The two plants managed to exceed the 500,000-unit threshold due to Ford producing almost 200,000 vehicles, the highest volume in the history of the plant located in Craiova.
Ford Otosan has already set off EUR490 million investments in Craiova to support the future production growth from 250,000 vehicles currently to more than 270,000 units in 2024 when it will start producing the Transit and Tourneo Courier vehicles, alongside Puma. The production of EcoSport vehicles will be ceased at end-2023.
Dacia produced some 315,000 vehicles at its plant in Mioveni in 2022, a lot more than 257,000 cars produced in 2021, but fewer than some 350,000 vehicles assembled in 2019 when there was talk of boosting the production capacity to more than 400,000 units.
The car output is strongly supported by the new models that entered production – Ford Puma with its new versions and the Duster facelift or Dacia’s new Jogger. In 2019, Dacia had a single new model – Duster II, and Ford was producing only EcoSport at its plant in Craiova.