About 99% of its 2012 output will be exported. Ford estimates it will produce 105,000 units next year.
The value of cars manufactured by Ford Romania will exceed EUR1 billion, considering an average price of EUR17,000.
The carmaker started the production of the B-Max minivan prototypes in Craiova in June 2011. The B-Max model was presented at the Geneva Motor Show in March this year and was launched in Romania in the same month at a starting price of EUR13,400, VAT included.
Ford will deliver the first B-Max cars in Romania in September.
Following the start of the B-Max production, some 400,000 cars worth over EUR5 billion will be produced in Romania this year, including Dacia’s production in Mioveni, according to Ziarul Financiar estimates.
Last month, Ford started the production of three-cylinder engine EcoBoost at its local engine production facility, which has a capacity of 350,000 units. The company will manufacture some 30,000 engines this year and plans to increase production to over 150,000 engines afterwards.
The carmaker aims to produce 800,000 EcoBoost engines in Romania and Germany by 2015.
(English version by Ioana Tudor)