You can now drive your Dacia 620 miles non-stop

In the most sensible piece of news you’ll read this week – quite possibly this decade – Dacia is now offering its entire range with LPG, ‘Bi-Fuel’ power.

It’s done so overseas for years, but it’ll now scallop out the spare wheel of your Sandero, Logan or Duster and fill it with a gas tank in Britain, too. That complements a regular petrol engine and tank, so you won’t need to alter your life much at all to gain the benefits of going LPG.

And those benefits are numerous. Presuming you don’t get a flat tyre. Emissions drop by 10 per cent, fuel savings are estimated at around £600 a year and, with both petrol and LPG tanks full, you can apparently drive up to 620 miles between stops. Presuming you can go that long without a wee.

It’s only a few hundred quid separating the price of regular and ‘Bi-Fuel’ Dacias, you get an extra 7lb ft of torque in LPG mode (we can see you’re impressed) and luggage space is completely untouched.

So, a bunch of cars whose entire premise is being cheap and prosaic just got cheaper and prosaic-er. Where do we sign?