So far Dacia has only said the halt had to do with the delivery of some parts, without specifying what parts and what models they were for.
“We had talks with our suppliers and had to work with them on an adjustment because the production level for Duster was different than initially anticipated when the project was launched. It took some capacity tuning at our request,” said Jerome Olive, general manager of Automobile Dacia. As a result of the manufacturing halt, almost 18,000 cars were assembled at Dacia in April, which is almost half the number of a regular month.
Duster accounted for 55% of Dacia’s car production in the first six months, according to the statistics of the Association of Automotive Manufacturers and Importers (APIA), with some 90,000 cars assembled out of a total of 164,000.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)