03.15.2012

New car registrations in Romania climbed 54% on the year to over 9,000 units in the first two months of 2012, while the European car market shrank 8.3%, according to data released Thursday. more

03.15.2012

South African auto parts maker Metair Investments bought Rombat Bistrita, the largest Romanian-held auto parts maker, people close to the deal told ZF. more

03.12.2012

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

03.06.2012

The Romanian Government estimates the car pollution tax will bring total revenues of only 624 million lei (EUR143 million) to the state budget in 2012, three times lower than last year’s forecast more

03.02.2012

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

02.28.2012

On a market that lost 80% of its sales during the crisis, car dealers seek to attract clients with new offers that can match scrappage premiums, considering that this year’s clunkers scheme is now a more

02.27.2012

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

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