Of these, 234,530 cars were churned out by Mioveni Dacia plant and 141,330 units by Ford OTOSAN plant of Craiova.
In September 2023, Romania’s passenger car output reached 46,888 units, down 9.1% year-over-year, of which 28,934 units were assembled at Dacia plant and 17,954 by Ford.
On October 24, the Fort Otosan Craiova plant will officially start producing the new Transit and Tourneo Courier model beside Puma.
Ford Otosan Craiova already started back in summer to assemble the first units of the new generations of Tourneo Courier and since late July dealers have been able to get orders for the first cars. The stake of the new models entering production is boosting the plant’s production capacity.
Ford Otosan announced that it would recruit 1,300 new employees in Craiova in 2023 to push the total headcount to 6,500 people as production capacity is lifted from 250,000 to 272,000 units