2 oct 2011

Among the 6,000 vehicles managed by Leaseplan, Romania’s second-largest operating leasing firm, 12% are Duster SUVs, and 36% are Dacia models. more

30 sep 2011

The decision of Finnish group Nokia to shut down the plant in Jucu (Cluj County), where it was assembling EUR1.6 billion worth of cell phones a year, and to lay off about 2,200 employees came like a more

28 sep 2011

The car market continues to grow in the second half of the year, but companies no longer expect a “last minute” recovery of sales, not even supported by the car scrap scheme. more

12 sep 2011

Alin Tapalaga, general manager of Porsche Inter Auto (PIA), the retail division of Porsche Holding on the Romanian market, is this week taking over as general manager of Porsche Colombia, the new more

6 sep 2011

Tiriac Holdings' car sales last year fell by nearly 30% against the preceding year, to almost EUR337 million, according to ZF calculations based on data published by the Finance Ministry. The figure more

2 sep 2011

Three years after arriving in Romania, Fabrice Cambolive describes, with surprise, the Romanian client as being demanding, having a passion for technology and says his biggest pride is the launch of more

26 aug 2011

Top car importers returned to profit in 2010, after almost two years in which they had posted losses, due to a decline in car sales. more

25 aug 2011

Brent Valmar, general manager of Porsche Romania, expects car sales to reach about 100,000 units this year, which means a 6% decline. The Association of Automobile Producers and Importers (APIA) had more

24 aug 2011

One of the largest Skoda dealers on the Romanian market, Auto-Group in Constanta (SE Romania), has put up for sale a showroom of the brand for EUR1.4 million amid declining sales. more

23 aug 2011

Thomas Dubruel is set to take over as general manager of Renault Commercial Roumanie from Fabrice Cambolive on September 1, according to Group Renault Romania officials. Cambolive is to become more

22 aug 2011

Germany, the Czech Republic, Turkey and South Korea are the main countries the best-selling cars in Romania are imported from, according to a ZF analysis, which shows Romanians prefer German cars the more

18 aug 2011

Almost five months ahead of the deadline, the first section of 10 kilometers out of a total of 42.5 kilometers of the future A3 Bucharest-Ploiesti highway has been asphalted, with work on Romania’s more

18 aug 2011

Automobile Dacia plans to launch production of two new cars and a new range of engines next year, in domestic carmaker’s strongest foray into the European market since it was re-launched in 2004. more

16 aug 2011

Sales of imported used cars plunged by 60% in July, marking the sixth month of declines, according to a ZF analysis based on data provided by the Interior Ministry’s Driving License and Vehicle more

12 aug 2011

Skoda Octavia was in the first half of this year the car with the highest sales in Romania, according to a ZF analysis based on data from the Association of Car Producers and Importers (APIA). more

11 aug 2011

The Finance Ministry last year delivered to Ford Romania the first and only tranche of state aid - EUR17.6 million of the total EUR143 million, because the U.S. company invested four times less than more

11 aug 2011

Ionut Bazac, former health minister from PSD (the Social Democratic Party), who in 2007 brought Ferrari to Romania, wants to launch a third luxury car brand next year. more

10 aug 2011

The premium and luxury automobile segments left the crisis behind in the first half of this year, even recording two-digit sales increases, while sales of cars designed for the “middle class” more

5 aug 2011

US Bechtel, which in 2003 signed a contract for the construction of Transylvania Highway, between Bors and Brasov, was the largest beneficiary of funds from the Romanian road administration company more

25 iul 2011

Transit Connect utility vehicles, which started to be manufactured by American carmaker Ford in Craiova in the autumn of 2009, are beginning to make a difference in the market for the first time, more

22 iul 2011

Tiriac Holdings, the group of companies controlled by billionaire Ion Tiriac, an almost EUR1 billion business operating in automotive, real estate, financial and aviation industries, has started a new more

22 iul 2011

The increase of the share of Duster in Dacia’s total production to over 50% took not only Renault’s management by surprise but also the company’s suppliers, which could not keep up with orders more

21 iul 2011

Jeep, one of the most prestigious brands on the domestic car market, is returning to AutoItalia’s portfolio, thus changing its importer for the fifth time in the past twenty years. AutoItalia’s more

15 iul 2011

Christian Welther moved from Pitesti, southern Romania, to Germany more than 15 years ago and has been working at Ford Europe’s Cologne headquarters for ten years. There he designed the bodies of more

11 iul 2011

German-held Continental Automotive last week started a EUR20 million investment in Timisoara (western Romania) in a new engineering center and in test labs, on a total area of 30,000 square meters. more