4 iun 2014

Michelin Romania, the company that coordinates both the three tire plants of Romania and the commercial activity of Central and Southern Europe, including the Romanian market, hit a 6-year high in more

4 iun 2014

1Q’s 3.8% economic growth encouraged companies to expand their car fleets, believes Dan Boiangiu, general manager of operational leasing company Arval Romania, which ranks fourth on the market that more

2 iun 2014

Tire producer Pirelli Tyres Romania has planned investments of EUR105 million in its plant of Slatina in the 2013-2017 period, a sum to which the Romanian government contributed EUR35 million. more

30 mai 2014

Sales of super sports cars were the only ones to go up on the over EUR200,000 price segment in January-April, while luxury car sales went down. more

28 mai 2014

Romania's automotive market plunged almost 80% between 2008 and 2013, from almost 370,000 new cars sold in 2007, to a little more than 82,000 last year, therefore, 25% of some 400 dealers in Romania more

26 mai 2014

German-held Continental has increased the number of people it plans to recruit in Romania this year from 1,000 to 1,500 and half of these people will be employed in the company’s new R&D center of more

23 mai 2014

Passenger car sales rose 28.5% on the year in April 2014, to almost 6,800 units, according to data provided by Romania's Automotive Manufacturers and Importers Association (APIA). more

19 mai 2014

Automobile Dacia, Romania’s largest carmaker and also the country’s biggest exporter, at the end of the five years of crisis (2009-2013) reached record high revenue of EUR4.16 billion, double the more

13 mai 2014

Automobile Dacia posted 18.4 billion lei (EUR4.15 billion) revenue in 2013, an increase of 45% on 2012 and the best result ever for the automaker in Mioveni, southern Romania, which saw a record more

13 mai 2014

New passenger car registrations declined by almost 6% in April compared to April 2013, according to data provided by the Driving License and Vehicle Registration Department (DRPCIV), to a little above more

1 mai 2014

US automotive component manufacturer TRW Automotive opened a new airbag production facility in Roman, Neamt County (NE Romania) on Wednesday, which will create 1,160 new jobs. more

30 apr 2014

Domestic transporters that operate international shipments to Western Europe decided to exclusively fill up outside Romania after the Romanian government introduced the new fuel excise duty of 7 more

29 apr 2014

The turnover of the car part manufacturing sector will go up from EUR10.7 billion in 2013 to more than EUR20 billion by 2025, as the global component market will increase from EUR406 billion to more more

22 apr 2014

Romania’s 100 largest road transporters, which control over 90% of the market, have a total fleet of over 20,000 trucks. Of these, 1,000 trucks, namely 5% of the fleet, are daily on Romania's roads more

17 apr 2014

Dacia and Ford assembled 107,573 cars in the first quarter of the year, 0.1% fewer than in the year-ago period, according to the data of the Association of Automotive Manufacturers and Importers more

16 apr 2014

Wage raises at Dacia’s Mioveni plant by more than 150 lei (EUR34) per month would drive the company into a ‘red’ zone in terms of costs, causing Renault management to relocate production from more

14 apr 2014

The Romanian government and companies need to reshuffle their domestic product promotion policy, following models already implemented by other European countries, says Catalin Olteanu, general manager more

10 apr 2014

Germany’s Continental and Daimler have teamed up on the Romanian market via their automotive divisions to create vocational school programs because the governments of the last few years have done more

9 apr 2014

New car registrations saw the fastest growth pace on the last three years in March, as they rose 40% compared with the year-ago month, and went up by 20% to 13,345 units in the first quarter, more

8 apr 2014

Ion Lazar currently owns the biggest transporter on the Romanian market, taking into account all the seven companies that make up Lazar group of firms. more

1 apr 2014

The increase in car production at both Dacia’s plant in Mioveni and at Ford’s plant in Craiova placed Romania on the top spot among the countries with the highest car production growth rate in more

25 mar 2014

US carmaker Ford will have to receive EUR15 million from the Romanian government even though the company should have been fined EUR14.25 million for its breach of the privatization contract. more

19 mar 2014

If Romania wants to attract investors and become competitive in the region, it needs to speed up infrastructure upgrade process, believes Zoltan Brassai, managing director of Ford Romania and member more

14 mar 2014

The local auto market will increase in 2014 after six consecutive years of decline, driven not by real estate profits but by the growth of various companies, believes Lucian Alexe, shareholder of car more

13 mar 2014

New car registrations rose 5% in February to 3,650 units from the 3,473 in the year-ago period, according to the Driver License and Vehicle Registration Department (DRPCIV). more