10.28.2013

U.S. carmaker Ford will halt its engine production in Craiova, southern Romania, for eight days in November, while the assembly of the B-Max, currently on hold, will be resumed around November 20. more

10.16.2013

Ford’s engine production at its Romanian plant is accelerating to over 1,000 units per day, driven by exports outside Europe, while car production at the plant is affected by the declining car more

10.03.2013

Romania’s government wants to cancel out a part of penalties owed by U.S. carmaker Ford, which failed to observe car production clauses included in a privatization contract with the state, after the more

09.20.2013

Ford Motor Co. will suspend production for 13 days at its plant in Romania next month because of weak European market demand for its B-Max model, the company said Friday. more

08.30.2013

Ford Romania will suspend production at its Craiova plant for seven days in September because of weak demand, the company said in a statement Friday. more

08.22.2013

Carmakers Dacia and Ford could produce over 420,000 cars in Romania this year, 30% more than in 2012, if they keep up their current production pace. 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

05.07.2013

Zoltan Brassai, general manager of Ford Romania, who is in charge of the company’s sales, is concerned that the Romanian “Rabla” clunkers scheme could become a scheme where old cars are replaced 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

04.22.2013

U.S. carmaker Ford on Monday started the production of its new 1.5-liter EcoBoost engine at its plant in Craiova, southern Romania. more

04.12.2013

Ford will start building a new 1.5-liter EcoBoost engine in late April at its factory in Craiova, Romania, the company said Friday. more

04.10.2013

Exports rose 10% in February 2013 against the same month of the previous year, driven mainly by the auto sector, more specifically the contribution of Ford, which was nonexistent in the first part of more

03.27.2013

Production at Ford’s plant in Craiova returned to growth in March, with the pace climbing to one car per minute, according to company officials. This is the same production pace as that of Dacia’s more

03.06.2013

Ford’s EcoSport small SUV Ford, which was expected to be the second model to be manufactured by Ford in its Romanian plant in Craiova, will be made for the European market in India, at the Chennai more

02.04.2013

Vehicle production in Romania increased by almost 1% year-on-year in 2012, according to the statistics of the Association of Automobile Manufacturers and Importers (APIA), to about 337,800 units. more

01.24.2013

The 11th modification of the car pollution tax and its change into an environmental stamp duty will encourage imports of old, polluting cars, while sales of new cars will continue to decline, players more

12.12.2012

Romania’s privatization authority AVAS said Wednesday the privatization of carmaker Automobile Craiova has been completed and the state received extra 170 million lei (EUR37.5 million). more

11.02.2012

Five hundred Ford B-max cars are produced daily at U.S. carmaker Ford’s plant in Craiova, southern Romania, and 2,630 units were exported in September, said Ford Romania general manager Zoltan more

10.11.2012

Bamesa Otel, a joint venture established by Spain’s Bamesa and ArcelorMittal in 2005 to serve Dacia Renault, expects EUR110 million revenue this year. more

09.17.2012

Ford Romania, the second-largest car maker on the local market, manufactured in August over 2,900 B-Max vehicles, almost six times more than in July, the first month of mass production for the compact more

08.27.2012

The daily production pace of Ford Romania’s plant in Craiova has accelerated this month from 50 cars in July to 200 in August, and is set to reach 500 cars a day in September, says Karsten Foese, more

08.22.2012

Vehicle production fell by over 4% in the first seven months year-on-year to almost 192,700 units, according to the statistics of the Association of Car Manufacturers and Importers (APIA). more

07.23.2012

The first 100 B-Max cars produced by U.S. carmaker Ford at its plant in Craiova, southern Romania, are fitted with a system that calls the 112 emergency number automatically in case of a car accident. more

07.19.2012

Ford Romania has received around 100 orders for the new B-Max minivan from local customers and estimates it will deliver 4-500 units in Romania by the end of the first quarter 2013. more

06.25.2012

President Traian Basescu bought Monday the first Ford B-MAX minivan model launched Monday in Craiova, southern Romania. more