In January, Dacia had a market share of 1.7% in Germany.

Germany is Dacia’s second largest market after France.

Registrations of new Dacia cars in France, its biggest market, rose 0.6 % on the year in January, to 8,648 units, while the French auto market rose 3.5% to 137.788 units.

At the end January, Dacia had a market share of 6.28% in France, from 6.46% in January 2015.

In 2015, new registrations of Dacia cars decreased by 6.4% to 45,764 units in Germany, and by 5% to 97,441 units in France.

The global sales of Renault-owned carmaker Dacia rose 7.7% in 2015, to a record level of 550,920 passenger cars and light commercial vehicles, from 511,379 units the previous year, Renault said in a statement in January.

Last year, the sales of Dacia passenger cars rose 7.8% to 511,510 units, from 474,623 units in 2014.