New car sales in Romania rose to 46,003 units in January-August, from 36,582 units in the year-earlier period. Romania is outranked by Portugal (35.7%), Ireland (30.1%) and Croatia (27.3%).
New car sales in the EU climbed 6%, to 8,336,159, units on the year in the first eight months of 2014, on the backdrop of increases posted by Europe’s large auto markets which saw growth of 2.6% (Germany), 1.6% (France), 3.5% (Italy), 10.1% (Great Britain) and 16.4% (Spain).
Dacia was among car brands with the highest advance in new car sales, to 247,942 units in January-August, compared to 190,463 units in the same interval in 2013.
Dacia, with an increase of 30.2%, was outranked only by Jeep (+44.6%, to 19,762 units) and Mitsubishi (+32%, to 55,197 units).
French group Renault, owner of Dacia, posted a 16.6% increase in new car sales in the first eight months, to 817,562 units. Renault is Europe’s third largest carmaker.
German giant Volkswagen, Europe’s largest automaker, sold 2,121,492 cars in the EU in the mentioned period, up 8.1% on the year, while PSA Peugeot Citroen, Europe’s second largest automaker, saw a 4.1% rise in car sales, to 914,265 units.
The European auto market grew by 2.1% on the year in August, and by 5.6% on the year in July.