In all, car production rose by 1% in the first nine months of this year on the year-ago period, to almost 272,500 units, according to the data of the Automotive Manufacturers and Importers Association (APIA) and of the association of carmakers in Romania ACAROM, centralized by ZF. While Dacia saw production drop slightly by 3% to 231,600 units in the first nine months, Ford’s production in Craiova rose 23% to almost 41,000 cars.
Even at a rate of 300 cars assembled a day until the end of the year; Ford could reach a total production of more than 50,000 units in 2017. The last time it assembled more than 50,000 cars was in 2014, when B-Max production stood at 52,000 units.
Dacia mostly assembled the first Duster SUV generation at its Mioveni plant, reducing production of Logan, Sandero and MCV models and started production of the second generation in Duster October.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)