02.01.2013

Romanian new passenger car sales fell 23.7% to 72,179 units in 2012, from 94,624 units a year earlier, the Automotive Manufacturers and Importers Association, or APIA, said Friday. more

01.30.2013

Radacini Group, one of the largest car dealers in Romania, with annual turnover of over EUR100 million, has kept its turnover steady in the past few years by taking part in auctions and by delivering more

01.29.2013

The environmental stamp duty computational formula complies with the requirements of the European Commission and will help reduce imports of polluting cars, says Brent Valmar, vice-president of the more

01.24.2013

The 11th modification of the car pollution tax and its change into an environmental stamp duty will encourage imports of old, polluting cars, while sales of new cars will continue to decline, players more

01.23.2013

Insurers in Romania will rethink mandatory car insurance (RCA) policy prices so as to make sure that revenues estimated for an interval of 12 months will cover risks, costs and their profit margin, more

01.23.2013

Romania’s Government proposes a new formula to compute the car pollution tax, which increases by about 10% the sum to be paid for Euro 4 and Euro 3 cars, and lowers by 60% to 90% the tax to be paid more

01.17.2013

Romania’s Environment Minister Rovana Plumb proposed in the Government’s Wednesday meeting that the new environmental tax should be applied only to vehicles seating up to eight passengers and more

01.16.2013

Romanian automaker Dacia’s new car registrations in the European Union fell by 4.9% to 234,349 units in 2012, compared to 246,442 units in 2011, while the EU auto market saw a sharper decline of more

01.16.2013

New car registrations in Romania declined 18.7% in 2012, to 66,436 units from 81,709 the previous year, a decline twice as sharp compared to the EU auto market which fell 8.2%. more

01.16.2013

Car sales fell by almost 25% in 2012, to around 71,000-72,000 units, according to car market players, the lowest level in 12 years. more

01.09.2013

Romanian transporter association UNTRR proposes several measures to protect the environment and attract revenues to the state budget, such as replacing the car pollution tax with an annual car tax to more

01.04.2013

Romania will keep its car registration tax and will not replace it with an environmental tax, for the time being. more

12.17.2012

Romanian new passenger car sales fell 24.9% on the year to 66,834 units in January to November, from 89,032 units in the year-earlier period, the Automotive Manufacturers and Importers Association, or more

12.14.2012

New car registrations in Romania declined 44.6% in November, to 5,698 units, the second biggest decline in the EU, after Greece, and four times bigger than the decline of the EU auto market, which has more

12.13.2012

Automotive component makers continued to hire and invest this year, a trend that started in 2011, in order to develop the business on the local market. more

12.05.2012

The Romanian car market will see more variables in 2013 than it did this year, which concern the pollution tax, the clunkers program, as well as the evolution of car sales to individuals, said Vlad more

12.04.2012

The average annualized premium on the mandatory car insurance (RCA) segment stood at 455 lei (EUR100) in the first nine months of 2012, down 4% from RON472 in the same interval a year ago, according more

11.28.2012

Romania’s Competition Council recommends the liberalization of the car part production market, which would reduce prices, Bogdan Chiritoiu, president of the antitrust watchdog, said Wednesday. more

11.23.2012

Romanian insurance companies will rethink mandatory car insurance policy (RCA) premiums to make sure that revenues estimated for an interval of 12 months will cover both risks and insurers' profit more

11.20.2012

Companies account for 69% of overall car sales, while sales to individuals fell by 55% in the first ten months of 2012 compared with the similar interval a year ago, according to Business Magazin, more

11.16.2012

Romanian automaker Dacia’s new car registrations in the European Union dropped 6.8% in October to about 21,100 units, and the overall EU car market shrank 4.8% to some 959,400 units. more

11.14.2012

Romanian new passenger car sales fell 23.3% on the year to 60,446 units in the January-October period, from 78,846 units in the year-earlier months, the Automotive Manufacturers and Importers more

11.14.2012

Almost all premium and luxury car brands posted double or triple-digit growth in the first ten months of the year, while volume brands continued to decline because of an almost non-existing clunkers more

10.17.2012

Exports of more than EUR300 million and production increase by over 30,000 cars are what Mioveni will see if it gets to assemble the right hand drive Sandero. more

10.16.2012

New car registrations in Romania dropped 31.1% in September to around 4,700 units, and Greece was the only EU state to register a sharper decline, while the European market posted the biggest decline more