The Romanian car brand Dacia Duster is “not very exciting, and it is pretty basic,” said James May, one of the anchors of the Top Gear show in UK, in a comment written for The Telegraph. “The interior trim is rudimentary and it comes with absolutely nothing as standard except those things necessary to complete the interface between man and machine, such as a steering wheel and some pedals,” writes May.

But, unlike other dirt-cheap motors, it doesn't feel like one of those products of a nation not yet used to building cars and aimed at people not yet used to owning one, which is how Datsuns seemed when I was a boy and how the Hyundai Pony seemed some years later, James May goes on.

“Ultimately, the Duster is made by Renault, has proper engines and drives properly. […] It's a bit like Van Gogh's Bedroom at Arles. It's a simple place, but you can see in it everything necessary for happiness and contentment, and it causes a brief and healthy reassessment of what really matters in life,” he writes.

“So if, as some of my business contemporaries are suggesting, things really are going to turn nasty, then Dacia's little social experiment in back-to-basics could start to look like the best thing that's ever happened in motoring. It will be, if you like, a car for people with more sense than carrots,” May concludes.

You can read the entire article in The Telegraph.