09.11.2013

Renault’s plant in Tangiers, Morocco, is now as competitive as the Dacia plant in Mioveni, Romania, less than two years after opening and will become even more competitive than its rival. more

09.04.2013

Automotive component manufacturer Continental, which has seven plants and three research centers in Romania, is currently employing 12,000 people in this country and continues to hire. It should have more

08.29.2013

Car part producer Preh Romania, which operates a plant in Ghimbav (Brasov county) registered turnover of EUR39 million in the first half of 2013, up 5% on the year. more

08.23.2013

Romanian new passenger car sales fell 13.2% on the year to 36,069 units in January-July, the Automotive Manufacturers and Importers Association, or APIA, said Friday. more

08.23.2013

E.ON Gaz Distributie, a Romanian unit of German utility E.ON, will organize an auction on September 12 to insure its 1,200 vehicles, and the value of the contract, to be valid for four years, is more

08.21.2013

Romania’s used car imports reached the highest level in three years in July 2013, when 26,800 units were imported, up 72% on the year, according to the data provided by the Driving License and more

08.20.2013

New car registrations in Romania dropped 5% to 5,700 units on the year in July, according to data provided by the Interior Ministry’s Driving License and Vehicle Registration Department (DRPCIV). more

08.13.2013

The Romanian financial leasing market shrank 16% on the year to EUR546 million in the first half of 2013 due mainly to lower new car sales, according to association of financial companies ALB Romania. more

07.15.2013

Romanian new passenger car sales fell 19.4% on the year to 28,968 units in the January-June period, the Automotive Manufacturers and Importers Association, or APIA, said Monday. more

07.12.2013

The Romanian car market is this year heading towards the volumes of the early 90s, when sales were dominated only by Dacia and imports were low, the purchasing power was affected by a very high more

07.10.2013

Romanian carmaker Dacia, owned by French group Renault, exports over 90% of its car production and has shipped to other countries over 2 million cars since 2005 through its logistics center in more

07.08.2013

Belgian company VCST inaugurated Monday a car part plant in Alba Iulia, central Romania, following an investment estimated at about EUR30 million. more

06.19.2013

Oil, car manufacturing and food retail are the industries that supply the biggest number of top-ranking companies in the Romanian economy. The top ten players had sales of EUR20 billion last year, up more

06.17.2013

Romanian new passenger car sales fell 19.8% to 23,245 units in the first five months of 2013 from the year-earlier period, the Automotive Manufacturers and Importers Association, or APIA, said Monday. more

06.13.2013

New car registrations fell 21% in the first five months of the year to almost 20,600 units, according to the data of the Driving License and Vehicle Registration Department (DRPCIV). more

06.06.2013

Production, quality and financial managers in the car part sector earn net income of over EUR2,000 per month, shows data of real estate consultancy Jones Lang LaSalle. more

06.05.2013

The slow development of infrastructure is one of the main reasons why Romania does not get more investments from car part manufacturers, along with the fact that authorities promise infrastructure more

06.04.2013

Investors are still interested in the Romanian car market, while most of them are already present in the local car industry with older projects, Opel Romania general manager Cristian Milea said more

05.31.2013

Car part manufacturer Continental Automotive Romania continues local investment and plans to create 1,000 new jobs. more

05.22.2013

Romania could assemble almost 450,000 cars in 2013, while Italy’s production will go down towards 360,000 cars, according to the trends in the first quarter of 2013, when local production rose 32%. more

05.21.2013

Romanian new passenger car sales fell 11.4% to 18,137 units in the first four months of 2013, from 20,482 units in the year-earlier period, the Automotive Manufacturers and Importers Association, or more

05.17.2013

Romanian automaker Dacia’s new car registrations in the European Union grew by 28.2% in April and by 18.3% in January through April this year, while the EU car market has seen growth for the first more

05.15.2013

Finnish software company Elektrobit has opened its first research and development center in Romania following a EUR0.8 million investment. more

05.13.2013

Car parts maker Compa Sibiu (CMP.RO), controlled by its shareholders, has recently managed to attract Daimler as a client, for whom it makes pinions for Mercedes cars. more

04.23.2013

U.S. carmaker Ford will make 80,000 B-Max cars and 250,000 engines at its Romanian Craiova plant. more