Premium Dacia Logan Rendered as €20,000 Range-Topper with Mercedes-Benz Interior

Alas, the car has gone quite far from its original starting price, as its basic version currently comes with a price of €6,950. We're talking about Romania, Dacia's home country, but you should know that the model has also been offered as the Renault Logan/Tondar, Nissan Aprio. Mahindra Verito or Lada Largus.

And if you're willing to go... wild while using the Romanian Logan configurator, you'll double the said price, reaching a financial side of €13,470.

Nevertheless, the communist roots of the Dacia brand, which have seen people struggling to fix and tweak their cars on their own, mean that the Logan has a surprisingly large tuning fan base. So what if, say, the owner of such a budget sedan might wish to take things to a whole new level in pursuit of a premium experience?

Well, the renderings we're here to show you deliver a pretty good answer to that question. This isn't the usual budget-car-meets-supercar pixel play the Internet likes to deliver.

Instead, we're dealing with the kind of approach that a Dacia eccentric might actually bring to life. And that's because this Photoshop job sees the Logan being gifted with upmarket features.

For the exterior, this means cooler trim, larger wheels and lower ground clearance, among others. As for the cabin, this is where the Dacia received a bit of a Tesla treatment, borrowing Mercedes-Benz elements, which are mixed with Renault goodie.

The process, which should bring the price to around €20,000, is detailed in the piece of footage below. The clip comes from digital artist Laurent Schmidt, who recently brought us the $50,000 Porsche 911 vision (think of the Dacia stunt as the opposite of the Neunelfer stunt).

If only somebody could change the three-star EuroNCAP rating of the Logan...