy its agriculture as they did in the west, according to one of the characters of “We feed the worldâ€, the most successful documentary in Germany and Austria over the past decade.
“We f…ed up the West and now we’re coming to Romania, we will f… up all the agriculture thereâ€, says Karl O., a former Pioneer manager in Romania, in the documentary.
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Dracula’s Castle returned (but not to Dracula in person)
Topic: News, Travel (May 26, 2006)
The Bran Castle in Central Romania, the fortress the legend says belonged to Dracula but where the real, Middle Age Wallachian leader thought to be Dracula was once imprisoned was returned to its old owners, the Habsburg family, on Friday. The Gothic fortress, perched on a rock, has appeared in numerous Dracula movies.
The retrocession process gives the castle to Dominic von Habsburg, a US architect and son of Princess Ileana of Romania.
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