Dacia registered a market share of 2% in August.
Of the 33 analyzed car brands, 21 registered decrease. Market leader Volkswagen saw a 16.7% decline in new car registrations in August, to 39,923 units.
Renault car registrations climbed 1.4% to 7,687 units.
In the first eight months of the year, Dacia car sales in Germany rose 3.9% to 31,777 units, securing a 1.6% market share, while the German car market shrank 6.6% to 1.96 million units. Only six of the 33 car brands analyzed by KBA registered increase in January-August.
Volkswagen fell 9.3% in the first eight months to 420,396 units. Its market share stood at 21.3%. Renault registrations declined 8.8% in January-August to 65,621 cars.
Germany was the second largest market for Dacia last year, after France.
Dacia’s new car registrations in France rose 5.8% on the year to 62,829 units in the first eight months of 2013, while the overall French car market saw a 9.4% decline to 1.4 million units in the mentioned period, according to the French carmakers association.
Dacia’s sales worldwide increased 4.8% on the year to 359,822 cars in 2012, of which about 6% were sold in Romania.