Most cars, almost 70%, use gasoline engines.

By age, almost 1.3 million cars, were between six and ten years old; 1.16 million were between three and five years old, and almost 300,000 were less than two years old. There were about 700,000 cars older than 20 years.

About 901,000 units were registered in Bucharest, followed by counties Timis (165,900 units), Cluj (163,800 units) and Prahova (158,000 units). The fewest cars were registered in Tulcea County (some 31,600 cars) and Calarasi (33.300 units).

In 2010, the car park grew 1.8% to about 5.42 million vehicles, of which 4.3 million passenger cars, up 6.4% compared to 2009.

The number of new car registrations in Romania fell 13.5% in 2011 to 81,709 units.