20 mar 2012

The tough winter, poor road conditions and the absence of the clunkers scheme led sales of Dacia’s Duster SUV in Romania to overtake those of Logan for the first time in February, after the latter more

12 mar 2012

Hardly any car was sold to an individual customer in January, while in February only several hundred were sold, companies on the Romanian auto market say. more

2 mar 2012

Whether new cars are sold or not, the over 4.2 million existing cars in Romania have to be maintained and repaired. This is the new battlefield for car dealers on the local market, with every service more

27 feb 2012

Dana Cortina, general manager of the local retail division of Porsche Holding, a EUR150-million business, says the rebound of the car market depends firstly on consumers regaining confidence, but that more

1 feb 2012

Italian tire maker Pirelli, which owns a plant in Slatina (southern Romania), says the EUR160 million investment in the expansion of the facility is not being reconsidered as a result of the protests, more

30 ian 2012

The street protests of the past couple of weeks and the bad weather have been felt in companies’ accounts, but only for a few days, without significantly affecting full-month results. more

17 ian 2012

The tenure of Jerome Olive as general manager of Automobile Dacia, the largest Romanian carmaker, has been extended from January 1, 2012 to May 9 2013, according to information published in the more

16 ian 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

10 ian 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

9 ian 2012

The number of automotive brands that returned to growth in 2011 almost tripled compared with 2010, so that 17 brands saw higher sales, according to the statistics of the Driving License and Vehicle more

6 ian 2012

Lodgy, the soon to be launched seventh model in the Dacia range, whose first official pictures and specs were released on Thursday, will be a family car carrying a price tag of at least EUR10,000, more

4 ian 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

28 dec 2011

Ford Romania, the second-largest car manufacturer present in Romania, which owns the Craiova plant, will receive the state aid that the Romanian government has committed to only when the American more

19 dec 2011

Sales of tablets will go up from approximately 40,000 units this year to over 120,000 in 2012, Asus Romania estimates. The company set out to achieve a 25% share of this market. more

16 dec 2011

Operational leasing company Arval, controlled by French giant BNP Paribas, has invested more than EUR16 million this year in order to expand the fleet of cars leased to companies to over 4,000. more

9 dec 2011

US group Johnson Controls, which owns four automotive component plants in Romania, paid EUR10 to EUR15 million to buy the auto division of Spumotim Timisoara, which makes polyurethane foam for the more

29 nov 2011

Major differences in the level of completion from one segment to another, expropriation that has yet to be conducted, many bridges still far from completion, and kilometer-long stretches where more

28 nov 2011

Talks between Ford Motor Company and the Romanian Finance Ministry are nearing conclusion on an update of the privatization contract sealed in September 2007, but the carmaker risks a state aid cut more

14 nov 2011

Automobile Bavaria Group, a company controlled by businessman Michael Schmidt, the man who brought BMW to Romania, delivered the first new Rolls Royce this year in September, a car that was registered more

28 oct 2011

Huawei Technologies Romania plans to boost its market share from 5% to 6% by the end of the year, by bringing at least three new models to the smartphone segment. more

24 oct 2011

The market of utility vehicles and coaches continued to go up in September, according to the statistics of the companies on this market, thus ending the third consecutive quarter of growth. more

21 oct 2011

Businessman Ion Tiriac has decided to remove the chief executive officer position from the organizational chart of his holding company for the first time in ten years, delegating the responsibility of more

19 oct 2011

Car sales posted a small increase in the third quarter for the first time in three years, but the European economic situation is far from encouraging Romanian dealers. Whereas few months ago they more

13 oct 2011

Gefco Romania, the logistics unit of PSA Peugeot Citroen group, has expanded to 4,500 square meters its space in the ProLogis industrial park, 23 kilometers away from the capital on the more

6 oct 2011

Christian von Albrichsfeld, general manager of Continental Automotive Romania and head of the research and development division, says he would like to have a partnership with Ford for car components, more