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

11 iul 2011

Alin Tapalaga, general manager of Porsche Inter Auto (PIA), who is in charge of the sales of Bentley in Romania, says he has been receiving signals from the market that “there is renewed demand for more

5 iul 2011

The gap between car sales and registrations reached 30% of sales in the first five months of this year, the widest difference recorded in the past few years, reveals a ZF analysis. more

1 iul 2011

The Mercedes-Benz brand, which sells 200 cars per month on average, no longer features in any section of the statistical bulletin of the Association of Automotive Manufactures and Importers (APIA) more

29 iun 2011

Prices in restaurants on the Otopeni Airport are 50% to 100% higher than in the city, according to a ZF analysis, with airport restaurants making twice as much revenue as a city restaurant. more

24 iun 2011

Romanian carmaker Dacia could end the first half of the year with a production decline for the first time in the past ten years, after it manufactured almost 10,000 fewer cars in January to May more

22 iun 2011

Carmen Petcu, 47, was the first Michelin employee in Romania in 2001. Ten years later, she is leaving for Chennai, India, to be part of a team set to supervise a project worth over $1 billion, with more

21 iun 2011

Car sales rose by 15% month-on-month in May, to almost 9,700 units, but the auto market is still weaker than in May 2010, posting the third consecutive month of decline after the positive signs of more

21 iun 2011

Renault wants to spur Dacia sales in Romania this year by creating new limited editions to attract clients, as the local carmaker will not launch any new models in 2011. more

7 iun 2011

Porsche Holding Romania, the domestic unit of Porsche Holding Salzburg, one of Europe’s largest dealer networks, lost the third position within the group in terms of turnover to Hungary, according more

3 iun 2011

The largest investment of France’s Michelin in India, one of the world’s most dynamic markets, will be overseen by the current general manager of the Michelin plant in Floresti, Prahova county. more

31 mai 2011

Casa Auto Bucuresti, a Mercedes-Benz dealer part of TiriacAuto's network, is set to deliver a fleet of 500 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter vans to Mercadia, the retail company owned by Dinu Patriciu that more