The Dacia SupeRNova () was a

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Dacia Dacia (, ; ) was the land inhabited by the Dacians, its core in Transylvania, stretching to the Danube in the south, the Black Sea in the east, and the Tisza in the west. The Carpathian Mountains were located in the middle of Dacia. It thus ro ...

from the year 2000 to 2003.

History

Just like its predecessor, the

Dacia Nova The Dacia Nova () is a subcompact/supermini car manufactured by Romanian auto maker Dacia from 1995 to 2000. History The Dacia Nova was the first in-house developed Dacia model and it was intended to complement the Renault 12-based " Berlina" ( ...

, it was a transversely mounted, front-engined compact car with a

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body and a front wheel drive layout. The SupeRNova, itself a facelift of the Nova, was the first model Automobile Dacia released after the company had been taken over by

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, in 1999. The improvements over the Nova model consisted of a new 1.4l "Energy" Renault engine and a new gearbox, replacing the old Cleon-Fonte based unit and Romanian-designed gearbox. The new engine was the catalyzed and multi-port injected version of the E7J

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, joined to a five-speed JH3 manual gearbox. Equipment was better than it had been in the Nova model, as

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, alloy wheels, and electric front windows were available for the more upmarket versions. The Dacia SupeRNova was sold in five different trim levels: "Europa", the base model, which lacked things such as a rev counter, "Confort", "Rapsodie", "Campus", introduced in mid-2002 as a sportier model, and the top version, "Clima", with air-conditioning as standard. The car was

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emission regulation compliant, as regulations for domestically produced automobiles required. Some of the 2003 versions were Euro 3 compliant.

Engines

References

External links

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Cars of Romania Front-wheel-drive vehicles Subcompact cars Euro NCAP superminis Hatchbacks Cars introduced in 2000 Cars discontinued in 2003