Word: dacia
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...Volkswagen appears to think so. Reports in the European press last week claimed the German automaker is thinking of steering a no-frills, €3,000 run-around toward emerging markets such as China, even though a similar plan by rival Renault has already veered off course. Dacia, Renault's Romanian subsidiary, has sold around 70,000 of its Logan cars since unveiling them in eastern Europe last year. But customers haven't been buying the basic €5,000 car the manufacturer designed for them; instead they've demanded expensive extras. Last week the French were introduced...
Finally, in closing, news has just reached us here that the Scythians appear to be pressing through onto the Xth Legion in Dacia. Many legionaries died in a battle on the Danube, although, thankfully, the standards were not lost. We should perhaps consider whether Dacia is defendable, and what exactly we gain there when some of our finest soldiers are penned down in that barbarian Hades. After all, we have other, more pressing, needs to consider, in the forests of Germania, and the deserts of Parthia. Who, in the Senate, will approach the emperor on this, and say?...