Thus, five out of the top ten are Dacia cars, six out of ten are under the Romanian brand or assembled in Romania, and five out of ten are made in the country – taking into account the Ford Puma SUV assembled in Craiova, while the Dacia Spring is produced by a Chinese manufacturer in China.
The car market’s dependence on the clunkers (Rabla) scheme put the brakes on registrations of the Dacia Logan in July, so the model saw a 55% drop in new car registrations, while the Duster SUV climbed to top spot for the first time in 2022, its decline halved to 27% compared with the same period last year.
After the strong performance of the first few months, July 2022 came with an 18.9% drop in car registrations compared with the year-ago period, after five months of growth since the beginning of this year, APIA figures using police data show. Compared with previous years, July 2022 is down 2.6% from the same period in 2020 and down 43.9% from July 2019.
Thanks to strong growth in the first few months of the year, despite the decline by 8% in June and by 19% in July, volumes in 2022 increased by 12% in January-July.
On the other hand, a significant number of the cars registered in the first seven months of 2022 were ordered in 2021 and delivered this year due to long waiting times of three to 12 months.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)