11.16.2012

New car registrations in Romania saw a 13.4% decline to 6,782 units in October 2012, compared with a nearly three times lower decline of 4.8% in the European Union, to 959,400 units, according to data more

10.16.2012

The year 2012 is a closed chapter for the companies in the Romanian auto industry, which have already accepted the almost 20% decline of the market and are focusing on what will happen next year when more

10.10.2012

The number of used cars imported to Romania rose 83% in the first nine of 2012, to over 120,000 units, according to data from Auto.ro, which provides the most complete database of new and used cars. more

10.09.2012

Mercedes-Benz Romania plans to sell 20 electric cars after the launch of the smart electric drive model in January 2013. The target of “tens of units” comes after sales of merely four electric more

09.27.2012

Romanian carmaker Automobile Dacia, part of French group Renault, presented Thursday its new-generation Logan, Sandero and Sandero Stepway car models at the 2012 Paris Motor Show. more

09.24.2012

Large luxury vehicles such as BMW Series 5, Audi A6 and Mercedes E Klasse, most often bought for top executives, are in higher and higher demand, as sales increased by almost 30% to 691 units in the more

09.17.2012

Ford Romania, the second-largest car maker on the local market, manufactured in August over 2,900 B-Max vehicles, almost six times more than in July, the first month of mass production for the compact more

09.03.2012

Registrations of Ferrari cars in Romania soared in the summer months, according to the statistics of the Driving License and Vehicle Registration Department (DRPCIV). more

08.20.2012

Vehicle sales shrank by 20% against the first seven months of last year in volume, to 50,000 units, according to data of the Automotive Manufacturers and Importers Association (APIA). more

07.30.2012

The number cars sold through the ‘Rabla’ clunkers program reached 8,000 at the end of last week, from 1,100 in mid May, according to the Environment Fund Administration. This is nothing for the more

07.23.2012

New car sales in Romania saw a new decline by 16% to 43,000 units in the first half of 2012 and only 16 brands out of 40 posted growth, according to statistics by the Association of Automotive more

07.23.2012

Sales of luxury cars priced above EUR100,000 went up by less than 10% to 166 cars in the first half of 2012, compared with the same period in 2011, according to a ZF analysis based on statistics of more

06.27.2012

Fewer and fewer natural persons buy cars in Romania, as generally only international companies can afford to renew their car fleet, said Brent Valmar, vice-president of the Automobile Manufacturers more

06.27.2012

Car sales in Romania will continue to fall this year, while dealers’ profit margin will remain close to zero, considering that profitability in the car industry was negative in the first five months more

05.22.2012

The luxury car market overshot the EUR6.5 million mark in the first four months of the year, according to a ZF analysis based on the top of the line models of the most exclusive cars registered on the more

05.15.2012

The number of second hand cars registered for the first time in Romania increased by 32% in the first four months of the year to 46,620 units, from 35,400 units in the same interval a year ago, more

05.01.2012

Railway transport company Servtrans Invest, controlled by businessman Cristian Burci and insolvent since last summer, took over the lease for 838 freight cars signed with BCR Leasing. more

04.24.2012

Romanian residents may not drive cars registered in other states for periods longer than 90 days, according to a decision adopted by the Government Tuesday. more

04.23.2012

The local market saw the second-highest increase in the number of new car registrations in the first quarter of the year, according to the statistics of the European Automobile Manufacturers' more

03.19.2012

Automobile makers and distributors, as well as scrap collectors, can sign up for the 2012 edition of Romania's car scrappage program, which will become open to individuals on April 3. more

02.27.2012

They started to arrive in Romania in mid 2000s, drawn by Dacia, the cheap skilled labor and the advantage of export to Western markets. They built plants from the ground up and created an industry more

01.16.2012

More than 2 million Romanians will no longer be able to sell their cars, which are registered before 2007, because of the new pollution tax, which in the case of older cars amounts to at least half more

01.10.2012

Almost 150 cars with a price tag of over EUR150,000 were registered in Romania in 2011, down almost 8% from the previous year. The total value of these cars is higher than EUR25 million, ZF estimated more

01.04.2012

Voted by the Parliament on December 15, the new pollution tax that made Romanians rush to the car registration offices last month in order to avoid paying it has yet to come into force. The more

12.29.2011

Dealers sold almost 20% more diesel cars in the first eleven months of 2011 than in the same time of last year, according to the data supplied by the Romanian Association of Automotive Manufacturers more