Romania April 2025: Market down -24.7%

Dacia Duster sales are down -27.9% year-on-year despite a new generation.

It’s a mediocre month for new car sales in Romania with April off -24.7% year-on-year to 9,996 units. To be fair, April 2024 was up 34.6% on the year prior. Year-to-date volumes are off -6.1% to 43,688. Local behemoth Dacia (-40.3%) falls significantly faster than its home market to 23.3% share vs. 28% so far this year. Toyota (-27.8%) is also in trouble but notches a round 10% share vs. 8.9% year-to-date. Skoda (-13.6%) and Volkswagen (-20%) resist better than the market but are still in deep negative. BMW (+16.2%) and Mercedes (+7.8%) swim upstream and end of the month at #8 and #6 respectively. 

The Dacia Duster (-27.9%) threepeats at #1, cementing its year-to-date lead at 9.3% share (-13.9%). The Dacia Logan (-45.4%) is stuck in 2nd place but loses less ground than the Duster year-to-date (-5.4%). As a reminder, in 2024 the Duster was #1 year-to-date up until September when the Logan retook the lead to finally end the year at #1 for the 20th consecutive time. The Sandero (-31.9%) means the podium is back to being 100% Dacia. The Toyota Corolla (-26.7%) is the best of the rest at #4 while the Skoda Octavia (-33.9%), #3 last month, falls to #5. Outstanding performances by the Hyundai Tucson (+62%), Renault Clio (+27.2%) and Ford Kuga (+15%) in the remainder of the Top 10. After appearing in the charts two months ago, the Dacia Bigster is still only #68 at home.

Previous month: Romania March 2025: Dacia Duster keeps Logan at bay, sales up 8.4%

One year ago: Romania April 2024: Dacia Logan claws back on top in surging market

Full April 2025 Top 47 All brands and Top 265 All models below.