Car sales, which make up 81.5% of the overall auto market, rose 16.9% on the year in the first eleven months, while sales of commercial vehicles grew 26.8%.
In November alone, car sales fell 3.1% compared with October.
The top selling carmakers in Romania in the first ten months were local Dacia, with 30,842 units (34.5% of total car sales), followed by Volkswagen with 9,077 units (10.1%), Skoda with 8,146 units (9.1%), Ford with 5,550 units (6.2%), Dacia owner Renault with 5,512 units (6.2%) and Opel with 3,282 units (3.7%).
By types of fuel, diesel cars accounted for 53.1% of total sales, down from 67.4% at the beginning of the year. Hybrid and electric car sales reached 463 units (of which 28 fully electric) in January-November, from 206 units (of which just seven electric cars) in the same period last year.
Car sales on the Romanian market are still fueled by purchases made by companies which covered 73% in January-November.
Second-hand car imports increased 12.9% in the first eleven months, to around 227,000 units from 201,000 units in the same period last year.
Romania produced 358,914 vehicles in January-November, 1.4% less than in the same period last year. Of these, 314,165 were made by Dacia and 44,743 by Ford.
Romania’s vehicle exports in January-November fell 1.2% to 331,522 units, accounting for around 92% of the country’s output.