“This is a more than devastating reality that Romania has dropped so low in the ranking of Dacia’s markets. Rarely have I seen a [home] country where a carmaker operates to no longer count,” said Constantin Stroe, Automobile Dacia vice-president and chairman of the Romanian Carmakers Association (ACAROM).
Romania is behind France and Germany in the ranking of car sales by country for a third consecutive year in 2011. Dacia’s sales on the Romanian market fell 24% to almost 9,700 cars on the year in the first half of 2012, as many as it used to sell in one month in 2007 and 2008.
French Renault, owner of Automobile Dacia, this month stopped production of car models Logan Pick-up, Logan Van and Logan MCV, which will be replaced by Dokker and Dokker Van, produced in Morocco, along with Lodgy.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)