New Duster Pickup Revealed as Compact Bakkie

Developed in partnership with a Romanian coachbuilder, Renault has whipped the wraps off the new Duster bakkie. 

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Recently, the new Renault (or Dacia) Duster entered the UK light commercial vehicle (LCV) market with the introduction of the Cargo panel van derivative. However, that’s not the only commercial-oriented Duster the French firm has released. Indeed, developed in partnership with Romanian coachbuilding company Romturingia, the automaker has now unveiled a bakkie version of the latest generation.

Revealed in Romania, the double-cab Duster shares its exterior dimensions with the compact SUV it is based on – 4 343 mm long, front to rear, and 1 921 mm in width, with a wheelbase spanning 2 657 mm. So, in essence, the Duster-based bakkie ditches the crossover’s rear luggage compartment for a compact load bed, the latter measuring 1 050 mm in length and 1 000 mm wide. The payload matches the recently-revealed Duster Cargo’s, at 430 kg. A quartet of anchoring points and two metal rails have been fitted to the load bed.

To accommodate a load bay, the compact SUV’s roof has been cut, with a divider, replete with a window, fitted behind the rear pews. Compared to its compact-SUV sibling’s five-seater layout, the bakkie trades the aft bench’s centre pew for an armrest.

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The four-seater Renault bakkie is available in three flavours: Expression, Extreme, and Journey, each sharing the same standard equipment as their European-spec compact-SUV counterparts. A duo of electrified petrol powertrains are available across the lineup: mild-hybrid 130, which was employed by the press unit we sampled at the local launch in 2025, and fully hybrid 140 – the former and latter delivering 96 and 104 kW to all four corners and the front wheels, respectively.

The new Duster bakkie is exclusively available in Romania, where it is priced from €25 983, which, at the current Rand-Euro exchange rate, translates to R531 642.84. As a reminder, locally, the Duster compact SUV is priced from R489 999 to R549 999.

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