Romanian Times reported that the Romanian car market dropped by 7.4% YoY in 2011. A number of 110,668 units were sold in 2011, including vehicles for personal use and commercial vehicles, which is down from 119,576 units in 2010.

Sales of cars dropped by 11% from 106,328 units sold in 2010 to 94,624 sold in 2011.

In the last four years, the vehicle market dropped by 70% in Romania, due to the economic crisis.

In 2011, Romania exported 304,924 vehicles, which is 3.1% less than the previous year, while imports dropped by 3.7%, to 79,761 cars.

The most sold car in Romania was Renault's Romanian made Dacia (28,337 units), followed by Volkswagen (10,043 units), Skoda (8,260 units), Renault (7,229 units) and Ford (5,547 units).

(Sourced from www.romaniantimes.at)