20 aug 2012

Almost a fifth of the 400 dealers present on the Romanian market in 2008 have closed down shop in the past four years, according to estimates in the sector, and pressure continues considering that more

20 aug 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

30 iul 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

26 iul 2012

Importers of expensive cars had the most profitable employees last year. Each person working for BMW Group Romania, Porsche Romania and Mercedes-Benz Romania generated EUR45,000 to EUR550,000 in more

23 iul 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

25 iun 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

18 iun 2012

The Logan and Sandero models sporting Euro 4 engines and exported outside the European Union are the “surprise” source of growth for the production of Romanian carmaker Dacia this year, after the more

8 iun 2012

Daniel Antor was appointed chief executive of Tiriac Auto, part of Tiriac Holdings and the largest network of dealers on the Romanian market, on Thursday, company officials said. more

22 mai 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

21 mai 2012

Seventeen auto brands out of 44 sold in Romania posted higher sales in the first four months of the year compared with the year-ago period, according to a ZF analysis based on the data provided by the more

15 mai 2012

Vouchers for the clunkers scheme are traded on the market at prices ranging between RON2,600 and RON3,000, three times more than in previous years, according to a ZF analysis. more

11 mai 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

10 mai 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

8 mai 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

8 mai 2012

The penalties of 0.05% a day have not had any effect on the three out of four construction companies which have not completed works on A3 Bucharest-Ploiesti highway, with one single section being more

25 apr 2012

Dacia Logan, the ‘crazy bet’ of Louis Schweitzer, a range of models which sold more than 1.5 million units in eight years and made the French owners almost EUR15 billion in revenue, is getting more

23 apr 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

23 apr 2012

Dacia ended the first quarter of this year with a fewer registrations in Europe, which were down almost 13% to 56,700, according to the data of the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association more

13 apr 2012

Constantin Avramescu, manager in charge of sales, marketing and aftersales within Opel Romania, has been appointed to a new position in the central management team of the German brand in Russelsheim. more

13 apr 2012

Some of the largest producers of components present on the Romanian market – Continental, Autoliv, Yazaki and Schaeffler Romania – have announced new programs of boosting employee numbers in 2012, more

10 apr 2012

The Radacini group, controlled by businessman Ali Madadi, at the beginning of this month took over the former Opel and Chevrolet auto center from Gold&Platin, buying it directly from Credit Europe more

2 apr 2012

Dacia’s halting production at its Mioveni plant for two days cost Romania EUR32 million in lost exports, according to ZF’s calculations, considering 90% of the car production is exported and more

23 mar 2012

Ford Romania’s turnover this year will exceed EUR1 billion with a production of 500 cars per day starting in June, and the U.S. company plans to hire more personnel in a second wave of hiring more

22 mar 2012

The first Ford made exclusively in Romania, family car B-Max, can be ordered starting Thursday from the national dealer network, more than four years after the US carmaker took over the Romanian-based more

21 mar 2012

US automaker Ford, which in March 2008 took over the Craiova-based car manufacturing plant, has decided to hire 500, which would raise the number of employees to 4,000. This is the first step taken by more