New car sales in Romania rose to 58,908 units in January-October, from 46,667 units in the year-earlier period. Romania is outranked by Portugal (34.7%), and Ireland (29.6%).
New car sales in the EU climbed 6.1%, to 10,645,907 units on the year in the first ten months of 2014, on the backdrop of increases posted by Europe’s large auto markets which saw growth of 18.1% (Spain), 9.5% (Great Britain), 4.2% (Italy), 3% (Germany) and 1.4% (France).
In the first ten months, Dacia saw the highest growth, of 28.7%, to 304,405 units, compared with 236,496 cars in the same period a year earlier.
Jeep had the second biggest growth, of 51.2%, to 27,257 units in the first ten months, followed by Mitsubishi, with 77.123 units (+42.4%).
French group Renault, owner of Dacia, posted a 15.3% increase in new car sales in the first ten months, to 1,028,451 units. Renault is Europe’s third largest carmaker.
German giant Volkswagen, Europe’s largest automaker, sold 2,691,957 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 4.4% rise in car sales, to 1,159,936 units.
The European auto market grew by 6.5% on the year in October.