Of the 33 analyzed car brands, 17 registered increase. Sixteen car brands registered decline, including Volkswagen, which fell 5.1% in July to 55,525 units.
Dacia registered market share of 1.6%.
Renault car registrations climbed 4.6% to 9,023 units. The brand registered a 3.6% market share in Germany in July.
In the first seven months of the year, Dacia car sales in Germany rose 6.3% to 27,601 units, while the German car market shrank 6.7% to 1.76 million units.
Nine of the 33 car brands analyzed by KBA registered increase in January-July.
Volkswagen fell 8.5% in the first seven months to 380,473 units. Its market share stood at 22%. Renault registrations declined 10% in January-July to 57,934 cars.
Germany was the second largest market for Dacia last year, after France.
Dacia’s new car registrations in France rose 6.1% in July to 9,682 units and the overall French car market saw only a slight increase, of 0.9%, to 150,248 units, according to the French carmakers association.
New Dacia car registrations in France in the first seven months of 2013 rose 8.6% on the year to 54,610 units. The brand’s market share increased to 5.05% from 4.2%.
The overall French car market fell 9.7% in January-July to 1.08 million units.
Dacia’s sales worldwide increased 4.8% on the year to 359,822 cars in 2012, of which about 6% were sold in Romania.