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

06.25.2012

Ford will build a 1.5-liter engine in its factory in Craiova, Romania, with production to start next year, the company announced Monday. more

06.25.2012

U.S. carmaker Ford on Monday has started the production of minivan B-Max at its plant in Craiova, southern Romania, and targets to manufacture 60,000 units this year. more

06.23.2012

Ford Romania operations manager Zoltan Brassai will take over the position of general manager to replace Henrik Nenzen, who will withdraw at the end of June, the company said in a press release more

05.11.2012

Ford Europe completed the EUR675 million investments in the plant in Craiova six months ahead of schedule and began production of the EcoBoost engine, the final step before launching the manufacturing more

05.10.2012

Ford has started production of the new 1.0 liter EcoBoost gas engine at its Craiova plant in southern Romania. A total of 30,000 units should be made by the end of the year, while next year’s more

05.08.2012

More than 400,000 vehicles will be assembled in Romania in the two plants in Mioveni and Craiova (south of the country) this year, writes the “Auto Market 2012” yearbook published by ZF. more

04.25.2012

German car part producer Kirchhoff on Wednesday opened its first plant in Romania, which will supply components for minivan B-Max, which will be manufactured at Ford’s production unit in Craiova. more

03.23.2012

Ford Romania’s turnover this year will exceed EUR1 billion with a production of 500 cars per day starting in June, and the U.S. company plans to hire more personnel in a second wave of hiring more

03.22.2012

The Ford B-Max, built at Ford's plant in Craiova, Romania, will be available for pre-orders from Friday, for prices starting at EUR13,400, VAT included, and will ship starting September 15. more

03.22.2012

The first Ford made exclusively in Romania, family car B-Max, can be ordered starting Thursday from the national dealer network, more than four years after the US carmaker took over the Romanian-based more

03.21.2012

US automaker Ford, which in March 2008 took over the Craiova-based car manufacturing plant, has decided to hire 500, which would raise the number of employees to 4,000. This is the first step taken by more

03.16.2012

U.S. carmaker Ford and Romanian privatization authority AVAS on Friday signed an addendum to the privatization contract for local car plant Automobile Craiova, whereby the number of cars Ford will more

03.13.2012

The number of cars Ford will produce at its plant in Romania will be "significantly" lower than as stated in the privatization contract, and the carmaker will postpone certain investments and waive more

03.09.2012

The number of cars Ford will produce at its plant in Romania will be “significantly” lower compared with that stated in a deal signed with Romanian authorities, and the U.S. carmaker will pay more

03.06.2012

Ford’s B-Max minivan, made exclusively at the carmaker’s plant in Craiova, Romania, will reach Romanian showrooms in July but won’t be sold in the country until September, Henrik Nenzen, more

02.01.2012

U.S. carmaker Ford on Wednesday presented the first official pictures of its minivan B-Max to be produced exclusively at its plant in Craiova, southern Romania. more

01.25.2012

U.S. carmaker Ford will produce 60,000 B-Max cars this year at its plant in Craiova, southern Romania, and estimates production will hit at least 100,000 units in 2013, Ford Romania said Wednesday. more

01.23.2012

The first 36 prototype units of the new B-Max MPV were made in Craiova before the end of last year, and at the beginning of this month Ford started assembling the pre-production vehicles in its more

01.23.2012

The auto industry’s eyes turn towards the two carmakers active in Romania this year. Together, Ford and Dacia will make over 400,000 vehicles this year, and some 95% of the output will go to Western more