In June 2026, Dacia and Ford Otosan plants assembled together 44,536 passenger cars, down 16% from the 53,035 units registered in June 2025, in line with data provided by the country’s carmakers association ACAROM. It’s the weakest June since 2023 and the second consecutive month when both plants suffer two-digit declines.
The picture is even clearer at the level of the first six months: 247,972 passenger cars, of which 129,404 at Dacia and 118,568 at Ford Otosan.
For Dacia, the decline against H1/2025 amounts to almost 18% and marks the weakest six-month period of the past five years. Ford Otosan is faring better, but has lost momentum. The second quarter brought three consecutive months of decline.
The stake for the second half of the year is the psychological threshold of half a million units. In 2025, Romania churned out 545,510 passenger cars, down 2.6% from 2024. Should the current decline pace maintain in the second half, the overall output of 2026 risks sliding toward 480,000 units, below the 500,000-unit threshold.
(English version by Catalina Apostoiu)