The volumes in the first ten months of 2022 are 4.3% above the level in 2019, the last year without pro¬blems in the European automotive industry – the pro¬duction at that time was not affected by the coronavirus pandemic or the electronic component shortage.
October 2021 brought the biggest challenges for the Romanian automotive industry, that is why 2022 came with three-digit increases – Dacia saw an increase of 109% to almost 29,000 units and Ford saw a surge of 226% to over 14,500 units in October 2022. By contrast, Ford assembled just 4,500 cars at its plant in Craiova in October 2021.
In 2019, for the first time, the car production of Dacia and Ford got close to 500,000 units, as per ACAROM data, with a total volume of 490,412 units, 3% more on the year.