02.16.2012

New car registrations in Romania soared 86.4%, to 4,937 units in January 2012, which translates into the strongest percentage increase in the European Union, while the EU auto market fell 7.1%. more

02.15.2012

Romanian new passenger car sales fell 21% on the year to 3,475 units in January, from 4,399 units in the year-earlier month, the Automotive Manufacturers and Importers Association, or APIA, said more

01.30.2012

Romania's Government on Monday decided that the car pollution tax, charged on the first sale of cars registered before 2007, would be suspended until next year, with a refund offered to car owners who more

01.27.2012

Romania's car park grew last year by 1.17% to 5.48 million vehicles, including 4.323 million passenger cars, 0.36% higher than in 2010, according to the data released by the Driving License and more

01.26.2012

Romania's Government will suspend the car pollution tax to "reevaluate" its social impact and will refund people who bought used cars since January 13, 2012 and paid the tax, although this will cost more

01.25.2012

Romanian Environment Minister Laszlo Borbely informed the Government Wednesday about his plan to suspend for one year the application of the pollution tax upon the first sale of cars registered in more

01.24.2012

Dacia Logan, Skoda Octavia and Renault Clio were the best-selling car models on the Romanian market in 2011, according to an annual report by the Automotive Manufacturers and Importers Association, or more

01.23.2012

Romanian new passenger car sales fell 11% to 94,624 units in 2011, from 106,328 units a year earlier, the Automotive Manufacturers and Importers Association, or APIA, said Monday. more

01.23.2012

Romanian Environment Minister Laszlo Borbely on Monday proposed that the application of the pollution tax upon the first sale of cars registered in Romania before January 1, 2007 be suspended for more

01.16.2012

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

01.11.2012

Romania's Government estimates the total value of car pollution tax refunds, resulting from the difference between the old tax and the new tax, will not exceed 200 million lei (EUR45.8 million), said more

01.11.2012

The Romanian car market will register a slight growth this year, following the global car market trend, but sales will also be impacted by the new car pollution tax system, which will discourage more

01.10.2012

Romanian car owners for whom the car pollution tax paid since July 1, 2008 is higher than the tax according to the new system may request a refund of the difference, but this refund will also be more

01.09.2012

Romanian new car registrations fell 13.57% to 81,709 units in 2011, from 94,541 units a year earlier, Interior Ministry data showed Monday. more

01.06.2012

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

01.05.2012

Romanian President Traian Basescu on Thursday passed the law on the car pollution tax, the Presidential Administration said in a press release. more

01.03.2012

After more than four years of decline and missed forecasts for car sales on the local market, Dacia and Ford Romania will remain in the spotlight in 2012. While Dacia has been working at full capacity more

12.21.2011

Once the third Dacia plant, complementing the facilities in Mioveni, near Pitesti (southern Romania) and Somaca, Morocco, starts working, Renault plans to launch an “internal competition” among more

12.19.2011

Romanian new passenger car sales fell 10.5% on the year to 89,032 units in January to November, from 99,572 units in the year-earlier period, the Automotive Manufacturers and Importers Association, or more

12.18.2011

Swedish car part producer Trelleborg Automotive Dej will produce parts for carmaker Ford’s plant in Craiova, southern Romania, starting next year. more

12.16.2011

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

12.15.2011

The Romanian Chamber of Deputies on Thursday adopted a bill on the car pollution tax, which amends the first registration tax criticized by the Court of Justice of the European Union. more

12.15.2011

The market of super-luxury cars boomed in the last quarter of this year, when three cars worth a total of over EUR1.2 million, were delivered. more

12.14.2011

Romanian President Traian Basescu on Wednesday sent back to Parliament for review a bill that eliminated legal protection for designs and models for visible car spare parts and urged lawmakers to come more

12.05.2011

This year's car sales in Romania will amount to less than 80,000 units, way below the 100,000 units estimated by the Association of Automobile Producers and Importers (APIA), said the association's more