The Dacia Sandero ranks #2 in February at home in Romania. The Romanian new car market is down -22.1% year-on-year in February to 6.887 sales, a clear improvement on the 51.9% of January. The year-to-date volume is now down -39.5% to 12.892 units. Homegrown behemoth Dacia (-48.9%) loses almost half its…
The Ford Puma is up to a record 2nd place overall in Romania in January. The Romanian new car market is the worst performing in Europe in January at -51.9% year-on-year to just 6.004 registrations. This appears to be mainly linked to the sales implosion of local behemoth Dacia (-74.4%) hitting its…
The Dacia Logan nameplate is #1 at home for the 16th consecutive year. Discover over 50 years of Romanian Historical Data here. New car sales in Romania skid down -21.8% year-on-year in 2020 to 126.281 units, a loss of 35.000 sales compared to 2019. Homegrown behemoth Dacia (-20.6%) resists slightly…
Renault Romanian sales are up 100.4% in October and 23.7% in November. In October, the Romanian new car market lifts 17.6% year-on-year to 12.523 units, leading to a year-to-date tally off -27.9% to 97.054. Dacia (+9.4%) trails the market and sees its share reduce to 32.3% vs. 34.7% year-to-date, but…
The Ford Puma breaks its ranking record in Romania to #7. After imploding -51.9% in August, the Romanian new car market swings back up 79.9% in September to 10.878 units as the market reacts to wild WLTP-related year-ago changes , leading to a year-to-date tally off -31.8% to 84.599. Local hero…
BMW (+4%) is the only Top 20 carmaker to post a gain in August. As the second wave of coronavirus struck the country over summer, lifting total cases from 27.296 on July 1 to 91.256 at the time of writing this article and wrecking havoc on the economy and tourism…
The Ford Puma breaks into the Romanian Top 10 in July. The Romanian new car market takes a turn for the worse in July at a devastating -44.2% year-on-year to just 12.950 registrations, compared to a -27.8% slump in June and the steepest year-on-year fall of any European market we have covered…
The Ford Puma is already getting close to the Romanian Top 10. Picture eblogauto.ro New car sales in Romania tumble down -27.8% year-on-year in June to 10.161 units, leading to a year-to-date tally down -30.7% to 49.616. Homegrown behemoth Dacia (-4.6%) proves a lot more resilient than its home market with…
The Ford Puma signs its first Romanian Top 20 finish. Picture turatiiscrise.ro The Romanian new car market only marginally improves on April (-50.3%) with May sales down -45% year-on-year to 7.155 units, pulling the year-to-date tally down -31.4% to 29.355. Homegrown brand leader Dacia (-34.9%) resists a lot better and pushes…
A 1998 facelift enabled the Dacia 1310 to rank #1 until 2000. May 2020 update: Now with All-brands and All-models from 1995 to 2006 and annual volumes from 1985 onwards (4 new articles and 6 updated articles). The links to all 26 Historical articles for Romania are below. BSCB is…
Peugeot 308 sales are up 179.5% in a market down -50.3%. Given the current COVID-19 lockdown context, new car sales in Romania resist relatively well in April at -50.3% year-on-year to 4.321 units. This brings the year-to-date tally down -27.5% to 32.300 sales. Brand leader Dacia (-37.6%) holds markedly better than…
Peugeot 308 sales are up 13-fold year-on-year in Romania in March. Following the spread of COVID-19 in the country, Romania declared a state of emergency on March 16, a national lockdown on March 24 and a total quarantine for the northeastern town of Suceava and eight adjacent communes, home to 1/4 of the…
The Hyundai Kona signs its first Top 10 finish in Romania. New car sales in Romania implode -26.8% year-on-year in February to 8.836 units, pulling the year-to-date volume down -18.1% to 21.325. The same way as homegrown market leader Dacia was responsible for the 37.5% market surge a year ago…
The VW Touareg breaks into the Romanian Top 10. Picture eblogauto.ro The Romanian new car market skids down -10.5% year-on-year in January to 12.489 units. Homegrown leader Dacia (-32.2%) pays the price of an unusually high score a year ago in January 2019 and falls to 28.6% share vs. 31.1%…
The Dacia Duster broke its monthly share record in 2019, as did the Sandero. Discover over 50 years of Romanian Historical Data here. It's another stunning year for the Romanian new car market, up 23.4% year-on-year in 2019 to 161.562 units. This marks a 6th consecutive year of double-digit gains…