Production of the Mioveni plant went up 13% to 32,403 cars in March. Duster remains the model that accounts for most production, 75,321 units in the first quarter, up 40% over the year-ago period. In all, Duster accounted for 78% of total production of the plant in January-March. In comparison, Dacia’s SUV accounted for 63% of the plant’s production in the first quarter of 2018.
Duster became the second best-selling small SUV in Europe last year, with 180,000 units sold, 24% more than in 2017, behind Renault Captur, which sold more than 200,000 units.
Sandero ranks second by production, a little more than 9,000 units, down from 14,300 in the first quarter of 2018, followed by Logan, 8,332, down from 9,300 and Logan MCV, 4554 units compared with 7,818 in the first quarter of 2018.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)