Car sales rose 16.2% to 103.938 units, while sales of commercial vehicles grew 18.8% to 24,168 units.
In November alone, car sales rose 10.4% compared with November 2015 and fell 2.6% compared with October.
Nevertheless, second-hand car imports increased 23.4% in the first eleven months, to around 280,000 units, negatively impacting the auto market, according to APIA representatives.
The top selling carmakers in Romania in the first eleven months were local Dacia, with 31,844 units (30.6% of total car sales), followed by Volkswagen with 11,067 units (10.6%), Skoda, with 9,483 units (9.1%), Dacia owner Renault with 7,491 units (7.2%), Ford with 6,241 units (6%), and Opel with 4,854 units (4.7%).
By types of fuel, diesel cars accounted for 48.9% of total sales, down from 53% in the same period a year before, while the volumes of hybrid and electric cars doubled on the year in January-November.
Romania produced 337,745 vehicles in January-November, 5.9% less than in the same period last year. Of these, 300,288 were made by Dacia and 37,457 by Ford.
Romania’s vehicle exports in January-November fell 8.7% to 302.533 units, accounting for around 89.6% of the country’s output, versus 92.4% in the same period a year earlier.