Car sales down 26.5 percent in the first eight months of the year

Newsroom 26/09/2010 | 19:38

Local car sales went down 26.5 percent in the first eight months of the year compared to the similar period of last year, from 103,592 units to 76,131 units, according to data from the Association of Car Producers and Importers.

In August 7,053 units were sold, 15.4 percent down compared to July, while the first eight months of the year saw 68,341 cars being sold, 26 percent less than in the similar period of 2009.

The most sold car brand is Dacia, with 1,836 units, followed by Volkswagen with 737 units, Renault with 612 cars and Opel with 549 units. Dacia is also the most sold brand since the beginning of the year with 22,451 units, followed by Renault with 5,614 units, Ford with 5,584 cars and Volkswagen with 5,552 units.

The car production went down in August by 97.8 percent to 823 units, but went up 25 percent in the first eight months of the year to 220,479 units. Exports went down in August by 93 percent to 2,116 units while in between January and July went up by 30 percent to 196,639 cars. In August Dacia’s car plant in Mioveni was in technical revision. Car imports dropped in August by 6.5 percent to 5,968 units, while in the first eight months it declined by 28.6 percent to 52,003 cars.