{"id":4652,"date":"2025-04-17T07:02:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T07:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4652"},"modified":"2025-04-17T07:02:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T07:02:54","slug":"romanias-automobile-production-down-11-2-y-y-in-q1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=4652","title":{"rendered":"Romania\u2019s automobile production down 11.2% y\/y in Q1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romania\u2019s automobile production decreased by 11.2% y\/y to 135,723 units in Q1, according to data compiled by the industry association ACAROM. The contraction was milder, only 5.9% y\/y, in March.<\/p>\n<p>Out of this, Renault-owned Dacia produced 75,812 units and Ford Otosan 59,911 units.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Although both Romanian car factories, Dacia in Mioveni and Ford Otosan in Craiova, are producing new models, their combined production volume is lower than last year, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.profit.ro\/povesti-cu-profit\/auto-transporturi\/productia-de-automobile-din-romania-se-mentine-sub-nivelul-de-anul-trecut-22003842?mc_cid=6299cd36f9&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\" target=\"_blank\">Profit.ro<\/a>, which looked into detailed data by model and factory.<\/p>\n<p>In the first quarter of this year, Dacia\u2019s production marked a fairly significant decrease of almost 16.0% y\/y while Ford Otosan\u2019s output of automobiles and commercial vehicles edged down by 4.5% y\/y.<\/p>\n<p>In March 2025, 50,463 cars were produced in Romania, a decrease of 5.9% y\/y. Of these, 27,230 (-4.8% y\/y) were made at the Dacia plant in Mioveni, and 23,233 (-7.4% y\/y) were produced by the Ford Otosan plant in Craiova, according to Profit.ro.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In Q1, Dacia started production of the Bigster model, which is already being delivered to customers and dealers across Europe. At the same time, at Ford Otosan, the Ford Puma Gen-E and the two Courier electric versions have entered production.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In March at Ford Otosan, production amounted to a volume of 14,230 Puma units and 9,003 Courier units (Transit and Tourneo versions). In Q1, 35,042 Puma units were assembled and 24,869 Courier units were made in Q1.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: LinkedIn\/Ford Otosan Romania)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romania\u2019s automobile production decreased by 11.2% y\/y to 135,723 units in Q1, according to data compiled by the industry association ACAROM. The contraction was milder, only 5.9% y\/y, in March. Out of this, Renault-owned Dacia produced 75,812 units and Ford Otosan 59,911 units.\u00a0 Although both Romanian car factories, Dacia in Mioveni and Ford Otosan 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-4652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652","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=4652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}