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A dusting of style

6 months 7 811 km 5,92 L/100 km

+ plucky turbodiesel engine; good looks; practical

- interior interior finishes; issues with EDC ‘box

Renault South Africa must be feeling rather smug with the success of the Duster. Smash hit Kwid aside, it’s often the local arm’s bestselling model and one of the market’s most popular small crossovers (generally, only the Ford EcoSport, VW T-Cross and Haval H2 sell in higher numbers).

To find out why consumers have taken in their thousands to the second generation of the French’s no-frills favourite, we spent six months in a recently launched

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