The minister said over 300,000 vehicles older than ten years have been scrapped over the past two years under the program.
Borbely reminded the program was assigned 456 million lei (EUR106 million) this year to scrap 120,000 old vehicles and 116,641 cars have been scrapped by December 19. Also under the clunkers program, Romanians bought 39,216 new cars, of which 15,005 made in Romania.