05.22.2013

Romania could assemble almost 450,000 cars in 2013, while Italy’s production will go down towards 360,000 cars, according to the trends in the first quarter of 2013, when local production rose 32%. more

05.07.2013

Zoltan Brassai, general manager of Ford Romania, who is in charge of the company’s sales, is concerned that the Romanian “Rabla” clunkers scheme could become a scheme where old cars are replaced more

04.23.2013

U.S. carmaker Ford will make 80,000 B-Max cars and 250,000 engines at its Romanian Craiova plant. more

04.22.2013

U.S. carmaker Ford on Monday started the production of its new 1.5-liter EcoBoost engine at its plant in Craiova, southern Romania. more

04.12.2013

Ford will start building a new 1.5-liter EcoBoost engine in late April at its factory in Craiova, Romania, the company said Friday. more

04.10.2013

Exports rose 10% in February 2013 against the same month of the previous year, driven mainly by the auto sector, more specifically the contribution of Ford, which was nonexistent in the first part of more

03.27.2013

Production at Ford’s plant in Craiova returned to growth in March, with the pace climbing to one car per minute, according to company officials. This is the same production pace as that of Dacia’s more

03.06.2013

Ford’s EcoSport small SUV Ford, which was expected to be the second model to be manufactured by Ford in its Romanian plant in Craiova, will be made for the European market in India, at the Chennai more

02.04.2013

Vehicle production in Romania increased by almost 1% year-on-year in 2012, according to the statistics of the Association of Automobile Manufacturers and Importers (APIA), to about 337,800 units. 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

12.12.2012

Romania’s privatization authority AVAS said Wednesday the privatization of carmaker Automobile Craiova has been completed and the state received extra 170 million lei (EUR37.5 million). more

11.02.2012

Five hundred Ford B-max cars are produced daily at U.S. carmaker Ford’s plant in Craiova, southern Romania, and 2,630 units were exported in September, said Ford Romania general manager Zoltan more

10.11.2012

Bamesa Otel, a joint venture established by Spain’s Bamesa and ArcelorMittal in 2005 to serve Dacia Renault, expects EUR110 million revenue this year. 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

08.27.2012

The daily production pace of Ford Romania’s plant in Craiova has accelerated this month from 50 cars in July to 200 in August, and is set to reach 500 cars a day in September, says Karsten Foese, more

08.22.2012

Vehicle production fell by over 4% in the first seven months year-on-year to almost 192,700 units, according to the statistics of the Association of Car Manufacturers and Importers (APIA). more

07.23.2012

The first 100 B-Max cars produced by U.S. carmaker Ford at its plant in Craiova, southern Romania, are fitted with a system that calls the 112 emergency number automatically in case of a car accident. more

07.19.2012

Ford Romania has received around 100 orders for the new B-Max minivan from local customers and estimates it will deliver 4-500 units in Romania by the end of the first quarter 2013. more

06.25.2012

President Traian Basescu bought Monday the first Ford B-MAX minivan model launched Monday in Craiova, southern Romania. more

06.25.2012

Ford will build a 1.5-liter engine in its factory in Craiova, Romania, with production to start next year, the company announced Monday. more

06.25.2012

U.S. carmaker Ford on Monday has started the production of minivan B-Max at its plant in Craiova, southern Romania, and targets to manufacture 60,000 units this year. more

06.23.2012

Ford Romania operations manager Zoltan Brassai will take over the position of general manager to replace Henrik Nenzen, who will withdraw at the end of June, the company said in a press release more

05.11.2012

Ford Europe completed the EUR675 million investments in the plant in Craiova six months ahead of schedule and began production of the EcoBoost engine, the final step before launching the manufacturing more

05.10.2012

Ford has started production of the new 1.0 liter EcoBoost gas engine at its Craiova plant in southern Romania. A total of 30,000 units should be made by the end of the year, while next year’s more

05.08.2012

More than 400,000 vehicles will be assembled in Romania in the two plants in Mioveni and Craiova (south of the country) this year, writes the “Auto Market 2012” yearbook published by ZF. more