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

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