New car sales in Romania rose to 51,564 units in January-September, from 41,073 units in the year-earlier period. Romania is outranked by Portugal (35.3%), Ireland (29.8%) and Croatia (25.8%).
New car sales in the EU climbed 6.1%, to 9,572,259, units on the year in the first nine months of 2014, on the backdrop of increases posted by Europe’s large auto markets which saw growth of 17.2% (Spain), 9.1% (Great Britain), 3.6% (Italy), 2.9% (Germany) and 2.1% (France).
Jeep had the biggest growth, of 47%, to 23,187 units in the first nine months, followed by Mitsubishi, with 66.786 units (+38.2%), Dacia with 273,743 units (+29.2%), Mazda with 127,679 units (+23.6%) and Volvo with 170,023 units (+13.6%).
French group Renault, owner of Dacia, posted a 15.9% increase in new car sales in the first nine months, to 921,038 units. Renault is Europe’s third largest carmaker.
German giant Volkswagen, Europe’s largest automaker, sold 2,411,809 cars in the EU in the mentioned period, up 7.9% on the year, while PSA Peugeot Citroen, Europe’s second largest automaker, saw a 4.8% rise in car sales, to 1,041,581 units.
The European auto market grew by 2.1% on the year in August, and by 5.6% on the year in July.