{"id":12157,"date":"2026-09-24T13:01:26","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12157"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:01:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T13:01:26","slug":"romanias-car-market-drops-10-6-in-first-eight-months-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=12157","title":{"rendered":"Romania\u2019s car market drops 10.6% in first eight months of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Of the new passenger cars registered, around 7,000 were fully electric (+50%), and 49,282 units had hybrid propulsion (+2.1%).<\/p>\n<p>The association <a href=\"https:\/\/acarom.ro\/inmatriculari-de-autoturisme-noi-in-uniunea-europeana-8-luni-2026\/\">said<\/a> that in August 2026, new passenger car registrations in the European Union increased by 4.5% compared with August 2025, reaching 708,211 units.<\/p>\n<p>As such, between January and August 2026, 7.546.397 passenger cars were registered in the EU, up 5.3% compared with the same period in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Of the total number of passenger cars registered in the EU, 1,641,333 units were fully electric, representing an increase of 44.5%, accounting for 21.7% of the total market, while 3,517,800 units had hybrid propulsion (17.6%), compared with the January-August 2025 period.<\/p>\n<p>The association said that compared with the first eight months of 2025, increases in new passenger car registrations were recorded in France (3%), Germany (4.8%), Spain (6.3%) and Italy (8.5%), while Romania saw a decline of 10.6%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs regards automobile manufacturers, the largest number of new passenger cars registered across Europe in the first eight months was represented by the VW Group, with 2,359,023 units, up 0.9%, followed by the Stellantis Group with 1,360,488 units, up 4.7%, and the Renault Group with 857,937 units, down 3.3% (of which DACIA: 360,657 units, down 9.7% compared with January-August 2025),\u201d ACAROM said.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Ford passenger cars accounted for 244,938 newly registered units between January and August 2026, down 14.4% compared with the first eight months of 2025.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Of the new passenger cars registered, around 7,000 were fully electric (+50%), and 49,282 units had hybrid propulsion (+2.1%). The association said that in August 2026, new passenger car registrations in the European Union increased by 4.5% compared with August 2025, reaching 708,211 units. As such, between January and August 2026, 7.546.397 passenger cars were [&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-12157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12157","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=12157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}