Endless Covid tests; smartphone apps and online accounts needed for everything; cars that try to wrest control from you and are overf lowing with superf luous tech. If you feel overwhelmed by the complexity of modern life, Dacia has a few antidotes to offer – one of them the Duster, which it has just updated.
The choice of engine is the trickiest decision to make, as there’s an 89bhp 1.0-litre turbo petrol triple, its 99bhp LPG-compatible sibling, a 128bhp 1.3-litre turbo petrol four, a 148bhp variant of that with a dual-clutch ’box and a 113bhp 1.5-litre diesel four.