{"id":10606,"date":"2026-06-12T12:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=10606"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:00:33","slug":"car-production-in-romania-down-nearly-15-yoy-in-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=10606","title":{"rendered":"Car production in Romania down nearly 15% YoY in May 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Car production in Romania decreased by 14.7% in May 2026 compared with May 2025, bringing the total decline for the first 5 months of the year to 11.2%, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/acarom.ro\/productie-autoturisme-in-romania-mai-2026\/\">Association of Automobile Constructors of Romania (ACAROM)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 43,677 cars were produced in Romania last month, down from 51,194 units produced in May 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dacia produced 106,296 vehicles, almost 18% fewer, meaning a drop of 23,000 vehicles, while Ford Otosan manufactured 97,250 vehicles, having a much smaller decline of 4.6%, representing a difference of around 3,000 vehicles.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Ford Otosan plant in Craiova currently produces the Puma and Puma Gen-E electric, which totaled this year 60,905 units combined, representing a decline of 2.8%, after a May in which production slowed sharply (-21%), as well as the Courier family, thermal and electric, which has a decrease of 7.4%, with a total in the January\u2013May period of 36,345 units produced.<\/p>\n<p>Over the last 5 months, car production in Romania reached 203,546 units, a decrease of 11.2% compared with the same period in 2025, respectively 231,181 units. Dacia produced 106,296 units, while Ford Otosan produced 97,250 units.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The decline is due to lowered demand across EU markets. In total, the loss of vehicles comes to around EUR 600 million, impacting Romanian GDP.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"mailto:radu@romania-insider.com\">radu@romania-insider.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\">Alexander Khitrov|Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Car production in Romania decreased by 14.7% in May 2026 compared with May 2025, bringing the total decline for the first 5 months of the year to 11.2%, according to the Association of Automobile Constructors of Romania (ACAROM). A total of 43,677 cars were produced in Romania last month, down from 51,194 units produced in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}